Where do Wilson H.S. Graduates Go to College
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Anonymous
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Trying to work through high school options for my soon-to-be ninth grader. A bright kid and social kid who will probably end up with decent extracurriculars (band, and one or two others). Where do kids like this who graduate from Wilson go on to college? I'm not particularly interested in the number of kids who go to Ivies - just trying to find out the range of colleges attended by upper level, but not elite, Wilson grads.
Thank you in advance for your insight. |
Anonymous
| Where do you want your child to attend college? |
Anonymous
| Attica U. |
Anonymous
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Wilson grads go everywhere. DS' class sent grads to Ivies as well as UVA, UVM, William and Mary, Wesleyan, Oberlin, Michigan, Middlebury, U Mass, Northwestern, HBCUs, UCLA,
etc. |
Anonymous
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Maybe I am missing something. I believe all of us want our DC's to go to the best college for THEM. They should have a realistic goals. Small or large, urban or rural, religious or liberal. Parents use the college their DC's attends to brag to their friends. I have worked at several local Univ. mental health counseling centers. Let me put it like this, I left Cornell ( Ivy League) because of the high suicide and attempted suicide rate. These kids were top in their class with high SAT's. The pressure parents put on their teenagers is sad. Please don't get caught up in the hype. You and your DC have time. |
Anonymous
Not OP, but how on earth did you translate OP's post into someone looking to pressure her child into a school for parental bragging rights? |
Anonymous
| UMD. |
Anonymous
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Here is the list from 2008:
Not subjective is the Wilson's senior class '08 fabulous college acceptance results at the nation's top schools. Not all the returns are in, but here is a sampling, in no particular order, of colleges where the Wilson class of '08 has received acceptances: Yale (3) Princeton (1) Stanford (1) University of Pennsylvania (3) Columbia (1) Dartmouth (1) UC Berkeley (2) Cornell (2) Duke (1) Georgetown (1) Univ Virginia (5) University of Chicago (2) Barnard (3) Univ Michigan (17) Williams (1) Wesleyan (3) Amherst (2) Swarthmore (1) Washington University (St Louis) (3) Vassar (2) Vanderbilt (2) Tufts (4) Oberlin (1) McGill (2) Davidson (1) St. Johns (7) George Washington (6) University of NC (2) Penn State (15) University Colorado (12) University of Wisconsin (15) University of Texas (2) |
Anonymous
| A more recent list than 4 yrs ago would be nice. |
Anonymous
| Or actual matriculation. It could be one kid who got accepted into Stanford and the Ivies. |
Anonymous
| ITA. Actual matriculation should be the metric to measure. |
Anonymous
Look for it yourself. I found what I could on an older DCUM thread to help out the OP. |
Anonymous
| Michigan has a generous scholarship given by DC alumni. I think Wilson grads have won more than once. |
Anonymous
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This article gives some interesting information on the percentage of students who do/don't graduate on time. Point is, Wilson covers a wide spectrum. From some headed to elite and strong universities to 25% requiring and extra year or two to complete high school.
That said, I'd love to see how the elite privates calculate their "on time" graduation rates given their reputations for holding boys back a year to start K or PK. www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-dc-schools-59-percent-of-students-get-diploma-on-time/2012/04/05/gIQAMtuTyS_story.html |
Anonymous
You suck. |