Feeder public high schools in DMV

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Anonymous wrote:in case this is useful:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college

We keep going over this- this numbers are not 100% accurate and self reported.

These numbers are accurate and not self reported. DC was Blair Magnet class of 2025. 100% accurate.

Blair used to be a feeder school for MIT, CMU and Cornell. This year the number dropped considerably (probably 1/2 of last year numbers for all 3 colleges).

So you’re telling me that the job market for CS majors collapsed and now the number of kids who want to grind for four years to go into that field is falling? Weird.

If you were a Blair student you would fail the logic test.
MIT, CMU and Cornell are not all about CS. And to calm you down, the CS graduates from these 3 schools will do great in any market conditions. CS graduates from other schools should be concerned for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Other than a school like Blair sending all those kids to MIT (that's really an incredible stat; I assume TJ has crazy stats but they have far more students), I don't think there are really feeder public high schools.

It's more that every year each top school will accept several kids from each of like 20-30 public high schools in the DMV, and those kids do well, so the school is comfortable accepting several kids year after year.

I do think if say you apply to Harvard from Bladensburg High, it's a tough lift for the Harvard AO to have to spend a ton of time figuring out if a top student from Bladensburg is really a "top" student considering many years not a single student will apply to Harvard, while they know a Whitman top student is a top student in general.

There are definitely feeder schools like Boston Latin sending more kids to Harvard than any other school in the country for no apparent reason other than their relationship. it's not that nobody from Boston Latin should get into Harvard but it is hard to explain without the concept of feeder schools. Going to Boston Latin is a hook for Harvard.

The "no apparent reason" for Boston Latin's success at Harvard is that many (most?) of the BL kids accepted to Harvard are kids of Harvard faculty.

Boston Latin School was founded in 1635. It predates Harvard College by more than a year. Harvard College was founded to educate clergy and leaders in the colony, and Boston Latin School became a key preparatory pipeline feeding students into Harvard.

And a large number of kids have parents that work at Harvard. Huge hook.

Since 17th century?