Arlington’s Top 20 colleges

[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.

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]

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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?

[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?

Yeah, you’re being ridiculous. “Yield protection” may happen, sure — never say never about anything — but it’s so typical DCUM that so many posters convince themselves that their kid is getting rejected by schools because the kid is too good to get in. Laughable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

They did publish the full list in the magazine, for each APS high school.

[Anonymous]

You can see the full data in the digital edition starting on p.58
https://issuu.com/arlingtonmagazine/docs/arlington_magazine_sep_oct_2025

[Anonymous]

I think one takeaway from this is that it is harder to get into UVA and VT from APS than their published in state acceptance rates. I’d guess it’s the same for many FCPS schools too. So many qualified kids apply and they can’t accept them all because they have to diversify the class across the entire state. It’s just the reality of being in a competitive environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think one takeaway from this is that it is harder to get into UVA and VT from APS than their published in state acceptance rates. I’d guess it’s the same for many FCPS schools too. So many qualified kids apply and they can’t accept them all because they have to diversify the class across the entire state. It’s just the reality of being in a competitive environment.

More is expected because more is available.