Banneker HS - College and Score Outcomes

[Anonymous]

It's frustrating when people can't just be happy for students and instead put them down.

If this poster suddenly faced some of the same challenges as many of these kids (ones I know personally), it would likely be a wake-up call.

I am incredibly proud of these kids (and all kids) who walk their own paths and make college a reality. They choose a college they can afford (one who usually gives them a ton of aid) where they will be comfortable and happy.

If any Banneker students are reading this board, know that the people who are asking these questions about admissions and not the type of people you have to be around in the future.

Surround yourself with people who celebrate your success, not try to undermind them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, that's not a comprehensive list. It was a list of preliminary commitments to attend, not a list of college acceptances; and when it was printed students were still deciding among offers, financial aid packages, and waiting to see if they were coming off of waitlists. Roughly half of the graduating class is represented here.

OK, but where is the full list? For a selective HS, getting a list of college acceptances and/or matriculations out to prospective students is fairly basic stuff. SAT and AP scores have their issues, but college acceptance outcomes are a key signal of school performance. That the Banneker administration can't seem to find it within themselves to produce a comprehensive list doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Hopefully, it detracts parents like yourself from considering the school for your own children. While I like to help incoming and prospective families, I'm beginning to see why Banneker parents were so quiet on this forum over the years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, that's not a comprehensive list. It was a list of preliminary commitments to attend, not a list of college acceptances; and when it was printed students were still deciding among offers, financial aid packages, and waiting to see if they were coming off of waitlists. Roughly half of the graduating class is represented here.

OK, but where is the full list? For a selective HS, getting a list of college acceptances and/or matriculations out to prospective students is fairly basic stuff. SAT and AP scores have their issues, but college acceptance outcomes are a key signal of school performance. That the Banneker administration can't seem to find it within themselves to produce a comprehensive list doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Hopefully, it detracts parents like yourself from considering the school for your own children. While I like to help incoming and prospective families, I'm beginning to see why Banneker parents were so quiet on this forum over the years.

How do you suggest parents evaluate the school for their prospective child?
We are told not to look at SAT scores. Don’t look at college outcomes. AP scores and IB scores are not great at Banneker. Is it racist to ask for any evidence that other schools are measured on? Shadow days are not allowed either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, that's not a comprehensive list. It was a list of preliminary commitments to attend, not a list of college acceptances; and when it was printed students were still deciding among offers, financial aid packages, and waiting to see if they were coming off of waitlists. Roughly half of the graduating class is represented here.

OK, but where is the full list? For a selective HS, getting a list of college acceptances and/or matriculations out to prospective students is fairly basic stuff. SAT and AP scores have their issues, but college acceptance outcomes are a key signal of school performance. That the Banneker administration can't seem to find it within themselves to produce a comprehensive list doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

DP. Banneker is not a private school that has to solicit you. It is very successful at preparing hard-working DC kids for college.

But yet seemingly can't muster the wherewithal to display that success to prospective students . . .

You are extremely naive if you think that selective public schools have no need to market themselves to prospective students. In fact, it is precisely attitudes such as yours that hinder such success.

Banneker seems to be doing just fine. Not sure what the issue is here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like Banneker is so different from other schools that test scores can’t really be the deciding factor. Do you want your kid to go to a historical black highly academically intensive school with tons of homework and less “traditional” HS culture like sports? Or do you want your kid to have a more traditional and flexible experience in a less academically focused culture?

I agree I wish the gentrifiers could understand this concept.

Yuck.

I don’t get that post. Can you explain it, please? Gentrifiers? Who?

I think it is intended as a comment on the type of parent like the PP who believes Banneker needs to market itself to parents with a full list of college admissions …

It's also coded racism. Get real.

Next time the debate comes up between "white people don't choose Banneker because they are racist" and "white people don't choose Banneker because they expect they are not really wanted there," the "gentrifiers" post above should be Exhibit #1. SMH.

Oh ffs. I am a white mom whose kid goes to a majority black MS. We’ve never felt anything but welcomed as I imagine we would at Banneker if we ever had the opportunity to send our kid thete.

It’s not so much race as class & cultural ignorance that the word “gentrifier” points to here. You’re really getting up on your high horse to proclaim Banneker needs slicker PR? OK. It’s not for you, move on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, that's not a comprehensive list. It was a list of preliminary commitments to attend, not a list of college acceptances; and when it was printed students were still deciding among offers, financial aid packages, and waiting to see if they were coming off of waitlists. Roughly half of the graduating class is represented here.

OK, but where is the full list? For a selective HS, getting a list of college acceptances and/or matriculations out to prospective students is fairly basic stuff. SAT and AP scores have their issues, but college acceptance outcomes are a key signal of school performance. That the Banneker administration can't seem to find it within themselves to produce a comprehensive list doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Hopefully, it detracts parents like yourself from considering the school for your own children. While I like to help incoming and prospective families, I'm beginning to see why Banneker parents were so quiet on this forum over the years.

