Arlington Magazine - College admissions numbers 2019

[Anonymous]

McLean has self-reported data in the student publication that was way better than these Arlington schools.

[Anonymous]

How is it possible that Radford turned kids down? How does that happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the APS kids at TJ are counted as FCPS students. What will the non-TJ FCPS school numbers look like?

I would say that outside of JT, FCPS numbers are not that different from APS judging from the data released by Polaris a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

I would put money on this having to do with the numbers of legacies. My gut and noticing of car stickers when driving tells me that more Ivy alumni are in Bethesda/Chevy Chase and NW than Arlington. More admits in DC(privates)/MoCo bc more legacies.

[Anonymous]

More admits from private because they are often feeder schools. Ivy like to admit from mostly the same schools unless an applicant is first gen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These numbers are truly awful. Of course, it’s great to have UVA as an amazing in state option (and a wonderful option in W&M too), but other than that ...whoa. The best high school in Arlington would be a mediocre high school in FCPS. What is wrong with this school system? There are so many type a people on this county who micromanage their kids’ lives. All for what? Tulane?

+1

I think college counseling at these schools are in need to re-evaluate priorities

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Anonymous wrote:Applied/accepted for the 4 Arlington high schools

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/college-admissions-a-snapshot-2/

Ouch!!!
This is awful!

Really? Why do you say that? Looks pretty consistent with national averages for elites. Are you experienced with that? It would be normal to think that if you were not.

Which elites?
The top DC privates? No
The top MCPS? No, just check out Whitman list
The top FCPS? No

Elite COLLEGES. Should have been obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is it possible that Radford turned kids down? How does that happen?

That’s a fair question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would put money on this having to do with the numbers of legacies. My gut and noticing of car stickers when driving tells me that more Ivy alumni are in Bethesda/Chevy Chase and NW than Arlington. More admits in DC(privates)/MoCo bc more legacies.

I don’t know. I see lots of Ivy car decals on cars in the parking lot of one shopping center in north Arlington. VA plates too. Maybe the parents picked up some irrelevant MA at one of those schools. That wouldn’t confer an undergrad legacy advantage, I think.

[Anonymous]

Some interesting context on the quality of this applied/admitted data. A friend in CA just shared the UC website that reports out all their applied/admitted data by high school and it's quite a bit different from what the magazine reports.

For example at W-L, the magazine says 9 applied to UCLA and none were admitted. But UCLA actually reports 18 applied and 3 were admitted. And, some schools that show applications in the magazine don't show it in the UC data set.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/admissions-source-school?fbclid=IwAR2A1GBCfN8WfedV1ag7kF0bofjMbWabLvmnrpJcIx6L0i6H2TNuYQedz8U

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some interesting context on the quality of this applied/admitted data. A friend in CA just shared the UC website that reports out all their applied/admitted data by high school and it's quite a bit different from what the magazine reports.

For example at W-L, the magazine says 9 applied to UCLA and none were admitted. But UCLA actually reports 18 applied and 3 were admitted. And, some schools that show applications in the magazine don't show it in the UC data set.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/admissions-source-school?fbclid=IwAR2A1GBCfN8WfedV1ag7kF0bofjMbWabLvmnrpJcIx6L0i6H2TNuYQedz8U

Isn't one 2019 and the other 2018? Could that be the reason for the discrepancy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some interesting context on the quality of this applied/admitted data. A friend in CA just shared the UC website that reports out all their applied/admitted data by high school and it's quite a bit different from what the magazine reports.

For example at W-L, the magazine says 9 applied to UCLA and none were admitted. But UCLA actually reports 18 applied and 3 were admitted. And, some schools that show applications in the magazine don't show it in the UC data set.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/admissions-source-school?fbclid=IwAR2A1GBCfN8WfedV1ag7kF0bofjMbWabLvmnrpJcIx6L0i6H2TNuYQedz8U

Isn't one 2019 and the other 2018? Could that be the reason for the discrepancy?

Good point. Here's the Arlington Magazine list for 2018: https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/college-admissions-a-snapshot/2/ Closer but still not a match.

You can see the influence of IB pulling higher achievers out of Yorktown -- across all the UC's W-L's acceptance rate is 64% while Yorktown is 44%. W-L is on par with McLean (64%), both of those a bit higher than Langley (55%). But more Langley and McLean students apply to the UCs.

[Anonymous]

That's a really cool stats feature for University of California system! So interesting.