Whitman HS destination 2021
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Anonymous
TJ is a larger, stronger magnet than any magnet program in MCPS, and each of Langley and McLean has been sending @150 kids to TJ, some of whom end up at the Ivies plus Stanford and MIT. Also, Virginia has stronger state schools than Maryland, so there are more kids attending UVA and W&M rather than Ivies. |
Anonymous
The class at TJ is what 450 kids? You’re claiming that two high schools send 75% of the class? |
Anonymous
Yea, you're gonna have to back that up with something other than your mouth. |
Anonymous
PP didn’t say each school sent 150 kids in each class to TJ. It’s been about 35-40 students from each school in every class. So if Langley or McLean each send @15 kids to the Ivies plus MIT and Stanford every year, which is fairly common, and you add the TJ kids from the Langley and McLean catchment areas, it would be around 20 annually, if not more. But it’s not surprising Whitman has a lot, when you consider that UMCP < UVA/W&M and also that there are more Ivy grads living in Bethesda and Chevy Chase than in McLean and Great Falls (= more legacies). |
Anonymous
| This is impressive but these kids have had every advantage. |
Anonymous
PP literally wrote “ each of Langley and McLean has been sending @150 kids to TJ”. |
Anonymous
Okay but still impressive!! |
Anonymous
Well, sure. But on DCUM if your mom did EBF, your parents are married or know how to cook, all of that is deemed a privilege. Which means that you have all excuses to not do well at any SES. I think any advantage that we claim Whitman has can be cancelled because these kids did not cosleep with their parents and were allowed to CIO. |
Anonymous
| I think if these kids got less than 1500 in SAT and less than 3.7 GPA they should be ashamed and go to Montgomery College. What slackers. |
Anonymous
Those are privileges for a kid though. I don’t understand your point. |
Anonymous
When my older kids graduated from Whitman a few years ago, there always were 15-20 kids who listed their destination as Montgomery Community College—surprised not to see similar on the 2021 list. A couple of my kids’ friends started there because their parents were budget-conscious, and ended up at College Park. Others had learning disabilities that hurt their ability to earn a decent GPA. Whitman gets criticized on here for reasons fair and unfair, but it’s not a monolithic place. Class sizes are massive and all sorts of kids who don’t fit the stereotypes are there doing their thing. |
Anonymous
Not at whitman, but my DC in a magnet wants to get out of MD and go north our west or even international. Absolutely does not want to go south. Hates the humid weather. |
Anonymous
| Of course most of the Whitman kids are legacies. They also have the advantage of parents who have been prepping them to apply to college since they were young. And they can pay for tutors etc. Not the case and not the same results at Blair, Einstein, etc. Blair does have some impressive destinations (multiple Brown, Yale, Harvard, MIT etc.) but those kids are almost all if not all in the magnet or in CAP. |
Anonymous
20/500? That’s 4%. So, if you do really well at one of the areas best publics, you have a 4% chance of attending an Ivy+. Then, you have to take into account the number who got admitted based on a hook, like legacy and athletics. That’s probably half, at least. So, not that impressive. I personally know three kids (there are more) from Langley going to Ivies this year. They’re all athletic recruits. |
Anonymous
Only a little more than 300 completed this list, won't know about the full 500 until Bethesda magazine publishes their list. |