College admissions by school

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like Richard Montgomery did better than the other schools in terms of admission to top schools (e.g. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, etc.). Wootton did terribly. Anyone know why this is?

That's so last century. More interested by which school got the most into MIT, Cal Tech and Berkeley.

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Anonymous wrote:https://polarislist.com/best-public-high-schools-in-maryland

Amazing there's actually a list that's accurate!

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Anonymous wrote:Best matriculation results in MoCo is Wheaton.

Do you mean matriculation as opposed to acceptances? Can you provide the link?

Wheaton had the best college acceptances in MCPS. They provide a list at the end of the year where kids were accepted and last year it was stunning -- CalTech, MIT (2), Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Cornell, Swarthmore... they were all there, in multiples.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like Richard Montgomery did better than the other schools in terms of admission to top schools (e.g. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, etc.). Wootton did terribly. Anyone know why this is?

Because colleges discriminate against white and asians, which is a high percentage of Wootton.

IB and Magnet programs will get into great schools. So will schools that have diversity, hence BCC better than Whitman.

Every college has a numbers game it needs to fill based on sex, color, where you live in the county, etc.... We have friends that moved to North Dakota the last two years during Covid. Definitely helped with college admissions being a minority (not black) in a state full of whites that barely apply to colleges out of the area. It was win during Covid but I can't imagine doing that now. It's crazy playing the college game. Just go to JUCO for 2 years, get A's, and get into any college you want.

🙄 RM is 24% Asian.

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Anonymous wrote:https://polarislist.com/best-public-high-schools-in-maryland

Amazing there's actually a list that's accurate!

polarlist only screens for 3 schools — says a lot who would create and look at that list. The only interesting school they rank is MIT. That was a Easter of my 60 seconds.

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Waste, not Easter (autocorrect error)

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How about Quince Orchard HS? I am looking into house that zoned to there, and I have asian middle schooler that does well in GPA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like Richard Montgomery did better than the other schools in terms of admission to top schools (e.g. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, etc.). Wootton did terribly. Anyone know why this is?

Because colleges discriminate against white and asians, which is a high percentage of Wootton.

IB and Magnet programs will get into great schools. So will schools that have diversity, hence BCC better than Whitman.

Every college has a numbers game it needs to fill based on sex, color, where you live in the county, etc.... We have friends that moved to North Dakota the last two years during Covid. Definitely helped with college admissions being a minority (not black) in a state full of whites that barely apply to colleges out of the area. It was win during Covid but I can't imagine doing that now. It's crazy playing the college game. Just go to JUCO for 2 years, get A's, and get into any college you want.

🙄 RM is 24% Asian.

Actually JW MS has 14% Asians - only school that feeds into RM. So you can see how many asians are actually in the IB program to bring the entire student body up to 24%

Meanwhile Robert Frost MS has 42% Asians and Wootton has 36% Asians. So clearly the top Asian performers left for magnets.

sit down please

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like Richard Montgomery did better than the other schools in terms of admission to top schools (e.g. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, etc.). Wootton did terribly. Anyone know why this is?

Because colleges discriminate against white and asians, which is a high percentage of Wootton.

IB and Magnet programs will get into great schools. So will schools that have diversity, hence BCC better than Whitman.

Every college has a numbers game it needs to fill based on sex, color, where you live in the county, etc.... We have friends that moved to North Dakota the last two years during Covid. Definitely helped with college admissions being a minority (not black) in a state full of whites that barely apply to colleges out of the area. It was win during Covid but I can't imagine doing that now. It's crazy playing the college game. Just go to JUCO for 2 years, get A's, and get into any college you want.

🙄 RM is 24% Asian.

Actually JW MS has 14% Asians - only school that feeds into RM. So you can see how many asians are actually in the IB program to bring the entire student body up to 24%

Meanwhile Robert Frost MS has 42% Asians and Wootton has 36% Asians. So clearly the top Asian performers left for magnets.

sit down please

What are you going on about? That was in response to the PP saying Asians and whites were being discriminated against, which is why Wootton does poorly. Per that logic, RM should do badly too.

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Anonymous wrote:That's an interesting article although not fun to navigate. Given all the talk about Ws here, they did not do very well. BCC and Blair magnet seem to have a better acceptance rate at top tier than any of the Ws. BCC is more remarkable compared to Blair because BCC doesn't have a magnet program.

At the Ws, it looks to me that there will be a couple standouts who get accepted to most top tier, and that's about it.

Any chance race plays a factor and gives the students an advantage?

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Wheaton also got 3 acceptances into Johns Hopkins last year.

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Anonymous wrote:https://polarislist.com/best-public-high-schools-in-maryland

Amazing there's actually a list that's accurate!

polarlist only screens for 3 schools — says a lot who would create and look at that list. The only interesting school they rank is MIT. That was a Easter of my 60 seconds.

I guess Harvard and Princeton are not interesting schools

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Some of the kids getting into these higher level schools aren’t posting. DD has two friends going to MIT, neither have posted nor do they intend to. I suppose when the data comes out it will be clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like Richard Montgomery did better than the other schools in terms of admission to top schools (e.g. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, etc.). Wootton did terribly. Anyone know why this is?

Because colleges discriminate against white and asians, which is a high percentage of Wootton.

IB and Magnet programs will get into great schools. So will schools that have diversity, hence BCC better than Whitman.

Every college has a numbers game it needs to fill based on sex, color, where you live in the county, etc.... We have friends that moved to North Dakota the last two years during Covid. Definitely helped with college admissions being a minority (not black) in a state full of whites that barely apply to colleges out of the area. It was win during Covid but I can't imagine doing that now. It's crazy playing the college game. Just go to JUCO for 2 years, get A's, and get into any college you want.

A college counselor once told us that. You want to get your kid into a top school? Move to a northern mid west state

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://polarislist.com/best-public-high-schools-in-maryland

Amazing there's actually a list that's accurate!

polarlist only screens for 3 schools — says a lot who would create and look at that list. The only interesting school they rank is MIT. That was a Easter of my 60 seconds.

I guess Harvard and Princeton are not interesting schools

Why is the data old? They haven’t updated for 2021 and 2022 admission cycles?