Bethesda Magazine College Bound Chart for 2020 grads

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Cute story. But even here in the back of the class I can see that the stats don’t support your argument.

57 kids from Blair applied and 2 were accepted at MIT.

26 and 3 for Wootton and 17 and 3 for Walter Johnson.

It’s not that they weren’t applying - they didn’t get in.

Would you like to try again?

[Anonymous]

Let’s keep it civil, people.
Those Ivy rates are discouraging but one takeaway from this list is that there are so many schools out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Cute story. But even here in the back of the class I can see that the stats don’t support your argument.

57 kids from Blair applied and 2 were accepted at MIT.

26 and 3 for Wootton and 17 and 3 for Walter Johnson.

It’s not that they weren’t applying - they didn’t get in.

Would you like to try again?

MIT does not take more than a few from a particular school regardless of how many apply. Everyone knows getting in to top schools from Blair and RMIB is really hard because of the competition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much better than the Arlington statistics.

Link?

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/where-arlingtons-class-of-2020-applied-to-college-and-got-in/

I thought Arlington college placement would rival that of MoCo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much better than the Arlington statistics.

Link?

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/where-arlingtons-class-of-2020-applied-to-college-and-got-in/

So you compare 7 of the top 31 public high schools in Monkey County with all the public high schools in Arlington and also exclude the TJ kids from Arlington. What are you, a pollster?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, that should read "top 7 of 31."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

HYP is essentially free for moderate income families. I thought everyone knew this by now?

There is a big gap between what is defined as moderate income and the ability for a family to afford 70k in tuition. We are a 200K HHI family offered no aid from Ivies with two kids being in college (one with some merit aid). Took UMDs honors program/merit aid instead for Blair magnet kid. Perhaps we should not have saved anything.

“From Ivies”? Or from Harvard, Yale and/or Princeton? They’re not at all the same when it comes to waiving tuition for accepted students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Cute story. But even here in the back of the class I can see that the stats don’t support your argument.

57 kids from Blair applied and 2 were accepted at MIT.

26 and 3 for Wootton and 17 and 3 for Walter Johnson.

It’s not that they weren’t applying - they didn’t get in.

Would you like to try again?

MIT does not take more than a few from a particular school regardless of how many apply. Everyone knows getting in to top schools from Blair and RMIB is really hard because of the competition.

I still would have thought the STEM magnet would show something better at MIT. The other non-tech focused colleges I get but this is just surprising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much better than the Arlington statistics.

Link?

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/where-arlingtons-class-of-2020-applied-to-college-and-got-in/

So you compare 7 of the top 31 public high schools in Monkey County with all the public high schools in Arlington and also exclude the TJ kids from Arlington. What are you, a pollster?

So take out Blair and RIMB which are the magnets for MoCo and see how the remaining schools compare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much better than the Arlington statistics.

Link?

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/where-arlingtons-class-of-2020-applied-to-college-and-got-in/

So you compare 7 of the top 31 public high schools in Monkey County with all the public high schools in Arlington and also exclude the TJ kids from Arlington. What are you, a pollster?

So take out Blair and RIMB which are the magnets for MoCo and see how the remaining schools compare.

So compare 5 top schools out of 31 with all of Arlington's schools? You guys aren't too smart north of the river, are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much better than the Arlington statistics.

Link?

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/where-arlingtons-class-of-2020-applied-to-college-and-got-in/

So you compare 7 of the top 31 public high schools in Monkey County with all the public high schools in Arlington and also exclude the TJ kids from Arlington. What are you, a pollster?

So take out Blair and RIMB which are the magnets for MoCo and see how the remaining schools compare.

So compare 5 top schools out of 31 with all of Arlington's schools? You guys aren't too smart north of the river, are you?

Maybe not, but it sure looks like our kids are much smarter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much better than the Arlington statistics.

Link?

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/where-arlingtons-class-of-2020-applied-to-college-and-got-in/

So you compare 7 of the top 31 public high schools in Monkey County with all the public high schools in Arlington and also exclude the TJ kids from Arlington. What are you, a pollster?

So take out Blair and RIMB which are the magnets for MoCo and see how the remaining schools compare.

So compare 5 top schools out of 31 with all of Arlington's schools? You guys aren't too smart north of the river, are you?

Arlington only has 4 high schools. And it’s much smaller and more homogeneous than MoCo. It is more comparable to Bethesda/Potomac than to all of MoCo. If you want to compare to all of MoCo you need to toss in all the FCPS high schools.

[Anonymous]

UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

Whoever said it was elite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

Whoever said it was elite?

Exactly.