Please help me understand: Potomac has only 1 to MIT in 6 years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe that 2 or 3 have been accepted in the last 5 years (not counting this year), with about 20 or so applying. MIT and Swarthmore are probably the two most competitive schools for the very top students. For instance, students that get into multiple top 5, including Yale, Princeton, and Penn, will get rejected from MIT and Swarthmore. I did hear there is one MIT admit this year.

well at least 2 student have gone to MIT from 2018-2021 so minimum 2 has been admitted. All the top5 big brand schools have gotten even more competitive. Only the college counseling department at Potomac can comment on the number of applications over that time period but 4 or so per year sounds about right

Even though there is a strong STEM department, and strong STEM students, Potomac students seem to want a bit broader than MIT engineering program. TJ is the funnel to MIT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this is a 4 year snapshot of enrollment (not admission):

https://www.potomacschool.org/academics/college-counseling/where-our-students-go-to-college

Op here.

Thank you. From your link, zero was enrolled. I got my data from www.polarislist.com
It seems two sources echo to each other.

From the link above, 1 matriculated.

Most updated data is here (straight from the school): https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1633639751/potomac/ap4tmsd361kuo5zs7pg3/school-profile2021-22.pdf

2 matriculated from 2018-2021

other top schools:
California Institute of Technology
Harvard University (12)
Princeton University (4)
Stanford University (8)
Yale University (3)

Legacy and other hooks play a role, probably not may kids with MIT parents.

[Anonymous]

MIT admits just over 1000 U.S. students per year from all 50 states. With over 26,000 high schools in the US, odds of one of those coming from any given high shcool school are slim.

It is never about the school; it's about the kid. If you goal is MIT, read their admissions blog; it doesn't matter at all where you go to high shcool; it's about what you do besides school and how well your teacher recommendations reflect on your character.

[Anonymous]

Maybe only 1 applied

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public schools are where the truly high-performing math and science students are. Their parents work at NASA and NIH and can’t afford Potomac.

+1 this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MIT admits just over 1000 U.S. students per year from all 50 states. With over 26,000 high schools in the US, odds of one of those coming from any given high shcool school are slim.

It is never about the school; it's about the kid. If you goal is MIT, read their admissions blog; it doesn't matter at all where you go to high shcool; it's about what you do besides school and how well your teacher recommendations reflect on your character.

if your goal is MIT and you're in the DC area move to fairfax county and go to TJ. they send like 50 a year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT admits just over 1000 U.S. students per year from all 50 states. With over 26,000 high schools in the US, odds of one of those coming from any given high shcool school are slim.

It is never about the school; it's about the kid. If you goal is MIT, read their admissions blog; it doesn't matter at all where you go to high shcool; it's about what you do besides school and how well your teacher recommendations reflect on your character.

if your goal is MIT and you're in the DC area move to fairfax county and go to TJ. they send like 50 a year

TJ doesn't "send" them. It is still about the kid. The kind of kid who wants to go to TJ is likely to do the thing MIT looks for anyway (or has parents who arrange for those things to happen).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this is a 4 year snapshot of enrollment (not admission):

https://www.potomacschool.org/academics/college-counseling/where-our-students-go-to-college

Op here.

Thank you. From your link, zero was enrolled. I got my data from www.polarislist.com
It seems two sources echo to each other.

From the link above, 1 matriculated.

Most updated data is here (straight from the school): https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1633639751/potomac/ap4tmsd361kuo5zs7pg3/school-profile2021-22.pdf

2 matriculated from 2018-2021

other top schools:
California Institute of Technology
Harvard University (12)
Princeton University (4)
Stanford University (8)
Yale University (3)

Legacy and other hooks play a role, probably not may kids with MIT parents.

