Arlington Tech

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Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

Kids enroll at AT instead of HBW because they didn't get a spot in the HBW lottery. You probably have a better chance of getting hit by a Metro bus than getting your kid a spot at HBW, especially coming from the North Arlington schools. If you have a kid who really needs a smaller high school -- and you didn't get a spot at HBW -- then Arlington Tech is your next best bet. Otherwise, you are going to a 3000 student high school. The college admits out of AT seem comparable to HBW, so it seems the school must be equally rigorous. The building is super ugly though, although going to be renovated soon.

WL will be nearly 3000 before current freshman graduate.

The search for a small school drives HBW and will eventually drive AT if it can ever escape its vocational affiliation (hard to do when collocated with a program for cooking classes and HVAC repair — not the kind of tech WL parents are thinking of)

If AT can get it’s own independent campus, even a high rise like HB, and maybe put in a couple cool labs it will take off. Stuck in career center it’s a huge drag to have to navigate the shared campus

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Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

Kids enroll at AT instead of HBW because they didn't get a spot in the HBW lottery. You probably have a better chance of getting hit by a Metro bus than getting your kid a spot at HBW, especially coming from the North Arlington schools. If you have a kid who really needs a smaller high school -- and you didn't get a spot at HBW -- then Arlington Tech is your next best bet. Otherwise, you are going to a 3000 student high school. The college admits out of AT seem comparable to HBW, so it seems the school must be equally rigorous. The building is super ugly though, although going to be renovated soon.

WL will be nearly 3000 before current freshman graduate.

The search for a small school drives HBW and will eventually drive AT if it can ever escape its vocational affiliation (hard to do when collocated with a program for cooking classes and HVAC repair — not the kind of tech WL parents are thinking of)

If AT can get it’s own independent campus, even a high rise like HB, and maybe put in a couple cool labs it will take off. Stuck in career center it’s a huge drag to have to navigate the shared campus

The renovation will be a catalyst when it's done.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

Kids enroll at AT instead of HBW because they didn't get a spot in the HBW lottery. You probably have a better chance of getting hit by a Metro bus than getting your kid a spot at HBW, especially coming from the North Arlington schools. If you have a kid who really needs a smaller high school -- and you didn't get a spot at HBW -- then Arlington Tech is your next best bet. Otherwise, you are going to a 3000 student high school. The college admits out of AT seem comparable to HBW, so it seems the school must be equally rigorous. The building is super ugly though, although going to be renovated soon.

WL will be nearly 3000 before current freshman graduate.

The search for a small school drives HBW and will eventually drive AT if it can ever escape its vocational affiliation (hard to do when collocated with a program for cooking classes and HVAC repair — not the kind of tech WL parents are thinking of)

If AT can get it’s own independent campus, even a high rise like HB, and maybe put in a couple cool labs it will take off. Stuck in career center it’s a huge drag to have to navigate the shared campus

The renovation will be a catalyst when it's done.

Actually, I should say the redevelopment and the new building; since the renovated building will be going to Montessori.

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Anonymous wrote:Dual-enrollment can help with college admissions, if the specific courses are well chosen. It can do this by demonstrating the student took advanced/rigorous coursework. Arlington Tech seems like a good option for a student who already knows they want a STEM ugrad degree.

A neighbor’s kid got an associates degree that has been recognized by their VA college. Huge college saving for this family thanks to APS.

So their kid was able to graduate college in two years? Do all public VA colleges recognize the associate degree?

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Anonymous wrote:Dual-enrollment can help with college admissions, if the specific courses are well chosen. It can do this by demonstrating the student took advanced/rigorous coursework. Arlington Tech seems like a good option for a student who already knows they want a STEM ugrad degree.

A neighbor’s kid got an associates degree that has been recognized by their VA college. Huge college saving for this family thanks to APS.

So their kid was able to graduate college in two years? Do all public VA colleges recognize the associate degree?

Not graduated yet but sounds like they will be graduating early. I don’t know if all recognize it or not . Sounded like a good deal.

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Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

Kids enroll at AT instead of HBW because they didn't get a spot in the HBW lottery. You probably have a better chance of getting hit by a Metro bus than getting your kid a spot at HBW, especially coming from the North Arlington schools. If you have a kid who really needs a smaller high school -- and you didn't get a spot at HBW -- then Arlington Tech is your next best bet. Otherwise, you are going to a 3000 student high school. The college admits out of AT seem comparable to HBW, so it seems the school must be equally rigorous. The building is super ugly though, although going to be renovated soon.

WL will be nearly 3000 before current freshman graduate.

The search for a small school drives HBW and will eventually drive AT if it can ever escape its vocational affiliation (hard to do when collocated with a program for cooking classes and HVAC repair — not the kind of tech WL parents are thinking of)

If AT can get it’s own independent campus, even a high rise like HB, and maybe put in a couple cool labs it will take off. Stuck in career center it’s a huge drag to have to navigate the shared campus

The renovation will be a catalyst when it's done.

I thought it was a career center renovation — won’t AT still be collocated with a vocational school on shared campus after renovation??

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Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

Kids enroll at AT instead of HBW because they didn't get a spot in the HBW lottery. You probably have a better chance of getting hit by a Metro bus than getting your kid a spot at HBW, especially coming from the North Arlington schools. If you have a kid who really needs a smaller high school -- and you didn't get a spot at HBW -- then Arlington Tech is your next best bet. Otherwise, you are going to a 2,000 student high school. The college admits out of AT seem comparable to HBW, so it seems the school must be equally rigorous. The building is super ugly though, although going to be renovated soon.

