APS College Admits 2026

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Anonymous wrote:And as usual, the W-L IB kids are seeing great outcomes for both private and public institutions

Even the non-IB W-L kids are getting into impressive Ivy League, publics, etc. Excellent around for W-L this year.

There are 7 Ivy admits: 2 Cornell, 2 Dartmouth, 2 UPenn, and 1 Brown.

Do you mean non IB diploma and they took the AP IB approach? A few are recruited so maybe some of them could just do intensified?

Those are matriculations, not admits.

Fair. So are you a guidance counselor because getting that level of detail is basically impossible. Or are you some super invested parent tracking your child’s classmates admits?

Sorry, I should have said DP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yorktown and W-L are pretty much a draw. W-L has seven attending Ivies, as a previous poster noted, while Yorktown has six (Yale, Columbia, two Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn). Both have two attending Duke, and both have one attending MIT. W-L also has two attending Chicago, while Yorktown has one attending Northwestern.

Pretty impressive.

Another poster singled out HB as the "winner." I disagree. It has one attending MIT and another attending Yale, but that's it. Obviously it's a much smaller school, but adjusting for size it's not ahead.

Keep all of this in mind when you see next year's silly Arlington Magazine. I don't recall it ever reporting more than a handful of grads from each school attending Ivy+ schools. The data there is clearly inaccurate.

Why do you think Arl Mag’s data is inaccurate? I thought it came from Naviance now School Links? Yes it’s self reported acceptances but schools tell kids to report it and that data is what applicants rely on. How would you get better data? All college admissions data outside of individual colleges is student reported as far as I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yorktown and W-L are pretty much a draw. W-L has seven attending Ivies, as a previous poster noted, while Yorktown has six (Yale, Columbia, two Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn). Both have two attending Duke, and both have one attending MIT. W-L also has two attending Chicago, while Yorktown has one attending Northwestern.

Pretty impressive.

Another poster singled out HB as the "winner." I disagree. It has one attending MIT and another attending Yale, but that's it. Obviously it's a much smaller school, but adjusting for size it's not ahead.

Keep all of this in mind when you see next year's silly Arlington Magazine. I don't recall it ever reporting more than a handful of grads from each school attending Ivy+ schools. The data there is clearly inaccurate.

Depends what your measure is and on that people will never agree. The other poster was considering top 30. You’re just looking at Ivies and a few other universities. Neither of you considered top LACs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yorktown and W-L are pretty much a draw. W-L has seven attending Ivies, as a previous poster noted, while Yorktown has six (Yale, Columbia, two Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn). Both have two attending Duke, and both have one attending MIT. W-L also has two attending Chicago, while Yorktown has one attending Northwestern.

Pretty impressive.

Another poster singled out HB as the "winner." I disagree. It has one attending MIT and another attending Yale, but that's it. Obviously it's a much smaller school, but adjusting for size it's not ahead.

Keep all of this in mind when you see next year's silly Arlington Magazine. I don't recall it ever reporting more than a handful of grads from each school attending Ivy+ schools. The data there is clearly inaccurate.

Depends what your measure is and on that people will never agree. The other poster was considering top 30. You’re just looking at Ivies and a few other universities. Neither of you considered top LACs.

Nah. Not including the Ivy+, for example, I just went back and counted more than 40 other YHS grads attending top 30 colleges. And that's not including William & Mary or Tech, and not including LACs like Haverford or Colgate or the two going to the Naval Academy. Also not including Tulane, Northeastern or Emory. There are lots of impressive schools.

Yes there are a couple of HB grads going to top LACs and good for them. But an HB grad is more likely to choose an LAC than a neighborhood school grad. It doesn't tell us much.

[Anonymous]

Because this is public school, several kids get into Ivy's and don't enroll. I won't name the school, but several of DC's friends this year got into Ivy's and chose to attend elsewhere because of the cost. These are really smart kids who had hoped for more financial aid than they received.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yorktown and W-L are pretty much a draw. W-L has seven attending Ivies, as a previous poster noted, while Yorktown has six (Yale, Columbia, two Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn). Both have two attending Duke, and both have one attending MIT. W-L also has two attending Chicago, while Yorktown has one attending Northwestern.

Pretty impressive.

Another poster singled out HB as the "winner." I disagree. It has one attending MIT and another attending Yale, but that's it. Obviously it's a much smaller school, but adjusting for size it's not ahead.

Keep all of this in mind when you see next year's silly Arlington Magazine. I don't recall it ever reporting more than a handful of grads from each school attending Ivy+ schools. The data there is clearly inaccurate.

Depends what your measure is and on that people will never agree. The other poster was considering top 30. You’re just looking at Ivies and a few other universities. Neither of you considered top LACs.

Nah. Not including the Ivy+, for example, I just went back and counted more than 40 other YHS grads attending top 30 colleges. And that's not including William & Mary or Tech, and not including LACs like Haverford or Colgate or the two going to the Naval Academy. Also not including Tulane, Northeastern or Emory. There are lots of impressive schools.

Yes there are a couple of HB grads going to top LACs and good for them. But an HB grad is more likely to choose an LAC than a neighborhood school grad. It doesn't tell us much.

Even with only 2 Ivy level admits, HBW is far above the neighborhood percentages.

As a percentage of class size, HBW is leagues ahead with Ivy+ and SLAC;

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because this is public school, several kids get into Ivy's and don't enroll. I won't name the school, but several of DC's friends this year got into Ivy's and chose to attend elsewhere because of the cost. These are really smart kids who had hoped for more financial aid than they received.

oh that's too bad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yorktown and W-L are pretty much a draw. W-L has seven attending Ivies, as a previous poster noted, while Yorktown has six (Yale, Columbia, two Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn). Both have two attending Duke, and both have one attending MIT. W-L also has two attending Chicago, while Yorktown has one attending Northwestern.

