Bethesda Magazine 2024 College Acceptances Out

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. A couple of things stood out to me.

The outer pointlessness of applying to Harvard - 4/293. That's ridiculous. Save your $85 and have a nice meal.

What a great safety Indiana is - 232/322. Totally underrated school.

And how challenging Vanderbilt is - 12/233. And Duke - 17/368.

It's tough out there.

Grade inflation. So many kids get very, very high grades in MCPS. Anything 89.5% is an A. Quarters are averaged so that an A and B equal an A. It's really hard to do poorly if you're a kid who cares at all. Hence you have almost 400 kids applying to Duke

So true.
Meanwhile 3 kids from a small private get in…

There's an article in today's NY Times about how the most common college that girls at Brearley (fancy NYC private school) matriculate to is Harvard. So much has to do with preferences for legacies and big donors.

Or maybe it has to do with girls from Bradley are known to be prepared for Harvard level work. In the meantime kids in MoCo are given As for effort. Sick of the hate on this board for private schools. Your public schools are failing your children and overinflating parents egos

There's plenty of qualified kids applying to elite colleges. But if a private school has Rupert Murdoch and Caroline Kennedy as typical parents of students, you're naive to be comparing them to the average MoCo student.

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Anonymous wrote:High schools sometimes report multiple matriculations per student to top schools.

High schools also don't update for anyone past mid-may. No late waitlist movement usually is noted

I still don’t buy it. According to Naviance, three Whitman students were accepted to Princeton (of 36). That waitlist doesn’t move. Either Naviance or the article is wrong.

Do you know the three students? It's self reported, mostly no one is checking. If they don't request a final transcript, e.g. they matriculated elsewhere, there is no check. Could have misreported.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not rely on this for accuracy. I know a kid attending an Ivy from an HS that shows no acceptances from that school. Pretty sure a second kid from the same HS is also attending that same Ivy.

Those students may have had hooks. Our high school does not include students who got accepted with a hook (athletic, URM, etc).

So if the only student at your school accepted to Princeton was Latina your school would report 0? DCUM posters just make up anything.

The school reports those acceptances in its annual matriculation report, but they are not included in Naviance as a data point.

They are in Naviance, you're kidding yourself.

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Kind of settles the Alabama boosterism. 75 applications only 3 attend. Same for Auburn. Similarly ranked western schools are getting much better matriculation numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:What's scary is some of the quotes in the article. Like HS having 50% of the class graduating with a weighted 4.0 or above versus half as many 10 years ago.

Or the tutor's quote that she has all these students with inflated weighted 4.7 and 4.8 GPAs but they can't do algebra 1.

DCUM taught me that when the kids are doing Multivariable Calculus in 11th grade, there's just no room in their giant brains to remember pesky algebra.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. A couple of things stood out to me.

The outer pointlessness of applying to Harvard - 4/293. That's ridiculous. Save your $85 and have a nice meal.

What a great safety Indiana is - 232/322. Totally underrated school.

And how challenging Vanderbilt is - 12/233. And Duke - 17/368.

It's tough out there.

Grade inflation. So many kids get very, very high grades in MCPS. Anything 89.5% is an A. Quarters are averaged so that an A and B equal an A. It's really hard to do poorly if you're a kid who cares at all. Hence you have almost 400 kids applying to Duke

So true.
Meanwhile 3 kids from a small private get in…

There's an article in today's NY Times about how the most common college that girls at Brearley (fancy NYC private school) matriculate to is Harvard. So much has to do with preferences for legacies and big donors.

Excuse me — that’s “The Brearley School”. My college roommate went there. You can’t forget the article — I think they charge extra for that.

Too bad those girls can't get into THE Ohio State University.

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of settles the Alabama boosterism. 75 applications only 3 attend. Same for Auburn. Similarly ranked western schools are getting much better matriculation numbers.

Have you forgotten the much larger state next door to you? Most of the Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, UGA and Vanderbilt current students that I know personally (well, their parents) live in NoVA.

Most graduated from a NoVA public but a few went to Gonzaga, Visi, Maret.

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of settles the Alabama boosterism. 75 applications only 3 attend. Same for Auburn. Similarly ranked western schools are getting much better matriculation numbers.

Have you forgotten the much larger state next door to you? Most of the Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, UGA and Vanderbilt current students that I know personally (well, their parents) live in NoVA.

Most graduated from a NoVA public but a few went to Gonzaga, Visi, Maret.

PP again. I realize this is an article about MoCo not NoVA. But it's wrong to conclude that nobody from DCUM actually attends Alabama, etc. based solely on Bethesda Magazine.

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Umich was brutal this year with a fairly low admit rate and a high yield, seems like a trend if this data is correct

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The stats are definitely off - for our High School its Johns Hopkins that stands out. The article says that 3 students were accepted and 2 enrolled, but there were at least 4 planning to attend.

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of settles the Alabama boosterism. 75 applications only 3 attend. Same for Auburn. Similarly ranked western schools are getting much better matriculation numbers.

Have you forgotten the much larger state next door to you? Most of the Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, UGA and Vanderbilt current students that I know personally (well, their parents) live in NoVA.

Most graduated from a NoVA public but a few went to Gonzaga, Visi, Maret.

True, I did. Still kind of remarkable that public school students a few miles away have negligible interest.

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Arguing about supposed new Southern school popularity is a lost cause.

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I do think some stats are off. I can't believe that so most Liberty and UMGC applicants across the board were rejected. UMGC rejects no one! That says to me that maybe they counted incomplete apps as rejects?

Also can't believe that only 1 Blair student went to SMCM. Seems off to me.

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Good lord. There are Ivies where not a single high school student was admitted (including Whitman). This is depressing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting. A couple of things stood out to me.

The outer pointlessness of applying to Harvard - 4/293. That's ridiculous. Save your $85 and have a nice meal.

What a great safety Indiana is - 232/322. Totally underrated school.

And how challenging Vanderbilt is - 12/233. And Duke - 17/368.

It's tough out there.

Grade inflation. So many kids get very, very high grades in MCPS. Anything 89.5% is an A. Quarters are averaged so that an A and B equal an A. It's really hard to do poorly if you're a kid who cares at all. Hence you have almost 400 kids applying to Duke

So true.
Meanwhile 3 kids from a small private get in…

There's an article in today's NY Times about how the most common college that girls at Brearley (fancy NYC private school) matriculate to is Harvard. So much has to do with preferences for legacies and big donors.

Or maybe it has to do with girls from Bradley are known to be prepared for Harvard level work. In the meantime kids in MoCo are given As for effort. Sick of the hate on this board for private schools. Your public schools are failing your children and overinflating parents egos

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