And yet my DD got into HB in 9th off the wait list because a kid ahead of her got into both HB and AT and chose to go to Arlington Tech. So what do you know.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

Kids enroll at AT instead of HBW because they didn't get a spot in the HBW lottery. You probably have a better chance of getting hit by a Metro bus than getting your kid a spot at HBW, especially coming from the North Arlington schools. If you have a kid who really needs a smaller high school -- and you didn't get a spot at HBW -- then Arlington Tech is your next best bet. Otherwise, you are going to a 3000 student high school. The college admits out of AT seem comparable to HBW, so it seems the school must be equally rigorous. The building is super ugly though, although going to be renovated soon.

WL will be nearly 3000 before current freshman graduate.

The search for a small school drives HBW and will eventually drive AT if it can ever escape its vocational affiliation (hard to do when collocated with a program for cooking classes and HVAC repair — not the kind of tech WL parents are thinking of)

If AT can get it’s own independent campus, even a high rise like HB, and maybe put in a couple cool labs it will take off. Stuck in career center it’s a huge drag to have to navigate the shared campus

The renovation will be a catalyst when it's done.

I thought it was a career center renovation — won’t AT still be collocated with a vocational school on shared campus after renovation??

The site is being redeveloped - sort of. Current old Fenwick building will be torn down and a new AT/ACC facility will be built in its place. Yes, it will still be co-located. The CC building will be renovated (current plan for Montessori to move into) so the current Montessori building can be demolished.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

Kids enroll at AT instead of HBW because they didn't get a spot in the HBW lottery. You probably have a better chance of getting hit by a Metro bus than getting your kid a spot at HBW, especially coming from the North Arlington schools. If you have a kid who really needs a smaller high school -- and you didn't get a spot at HBW -- then Arlington Tech is your next best bet. Otherwise, you are going to a 2,000 student high school. The college admits out of AT seem comparable to HBW, so it seems the school must be equally rigorous. The building is super ugly though, although going to be renovated soon.

And yet my DD got into HB in 9th off the wait list because a kid ahead of her got into both HB and AT and chose to go to Arlington Tech. So what do you know.

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Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

the ones who won the lottery. it's about a4% chance. Maybe less. i hvnt dont he math in awhile.

I need a new computer. this one is ^^^ doing all of that; too lazy to correct.

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Anonymous wrote:Duel enrollment is a joke unless you stay in VA.

The kids getting into Brown had a different hook and it wasn’t AT.

It’s a STEM major program on a vocational school campus. Its good if your kids is the nerdy one that ignores people and obsessed about minecraft. But mainstream it is not.

Nice.
Can always count on someone to demean or diminish.
The kids I've known to go to AT, or to be interested in AT, have not been what PP describes.

+1. And VA is full of great colleges and universities.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

Kids enroll at AT instead of HBW because they didn't get a spot in the HBW lottery. You probably have a better chance of getting hit by a Metro bus than getting your kid a spot at HBW, especially coming from the North Arlington schools. If you have a kid who really needs a smaller high school -- and you didn't get a spot at HBW -- then Arlington Tech is your next best bet. Otherwise, you are going to a 3000 student high school. The college admits out of AT seem comparable to HBW, so it seems the school must be equally rigorous. The building is super ugly though, although going to be renovated soon.

WL will be nearly 3000 before current freshman graduate.

The search for a small school drives HBW and will eventually drive AT if it can ever escape its vocational affiliation (hard to do when collocated with a program for cooking classes and HVAC repair — not the kind of tech WL parents are thinking of)

If AT can get it’s own independent campus, even a high rise like HB, and maybe put in a couple cool labs it will take off. Stuck in career center it’s a huge drag to have to navigate the shared campus

The renovation will be a catalyst when it's done.

Yes. This is the overlooked gem in APS. Look at this thread. People think it’s just training plumbers unless they know someone who went through it . A shiny new building will raise its profile.

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This is also why all 8th graders get a field trip to Arlington Tech to learn about the program. No need to do that for HB. APS is still actively marketing and raising the profile of AT to broaden the community's understanding of what it offers.

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Yes. This is the overlooked gem in APS. Look at this thread. People think it’s just training plumbers unless they know someone who went through it . A shiny new building will raise its profile.

I'm 11:04. This is probably in part due to the poor marketing when it was launched. I remember the principal coming to our elementary school's PTA meeting and she was selling it as a place for kids to get real-world and job experience, and earn an associate's degree. The takeaway was very much glorified vo-tech. They're working to change that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What types of students tend to enroll here as opposed to HB Woodlawn? Just wondering how rigorous the school and what kind of reputation it has. Thanks for any insights.

Kids enroll at AT instead of HBW because they didn't get a spot in the HBW lottery. You probably have a better chance of getting hit by a Metro bus than getting your kid a spot at HBW, especially coming from the North Arlington schools. If you have a kid who really needs a smaller high school -- and you didn't get a spot at HBW -- then Arlington Tech is your next best bet. Otherwise, you are going to a 3000 student high school. The college admits out of AT seem comparable to HBW, so it seems the school must be equally rigorous. The building is super ugly though, although going to be renovated soon.

WL will be nearly 3000 before current freshman graduate.

The search for a small school drives HBW and will eventually drive AT if it can ever escape its vocational affiliation (hard to do when collocated with a program for cooking classes and HVAC repair — not the kind of tech WL parents are thinking of)

If AT can get it’s own independent campus, even a high rise like HB, and maybe put in a couple cool labs it will take off. Stuck in career center it’s a huge drag to have to navigate the shared campus

The renovation will be a catalyst when it's done.

Do you know when it's going to happen? Selfishly I don't want the program to get really popular at least until my son is in ninth grade.