College admissions by school

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Anonymous wrote:https://polarislist.com/best-public-high-schools-in-maryland

Amazing there's actually a list that's accurate!

polarlist only screens for 3 schools — says a lot who would create and look at that list. The only interesting school they rank is MIT. That was a Easter of my 60 seconds.

I guess Harvard and Princeton are not interesting schools

Why is the data old? They haven’t updated for 2021 and 2022 admission cycles?

Because that data is about Matriculation, not admissions.

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Geographic diversity is a real thing. Every one of my Hawaii friends who applied got into top East Coast schools -- Harvard, MIT, UVA, Penn, etc. (Most of us stuck to California , though, going to UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley as top choices. )

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Re geographic diversity: I'm from Arizona and I was surprised to see so many of my "confirmed Arizonan" friends from high school go to Yale, Penn, Georgetown (me) etc. Some went to Northwestern and U. Chicago. Like a previous poster said, many to California.

I'm in MoCo now and really shocked at the low acceptance rates from these MoCo "top" high schools. Maybe you should all stop applying to the same places.

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I just went to Carnegie Mellon’s undergrad admissions meeting and saw the grad class of Science, Engineering and CS. All Asian but 3 kids. They said 40% of last years incoming freshman were from California and there were 1900 incoming students, the largest class ever. Maybe if other races worked as hard and had as great of a focus as them, their kids would be at these schools too.

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Anonymous wrote:https://polarislist.com/best-public-high-schools-in-maryland

Amazing there's actually a list that's accurate!

polarlist only screens for 3 schools — says a lot who would create and look at that list. The only interesting school they rank is MIT. That was a Easter of my 60 seconds.

I guess Harvard and Princeton are not interesting schools

Why is the data old? They haven’t updated for 2021 and 2022 admission cycles?

Because that data is about Matriculation, not admissions.

Still, we are in April of 2023. They should have matriculation data by now for both those years.

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I am the poster from Arizona. My kids are only in middle school now but I will definitely be recommending excellent schools like Grinnell, Carleton, or Univ. of Washington and Arizona. Not crazy about the East Coast, despite being here nearly 20 years now. I loved being in college at Georgetown but actually living in the area as a non-student adult is exhausting.

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Anonymous wrote:I just went to Carnegie Mellon’s undergrad admissions meeting and saw the grad class of Science, Engineering and CS. All Asian but 3 kids. They said 40% of last years incoming freshman were from California and there were 1900 incoming students, the largest class ever. Maybe if other races worked as hard and had as great of a focus as them, their kids would be at these schools too.

That's great the California kids are going to Penna for college. Now we need to get more DC/VA/MD kids to go to Oregon and Washington.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like Richard Montgomery did better than the other schools in terms of admission to top schools (e.g. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, etc.). Wootton did terribly. Anyone know why this is?

Because colleges discriminate against white and asians, which is a high percentage of Wootton.

IB and Magnet programs will get into great schools. So will schools that have diversity, hence BCC better than Whitman.

Every college has a numbers game it needs to fill based on sex, color, where you live in the county, etc.... We have friends that moved to North Dakota the last two years during Covid. Definitely helped with college admissions being a minority (not black) in a state full of whites that barely apply to colleges out of the area. It was win during Covid but I can't imagine doing that now. It's crazy playing the college game. Just go to JUCO for 2 years, get A's, and get into any college you want.

🙄 RM is 24% Asian.

Actually JW MS has 14% Asians - only school that feeds into RM. So you can see how many asians are actually in the IB program to bring the entire student body up to 24%

Meanwhile Robert Frost MS has 42% Asians and Wootton has 36% Asians. So clearly the top Asian performers left for magnets.

sit down please

What are you going on about? That was in response to the PP saying Asians and whites were being discriminated against, which is why Wootton does poorly. Per that logic, RM should do badly too.

A high % of RMIB kids end up at UMD, including my own. They all apply to the same T10 schools, and as expected, many get rejected. The choices seem to be T10 or UMD, and even the T10 is only possible with lots of merit since most of the T10 are crazy expensive.

DC had only two T10 schools they really wanted - both are $80K/yr. We are a donut family so DC did not apply ED. These schools also don't offer merit aid.

If they got into one of the two, we would've had to seriously think about whether the cost was worth it. Sometimes, it's not worth it, so many, including my own, go to UMD honors with merit.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like Richard Montgomery did better than the other schools in terms of admission to top schools (e.g. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, etc.). Wootton did terribly. Anyone know why this is?

Because colleges discriminate against white and asians, which is a high percentage of Wootton.

IB and Magnet programs will get into great schools. So will schools that have diversity, hence BCC better than Whitman.

Every college has a numbers game it needs to fill based on sex, color, where you live in the county, etc.... We have friends that moved to North Dakota the last two years during Covid. Definitely helped with college admissions being a minority (not black) in a state full of whites that barely apply to colleges out of the area. It was win during Covid but I can't imagine doing that now. It's crazy playing the college game. Just go to JUCO for 2 years, get A's, and get into any college you want.

🙄 RM is 24% Asian.

Actually JW MS has 14% Asians - only school that feeds into RM. So you can see how many asians are actually in the IB program to bring the entire student body up to 24%

Meanwhile Robert Frost MS has 42% Asians and Wootton has 36% Asians. So clearly the top Asian performers left for magnets.

sit down please

What are you going on about? That was in response to the PP saying Asians and whites were being discriminated against, which is why Wootton does poorly. Per that logic, RM should do badly too.

A high % of RMIB kids end up at UMD, including my own. They all apply to the same T10 schools, and as expected, many get rejected. The choices seem to be T10 or UMD, and even the T10 is only possible with lots of merit since most of the T10 are crazy expensive.

DC had only two T10 schools they really wanted - both are $80K/yr. We are a donut family so DC did not apply ED. These schools also don't offer merit aid.

If they got into one of the two, we would've had to seriously think about whether the cost was worth it. Sometimes, it's not worth it, so many, including my own, go to UMD honors with merit.

Another magnet family here. We had the same considerations and my kid will be with yours at UMD honors with merit. We could have afforded one of these T10 schools but avoided having to weigh this choice to pay hundreds of thousands extra. Kid ended up on waitlist for top choices.

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Anonymous wrote:I just went to Carnegie Mellon’s undergrad admissions meeting and saw the grad class of Science, Engineering and CS. All Asian but 3 kids. They said 40% of last years incoming freshman were from California and there were 1900 incoming students, the largest class ever. Maybe if other races worked as hard and had as great of a focus as them, their kids would be at these schools too.

With a little extra effort they might even invent flying machine, harness the power of the atom, or even put a man on the moon!

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Maybe the grade inflation stories are too common and they realize in mock even 4.9 students might be illiterate. Good luck filling out your student debt paperwork. Hopefully you can write your name. Lol