Where do Wilson H.S. Graduates Go to College

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for the useful info those who provided it.

With regard to one of the issues raised by posters at 13:34 and 13:55, I am well aware at this point that I don't know what college will be a good fit for my child. That's why I've started this thread. I know that elite kids from Wilson - from any school - get into iIvies. And I know there are kids at Wilson who won't graduate or won't go on to college.

So what I'm trying to find out is what happens to the smart but not elite kids in between? Kids who get decent but not incredible grades...kids who do OK on SATs, but not in the top 1%...kids that are good at some stuff, but not good at others. What I want to know is whether kids like this that go to Wilson end up with the opportunity to attend a high-quality college that will be a good fit for them.

There has been some constructive answers to this question, and I appreciate them. If anyone else has experience or info to share, I would appreciate it.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

I know two families on my block that have had 5 children between them graduate from Wilson and go on to college over the past 20 years (the youngest is currently in college). They have all gotten into very good schools (not ivies), they all graduated on time, the oldest is now on faculty at a top 20 university. As far as I know they all graduated from college on time.

Educated and involved parents, all the kids went through a JKLM, Deal, and Wilson. All the kids are intelligent and articulate adults with good social skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Maybe I am missing something. I believe all of us want our DC's to go to the best college for THEM. They should have a realistic goals. Small or large, urban or rural, religious or liberal. Parents use the college their DC's attends to brag to their friends. I have worked at several local Univ. mental health counseling centers. Let me put it like this, I left Cornell ( Ivy League) because of the high suicide and attempted suicide rate. These kids were top in their class with high SAT's. The pressure parents put on their teenagers is sad.

Please don't get caught up in the hype. You and your DC have time.

I would like to apologized to the OP. I should have known better. I get upset when I read about some DCUM think that Ivy's or bust for their kids and I jumped to conclusions. You were just trying to find out the choices of colleges past Wilson students are attending. My son was an average student (AA) at Wilson and played sports. He just graduated from VCU and getting his Masters in Sports Med at VCU.
You and your child will be afforded an opportunity to check out a variety of colleges. The counseling staff really helped us out. Being a single dad was stressful time but it turned out great.

[Anonymous]

Considering Wilson has an extremely large AA student body, it is very strange that HBCU's are missing from the list of 2008. Now if you want to impress me show me the list of 2008 that actually graduated in 4-years from their college/university.

[Anonymous]

WTF is wrong with you people. Do your research if want to dig deeper into Wilson's stats. The list posted was found from a previous on this topic. It is not a complete list. It's almost as if folk can't accept information at face value. There's Ivies on the list so it must be just ONE kid that got into them all or We need to know if kids actually graduated from the school they attended. Bottom line is a decent number of Wilson students go to good colleges and do wonderful things. End of story.

[Anonymous]

@19:50 my sentiments exactly, there's a decent number of students at every school that go on, an pursue a college education. Again, my nephew graduated from a DCPS school and was accepted into Harvard and no he didn't attend Wilson, SWW, Banneker, Phelps, CHEC or McKinley Tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the list from 2008:

Not subjective is the Wilson's senior class '08 fabulous college
acceptance results at the nation's top schools. Not all the returns
are in, but here is a sampling, in no particular order, of colleges
where the Wilson class of '08 has received acceptances:

Yale (3)
Princeton (1)
Stanford (1)
University of Pennsylvania (3)
Columbia (1)
Dartmouth (1)
UC Berkeley (2)
Cornell (2)
Duke (1)
Georgetown (1)
Univ Virginia (5)
University of Chicago (2)
Barnard (3)
Univ Michigan (17)
Williams (1)
Wesleyan (3)
Amherst (2)
Swarthmore (1)
Washington University (St Louis) (3)
Vassar (2)
Vanderbilt (2)
Tufts (4)
Oberlin (1)
McGill (2)
Davidson (1)
St. Johns (7)
George Washington (6)
University of NC (2)
Penn State (15)
University Colorado (12)
University of Wisconsin (15)
University of Texas (2)

Three went to Yale.... and how many to jail?

[Anonymous]

14:07, you have me cracking up over here at the Correctional Center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is the list from 2008:

Not subjective is the Wilson's senior class '08 fabulous college
acceptance results at the nation's top schools. Not all the returns
are in, but here is a sampling, in no particular order, of colleges
where the Wilson class of '08 has received acceptances:

Yale (3)
Princeton (1)
Stanford (1)
University of Pennsylvania (3)
Columbia (1)
Dartmouth (1)
UC Berkeley (2)
Cornell (2)
Duke (1)
Georgetown (1)
Univ Virginia (5)
University of Chicago (2)
Barnard (3)
Univ Michigan (17)
Williams (1)
Wesleyan (3)
Amherst (2)
Swarthmore (1)
Washington University (St Louis) (3)
Vassar (2)
Vanderbilt (2)
Tufts (4)
Oberlin (1)
McGill (2)
Davidson (1)
St. Johns (7)
George Washington (6)
University of NC (2)
Penn State (15)
University Colorado (12)
University of Wisconsin (15)
University of Texas (2)

Three went to Yale.... and how many to jail?

Wow. Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is the list from 2008:

Not subjective is the Wilson's senior class '08 fabulous college
acceptance results at the nation's top schools. Not all the returns
are in, but here is a sampling, in no particular order, of colleges
where the Wilson class of '08 has received acceptances:

Yale (3)
Princeton (1)
Stanford (1)
University of Pennsylvania (3)
Columbia (1)
Dartmouth (1)
UC Berkeley (2)
Cornell (2)
Duke (1)
Georgetown (1)
Univ Virginia (5)
University of Chicago (2)
Barnard (3)
Univ Michigan (17)
Williams (1)
Wesleyan (3)
Amherst (2)
Swarthmore (1)
Washington University (St Louis) (3)
Vassar (2)
Vanderbilt (2)
Tufts (4)
Oberlin (1)
McGill (2)
Davidson (1)
St. Johns (7)
George Washington (6)
University of NC (2)
Penn State (15)
University Colorado (12)
University of Wisconsin (15)
University of Texas (2)

Three went to Yale.... and how many to jail?

Wow. Really?

You have never heard it called Yale or Jail?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You have never heard it called Yale or Jail?

Well at least students have choices!

[Anonymous]

@20:20, you point is???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You have never heard it called Yale or Jail?

Well at least students have choices!

I would watch my words...Karma is a bitch

[Anonymous]

c'mon. Yale or Jail never gets old because it's so apt for this school.

Why, just this week, 4-5 of Wilson's finest were casing alleys in the Albemarle St. NW vicinity and breaking into back windows and stealing electronics. (these are not the individuals headed to Yale, by the way).

But even so, I guarantee that a big handful of my neighbors' kids will matriculate from Wilson this year and go to Ivies. Another dozen will go to SLACs. (these are not the same teens kicking in windows and stealing iPads and loitering in alleys).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:c'mon. Yale or Jail never gets old because it's so apt for this school.

Why, just this week, 4-5 of Wilson's finest were casing alleys in the Albemarle St. NW vicinity and breaking into back windows and stealing electronics. (these are not the individuals headed to Yale, by the way).

But even so, I guarantee that a big handful of my neighbors' kids will matriculate from Wilson this year and go to Ivies. Another dozen will go to SLACs. (these are not the same teens kicking in windows and stealing iPads and loitering in alleys).

Link to an article about this? Is this true or just a rumor?