Arlington Magazine - College admissions numbers 2019

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McLean details here (if you -have to- know):

https://issuu.com/the_highlander/docs/senior_final/10

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Arlington schools are terrible. Do not move there.

School Board's new approach to reduce the overcrowding.

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Anonymous wrote:On the bright side, some good numbers for Emory and Northeastern. NEU accepting 42% of applicants, the class of 2024 should take notice.

Pass.

Well you could always go to UVA or W&M.

I didn't see W&M on the list.

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Anonymous wrote:The list is fine. No public school is going to have the outcomes of an elite private filled exclusively with hand-picked kids and the ability to tell any troublemakers to move on.

My takeaway? These kids are applying to a lot of schools!

Having sent my kid to one of those schools, I can tell you that the education was good, but nothing you do is going to change the fact that most kids aren’t all that elite anywhere.

I definitely was surprised to see that the kids from the HS in Bethesda Magazine list apply to a large variety of schools across the country in large numbers. This is less true of the Arlington schools. Some of that can be explained by the strong in-state options in VA, but it’s still a bit surprising given how much wealth there is in Arlington.

That's true for all NoVA schools (minus TJ). The admissions to top 15 schools is pathetic compared to other areas of the country.

I wonder if other NoVa schools suffer because TJ gets a lot of kids into the top schools. They may only want so many from the locale.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list is fine. No public school is going to have the outcomes of an elite private filled exclusively with hand-picked kids and the ability to tell any troublemakers to move on.

My takeaway? These kids are applying to a lot of schools!

Having sent my kid to one of those schools, I can tell you that the education was good, but nothing you do is going to change the fact that most kids aren’t all that elite anywhere.

I definitely was surprised to see that the kids from the HS in Bethesda Magazine list apply to a large variety of schools across the country in large numbers. This is less true of the Arlington schools. Some of that can be explained by the strong in-state options in VA, but it’s still a bit surprising given how much wealth there is in Arlington.

That's true for all NoVA schools (minus TJ). The admissions to top 15 schools is pathetic compared to other areas of the country.

I actually wasn't focusing on where they were admitted, but where they applied. Plenty of the kids on the Bethesda list did not get into the schools they applied to in California, the midwest, NE, etc., but they applied broadly in geographic terms and in relatively large numbers. They seem to want to either explore the country or flee from this area in greater numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list is fine. No public school is going to have the outcomes of an elite private filled exclusively with hand-picked kids and the ability to tell any troublemakers to move on.

My takeaway? These kids are applying to a lot of schools!

Having sent my kid to one of those schools, I can tell you that the education was good, but nothing you do is going to change the fact that most kids aren’t all that elite anywhere.

I definitely was surprised to see that the kids from the HS in Bethesda Magazine list apply to a large variety of schools across the country in large numbers. This is less true of the Arlington schools. Some of that can be explained by the strong in-state options in VA, but it’s still a bit surprising given how much wealth there is in Arlington.

That's true for all NoVA schools (minus TJ). The admissions to top 15 schools is pathetic compared to other areas of the country.

I actually wasn't focusing on where they were admitted, but where they applied. Plenty of the kids on the Bethesda list did not get into the schools they applied to in California, the midwest, NE, etc., but they applied broadly in geographic terms and in relatively large numbers. They seem to want to either explore the country or flee from this area in greater numbers.

As most college-aged kids do? Very few want to stay near home.

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Anonymous wrote:Bloodbath

Can we stop using this word about college admissions?

In a world where one can use the word "bloodbath" referring to an event at a school literally, it bothers me to no end that people use it when they are disappointed about which colleges privileged children were accepted to. At the end of the day, those kids still have a future that will most likely be pretty bright, and they are coming home safely to their families. Not the end of the world for anyone.

Cool it woke Debbie Downer.

It doesn't matter what you think. What matters is in an over-educated area like Arlington or Bethesda with scores and scores of over-educated parents, college admission is a serious undertaking. These numbers do show how incredibly difficult admissions have become and it's perfectly fine to describe it as a bloodbath.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list is fine. No public school is going to have the outcomes of an elite private filled exclusively with hand-picked kids and the ability to tell any troublemakers to move on.

