Which HS has highest acceptance for Ivy school?

[Anonymous]

I have heard that Harvard does not take more than 2 or 3 students from each high school.

Most HS will only see one student be accepted for Harvard.

Any idea how TJ does?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2016/The-College-Chart/

check this out. keep in mind for RM and Blair, top college admissions are, most likely, from the magnet kids.

Which are also more often than not from the west part of the county

Bitch, please...where's your data?

Yeah, I don't know about that. Plenty of families from the western part of the county decide it is not worth having their kid spend huge amounts of time on a bus each day to go to Blair, especially when you have already paid an arm and a leg to get yourself zoned for Whitman.

Seems like every time there is a merit finalist or award handed out at Blair it is so and so from Bethesda or chevy chase or Potomac.

[Anonymous]

Since we're talking Montgomery County, you should be asking, which school is safe?

[Anonymous]

OP, this thought has entered our minds, as well. The chances of getting in are very slim. Both DW and I are Ivy league graduates. We both were the first in our families to go to college, which I suspect helped with both admissions and financial aid. DW interviews local high school students for her alma mater every year and is just depressed by these kids' academic records and activities--way more stellar than us back in the day. It seems like their entire childhoods were spent preparing for this. Despite any possible legacy advantage, I think the chances for our kids are very slim, and that's fine. As long as they go to college, get a career they enjoy and can support themselves, that's fine with us. But back to the original question, we are actually zoned for Rockville High School, and although the kids are that old yet, it does have us wondering what the chances are of such an admission from a school like Rockville, all else being equal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2016/The-College-Chart/

check this out. keep in mind for RM and Blair, top college admissions are, most likely, from the magnet kids.

Which are also more often than not from the west part of the county

Bitch, please...where's your data?

Yeah, I don't know about that. Plenty of families from the western part of the county decide it is not worth having their kid spend huge amounts of time on a bus each day to go to Blair, especially when you have already paid an arm and a leg to get yourself zoned for Whitman.

That sounds like loser talk!

[Anonymous]

Whitman students get into Cornell at a much higher rebate than the national average, and this appears to be true for Churchill for last year if that chart is correct. But I would strongly recommend against choosing a high school on the assumption that it might help your kid's chances of getting into an ivy. I also think that if your goal is getting your kid into an ivy, any ivy, at all costs, you are not doing your kid any favors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have heard that Harvard does not take more than 2 or 3 students from each high school.

Most HS will only see one student be accepted for Harvard.

Any idea how TJ does?

About six Harvard acceptances, ten Yale acceptances and fifteen Princeton acceptances per year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard that Harvard does not take more than 2 or 3 students from each high school.

Most HS will only see one student be accepted for Harvard.

Any idea how TJ does?

About six Harvard acceptances, ten Yale acceptances and fifteen Princeton acceptances per year.

The best high in the country? Hundreds of kids graduating? Such a tiny handful?
Keeping in mind that almost EVERY kid that goes to TJ goes there because they want to get to Ivy.
That is disappointing. Looks like greater chance for a good kid at average high based on
small fish big pond rule. No college take all great kids who apply from one school even if they
grow their own wings and solar batteries on the head and fart pink.
eeeeh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard that Harvard does not take more than 2 or 3 students from each high school.

Most HS will only see one student be accepted for Harvard.

Any idea how TJ does?

About six Harvard acceptances, ten Yale acceptances and fifteen Princeton acceptances per year.

The best high in the country? Hundreds of kids graduating? Such a tiny handful?
Keeping in mind that almost EVERY kid that goes to TJ goes there because they want to get to Ivy.
That is disappointing. Looks like greater chance for a good kid at average high based on
small fish big pond rule. No college take all great kids who apply from one school even if they
grow their own wings and solar batteries on the head and fart pink.
eeeeh.

If I understand you correctly, and it certainly is a challenge, you have not mastered subject-verb agreement in English but are now criticizing the fact that only 31 students in a single year were admitted to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard that Harvard does not take more than 2 or 3 students from each high school.

