TC College Admissions

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There is also one going to Dartmouth.

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There is one to Columbia, one to Dartmouth, at least two to Cornell, and multiple others in the standard top-40. There are every year. Are they from all income levels? Not uniformly. But there are always multiple kids who do very nicely from TC.

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Anonymous wrote:There is one to Columbia, one to Dartmouth, at least two to Cornell, and multiple others in the standard top-40. There are every year. Are they from all income levels? Not uniformly. But there are always multiple kids who do very nicely from TC.

Overlooked the Dartmouth. Nice catch.

Don't see Cornell in the article. You must be privy to a different list.

There are always a handful of kids from TC who tracked "white and bright." They do call it "Yale or Jail" for a reason.

But TC is definitely not a college prep environment on the whole. Maybe it's changing.

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Thanks, Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:
Overlooked the Dartmouth. Nice catch.

Don't see Cornell in the article. You must be privy to a different list.

There are always a handful of kids from TC who tracked "white and bright." They do call it "Yale or Jail" for a reason.

But TC is definitely not a college prep environment on the whole. Maybe it's changing.

It's as much of a college prep environment for college-bound students as Washington-Lee or Wakefield. Probably more so than Wakefield, as there's a larger cohort of students aiming for top schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Overlooked the Dartmouth. Nice catch.

Don't see Cornell in the article. You must be privy to a different list.

There are always a handful of kids from TC who tracked "white and bright." They do call it "Yale or Jail" for a reason.

But TC is definitely not a college prep environment on the whole. Maybe it's changing.

It's as much of a college prep environment for college-bound students as Washington-Lee or Wakefield. Probably more so than Wakefield, as there's a larger cohort of students aiming for top schools.

There are tons of wealthy kids who are academic high achievers at TC and W-L. So the academic environment at both schools would be very competitive. I know that at W-L, courtesy of the school newspaper, 6 are going to the ivies this year. Yorktown I suspect has similar ivy stats. I don't know much about Wakefield to comment on that school, but wealthy neighborhoods like Arlington Ridge are in the Wakefield boundary, and I doubt the ivy stats would be much lower than at other nearby schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know much about Wakefield to comment on that school, but wealthy neighborhoods like Arlington Ridge are in the Wakefield boundary, and I doubt the ivy stats would be much lower than at other nearby schools.

I suspect the Wakefield admissions to top schools are lower than W-L, TC or Stuart.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know much about Wakefield to comment on that school, but wealthy neighborhoods like Arlington Ridge are in the Wakefield boundary, and I doubt the ivy stats would be much lower than at other nearby schools.

I suspect the Wakefield admissions to top schools are lower than W-L, TC or Stuart.

I can't find Yorktown or Stuart college acceptance statistics but McLean has four ivy league schools on a list for the class of 2012 that was published on Patch. So five or six students from McLean are ivy league bound. I suspect most local public schools send about 6 students each to the ivies every year. I don't see why Wakefield would be lower than that. TC sends higher numbers of students to ivy league schools than Fairfax or Arlington schools because Alexandria does not allow its students to attend TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know much about Wakefield to comment on that school, but wealthy neighborhoods like Arlington Ridge are in the Wakefield boundary, and I doubt the ivy stats would be much lower than at other nearby schools.

I suspect the Wakefield admissions to top schools are lower than W-L, TC or Stuart.

I can't find Yorktown or Stuart college acceptance statistics but McLean has four ivy league schools on a list for the class of 2012 that was published on Patch. So five or six students from McLean are ivy league bound. I suspect most local public schools send about 6 students each to the ivies every year. I don't see why Wakefield would be lower than that. TC sends higher numbers of students to ivy league schools than Fairfax or Arlington schools because Alexandria does not allow its students to attend TJ.

McLean has at least six students attending Ivies and at least one who turned down an Ivy (Brown) to attend U.Va. I would be surprised if Wakefield or Stuart had as many, but not if TC, which had a much larger graduating class and is in a jurisdiction that does not allow its students to attend TH, had more.