Feeder public high schools in DMV

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blair Magnet feeder to MIT - 11 last year

In 2025?

You sure you didn't mean to put a "+" sign between the ones. Because 1+1=2

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-maryland

This website must not be accurate because it says 3 went to Harvard from my DC’s school and none went in 2025.

Potomac and Georgetown Day are the only schools in the DMV that the site says sent 3 to Harvard in 2025. I think the Potomac number is correct, no idea bout Georgetown Day.

Not in DC

When did GDS move out of DC? Or are you thinking of Georgetown Prep, which is in Maryland?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blair Magnet feeder to MIT - 11 last year

In 2025?

You sure you didn't mean to put a "+" sign between the ones. Because 1+1=2

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-maryland

This website must not be accurate because it says 3 went to Harvard from my DC’s school and none went in 2025.

Potomac and Georgetown Day are the only schools in the DMV that the site says sent 3 to Harvard in 2025. I think the Potomac number is correct, no idea bout Georgetown Day.

Not in DC

When did GDS move out of DC? Or are you thinking of Georgetown Prep, which is in Maryland?

Didn't you hear? It's now Gaithersburg Day School.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of private school parents talk about the relationships their schools have with various colleges and that they act as feeders to these colleges. Are the well- ranked public schools in this area - assuming your child graduates with a great GPA- also considered feeders? Or they are just too big and don’t have college counselors focused on creating relationships with admissions teams at colleges[b], so no dice?

The counselors hardly have the opportunity to create relationships with the students at the schools! Huge caseloads, and the college and counseling departments don't have the kind of long-term roles that would allow this. Not to mention, institutional constraints that are (appropriately) designed to ensure equitable distribution of finite resources.

If you want to combine public school education with personal relationships with admissions teams, you'll need a private college counselor (and you'll need to pay for that.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Other than a school like Blair sending all those kids to MIT (that's really an incredible stat; I assume TJ has crazy stats but they have far more students), I don't think there are really feeder public high schools.

It's more that every year each top school will accept several kids from each of like 20-30 public high schools in the DMV, and those kids do well, so the school is comfortable accepting several kids year after year.

I do think if say you apply to Harvard from Bladensburg High, it's a tough lift for the Harvard AO to have to spend a ton of time figuring out if a top student from Bladensburg is really a "top" student considering many years not a single student will apply to Harvard, while they know a Whitman top student is a top student in general.

There are definitely feeder schools like Boston Latin sending more kids to Harvard than any other school in the country for no apparent reason other than their relationship. it's not that nobody from Boston Latin should get into Harvard but it is hard to explain without the concept of feeder schools. Going to Boston Latin is a hook for Harvard.

The "no apparent reason" for Boston Latin's success at Harvard is that many (most?) of the BL kids accepted to Harvard are kids of Harvard faculty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than a school like Blair sending all those kids to MIT (that's really an incredible stat; I assume TJ has crazy stats but they have far more students), I don't think there are really feeder public high schools.

It's more that every year each top school will accept several kids from each of like 20-30 public high schools in the DMV, and those kids do well, so the school is comfortable accepting several kids year after year.

I do think if say you apply to Harvard from Bladensburg High, it's a tough lift for the Harvard AO to have to spend a ton of time figuring out if a top student from Bladensburg is really a "top" student considering many years not a single student will apply to Harvard, while they know a Whitman top student is a top student in general.

There are definitely feeder schools like Boston Latin sending more kids to Harvard than any other school in the country for no apparent reason other than their relationship. it's not that nobody from Boston Latin should get into Harvard but it is hard to explain without the concept of feeder schools. Going to Boston Latin is a hook for Harvard.

The "no apparent reason" for Boston Latin's success at Harvard is that many (most?) of the BL kids accepted to Harvard are kids of Harvard faculty.

+1 The hook is faculty kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:HYP grad. I knew multiple GDS grads in my college class year.

How long ago though...things have changed

It was a while ago. Are you saying GDS no longer sends a lot of grads to HYP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think are any genuine public feeder schools in the DMV to particular selective colleges. There's no Boston Latin to Harvard kind of public school here for instance.

But the W schools tend to do very well. However, it'll be like 5 from Whitman to Yale one year, but zero the next year. But that same year they might get 5 to Duke and so on and so forth. So it's not a reliable conduit to any college in particular. But all the selective colleges are familiar with the W schools and those students tend to do very well with admissions.

