Arlington Magazine - College admissions numbers 2019

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“I Paid $1.8 Million For a Shack With Walkability and Great Schools and All My Kid Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt from [Boston University, Penn State, Kenyon...]”

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Anonymous wrote:“I Paid $1.8 Million For a Shack With Walkability and Great Schools and All My Kid Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt from [Boston University, Penn State, Kenyon...]”

Nailed it

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We all want our children to have better than we did. Somehow that is not happening for this generation.

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Isn’t the answer just to move to a worse school district so our kids are bigger fish in a smaller pond?

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Anonymous wrote:“I Paid $1.8 Million For a Shack With Walkability and Great Schools and All My Kid Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt from [Boston University, Penn State, Kenyon...]”

Nailed it

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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.

It’s under C

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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

How old are you?

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

Maybe the parents don’t want to pay? I live in Va, and if my kid got into uva (doubtful) then I would push that over an Ivy that I’d have to pay &70k a year for.

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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 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.

Right. Not by choice. Parents hold the purse strings.

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

Maybe the parents don’t want to pay? I live in Va, and if my kid got into uva (doubtful) then I would push that over an Ivy that I’d have to pay &70k a year for.

Being a legacy is almost useless unless your family has donated a building. When my DH went to an Ivy in the late 80s, maybe they’d get 7-8K applications. This past year well over 23,000. Our DC was waitlisted, probably typical for legacies who are qualified but not admitted. Ended up at Uva, which is just fine.

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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: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

How old are you?

Old enough to be pragmatic.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the answer just to move to a worse school district so our kids are bigger fish in a smaller pond?

And the classic response from wealthy people in that county would be ... you first.

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These numbers are all self-reported by students who choose to participate in the survey. Not all choose to participate. These stats are of limited value.

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arlington: come for the parks, great schools, self satisfaction, and fake diversity. Stay for the college rejections.