Do colleges have high school caps/quota?

[Anonymous]

We are planning to move to McLean pyramid from another lower ranked FCPS pyramid, for various reasons and school is one of them.
I just read in another thread that universities have caps on number of students they take from each school. My kid is fairly average, so would moving to McLean hurt his college admissions?

Where can I find more details on this, this is the first time I am hearing this.

[Anonymous]

It is widely known but not officially publicized. So it isn't like you can find a chart of how many kids from a high school a certain college will accept in a year.

[Anonymous]

I can't say for sure, but the only person to get into UVa from my high school each year is the valedictorian (small, rural school). Anecdata.

[Anonymous]

We moved within FCPS and I thought about this for half of a second. I am not going to plan their lives around college admissions and don't know how they will end up or what they will want to do in ~10 years. I did know moving changed the types of peers and families they would be around for all of those years and that was enough for us to make the decision.

[Anonymous]

Yes, very much so, although they don't release the figures (which can and do change from year to year).

[Anonymous]

Yes, but they deny it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it absolutely will hurt his chances for admission into UVa. Average kids get gobbled up in these rich people high schools. Stick ith your underperforming school.

[Anonymous]

23:04 here. Posted too soon. We live in a very good school area, but not the cluster with the top-ranked high school, for various reasons, ONE of which is that we don't think the top high school is what we need - too much pressure and too many students competing for the same colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We moved within FCPS and I thought about this for half of a second. I am not going to plan their lives around college admissions and don't know how they will end up or what they will want to do in ~10 years. I did know moving changed the types of peers and families they would be around for all of those years and that was enough for us to make the decision.

This. The students end up better prepared if they've gone to HS with high achieving peers. And a school like McLean will send 30-35 kids to U.Va., too.

[Anonymous]

^ every year.

[Anonymous]

OP here, we are zoned for Herndon high currently, and looks like I need to weigh pros and cons of school years vs college admissions?

[Anonymous]

No "fairly average" kid within 200 miles will get into UVA unless s/he's a heavily recruited athlete or has some other phenomenal hook. Good thing Va has several great universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is widely known but not officially publicized. So it isn't like you can find a chart of how many kids from a high school a certain college will accept in a year.

Wrong wrong wrong. You must not have a FCPS highschooler.

Every HS, HS student and Parent gets precisely this information and much more automatically from FCPS in charts, tables, lists and graphs in easily searchable database. Data is available from at least the last five years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is widely known but not officially publicized. So it isn't like you can find a chart of how many kids from a high school a certain college will accept in a year.

Wrong wrong wrong. You must not have a FCPS highschooler.

Every HS, HS student and Parent gets precisely this information and much more automatically from FCPS in charts, tables, lists and graphs in easily searchable database. Data is available from at least the last five years.

I know a few posters on here complain about Naviance being volunteer information, but we have found it to be extremely helpful and accurate/precise enough- especially for the in state VA schools.

To the OP: Last year around 50 students at McLean HS were accepted to UVA and around 30 enrolled .


McLean HS Stats for UVA

Class Apply Admit Enroll
2015 134 50 31
2014 138 54 33
2013 142 47 29
2012 107 37 27
2011 111 50 37
2010 93 31 16

AVERAGE GPA. : 4.20
AVERAGE 1600 SAT: 1417

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, we are zoned for Herndon high currently, and looks like I need to weigh pros and cons of school years vs college admissions?

I would never make that move just for the schools. There are plenty of high performers at Herndon, plus a lot more economic and cultural diversity.