There are also no private feeder schools in the DMV. All of what people are seeing is selection based on likelihood of admission based on other hooks (e.g., legacy/donor). Private HS know about these as they create their classes. As PP noted, this is also what you're seeing at Boston Latin in a different form (faculty kids). In both cases, there's an underlying variable driving both admissions that is not a school's "feeder" status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blair Magnet feeder to MIT - 11 last year

In 2025?

You sure you didn't mean to put a "+" sign between the ones. Because 1+1=2

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-maryland

This website must not be accurate because it says 3 went to Harvard from my DC’s school and none went in 2025.

I see that math is not your strong suit. But maybe reading is?

https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda_magazine_-_september_october_2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blair Magnet feeder to MIT - 11 last year

In 2025?

You sure you didn't mean to put a "+" sign between the ones. Because 1+1=2

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-maryland

Pretty sure neither math or reading is your strong suit. Do you understand that MIT Class of 2025 graduated from High School in 2021? Is last year 2021?

https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethe...ptember_october_2025

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:in case this is useful:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college

We keep going over this- this numbers are not 100% accurate and self reported.

These numbers are accurate and not self reported. DC was Blair Magnet class of 2025. 100% accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than a school like Blair sending all those kids to MIT (that's really an incredible stat; I assume TJ has crazy stats but they have far more students), I don't think there are really feeder public high schools.

It's more that every year each top school will accept several kids from each of like 20-30 public high schools in the DMV, and those kids do well, so the school is comfortable accepting several kids year after year.

I do think if say you apply to Harvard from Bladensburg High, it's a tough lift for the Harvard AO to have to spend a ton of time figuring out if a top student from Bladensburg is really a "top" student considering many years not a single student will apply to Harvard, while they know a Whitman top student is a top student in general.

There are definitely feeder schools like Boston Latin sending more kids to Harvard than any other school in the country for no apparent reason other than their relationship. it's not that nobody from Boston Latin should get into Harvard but it is hard to explain without the concept of feeder schools. Going to Boston Latin is a hook for Harvard.

The "no apparent reason" for Boston Latin's success at Harvard is that many (most?) of the BL kids accepted to Harvard are kids of Harvard faculty.

Boston Latin School was founded in 1635. It predates Harvard College by more than a year. Harvard College was founded to educate clergy and leaders in the colony, and Boston Latin School became a key preparatory pipeline feeding students into Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than a school like Blair sending all those kids to MIT (that's really an incredible stat; I assume TJ has crazy stats but they have far more students), I don't think there are really feeder public high schools.

It's more that every year each top school will accept several kids from each of like 20-30 public high schools in the DMV, and those kids do well, so the school is comfortable accepting several kids year after year.

I do think if say you apply to Harvard from Bladensburg High, it's a tough lift for the Harvard AO to have to spend a ton of time figuring out if a top student from Bladensburg is really a "top" student considering many years not a single student will apply to Harvard, while they know a Whitman top student is a top student in general.

There are definitely feeder schools like Boston Latin sending more kids to Harvard than any other school in the country for no apparent reason other than their relationship. it's not that nobody from Boston Latin should get into Harvard but it is hard to explain without the concept of feeder schools. Going to Boston Latin is a hook for Harvard.

The "no apparent reason" for Boston Latin's success at Harvard is that many (most?) of the BL kids accepted to Harvard are kids of Harvard faculty.

Boston Latin School was founded in 1635. It predates Harvard College by more than a year. Harvard College was founded to educate clergy and leaders in the colony, and Boston Latin School became a key preparatory pipeline feeding students into Harvard.

And a large number of kids have parents that work at Harvard. Huge hook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in case this is useful:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college

We keep going over this- this numbers are not 100% accurate and self reported.

These numbers are accurate and not self reported. DC was Blair Magnet class of 2025. 100% accurate.

Blair used to be a feeder school for MIT, CMU and Cornell. This year the number dropped considerably (probably 1/2 of last year numbers for all 3 colleges).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in case this is useful:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college

We keep going over this- this numbers are not 100% accurate and self reported.

These numbers are accurate and not self reported. DC was Blair Magnet class of 2025. 100% accurate.

Blair used to be a feeder school for MIT, CMU and Cornell. This year the number dropped considerably (probably 1/2 of last year numbers for all 3 colleges).

So you’re telling me that the job market for CS majors collapsed and now the number of kids who want to grind for four years to go into that field is falling? Weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alexandria City is the best!

At what? Feeding NOVA community college?

Its college matriculations aren’t that notable otherwise. I guess it may punch above its weight for UVA.