What do we think about Latin second campus
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Anonymous
Um, okay, Capitol Hill parents. Tell me, are you all going to Jefferson? Applying to BASIS? Or private? ‘Cause this CH parent and ever other parent I know would be delighted to match with Latin, especially the main campus. |
Anonymous
I know lots of CH parents who rank BASIS over Latin. It’s not the norm, but it’s not unusual either. I know a couple who decided to stick with SH rather than lottery, but those are outliers for sure. |
Anonymous
| We know many Cap Hill public school families who didn't put in for Latin or BASIS for MS. They went in various directions. Those who could afford to generally selected expensive private middle schools. Others stuck with in-boundary schools, Eliot-Hine, Stuart Hobson or Jefferson or lotteried into Hardy. Some chose parochial schools in NW or Arlington (10-15K), or the Friends Community School in College Park (less than 20K). Others homeschooled. Some went for other charters, Inspired Teaching, Two Rivers, DCI. Some simply moved out of the area, at least for MS, including by taking overseas assignments with government agencies or the military. |
Anonymous
| +1. Latin is hardly the be and end all for CH families after ES. |
Anonymous
| Latin students can start taking a foreign language in 8th grade if their grades are good enough (I think you need to have a B average, but am not sure. |
Anonymous
| Yes, but language instruction at Latin isn't a selling point. If a kid is coming out of a DC public language immersion elementary school, Latin is happy to let their skills in Spanish, Chinese or French lapse between 5th and 8th grades. Families have to keep up with modern languages on their own in middle school, high school instruction could hardly be described as advanced, and Latin students seldom knock it out of the park on AP language tests. |
Anonymous
| But the same can be true for most schools. Even if a Middle, like Deal, offers Chinese, most schools lack offerings beyond AP. Latin offers some Language classes beyond AP. Latin is certainly not worse than Walls, which started the school year off without any French teacher. And even at DCI, students adopt a more traditional schedule with 1 language class a day. plus an elective if they want. |
Anonymous
We live on CH and didn't even bother to lottery for Latin; we just put down Basis. If your kid is at all into academics, the choice is clear. |
Anonymous
Here is the list of acceptances for the Latin Class of 2020: Agnes Scott College Albright College AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles Campus American University Amherst College Arizona State University – Tempe (Honors College) Auburn University Bard College Bard College Berlin Bates College Belmont Abbey College Benedict College Blinn College Boston University (Kilachand Honors College) Bowie State University Brandeis University Brigham Young University – Idaho Bucknell University California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo Capitol Technology University Catholic University of America Chatham University Clark Atlanta University Clark University Colgate University College of William and Mary Cooper Union For The Advancement of Science and Art Coppin State University Cornell University D.C. MPD Cadet Corps Davidson College Delaware State University Delaware Valley University DePaul University Dickinson College Drexel University East Carolina University Elizabeth City State University Fayetteville State University Fisk University Florida A&M University Franklin & Marshall College Frostburg State University George Mason University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology – Main Campus Georgia State University Grinnell College Guilford College Hamilton College Hampton University Harrisburg University of Science & Technology Hartwick College Hilbert College Hobart William Smith Colleges Hollins University Hood College Howard University Ithaca College Johnson & Wales University – Providence Juniata College Kalamazoo College Kent State University at Kent Lawrence University Le Moyne College Lewis & Clark College Lincoln University of Pennsylvania Livingstone College Longwood University Longwood University (Honors College) Louisiana State University (Honors College) Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Loyola University New Orleans Marshall University Mary Baldwin University Maryland Institute College of Art Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts McGill University Michigan State University Middlebury College Montgomery College Morgan State University Mount Holyoke College Norfolk State University North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University at Raleigh Northeastern University Northern Virginia Community College Oberlin College Oglethorpe University Old Dominion University Pace University – New York City Pennsylvania State University – Main Campus Pepperdine University Prince George’s Community College Radford University Randolph College Reed College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rider University Rochester Institute of Technology Saint Louis University Salisbury University Santa Clara University Savannah College of Art and Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago Shepherd University Simmons College Skidmore College Smith College Southern Methodist University Spelman College St. John’s University – New York Stockton University SUNY Buffalo State SUNY Morrisville State College Swarthmore College Syracuse University Temple University Texas A&M University – College Station The American University of Paris The American University of Rome The Evergreen State College The University of Alabama The University of Findlay The University of Tennessee – Knoxville Trinity College Trinity Washington University Tuskegee University Union College University of California – Berkeley University of California – Irvine University of California – Los Angeles University of California – San Diego University of California – Santa Barbara University of Colorado – Boulder University of Connecticut University of Hartford University of Kentucky University of Maryland – Baltimore (Honors College) University of Maryland – College Park (Honors College) University of Maryland – Eastern Shore University of Massachusetts – Amherst (Honors College) University of Massachusetts – Boston University of New Hampshire – Main Campus University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of North Carolina at Pembroke University of North Texas University of Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh Campus University of Rochester University of San Diego University of San Francisco University of the District of Columbia University of Vermont University of Virginia – Main Campus (Echols Scholars Program) University of Washington – Seattle Campus University of Wisconsin – Stout University of Wisconsin – Madison Ursinus College Vassar College Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Virginia State University Washington College Washington University in St. Louis Wellesley College Wentworth Institute of Technology Wesleyan University Whittier College Winston-Salem State University Worcester Polytechnic Institute Xavier University Xavier University of Louisiana York College of Pennsylvania |
Anonymous
| Ugh. Not great. |
Anonymous
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Just OK for all the hype about Latin academics.
No school admitting in the single digits on the list...Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, private Ivies (one student to Ivy-public Cornell), Univ Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin, Northwestern, Pomona, military academies etc. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/lowest-acceptance-rate |
Anonymous
Cornell is private. |
Anonymous
| One of the (IMO) positives of the Latin college counseling office is that they strive to help kids find the right "fit" for the right price, instead of trying to push kids into taking on large amounts of debt at high profile schools. They do a lot of counseling about which schools are "no loan" schools, and which schools offer great aid options, as well as being very on top of the DC TAG program. The college counselors also spend a lot of time educating students on potential scholarship opportunities. For parents who have $300k+ per kid socked away in 529s to cover HYP, that might not matter, but to many Latin families it does. |
Anonymous
We found the college counseling office to be excellent. And our DD got much more support than our friends' kids at private schools. We were so impressed. |
Anonymous
I wasn’t aware that there was any hype about Latin academics (other than from Latin boosters here). For example, USN&WR ranks it the #14 public middle school in DC behind KIPP Aim Academy. https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia |