McLean HS 2023 Outcomes

[Anonymous]

its the same as last year and pretty much the same for every Northern Virginia or Bethesda high school.

What happens every year is these lists come out and people who have never seen them before coo and clap and those who have seen them before just move along to a more interesting thread

the colleges have quotas there's always roughly 1-5 kids per school to each of the Ivies.

Really that's the only interesting statistic here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems better than Langley’s

It has been, for years.

No, actually, it hasn’t. What a strange comment. Langley has all of the same acceptances plus several at Stanford in the past couple of years. But do go on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is at McLean, and brought home the senior year edition of the school magazine with school commitments. It's not entlrely complete, of course, since it's self reported. However, I wanted to give some hope to next year's applicants (of which DC is one) that good outcomes are still possible even in this horrible college application environment:

Ivy + MIT: Yale (4), Harvard (2), Cornell (2), Dartmouth (2), Penn, Brown, MIT

Other T30: Georgetown (3), Southern Cal (3), Johns Hopkins (2), Duke (2), Michigan (2), Georgia, Wake Forest, Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Chicago, Georgia Tech

Top Virginia: UVA (26), VT (22), W&M (16)

Other Virginia: JMU (10), GMU (10), VCU (5), CNU (2), VMI, NoVA, Shenandoah, Emory & Henry, Hampden-Sydney, UMW

SLAC: Bucknell (2), Wesleyan, Tufts, Carleton, Macalester, West Point, Kenyon, Haverford, Wheaton, Franklin & Marshall, Juniata, Muhlenberg

OOS Publics: Tennessee (6), Penn State (6), Pitt (4), Ohio State (4), Illinois (4), Purdue (4), Maryland (3), Colorado (3), Indiana (2), Washington (2), Wisconsin (2), Temple (2), Delaware, Florida State, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Oregon State, Clemson, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Auburn, Arizona, UC Irvine, SD State, Colorado State, South Florida, Montana, Miami U, U-Mass,

Other: Cambridge, McGill, Toronto, U-Miami, BC (3) BU (2), Northeastern, NYU, Syracuse (4), GWU (2), Howard, Elon (4), San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Tampa, Rollins, Loyola Chicago, Loyola MD, RPI, Pratt (2), Bowling Green (2), Dayton, Xavier,

Impressive list! The number going to UVA is lower than I would have expected. Does anyone know if that is lower than recent McLean graduating classes?

[Anonymous]

It’s pretty similar to 2022. The breakdown is in this issue.

https://issuu.com/the_highlander/docs/the_highlander_-_may_2022_-_senior_edition

[Anonymous]

McLean-area tiger moms are next-level. Much respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is at McLean, and brought home the senior year edition of the school magazine with school commitments. It's not entlrely complete, of course, since it's self reported. However, I wanted to give some hope to next year's applicants (of which DC is one) that good outcomes are still possible even in this horrible college application environment:

Ivy + MIT: Yale (4), Harvard (2), Cornell (2), Dartmouth (2), Penn, Brown, MIT

Other T30: Georgetown (3), Southern Cal (3), Johns Hopkins (2), Duke (2), Michigan (2), Georgia, Wake Forest, Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Chicago, Georgia Tech

Top Virginia: UVA (26), VT (22), W&M (16)

Other Virginia: JMU (10), GMU (10), VCU (5), CNU (2), VMI, NoVA, Shenandoah, Emory & Henry, Hampden-Sydney, UMW

SLAC: Bucknell (2), Wesleyan, Tufts, Carleton, Macalester, West Point, Kenyon, Haverford, Wheaton, Franklin & Marshall, Juniata, Muhlenberg

OOS Publics: Tennessee (6), Penn State (6), Pitt (4), Ohio State (4), Illinois (4), Purdue (4), Maryland (3), Colorado (3), Indiana (2), Washington (2), Wisconsin (2), Temple (2), Delaware, Florida State, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Oregon State, Clemson, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Auburn, Arizona, UC Irvine, SD State, Colorado State, South Florida, Montana, Miami U, U-Mass,

Other: Cambridge, McGill, Toronto, U-Miami, BC (3) BU (2), Northeastern, NYU, Syracuse (4), GWU (2), Howard, Elon (4), San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Tampa, Rollins, Loyola Chicago, Loyola MD, RPI, Pratt (2), Bowling Green (2), Dayton, Xavier,

Impressive list! The number going to UVA is lower than I would have expected. Does anyone know if that is lower than recent McLean graduating classes?

OP's post refers to what was in the senior edition of the student newspaper. Kids also reported to an Instagram page, and 37 kids indicated on that page they were UVA-bound. I haven't compared the Instagram page to the senior edition, so it's possible some kids reported to the newspaper but not the Instagram page, as well as obviously vice versa.

So the number of kids headed to UVA is higher than normal (usually it's closer to 30), but it's also a large senior class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:its the same as last year and pretty much the same for every Northern Virginia or Bethesda high school.

What happens every year is these lists come out and people who have never seen them before coo and clap and those who have seen them before just move along to a more interesting thread

the colleges have quotas there's always roughly 1-5 kids per school to each of the Ivies.

Really that's the only interesting statistic here.