How do you suggest parents evaluate the school for their prospective child?
We are told not to look at SAT scores. Don’t look at college outcomes. AP scores and IB scores are not great at Banneker. Is it racist to ask for any evidence that other schools are measured on? Shadow days are not allowed either.

Since your Larlo is so brilliant and deserving, I have no doubt he would have his pick of schools and breeze right into TJ and RMIB and Blair. So just go ahead over there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, that's not a comprehensive list. It was a list of preliminary commitments to attend, not a list of college acceptances; and when it was printed students were still deciding among offers, financial aid packages, and waiting to see if they were coming off of waitlists. Roughly half of the graduating class is represented here.

OK, but where is the full list? For a selective HS, getting a list of college acceptances and/or matriculations out to prospective students is fairly basic stuff. SAT and AP scores have their issues, but college acceptance outcomes are a key signal of school performance. That the Banneker administration can't seem to find it within themselves to produce a comprehensive list doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Hopefully, it detracts parents like yourself from considering the school for your own children. While I like to help incoming and prospective families, I'm beginning to see why Banneker parents were so quiet on this forum over the years.

How do you suggest parents evaluate the school for their prospective child?
We are told not to look at SAT scores. Don’t look at college outcomes. AP scores and IB scores are not great at Banneker. Is it racist to ask for any evidence that other schools are measured on? Shadow days are not allowed either.

Since your Larlo is so brilliant and deserving, I have no doubt he would have his pick of schools and breeze right into TJ and RMIB and Blair. So just go ahead over there.

dp: That's a useless response. The PP posed a fair question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like Banneker is so different from other schools that test scores can’t really be the deciding factor. Do you want your kid to go to a historical black highly academically intensive school with tons of homework and less “traditional” HS culture like sports? Or do you want your kid to have a more traditional and flexible experience in a less academically focused culture?

I agree I wish the gentrifiers could understand this concept.

Yuck.

I don’t get that post. Can you explain it, please? Gentrifiers? Who?

I think it is intended as a comment on the type of parent like the PP who believes Banneker needs to market itself to parents with a full list of college admissions …

Every high school in DC should be furnishing lists of where their kids go to college. Parents have a right to know.

[Anonymous]

I am a white (gentrifier?) parent whose DS will go to Banneker very soon! Thrilled to have the opportunity to join the Banneker community.

There is some craziness going around in this thread though.

Like, if you don't offer "shadow days" parents can't figure out, second-hand via their detective-squad children, whether there is bias against families that do not have multigenerational ties to DC.

This appears to presume that, unlike most of America, where a historical white 'overclass' rules, Banneker is secretly run by a longtime Black oligarchy.

Which oligarchy that, because it does not want to be displaced, fails to advertise up to the minute college admissions in March of seniors' graduating year. (Pretty shaky foundation for ruling the school.)

There's more, but let's just leave it at that for now...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, that's not a comprehensive list. It was a list of preliminary commitments to attend, not a list of college acceptances; and when it was printed students were still deciding among offers, financial aid packages, and waiting to see if they were coming off of waitlists. Roughly half of the graduating class is represented here.

OK, but where is the full list? For a selective HS, getting a list of college acceptances and/or matriculations out to prospective students is fairly basic stuff. SAT and AP scores have their issues, but college acceptance outcomes are a key signal of school performance. That the Banneker administration can't seem to find it within themselves to produce a comprehensive list doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Hopefully, it detracts parents like yourself from considering the school for your own children. While I like to help incoming and prospective families, I'm beginning to see why Banneker parents were so quiet on this forum over the years.

How do you suggest parents evaluate the school for their prospective child?
We are told not to look at SAT scores. Don’t look at college outcomes. AP scores and IB scores are not great at Banneker. Is it racist to ask for any evidence that other schools are measured on? Shadow days are not allowed either.

Since your Larlo is so brilliant and deserving, I have no doubt he would have his pick of schools and breeze right into TJ and RMIB and Blair. So just go ahead over there.

Seriously, that is the best you can do? Insult people if they ask questions? I hope you encourage your own kids to ask questions and not believe everything just because someone said so. Anyone with analytical reasoning skills not allowed to be part of the DCPS community? Do better

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's frustrating when people can't just be happy for students and instead put them down.

If this poster suddenly faced some of the same challenges as many of these kids (ones I know personally), it would likely be a wake-up call.

I am incredibly proud of these kids (and all kids) who walk their own paths and make college a reality. They choose a college they can afford (one who usually gives them a ton of aid) where they will be comfortable and happy.

If any Banneker students are reading this board, know that the people who are asking these questions about admissions and not the type of people you have to be around in the future.

Surround yourself with people who celebrate your success, not try to undermind them.

What the hell is this nonsense? Someone asking for a few sources to make an informed enrolment decision is trying to "undermind" the whole student body? You don't want kids to be around those who have a basic understanding of research?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, that's not a comprehensive list. It was a list of preliminary commitments to attend, not a list of college acceptances; and when it was printed students were still deciding among offers, financial aid packages, and waiting to see if they were coming off of waitlists. Roughly half of the graduating class is represented here.

