What kind of colleges do Wootton grads attend?

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I hate living here honest to god. I am sorry my kid is in school here. Husband can’t leave his job but I am getting the hell out of here in two years when she does to college. The pressure and anxiety here is disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate living here honest to god. I am sorry my kid is in school here. Husband can’t leave his job but I am getting the hell out of here in two years when she does to college. The pressure and anxiety here is disgusting.

The pressure is on you.

My kids went to Wooton not the "popular crowd" have lovely friends and who cares what anyone else is doing. I worry about my kids not someone else and you would be better off to do the same.

Wootton is an excellent school academically. Are there some bad teachers of course? Are there some awful parents of course ignore and move on.

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Anonymous wrote:Just left that cluster before kids hit Frost/Wootton. I was once in your place and read your thread differently (perhaps) than the others. No, you are not getting your money’s worth. The upper tier cluster has ancient buildings - some of the oldest in the system. You paid 500,000 plus for your house and your kids are falling through the cracks due to politics. Gaithersburg high is brand new - and your tax dollars fronted it. (Title 1). Whitman is getting another addition after a recent rebuild - yep with your dollars. Wealthy talks. They pay more in taxes. Wootton has been delayed for a decade due to politics frankly - the ‘dirty’ middle doesn’t have enough power. Most of the marketing is about Blair because it’s in the power center of the county - TP/Ss. The Wootton cluster works on paper but has little or no soul. It should be called the Cram School cluster - probably has one of the highest per capita cram school clusters in the region. Seriously ponder moving - the housing prices are high and there are MUCH greener pastures. No the kids mostly go to UMCP unless they have family hook.

My DC is at RM. DC said that there was a kid from Wootton at one of their football games; friend of a friend. The Wootton kid went inside RM building and was awed by Main St (the main corridor); said that Wootton entry way is falling apart. I have to say, Main St is pretty impressive.

The best bang for your buck is to buy in the Seneca Valley HS cluster. It is the newest and best HS building in MCPS and the biggest in the state. Tons of programs for both college-bound kids or for those who choose an apprenticeship. It is not a school that is sought after like Wootton or the other W schools but the boundary reassignment from 2019 that MCPS decided on, ultimately reduced its FARMS rating and increased the number of Asian students. Thinks will turn around for that school and a good student there will less likely be a small fish in a big pond and will have a better chance at getting into a top-notch college over a Wotton grad.

LOL no. Love for my kid to go to school with a fence around it. And the surrounding area is crime like no one's business. No thanks.

If don't want Wootton, QO next best choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldnt it be crazy that some kids go junior colleges? Some go to trade schools? Some go to state schools..some go to ivy leagues...some dont go to school at all. Almost like one public school doesnt have a type.

Great post.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton grads go to many places.

OP best to remember now, you kid goes to where they go to don't worry about anyone else.

That said Wootton has a great track to college.

Mine got into schools like UNC, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, UVA, Yale, UMD, Michigan (lots of Wootton kids), Stanford. We are a very math-oriented family and the Wootton cluster served us well.

Kids go to all kinds of colleges from Wootton. My next door neighbors kid went to McGill. On the other side of my house Towson and JMU.

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my son is a freshman at another close to DC high school that is discussed on this thread. He’s really bright and math/science oriented doing really well in honors and AP classes but he has a B in English. I keep hearing about kids getting into the kinds of schools do you listed your son got into and I’m curiousDid they get straight A’s in every single class they took? What was their course load/track in high school? What kinds of extracurricular activities that they do Out of courisity? thanks for any insight because when you look online it’s really confusing as to what kind of kid gets in where in these days, and if colleges look at weighted vs unweighted gpas
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As a parent of both private and public school kids now in college from MoCo, I have learned that the public and private school kids are not in the same college admissions pools, largely because many of the privates give lower grades, such as Bs and—gasp—even Cs on a regular basis. The mcps “w” high schools, however, are in the same pool. And in a more micro-level, colleges are looking within each school to assess where students fall—top 10%, 25%, 50%, etc.

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As a parent of both private and public school kids now in college from MoCo, I have learned that the public and private school kids are not in the same college admissions pools, largely because many of the privates give lower grades, such as Bs and—gasp—even Cs on a regular basis. The mcps “w” high schools, however, are in the same pool. And in a more micro-level, colleges are looking within each school to assess where students fall—top 10%, 25%, 50%, etc.

You may be surprised to hear that MCPS high schools also give Bs and - gasp - even Cs on a regular basis. Maybe not at the "W" high schools that are in the same college pool as the private schools, though. I don't know because my children are not at one of them.

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LOL no. Love for my kid to go to school with a fence around it. And the surrounding area is crime like no one's business. No thanks.

If don't want Wootton, QO next best choice.

I guess you overlooked the fences at Wootton HS and Quince Orchard HS? They're there, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's an instagram where last year's seniors would post where they were attending college. (This is not a comprehensive list.)

https://www.instagram.com/wootton21sendoffs/

Wow. Impressive

I'm assuming that's selective. Would most kids boast about going to a no-name statue Univ?

FWIW, I went to a no-name state U. It's not really anything to boast about.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's an instagram where last year's seniors would post where they were attending college. (This is not a comprehensive list.)

https://www.instagram.com/wootton21sendoffs/

Wow. Impressive

I'm assuming that's selective. Would most kids boast about going to a no-name statue Univ?

FWIW, I went to a no-name state U. It's not really anything to boast about.

Well, there are 169 posts. How large is the class size? ~300? If that's the case, this is very impressive.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate living here honest to god. I am sorry my kid is in school here. Husband can’t leave his job but I am getting the hell out of here in two years when she does to college. The pressure and anxiety here is disgusting.

As a former Wootton cluster parent who left just before child attended a few years ago - really get what you are saying and glad we missed the bullet. What is missing in all this overachieving is kindness in MCPS - from teachers, admins, spec Ed and often students. All for admission to UMD CP? Myopic.