Arlington’s Top 20 colleges

[Anonymous]

It's not what Arlington Magazine thinks --- it's statistics,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone care what Arlington Magazine thinks re colleges?

I think it’s a list of where kids from APS matriculated. It isn’t a ranking.

There's absolutely no way that VCU rejected that many APS students - something's off.

I beg to differ, it was really interesting last year to see DD’s friends getting accepted or rejected from certain schools. If schools thought your GPA was way too high, they were not going to accept you - yield protection. Also, unfortunately, I heard of a handful of kids getting rejected due to AI detected essays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone care what Arlington Magazine thinks re colleges?

I don't think most people really care what any magazine thinks - including USNWR - but we're generally a content hungry public at this point and people enjoy both validation and ammunition wherever they can find it.

You're both idiots. All the magazine did was publish data -- the 20 colleges that received the most applications from APS students and their acceptance rates. It doesn't matter if it were the Taliban that published it. The magazine isn't "thinking" anything at all.

It's useful data for APS families to have as part of their college search regardless of who publishes it. Assuming, of course, that it's accurate.

I see you get your ammunition here. Whatever it takes to make you feel good about yourself.

Sorry, but you're just being stupid. It's not "ammunition." It's information. It's statistics. Nothing more than that.

I believe in information and statistics. You believe in being a prick on the internet to feed your ego. You're a sad person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone care what Arlington Magazine thinks re colleges?

I don't think most people really care what any magazine thinks - including USNWR - but we're generally a content hungry public at this point and people enjoy both validation and ammunition wherever they can find it.

You're both idiots. All the magazine did was publish data -- the 20 colleges that received the most applications from APS students and their acceptance rates. It doesn't matter if it were the Taliban that published it. The magazine isn't "thinking" anything at all.

It's useful data for APS families to have as part of their college search regardless of who publishes it. Assuming, of course, that it's accurate.

I see you get your ammunition here. Whatever it takes to make you feel good about yourself.

Sorry, but you're just being stupid. It's not "ammunition." It's information. It's statistics. Nothing more than that.

I believe in information and statistics. You believe in being a prick on the internet to feed your ego. You're a sad person.

Poor baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone care what Arlington Magazine thinks re colleges?

I don't think most people really care what any magazine thinks - including USNWR - but we're generally a content hungry public at this point and people enjoy both validation and ammunition wherever they can find it.

You're both idiots. All the magazine did was publish data -- the 20 colleges that received the most applications from APS students and their acceptance rates. It doesn't matter if it were the Taliban that published it. The magazine isn't "thinking" anything at all.

It's useful data for APS families to have as part of their college search regardless of who publishes it. Assuming, of course, that it's accurate.

I see you get your ammunition here. Whatever it takes to make you feel good about yourself.

Sorry, but you're just being stupid. It's not "ammunition." It's information. It's statistics. Nothing more than that.

I believe in information and statistics. You believe in being a prick on the internet to feed your ego. You're a sad person.

Poor baby.

We can take it outside. Lets say the Italian Store. Your sandwich of choice. 10 paces.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Always interesting data. Arlington favors VT, JMU and UVA but also loves tougher schools like Michigan, UNC and Wisconsin.

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/most-popular-colleges-arlington-va-class-of-2025/

UVA is head shoulders over UNC and Wisconsin. Michigan depends on major.

Wrong!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Always interesting data. Arlington favors VT, JMU and UVA but also loves tougher schools like Michigan, UNC and Wisconsin.

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/most-popular-colleges-arlington-va-class-of-2025/

UVA is head shoulders over UNC and Wisconsin. Michigan depends on major.

Oh, brother. You again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Always interesting data. Arlington favors VT, JMU and UVA but also loves tougher schools like Michigan, UNC and Wisconsin.

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/most-popular-colleges-arlington-va-class-of-2025/

UVA is head shoulders over UNC and Wisconsin. Michigan depends on major.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone care what Arlington Magazine thinks re colleges?

I think it’s a list of where kids from APS matriculated. It isn’t a ranking.

There's absolutely no way that VCU rejected that many APS students - something's off.

I beg to differ, it was really interesting last year to see DD’s friends getting accepted or rejected from certain schools. If schools thought your GPA was way too high, they were not going to accept you - yield protection. Also, unfortunately, I heard of a handful of kids getting rejected due to AI detected essays.

Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect

[Anonymous]

Love how people just don’t read and completely skipped over that this information is self-reported from students. There’s definitely no bias, lies, inaccuracy, etc. This is all 100% correct. For a group of people who love to tout how smart they are you guys sure don’t know how to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone care what Arlington Magazine thinks re colleges?

I think it’s a list of where kids from APS matriculated. It isn’t a ranking.

There's absolutely no way that VCU rejected that many APS students - something's off.

I beg to differ, it was really interesting last year to see DD’s friends getting accepted or rejected from certain schools. If schools thought your GPA was way too high, they were not going to accept you - yield protection. Also, unfortunately, I heard of a handful of kids getting rejected due to AI detected essays.

Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect

In an era when the higher education landscape is bizarre & changing, beware of anybody claiming absolutes.

These days you can’t even claim that no Ivy League presidents are plagiarists, no freshman quarterbacks are millionaires, a fake claim that you’re a rowing prodigy can’t you in an elite college, and no women’s sports champions have a schlong. Since we’ve all gotten used to those realities, is anybody going to be surprised if a public college does a little yield protection?

[Anonymous]

What happened to the annual list of where the Arlington kids applied and got in? There used to be a full list annually not just top 20.

[Anonymous]

Tougher? The better VA state schools are required to have a student body 2/3 Virginian. Obviously, any OOS school isn’t required to take any Virginians. Similarly, the better VA schools aren’t required to take any number of students from other states. Based on this admittance structure, of course it is “tougher” for a Virginian to get into an OOS, well-regarded state university, but that is also true for OOS students trying to get into VA’s better state universities. However, none of that says anything about the quality or “toughness” of each school’s academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Always interesting data. Arlington favors VT, JMU and UVA but also loves tougher schools like Michigan, UNC and Wisconsin.

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/most-popular-colleges-arlington-va-class-of-2025/

So for Pitt, you just submit the application fee and you're in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does anyone care what Arlington Magazine thinks re colleges?

I think it’s a list of where kids from APS matriculated. It isn’t a ranking.

There's absolutely no way that VCU rejected that many APS students - something's off.

I beg to differ, it was really interesting last year to see DD’s friends getting accepted or rejected from certain schools. If schools thought your GPA was way too high, they were not going to accept you - yield protection. Also, unfortunately, I heard of a handful of kids getting rejected due to AI detected essays.

Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect
Public colleges don’t yield protect

In an era when the higher education landscape is bizarre & changing, beware of anybody claiming absolutes.

These days you can’t even claim that no Ivy League presidents are plagiarists, no freshman quarterbacks are millionaires, a fake claim that you’re a rowing prodigy can’t you in an elite college, and no women’s sports champions have a schlong. Since we’ve all gotten used to those realities, is anybody going to be surprised if a public college does a little yield protection?

These days you really can’t be sure the earth isn’t flat. Would anyone be surprised if the earth was flat?