Ivy Admission Rates from APS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the criticism. Parents (like me) in their early 40’s…. College admissions is completely different now. For example UPenn has almost 60,000 applications now. Penn’s acceptance rate in the late 90’s was over 20%. Now it’s single digits. And this data is self-reported so not entirely accurate especially with the rise of common app and test-optional admissions which greatly increased application numbers at many top schools.

The common app changed so much. I’m mid 30s and it was normal for people to apply to 3-5 colleges- maybe one reach school then mostly realistic options and a safety. UMC kids in APS regularly apply to 10+ colleges- with lots of teaches because why not?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Again… this is just gross.

How about who gives a s—t, because Ivy League admissions don’t mean too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again… this is just gross.

How about who gives a s—t, because Ivy League admissions don’t mean too much.

The PP who keeps misusing “gross” seems to give a sh1t since they keep posting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again… this is just gross.

How about who gives a s—t, because Ivy League admissions don’t mean too much.

The PP who keeps misusing “gross” seems to give a sh1t since they keep posting.

Gross- (especially of wrongdoing) very obvious and unacceptable; blatant.

It means that I think that if that’s how your measuring the quality of a school system, then I think you’re a little disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS kids exemplify what Ivies don't need to look hard for: UMC kids who are above-average but not exceptional and disproportionately White.

No surprise they take a battering in the Ivy admissions process.

"Take a battering"????
Just how many students from one district SHOULD be getting accepted to the Ivies?

One might like to see admissions rates from APS at least consistent with the overall admissions rates.

Oh well. There’s always JMU.

Well, I guess "one" might.
But that doesn't even make sense. They have a limited # of students per class. They can't accept at the overall admission rate from every school, or even every top-tier school. NO school should see that admission rate. The ivies are (supposedly) looking for the best and brightest; and that's not 15% (or whatever) of APS or any other district. I believe you're just trying to be an a-hole here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again… this is just gross.

How about who gives a s—t, because Ivy League admissions don’t mean too much.

The PP who keeps misusing “gross” seems to give a sh1t since they keep posting.

Gross- (especially of wrongdoing) very obvious and unacceptable; blatant.

It means that I think that if that’s how your measuring the quality of a school system, then I think you’re a little disgusting.

Yeah…”disgusting” doesn’t really work either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to Arlington Magazine for Class of 2025:

Brown - 2.2%
Columbia - 1.2%
Cornell - 9.5%
Dartmouth - 2.8%
Harvard - 5.1%
Penn - 4.5%
Princeton - 1.4%
Yale - 3.9%

Looks like the APS admissions rates are lower than the overall rates for all but Harvard and Cornell. Within APS W-L did better than Yorktown. Why don’t APS students fare better?

Not buying these percentages. Double the Harvard admissions rate than that for Brown? Impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had four kids go through APS. None reported to anyone what schools they got into or didn't get into. These numbers are meaningless.

The high schools have the acceptance information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to Arlington Magazine for Class of 2025:

Brown - 2.2%
Columbia - 1.2%
Cornell - 9.5%
Dartmouth - 2.8%
Harvard - 5.1%
Penn - 4.5%
Princeton - 1.4%
Yale - 3.9%

Looks like the APS admissions rates are lower than the overall rates for all but Harvard and Cornell. Within APS W-L did better than Yorktown. Why don’t APS students fare better?

Not buying these percentages. Double the Harvard admissions rate than that for Brown? Impossible.

In casually speaking with my kids' friends at Yorktown, good but not great students will apply as a reach to Dartmouth or Brown, but not Harvard. The very strong minorities trying for Questbridge/Gates/Posse scholarships may apply for all Ivy league schools to see where they are matched.

[Anonymous]

Went to an Ivy and if you want your kid to go to one they should go to a private school. I think it’s like a third of kids who go to Ivies went to a private school.

My very young DC is a double legacy and we are hoping they go to UVA. It’s just so expensive and depending on your interest not really worth it.

[Anonymous]

Never mind UVA, I'm more troubled by the lower acceptance rates to less competitive state schools. Several friends' kids (all very good students but no extraordinary activities or sports) were waitlisted for JMU, UMD, Mason and ended up at NoVA.

On the other hand, my nephews in DC were accepted at every highly-regarded state school they applied to except UNC/Chapel Hill.

[Anonymous]

Mediocre system with mediocre result, perhaps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never mind UVA, I'm more troubled by the lower acceptance rates to less competitive state schools. Several friends' kids (all very good students but no extraordinary activities or sports) were waitlisted for JMU, UMD, Mason and ended up at NoVA.

On the other hand, my nephews in DC were accepted at every highly-regarded state school they applied to except UNC/Chapel Hill.

Yeah. I don’t think your friends kids were “very good students.” That’s not normal to be waitlisted at those schools if you’re in the middle of your class or so.