Whitman HS - 2018 Class Destinations

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Anonymous wrote:The gap year number is shocking. This is such a bad idea for most students.

13 out of 500 students is less than .5%. That's incredibly low.

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Anonymous wrote:Next most popular schools:

Georgia 8
Indiana 7
Tulane 7
VT 7
Wisconsin 7
Colorado 6
Undecided 6
Georgetown 5
Salisbury 5
South Carolina 5
USC 5
Vermont 5
Elon 4
Miami 4
Miami Ohio 4
NYU 4
Pitt 4
Rochester 4
St. Mary's of MD 4
Syracuse 4
Tufts 4
UVA 4
Yale 4

Underwhelming list.

Why underwhelming? A public school sent a nontrivial number of kids to elite institutions and a substantial number to darn good ones. No ordinary public school is so special.

This list, except for the number of Gap Year kids, looks very similar to my kid's public in VA. However, swap the UMD number with the UVA number. UVA is coming in at 62 and UMD has 6. There are 2 off to M.I.T this fall from my kid's public.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you include numbers for the top SLACs (if there are any)?

Bates 1
College of Wooster 1
Haverford 1
Vassar 1
Washington and Lee 1

Also one going to Wesleyan and two to Bowdoin.

And I have it on good authority that one of the gap year kids is going to Williams.

In other words, s/he's planning to reapply to Ivies, prob going to use early-action on Princeton.

No. Actually admitted to Williams but deferring a year to do something else.

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I am from a non-W cluster and I think the list is super impressive. Way to go Whitman seniors!!! Look at all those top schools, wow.

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55 kids (roughly 12%) are going to the schools ranked in the top 25 by US News. Last year that number was 61.

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I suspect Montgomery College is a popular option for those kids that did not get into UMD. Many will transfer to UMD through the MTAP (Maryland Transfer Advantage Program).

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Anonymous wrote:55 kids (roughly 12%) are going to the schools ranked in the top 25 by US News. Last year that number was 61.

Impressive indeed if 12% are getting into schools which typically admit <10% of (generally very high performing) applicants

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Anonymous wrote:How is the college counselling at Whitman?

Great question. Are teachers writing like 200+ Recs (10 per 20 kids or more) a season?

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At the very least, it helps put things in perspective. Sometimes you get the vibe from places like DCUM that schools like Whitman are such pressure cookers where everyone is is going to a top college and only losers are going to schools like Georgia or Penn State or South Carolina. But as this list demonstrates, it's not everyone, or even anywhere near the majority of kids going to Ivies/equivalents (or even schools like Vanderbilt).

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Why so many to Michigan? Do parents really want to pay 3x the in-state tuition?

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Anonymous wrote:Next most popular schools:

Georgia 8
Indiana 7
Tulane 7
VT 7
Wisconsin 7
Colorado 6
Undecided 6
Georgetown 5
Salisbury 5
South Carolina 5
USC 5
Vermont 5
Elon 4
Miami 4
Miami Ohio 4
NYU 4
Pitt 4
Rochester 4
St. Mary's of MD 4
Syracuse 4
Tufts 4
UVA 4
Yale 4

Why so many to Georgia?

New best school in SEC. Fun town. Great Honors program.

One of the best honors programs in the country. Great merit aid/scholarships for high stats kids. Athens is awesome.

Still not UF. Try harder

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Anonymous wrote:Next most popular schools:

Georgia 8
Indiana 7
Tulane 7
VT 7
Wisconsin 7
Colorado 6
Undecided 6
Georgetown 5
Salisbury 5
South Carolina 5
USC 5
Vermont 5
Elon 4
Miami 4
Miami Ohio 4
NYU 4
Pitt 4
Rochester 4
St. Mary's of MD 4
Syracuse 4
Tufts 4
UVA 4
Yale 4

Underwhelming list.

Hardly underwhelming, imo!!

----Syracuse Grad

Underwhelming since Whitman is one of the best HS in the one of the best school districts in the country.

It is a rich white public school with no magnet.

The private schools and magnet programs are much tougher. The other MCPS schools have special programs or the top students stand out in a sea of mediocre.

MCPS does grade inflation (no district gives a whole 1.0 increase for honors courses and that scale table without number grades - yikes!) Regional admissions have to try and recalculate MCPS grades. They hate that they took away final exams, and offer AP’s to nearly everyone now, while honors is “not remedial” meaning most take them, especially a school like Whitman. There isn’t much of a way to stand out.

Agree, when a quarter of a large senior class is all 4.0 because grades are rounded up then how do colleges know a high A or B from a low one. They just look at ECs or your ACTs more. Too much noise distracting from the real top students. That’s too bad. Dilutes the schools rep for all.

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Anonymous wrote:The gap year number is shocking. This is such a bad idea for most students.

Tell that to the Europeans who've been doing it for decades. I think it depends on the child, but can be a great idea, both from a standpoint of one more year to mature, and/or a year to decompress before diving back in to the pressure cooker that college has become.

While I agree a gap year is a very smart thing to do, don’t most gap year students apply and defer a year? So there matriculation would still be listed. Actual gap year students are taking a year and then reapplying. Not a very smart thing to do.

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Anonymous wrote:Why so many to Michigan? Do parents really want to pay 3x the in-state tuition?

They give merit and usually more FA than most public’s. They have a huge endowment.

But yes, full price it is completely overrated.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect Montgomery College is a popular option for those kids that did not get into UMD. Many will transfer to UMD through the MTAP (Maryland Transfer Advantage Program).

That is a no brainer. Transferring in is so much easier