HB Woodlawn (Arlington) college list
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Anonymous
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I just stumbled upon this list of the class of 2014's college choices and thought it looked pretty darn good. What do others think? Out of a graduating class of 83 students:
7 are attending UVA 6 are attending William and Mary 6 are attending Virginia Tech And one is attending each of the following schools: Harvard Yale Chicago Johns Hopkins Duke Carnegie Mellon Pomona Wesleyan Grinnell Carleton Macalaster Bates Reed NYU Brandeis Boston U Bucknell Lafayette |
Anonymous
Where are the other 40+ kids going? |
Anonymous
Impressively not impressive. |
Anonymous
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OP here.
11 are going to NOVA, presumably looking to save money before transferring into VA four year schools. Can't argue with that. Of the remaining, 20 are going to VA four year schools other than UVA/W&M/Tech (including 12 going to Mary Washington and 3 to JMU) 16 are going to various out of state private and publics that are mostly fine (IU/Bloomington, Trinity U in Texas, Lawrence in WI, for example) although not uber elite. Plus I need to make two corrections to my original post. Two are going to Yale, not one, and two are going to Reed, not one. For a public school that doesn't require testing to get in that still sends two of its 83 graduates to Yale, one to Harvard, and others to Chicago, Duke, Hopkins, Pomoma, etc., plus 13 to UVA or William and Mary has to be doing pretty well. Outside of TJ, which has stringent entrance requirements, there cannot be a public school in the DC area that compares equally on a percentage basis. Few privates compare as well either, I'd guess. For, say, Langley and McLean to compare they'd need to be sending 18 to 20 kids each to Harvard or Yale and nearly 200 graduates each year to highly selective colleges. They don't come close to that. |
Anonymous
Show me something more impressive outside of TJ and the top half-dozen or so privates in the area. Otherwise, your snarky post means nothing. |
Anonymous
| HB does not test, but you have to ask for your kid to go there. Thus, the student who apply for the HB admissions lottery come from homes that put some effort in education. Also, my impression is that HB can push out trouble makers, so their statistics should be pretty good. That being said, it is a very small school (for the area) and offers students close interaction with teachers. |
Anonymous
So that's maybe 10-15 going to top schools? My non-magnet, public HS in NJ typically graduates 200-250 people a year and has easily has 30+ going to top schools. At least 10-15 Ivy. And there is a nearly public HS that typically does even better. Our school was good, but not super amazing. Seems like VA high schools just don't place well overall. Outside TJ. Weird. |
Anonymous
Sorry this past year it had 300 graduates but it was 8 for 8 on Ivy League enrollment plus MIT, Berkeley, Northwestern, Duke, etc. 15 NM finalists 1834 average SAT But HB Woodlawn kids take way more AP tests. Almost 2x more if I read #s correctly. It sounds like a great school - don't get me wrong - but the matriculation data isn't so that great for a "good" school. Same for Yorktown, Langley, McLean. It's bizarre. |
Anonymous
| Even the W schools in Montgomery County have way better placement. |
Anonymous
Oh, FFS. Just stop. You've embarrassed yourself. We're reading your posts, pointing at the screen and snickering at you. |
Anonymous
Really? How so? You disagree? |
Anonymous
You have to apply for the HB Woodlawn lottery, so there is some self-selection at work. Woodlawn stats aren't as impressive as TJ by a long shot. They do look more impressive, if you extrapolate, than Langley and McLean, which are open-admission high schools in neighborhoods that send far more students to TJ than any Arlington neighborhoods. The two McLean high schools, in turn, have higher test scores and more impressive admissions records than Yorktown and W-L. No need to ask about how Wakefield compares to those six schools. |
Anonymous
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So, let's get this straight: because (even assuming it's true) more kids in the Langley/McLean school districts are eligible for and attend TJ that that means that Langley and McLean are better than HB? I don't see the logic.
I'd bet that if HB were open for applications from McLean and Langley that we'd see plenty . . . As for the poster who said his public high school is sending 200 students to "top" colleges each year, I call BS. Show us the list. |
Anonymous
Question for the NJ poster: how many of your graduates apply to UVA or William and Mary and are rejected every year? And don't go telling me that you don't consider these schools to be "top" because your classmates sure do. Virginia students routinely turn down lesser Ivies for UVA . . . |
Anonymous
| OP, it is very good. Thanks for posting. |