Bethesda Magazine College Bound Chart for 2020 grads

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So which of those high schools is viewed as the best? I realize that's a relative term, so what's best, however you define best?

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Anonymous wrote:So which of those high schools is viewed as the best? I realize that's a relative term, so what's best, however you define best?

Blair and RM. They have top students in test-in magnets.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

HYP is essentially free for moderate income families. I thought everyone knew this by now?

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UT Austin had lower acceptance than Michigan, Chapel Hill or Berkeley and decent number of applicants. That surprised me a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:Here are the top 10 most popular schools to apply to based upon number of applications received:

1. University of Maryland College Park - 2165
2. University of Maryland Baltimore County - 745
3. Penn State - 598
4. Towson - 579
5. University of Michigan - 512
6. University of Pittsburgh - 495
7. University of Virginia - 448
8. Montgomery College - 445
9. University of Pennsylvania - 410
10. Cornell - 376

Of Ivy League or highly competitive schools, here is the order of the most applications. Stanford appears to be the hardest to get into.

1. Cornell - 376 / 58 accepted
2. Princeton - 273 / 11 accepted
3. Columbia - 273 / 18 accepted
4. Brown - 273 / 18 accepted
5. Stanford - 260 / 8 accepted
6. Yale - 260 / 16 accepted
7. Harvard - 227 / 12 accepted
8. Univ of Chicago - 198 / 21 accepted
9. MIT - 182 / 14 accepted
10. Dartmouth - 114 / 13 accepted

UPenn had the most applications at 410 (with 28 accepted).

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Anonymous wrote:Much better than the Arlington statistics.

Link?

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/where-arlingtons-class-of-2020-applied-to-college-and-got-in/

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Anonymous wrote:Very interesting. Calculated the acceptance rates for schools that are frequently mentioned or compared on DCUM. (Didn't do Ivy League. They ranged from about 5% to 15% for Cornell.)

Duke 8.7%
Northwestern 9.4%
Rice 16.7%
UVA 18.5%
UNC 18.7%
GA Tech 19.1%
Vanderbilt 19.9%
Amherst 20.0%
Carnegie Mellon 22.1%
UCLA 22.8%
WashU 23.1%
Emory 27.1%
Notre Dam 27.3%
UC Berkeley 27.5%
Georgetown 29.7%
Michigan 30.1%
NYU 33.0%
Williams 34.1%
W&M 43.1%
Wisconsin 50.7%
VA Tech 60.1%
UMD 64.1%
Pitt 71.1%
Penn St. 76.6%

Sure supports the Pitt, UMD, VA Tech and Penn St. as safety schools theme we often see here.

Very hard to get into UVA, UNC and GA Tech from Bethesda. Easier to get into Michigan, Berkeley and UCLA. And Vandy, Emory and WashU for that matter.

Wow, Montgomery County. Good luck getting into UVA! No wonder so many of you are bitter about the school. Your kids aren't getting in. Now we get it. But there's always Michigan, or Georgetown, or Emory. Your kids will be fine I'm sure.

And luckily destined not to be like you.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

HYP is essentially free for moderate income families. I thought everyone knew this by now?

There is a big gap between what is defined as moderate income and the ability for a family to afford 70k in tuition. We are a 200K HHI family offered no aid from Ivies with two kids being in college (one with some merit aid). Took UMDs honors program/merit aid instead for Blair magnet kid. Perhaps we should not have saved anything.

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I think that if you drill down you see how socio economics plays a part in all of this. There are many more applicants to SLACs from the wealthier schools and slightly higher admit rates from those schools as well, likely due to athletics and/or ability to pay in full.

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Anonymous wrote:So which of those high schools is viewed as the best? I realize that's a relative term, so what's best, however you define best?

I was struck by how much better Wooton did than BCC.

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UMD has to take a lot of in-state kids. Just like California schools have to take a certain number of in-state students. Its true for Chapel Hill and Ut Austin as well.

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Anonymous wrote:UT Austin had lower acceptance than Michigan, Chapel Hill or Berkeley and decent number of applicants. That surprised me a bit.

You have to understand how the rules and regulations of each state work, and then you would not be surprised. Texas eliminated affirmative action and replaced it with the rule that the top 10% of each high school in the state must be accepted into college. This results in a massive number of in-state students being accepted at UT Austin. In-state figures for UT Austin are 90% in-state. With so few spots for out of state, acceptances from our area or any area will be lower.

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Goodness, those Arlington results are near brutal.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD has to take a lot of in-state kids. Just like California schools have to take a certain number of in-state students. Its true for Chapel Hill and Ut Austin as well.

75% of UMD in-state. 90% UT Austin. There is high variance for many reasons, one of which in my previous post