My takeaway? These kids are applying to a lot of schools!

Having sent my kid to one of those schools, I can tell you that the education was good, but nothing you do is going to change the fact that most kids aren’t all that elite anywhere.

I definitely was surprised to see that the kids from the HS in Bethesda Magazine list apply to a large variety of schools across the country in large numbers. This is less true of the Arlington schools. Some of that can be explained by the strong in-state options in VA, but it’s still a bit surprising given how much wealth there is in Arlington.

That's true for all NoVA schools (minus TJ). The admissions to top 15 schools is pathetic compared to other areas of the country.

I actually wasn't focusing on where they were admitted, but where they applied. Plenty of the kids on the Bethesda list did not get into the schools they applied to in California, the midwest, NE, etc., but they applied broadly in geographic terms and in relatively large numbers. They seem to want to either explore the country or flee from this area in greater numbers.

Wow, I guess MCPS isn't so bad after all.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list is fine. No public school is going to have the outcomes of an elite private filled exclusively with hand-picked kids and the ability to tell any troublemakers to move on.

My takeaway? These kids are applying to a lot of schools!

Having sent my kid to one of those schools, I can tell you that the education was good, but nothing you do is going to change the fact that most kids aren’t all that elite anywhere.

I definitely was surprised to see that the kids from the HS in Bethesda Magazine list apply to a large variety of schools across the country in large numbers. This is less true of the Arlington schools. Some of that can be explained by the strong in-state options in VA, but it’s still a bit surprising given how much wealth there is in Arlington.

That's true for all NoVA schools (minus TJ). The admissions to top 15 schools is pathetic compared to other areas of the country.

I actually wasn't focusing on where they were admitted, but where they applied. Plenty of the kids on the Bethesda list did not get into the schools they applied to in California, the midwest, NE, etc., but they applied broadly in geographic terms and in relatively large numbers. They seem to want to either explore the country or flee from this area in greater numbers.

As most college-aged kids do? Very few want to stay near home.

They may want to but the reality is that most college students go to a college within two hours of their home.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Arlington schools are terrible. Do not move there.

I don't think that's true, but I also don't think it really matter anymore in terms of college admissions. Colleges don't want kids from Arlington, so how ever good the schools are doesn't matter much.

Good point. Seems like such over emphasis on school ratings around this year with no tangible benefits to college admissions.

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I agree with the bloodbath comment. If you’re smart, you can think of a word that actually fits. No one died. Those schools probably have 90-100% of their kids going to college. Everyone is getting into one or more schools. Just because the most selective ones aren’t FULL of students from one school doesn’t mean there was a “bloodbath.”

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Anonymous wrote:On the bright side, some good numbers for Emory and Northeastern. NEU accepting 42% of applicants, the class of 2024 should take notice.

Pass.

Well you could always go to UVA or W&M.

I didn't see W&M on the list.

College of William and Mary. I haven’t looked, but you’d probably need to look under schools starting with the letter “C.” “C” as in cookie.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I were surprised not more admitted as legacies. You would think plenty of legacies in Arlington.

Legacies of which schools?

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Not great numbers. Out of any 15 person crowd of north Arlingtonian adults with kids, 5 parents will have UVA gear on, 1 will have Michigan, 1 will have Cornell, 1 will have William and Mary, 1 will have Georgetown, 1 will have gear from some good-ish SLAC that was fairly popular in some “lovely” corner of New England in 1996, and the rest will have gear from VA Tech. And one will be quietly contemplating whether it’s ok to claim URM status for her kid based on the fact mom’s great-grandma’s step-father was born in Spain.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the bloodbath comment. If you’re smart, you can think of a word that actually fits. No one died. Those schools probably have 90-100% of their kids going to college. Everyone is getting into one or more schools. Just because the most selective ones aren’t FULL of students from one school doesn’t mean there was a “bloodbath.”

Bloodbath is a commonly used term to describe these kinds of nonviolent situations. Not sure why some people are being woke and defensive about it