MIT does not give an admissions preference to legacies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe that 2 or 3 have been accepted in the last 5 years (not counting this year), with about 20 or so applying. MIT and Swarthmore are probably the two most competitive schools for the very top students. For instance, students that get into multiple top 5, including Yale, Princeton, and Penn, will get rejected from MIT and Swarthmore. I did hear there is one MIT admit this year.

well at least 2 student have gone to MIT from 2018-2021 so minimum 2 has been admitted. All the top5 big brand schools have gotten even more competitive. Only the college counseling department at Potomac can comment on the number of applications over that time period but 4 or so per year sounds about right

Even though there is a strong STEM department, and strong STEM students, Potomac students seem to want a bit broader than MIT engineering program. TJ is the funnel to MIT

Not that many kids apply to MIT. You really have to want that. There are other ways to get a STEM degree. Only about 20K kids apply (compared to 40K to Harvard 90K for Northeastern), including international apps, and only about 6K of them are women, whereas other schools have equal numbers or more female applicants. It's a really self selecting group.

[Anonymous]

Not sure why you are focussed on MIT matriculation as a proxy for strength in science and engineering?

How about looking what schools the Regeneron finalists or winners come from, or the curriculum?

Potomac students get accepted to many top schools (their matriculation data is posted so its no secret). SERC students (the selective engineering focus at Potomac) get accepted to many top schools across the country. Whether or not they choose to go to MIT has nothing to do with whether they got in or not.

Your question isn't really going to get you anywhere to be honest. No school is going to tell you where its students applied (with most applied to 5+) only where they decided to go.

Given the choice, some choose other schools over MIT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this is a 4 year snapshot of enrollment (not admission):

https://www.potomacschool.org/academics/college-counseling/where-our-students-go-to-college

Op here.

Thank you. From your link, zero was enrolled. I got my data from www.polarislist.com
It seems two sources echo to each other.

From the link above, 1 matriculated.

Most updated data is here (straight from the school): https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1633639751/potomac/ap4tmsd361kuo5zs7pg3/school-profile2021-22.pdf

2 matriculated from 2018-2021

other top schools:
California Institute of Technology
Harvard University (12)
Princeton University (4)
Stanford University (8)
Yale University (3)

Legacy and other hooks play a role, probably not may kids with MIT parents.

MIT does not give an admissions preference to legacies.

+1. And having parents in commercial real estate also does not give a boost!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this is a 4 year snapshot of enrollment (not admission):

https://www.potomacschool.org/academics/college-counseling/where-our-students-go-to-college

Op here.

Thank you. From your link, zero was enrolled. I got my data from www.polarislist.com
It seems two sources echo to each other.

From the link above, 1 matriculated.

Most updated data is here (straight from the school): https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1633639751/potomac/ap4tmsd361kuo5zs7pg3/school-profile2021-22.pdf

2 matriculated from 2018-2021

other top schools:
California Institute of Technology
Harvard University (12)
Princeton University (4)
Stanford University (8)
Yale University (3)

Legacy and other hooks play a role, probably not may kids with MIT parents.

MIT does not give an admissions preference to legacies.

+1. And having parents in commercial real estate also does not give a boost!

lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT admits just over 1000 U.S. students per year from all 50 states. With over 26,000 high schools in the US, odds of one of those coming from any given high shcool school are slim.

It is never about the school; it's about the kid. If you goal is MIT, read their admissions blog; it doesn't matter at all where you go to high shcool; it's about what you do besides school and how well your teacher recommendations reflect on your character.

if your goal is MIT and you're in the DC area move to fairfax county and go to TJ. they send like 50 a year

Wrong. TJ + Fairfax county don't send anything near that much to MIT. Not even close

[Anonymous]

I think kids who go to private schools, which emphasize a liberal arts education, often want to go to similar colleges. I doubt all that many students from top privates are even applying to MIT/Cal Tech...sure there are some, but those students probably prefer HYPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public schools are where the truly high-performing math and science students are. Their parents work at NASA and NIH and can’t afford Potomac.

+1 this.

A lot but not all.