Most HS will only see one student be accepted for Harvard.

Any idea how TJ does?

About six Harvard acceptances, ten Yale acceptances and fifteen Princeton acceptances per year.

The best high in the country? Hundreds of kids graduating? Such a tiny handful?
Keeping in mind that almost EVERY kid that goes to TJ goes there because they want to get to Ivy.
That is disappointing. Looks like greater chance for a good kid at average high based on
small fish big pond rule. No college take all great kids who apply from one school even if they
grow their own wings and solar batteries on the head and fart pink.
eeeeh.

If I understand you correctly, and it certainly is a challenge, you have not mastered subject-verb agreement in English but are now criticizing the fact that only 31 students in a single year were admitted to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

TJ Attendees to Ivies for class of 2016:

Harvard 6
Princeton 6
Yale 7
Columbia 9
Cornell 8
Dartmouth 4
Penn 7
Brown 3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
TJ Attendees to Ivies for class of 2016:

Harvard 6
Princeton 6
Yale 7
Columbia 9
Cornell 8
Dartmouth 4
Penn 7
Brown 3

Very impressive. RM sent a boatload to Cornell a few years back. Not the top student either.

- Mom of RMIB grad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, this thought has entered our minds, as well. The chances of getting in are very slim. Both DW and I are Ivy league graduates. We both were the first in our families to go to college, which I suspect helped with both admissions and financial aid. DW interviews local high school students for her alma mater every year and is just depressed by these kids' academic records and activities--way more stellar than us back in the day. It seems like their entire childhoods were spent preparing for this. Despite any possible legacy advantage, I think the chances for our kids are very slim, and that's fine. As long as they go to college, get a career they enjoy and can support themselves, that's fine with us. But back to the original question, we are actually zoned for Rockville High School, and although the kids are that old yet, it does have us wondering what the chances are of such an admission from a school like Rockville, all else being equal?

^This is exactly what my worry has been. Both my husband and I went to MIT out of regular non-magnet GT programs in public schools. While we would hope our children will eventually go to good colleges and our oldest was just accepted for the HGC for 4th grade in Silver Spring, we look at the list of kids who get into the upper-grade magnets and get the awards, college admissions, and scholarships, and so many seem to have been from wealthier areas with tiger parents who push them from birth. We chose to let our kids have fun in preschool and learn how to make friends. Maybe that was a mistake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2016/The-College-Chart/

check this out. keep in mind for RM and Blair, top college admissions are, most likely, from the magnet kids.

Half of the Blair magnet goes to UMDCP every year, because $.

That must make UMDCP a fantastic program to have all those super smart kids there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2016/The-College-Chart/

check this out. keep in mind for RM and Blair, top college admissions are, most likely, from the magnet kids.

Half of the Blair magnet goes to UMDCP every year, because $.

That must make UMDCP a fantastic program to have all those super smart kids there.

It is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard that Harvard does not take more than 2 or 3 students from each high school.

Most HS will only see one student be accepted for Harvard.

Any idea how TJ does?

About six Harvard acceptances, ten Yale acceptances and fifteen Princeton acceptances per year.

The best high in the country? Hundreds of kids graduating? Such a tiny handful?
Keeping in mind that almost EVERY kid that goes to TJ goes there because they want to get to Ivy.
That is disappointing. Looks like greater chance for a good kid at average high based on
small fish big pond rule. No college take all great kids who apply from one school even if they
grow their own wings and solar batteries on the head and fart pink.
eeeeh.

If I understand you correctly, and it certainly is a challenge, you have not mastered subject-verb agreement in English but are now criticizing the fact that only 31 students in a single year were admitted to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

I have my phone to blame for my misspells and autocorrects.
Who do you have to blame for your bullying?


And yes. I am criticizing that very fact. ONLY 31.
When you have THE (entire body of sudents in the ) BEST HIGH SCHOOL IN THE USA. That makes it very much ONLY.