Which HS has highest acceptance for Ivy school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard that Harvard does not take more than 2 or 3 students from each high school.

Most HS will only see one student be accepted for Harvard.

Any idea how TJ does?

About six Harvard acceptances, ten Yale acceptances and fifteen Princeton acceptances per year.

The best high in the country? Hundreds of kids graduating? Such a tiny handful?
Keeping in mind that almost EVERY kid that goes to TJ goes there because they want to get to Ivy.
That is disappointing. Looks like greater chance for a good kid at average high based on
small fish big pond rule. No college take all great kids who apply from one school even if they
grow their own wings and solar batteries on the head and fart pink.
eeeeh.

Many TJ kids don't even apply to these schools because their families cannot afford to pay for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard that Harvard does not take more than 2 or 3 students from each high school.

Most HS will only see one student be accepted for Harvard.

Any idea how TJ does?

About six Harvard acceptances, ten Yale acceptances and fifteen Princeton acceptances per year.

The best high in the country? Hundreds of kids graduating? Such a tiny handful?
Keeping in mind that almost EVERY kid that goes to TJ goes there because they want to get to Ivy.
That is disappointing. Looks like greater chance for a good kid at average high based on
small fish big pond rule. No college take all great kids who apply from one school even if they
grow their own wings and solar batteries on the head and fart pink.
eeeeh.

Many TJ kids don't even apply to these schools because their families cannot afford to pay for them.

Miserable TJ crazies. Go back to your own school form. Dang f'kers.

[Anonymous]

Among private schools, GDS without peer.

[Anonymous]

I do alumni interviews for an Ivy League university and most of the accepted students I've interviewed in the past decade went to:
Blair Magnet
RM IB
Blair CAP
Einstein
BCC
Stone Ridge

Of course that's biased because I don't always select to interview kids who go to the Ws (well, except for WJ), because of where I live. I make an exception for RM because I was an IB student and love the program.

And FWIW, I know several magnet kids who got into Ivies/top 10 schools and live in the DCC or Olney/upper Rockville, NOT Potomac, CC or Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, this thought has entered our minds, as well. The chances of getting in are very slim. Both DW and I are Ivy league graduates. We both were the first in our families to go to college, which I suspect helped with both admissions and financial aid. DW interviews local high school students for her alma mater every year and is just depressed by these kids' academic records and activities--way more stellar than us back in the day. It seems like their entire childhoods were spent preparing for this. Despite any possible legacy advantage, I think the chances for our kids are very slim, and that's fine. As long as they go to college, get a career they enjoy and can support themselves, that's fine with us. But back to the original question, we are actually zoned for Rockville High School, and although the kids are that old yet, it does have us wondering what the chances are of such an admission from a school like Rockville, all else being equal?

^This is exactly what my worry has been. Both my husband and I went to MIT out of regular non-magnet GT programs in public schools. While we would hope our children will eventually go to good colleges and our oldest was just accepted for the HGC for 4th grade in Silver Spring, we look at the list of kids who get into the upper-grade magnets and get the awards, college admissions, and scholarships, and so many seem to have been from wealthier areas with tiger parents who push them from birth. We chose to let our kids have fun in preschool and learn how to make friends. Maybe that was a mistake.

PP, please read that last line again and whether it was sarcastic or sincere, recognize how insane that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there any way to determine this information?

signed,

mom of a future home and hospital student out b/c of emotional issues



seriously, OP? Let your kid just be.