There is no quota of roughly 1-5 kids per school to each Ivy at every NoVa high school. Far from it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is at McLean, and brought home the senior year edition of the school magazine with school commitments. It's not entlrely complete, of course, since it's self reported. However, I wanted to give some hope to next year's applicants (of which DC is one) that good outcomes are still possible even in this horrible college application environment:

Ivy + MIT: Yale (4), Harvard (2), Cornell (2), Dartmouth (2), Penn, Brown, MIT

Other T30: Georgetown (3), Southern Cal (3), Johns Hopkins (2), Duke (2), Michigan (2), Georgia, Wake Forest, Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Chicago, Georgia Tech

Top Virginia: UVA (26), VT (22), W&M (16)

Other Virginia: JMU (10), GMU (10), VCU (5), CNU (2), VMI, NoVA, Shenandoah, Emory & Henry, Hampden-Sydney, UMW

SLAC: Bucknell (2), Wesleyan, Tufts, Carleton, Macalester, West Point, Kenyon, Haverford, Wheaton, Franklin & Marshall, Juniata, Muhlenberg

OOS Publics: Tennessee (6), Penn State (6), Pitt (4), Ohio State (4), Illinois (4), Purdue (4), Maryland (3), Colorado (3), Indiana (2), Washington (2), Wisconsin (2), Temple (2), Delaware, Florida State, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Oregon State, Clemson, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Auburn, Arizona, UC Irvine, SD State, Colorado State, South Florida, Montana, Miami U, U-Mass,

Other: Cambridge, McGill, Toronto, U-Miami, BC (3) BU (2), Northeastern, NYU, Syracuse (4), GWU (2), Howard, Elon (4), San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Tampa, Rollins, Loyola Chicago, Loyola MD, RPI, Pratt (2), Bowling Green (2), Dayton, Xavier,

Interesting list -- thanks for sharing. I'd note, however, that Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Case Western are NOT T30 schools.

I didn't want to nit pick lol, but This!.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is at McLean, and brought home the senior year edition of the school magazine with school commitments. It's not entlrely complete, of course, since it's self reported. However, I wanted to give some hope to next year's applicants (of which DC is one) that good outcomes are still possible even in this horrible college application environment:

Ivy + MIT: Yale (4), Harvard (2), Cornell (2), Dartmouth (2), Penn, Brown, MIT

Other T30: Georgetown (3), Southern Cal (3), Johns Hopkins (2), Duke (2), Michigan (2), Georgia, Wake Forest, Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Chicago, Georgia Tech

Top Virginia: UVA (26), VT (22), W&M (16)

Other Virginia: JMU (10), GMU (10), VCU (5), CNU (2), VMI, NoVA, Shenandoah, Emory & Henry, Hampden-Sydney, UMW

SLAC: Bucknell (2), Wesleyan, Tufts, Carleton, Macalester, West Point, Kenyon, Haverford, Wheaton, Franklin & Marshall, Juniata, Muhlenberg

OOS Publics: Tennessee (6), Penn State (6), Pitt (4), Ohio State (4), Illinois (4), Purdue (4), Maryland (3), Colorado (3), Indiana (2), Washington (2), Wisconsin (2), Temple (2), Delaware, Florida State, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Oregon State, Clemson, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Auburn, Arizona, UC Irvine, SD State, Colorado State, South Florida, Montana, Miami U, U-Mass,

Other: Cambridge, McGill, Toronto, U-Miami, BC (3) BU (2), Northeastern, NYU, Syracuse (4), GWU (2), Howard, Elon (4), San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Tampa, Rollins, Loyola Chicago, Loyola MD, RPI, Pratt (2), Bowling Green (2), Dayton, Xavier,

Interesting list -- thanks for sharing. I'd note, however, that Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Case Western are NOT T30 schools.

I didn't want to nit pick lol, but This!.

Georgia Tech certainly is top 30 in engineering and technology, which is really what it does. It is quite a bit stronger there than quite a few "top 30" USNWR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love that Cambridge University is lumped at the bottom of the list, with "other". Thank you for lightening up my morning.

Came here to post the same thing.

Congrats to these graduates!

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure I would have started a thread like this - kind of asking for trouble - but (1) I can understand OP's motivation given the earlier troll thread suggesting a kid with a 4.6 GPA from McLean couldn't get into any good schools and (2) it does look like a solid year in terms of destinations. Even better is that kids there supported each other's "outcomes" across the board. It was a nice group of seniors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems better than Langley’s

It has been, for years.

No, actually, it hasn’t. What a strange comment. Langley has all of the same acceptances plus several at Stanford in the past couple of years. But do go on.

You need to do your research. It is MUCH easier to be admitted to HYPSM and T20 from McLean, than Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure I would have started a thread like this - kind of asking for trouble - but (1) I can understand OP's motivation given the earlier troll thread suggesting a kid with a 4.6 GPA from McLean couldn't get into any good schools and (2) it does look like a solid year in terms of destinations. Even better is that kids there supported each other's "outcomes" across the board. It was a nice group of seniors.

+1

McLean is known to be less cut throat than other public options.

[Anonymous]

I find it interesting that the SLAC list is pretty limited and not that impressive

[Anonymous]

650 is a big graduating class. MCPS and DCPS tend to have smaller high schools