Pretty impressive.

Another poster singled out HB as the "winner." I disagree. It has one attending MIT and another attending Yale, but that's it. Obviously it's a much smaller school, but adjusting for size it's not ahead.

Keep all of this in mind when you see next year's silly Arlington Magazine. I don't recall it ever reporting more than a handful of grads from each school attending Ivy+ schools. The data there is clearly inaccurate.

Depends what your measure is and on that people will never agree. The other poster was considering top 30. You’re just looking at Ivies and a few other universities. Neither of you considered top LACs.

Nah. Not including the Ivy+, for example, I just went back and counted more than 40 other YHS grads attending top 30 colleges. And that's not including William & Mary or Tech, and not including LACs like Haverford or Colgate or the two going to the Naval Academy. Also not including Tulane, Northeastern or Emory. There are lots of impressive schools.

Yes there are a couple of HB grads going to top LACs and good for them. But an HB grad is more likely to choose an LAC than a neighborhood school grad. It doesn't tell us much.

Even with only 2 Ivy level admits, HBW is far above the neighborhood percentages.

As a percentage of class size, HBW is leagues ahead with Ivy+ and SLAC;

No, it's not. Two Ivy pluses versus ten. That's not "leagues ahead."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/whsdecisions26

https://www.instagram.com/yhsdecisions2026/

https://www.instagram.com/wldecisions26_/

https://www.instagram.com/hbwdecisions26/

HBW really stands out, about 20% of class goes to t30 schools, and only HYP admit out of APS I think.

Think again. A Yorktown kid is going to Yale.

W-L has 12 Ivy+ (7 Ivies plus 2 Duke, 2 Chicago and an MIT), plus two Georgetowns, a Vandy, several NYUs and Michigans -- and 27 UVAs.

HB does not "stand out" at all.

[Anonymous]

I think we can all agree that APS kids across all schools have done really well this year for admissions to both public and private colleges/universities as compared to previous years. For all of us with younger kids, hope that this is a sign that the tide is turning (the Arlington magazine had an article in the last year that spoke to how APS kids have a hard time getting into top colleges). Maybe the demographic cliff may have started with this class of seniors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/whsdecisions26

https://www.instagram.com/yhsdecisions2026/

https://www.instagram.com/wldecisions26_/

https://www.instagram.com/hbwdecisions26/

HBW really stands out, about 20% of class goes to t30 schools, and only HYP admit out of APS I think.

Think again. A Yorktown kid is going to Yale.

W-L has 12 Ivy+ (7 Ivies plus 2 Duke, 2 Chicago and an MIT), plus two Georgetowns, a Vandy, several NYUs and Michigans -- and 27 UVAs.

HB does not "stand out" at all.

HBW had 2% go Ivy, WL had 2% go Ivy+.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/whsdecisions26

https://www.instagram.com/yhsdecisions2026/

https://www.instagram.com/wldecisions26_/

https://www.instagram.com/hbwdecisions26/

HBW really stands out, about 20% of class goes to t30 schools, and only HYP admit out of APS I think.

Think again. A Yorktown kid is going to Yale.

W-L has 12 Ivy+ (7 Ivies plus 2 Duke, 2 Chicago and an MIT), plus two Georgetowns, a Vandy, several NYUs and Michigans -- and 27 UVAs.

HB does not "stand out" at all.

For football!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/whsdecisions26

https://www.instagram.com/yhsdecisions2026/

https://www.instagram.com/wldecisions26_/

https://www.instagram.com/hbwdecisions26/

HBW really stands out, about 20% of class goes to t30 schools, and only HYP admit out of APS I think.

Think again. A Yorktown kid is going to Yale.

W-L has 12 Ivy+ (7 Ivies plus 2 Duke, 2 Chicago and an MIT), plus two Georgetowns, a Vandy, several NYUs and Michigans -- and 27 UVAs.

HB does not "stand out" at all.

HBW had 2% go Ivy, WL had 2% go Ivy+.

Let the haters hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/whsdecisions26

https://www.instagram.com/yhsdecisions2026/

https://www.instagram.com/wldecisions26_/

https://www.instagram.com/hbwdecisions26/

HBW really stands out, about 20% of class goes to t30 schools, and only HYP admit out of APS I think.

Think again. A Yorktown kid is going to Yale.

W-L has 12 Ivy+ (7 Ivies plus 2 Duke, 2 Chicago and an MIT), plus two Georgetowns, a Vandy, several NYUs and Michigans -- and 27 UVAs.

HB does not "stand out" at all.

For football!!!

Which school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one has all the data at this point, are you basing your thoughts on what's been posted on Instagram?

What data are you expecting. They don’t publish matriculations, so Instagram is all we will likely get.

Arlington magazine post data available from each school, but it won’t be until over the summer. Of course it is self reported information but better than what you’re getting from Instagram.

No, it posts ACCEPTANCE data. It does not post matriculation data. Why? Because APS doesn’t track matriculation data. They have 55 people doing curriculum review and calendar revisions and DEI and feeding the community and not a single person tracks college outcomes. So Arlington magazine has no way to track this. No one has a freaking clue whether there are more or less matriculations to UVA this year (well, except UVA). You will absolutely see the acceptance data and that’s hovered at 10% of the class for W&L and YHS for years.