OK, but where is the full list? For a selective HS, getting a list of college acceptances and/or matriculations out to prospective students is fairly basic stuff. SAT and AP scores have their issues, but college acceptance outcomes are a key signal of school performance. That the Banneker administration can't seem to find it within themselves to produce a comprehensive list doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Hopefully, it detracts parents like yourself from considering the school for your own children. While I like to help incoming and prospective families, I'm beginning to see why Banneker parents were so quiet on this forum over the years.

How do you suggest parents evaluate the school for their prospective child?
We are told not to look at SAT scores. Don’t look at college outcomes. AP scores and IB scores are not great at Banneker. Is it racist to ask for any evidence that other schools are measured on? Shadow days are not allowed either.

Since your Larlo is so brilliant and deserving, I have no doubt he would have his pick of schools and breeze right into TJ and RMIB and Blair. So just go ahead over there.

Not hard to read between the lines on this one, is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, that's not a comprehensive list. It was a list of preliminary commitments to attend, not a list of college acceptances; and when it was printed students were still deciding among offers, financial aid packages, and waiting to see if they were coming off of waitlists. Roughly half of the graduating class is represented here.

OK, but where is the full list? For a selective HS, getting a list of college acceptances and/or matriculations out to prospective students is fairly basic stuff. SAT and AP scores have their issues, but college acceptance outcomes are a key signal of school performance. That the Banneker administration can't seem to find it within themselves to produce a comprehensive list doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Hopefully, it detracts parents like yourself from considering the school for your own children. While I like to help incoming and prospective families, I'm beginning to see why Banneker parents were so quiet on this forum over the years.

How do you suggest parents evaluate the school for their prospective child?
We are told not to look at SAT scores. Don’t look at college outcomes. AP scores and IB scores are not great at Banneker. Is it racist to ask for any evidence that other schools are measured on? Shadow days are not allowed either.

What are you asking here? There's lots of public info and it all points in the same direction. Banneker has a lot of kids who are at grade level. It has some kids who are accelerated, very high-performing, and go to elite colleges. It has fewer than Walls. If you talk to people, they'll tell you that the kids are studious and the culture emphasizes that. Why does it matter exactly how many kids go to elite colleges? Some go. Far from everyone. You can tell that from the test scores, too. No one is keeping anything from you except the admissions processes, but that's a DCPS thing and not a Banneker thing specifically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a white (gentrifier?) parent whose DS will go to Banneker very soon! Thrilled to have the opportunity to join the Banneker community.

There is some craziness going around in this thread though.

Like, if you don't offer "shadow days" parents can't figure out, second-hand via their detective-squad children, whether there is bias against families that do not have multigenerational ties to DC.

This appears to presume that, unlike most of America, where a historical white 'overclass' rules, Banneker is secretly run by a longtime Black oligarchy.

Which oligarchy that, because it does not want to be displaced, fails to advertise up to the minute college admissions in March of seniors' graduating year. (Pretty shaky foundation for ruling the school.)

There's more, but let's just leave it at that for now...

I tried reading that. It gave me a headache. I gave up.

Thank goodness the author spared us whatever else she had in mind.

The list of college admissions in the link that was posted for the Class of 2023. That is, the folks who matriculated at college eight months ago. Not exactly "up to the minute".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, that's not a comprehensive list. It was a list of preliminary commitments to attend, not a list of college acceptances; and when it was printed students were still deciding among offers, financial aid packages, and waiting to see if they were coming off of waitlists. Roughly half of the graduating class is represented here.

OK, but where is the full list? For a selective HS, getting a list of college acceptances and/or matriculations out to prospective students is fairly basic stuff. SAT and AP scores have their issues, but college acceptance outcomes are a key signal of school performance. That the Banneker administration can't seem to find it within themselves to produce a comprehensive list doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Hopefully, it detracts parents like yourself from considering the school for your own children. While I like to help incoming and prospective families, I'm beginning to see why Banneker parents were so quiet on this forum over the years.

How do you suggest parents evaluate the school for their prospective child?
We are told not to look at SAT scores. Don’t look at college outcomes. AP scores and IB scores are not great at Banneker. Is it racist to ask for any evidence that other schools are measured on? Shadow days are not allowed either.

What are you asking here? There's lots of public info and it all points in the same direction. Banneker has a lot of kids who are at grade level. It has some kids who are accelerated, very high-performing, and go to elite colleges. It has fewer than Walls. If you talk to people, they'll tell you that the kids are studious and the culture emphasizes that. Why does it matter exactly how many kids go to elite colleges? Some go. Far from everyone. You can tell that from the test scores, too. No one is keeping anything from you except the admissions processes, but that's a DCPS thing and not a Banneker thing specifically.

Do you understand the difference between primary information and a subjective assessment?