Whitman HS destination 2021

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Anonymous wrote:More impressive than privates.

It's about the same, percentage wise. We looked at this list a few years back and then at local privates (Landon, Sidwell, maybe one other) and they all seemed to have around 5% to Ivy League colleges and similar percentages to other big schools. The difference lay in overseas colleges. While Whitman has 3 or 4 going to Canada, maybe a similar number to UK colleges, the privates seem to send more overseas and to wider regions, which is probably a reflection on the origins of the student's family.

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Agree. U. Penn is right down there with Grand Canyon and Trump U.

U. Penn is not a state school.

But Michigan, UCLA, Cal, Wisconsin, (heck, I'll throw UF in there too) are.

They are all great schools and a lot of fun, too.

What a lofty expectation for college, having "fun". Please shoot me now.

Yea, life should be miserable and then you die.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll admit that it’s a very impressive list. No other non-magnet public school in the DMV compares. Well over 20 admissions to the Ivies, Stanford, and MIT. You won’t find that at Langley or McLean. No way.

It's better than magnet programs like IB at RM, given that the latter is a test in program from the whole county. And better than Blair with three to MIT. For comparison, Blair sent two to MIT who won national prizes in sciences.

Let’s review this in a few years when legacy preferences are eliminated.

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Anonymous wrote:This is impressive but these kids have had every advantage.

Most of them.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll admit that it’s a very impressive list. No other non-magnet public school in the DMV compares. Well over 20 admissions to the Ivies, Stanford, and MIT. You won’t find that at Langley or McLean. No way.

20/500? That’s 4%. So, if you do really well at one of the areas best publics, you have a 4% chance of attending an Ivy+. Then, you have to take into account the number who got admitted based on a hook, like legacy and athletics. That’s probably half, at least. So, not that impressive.

I personally know three kids (there are more) from Langley going to Ivies this year. They’re all athletic recruits.

It’s more than 4 percent on that list going Ivy+. And there are MANY on that list going top 25. You can poo poo all you want, but it’s a damned good list.

DP, but the bragging rights here, if it’s really necessary to go down that route, rightfully belong to individual students attending schools of their choice, not some Whitman parent living vicariously, and not very graciously, through others (and whose own kids may never get anywhere near HYPSM or another Ivy).

For the record, I’m the one who you accused of “bragging.” My kids went to one of the better reputed NOVA public high schools. They didn’t go to Whitman. I don’t know anyone with Whitman connections, in fact. I just saw the heading on this thread and clicked out of curiosity.

You’re just as silly as OP. Congratulations.

“Better reputed”

Eat me. The point is that Whitman appears to do better than the "better reputed" NOVA high schools in college placement.

This is true. But it has been explained here that 1) Whitman has more legacies; 2) NOVA has TJ that draws some top McLean/Langley students.

TJ is being watered down by the school board. You might see the gap between Whitman and Langley/McLean disappear in a few years.

You’re also more likely to apply to or decide to attend an Ivy when your in-state option is UMCP rather than UVA or W&M.

Only people with low expectations would aim for state schools.

Only snotty, ignorant assholes would make that comment about state schools. Get over yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:More impressive than privates.

It's about the same, percentage wise. We looked at this list a few years back and then at local privates (Landon, Sidwell, maybe one other) and they all seemed to have around 5% to Ivy League colleges and similar percentages to other big schools. The difference lay in overseas colleges. While Whitman has 3 or 4 going to Canada, maybe a similar number to UK colleges, the privates seem to send more overseas and to wider regions, which is probably a reflection on the origins of the student's family.

Check the list again. One of the nice things about being at Whitman is the number of kids from other countries. There are a lot of international destinations for the class of 2021, as always.

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Looking at Blair Naviance, I can’t see how many got into MIT in 2021 but other recent years there were 5 acceptances. In 2018, 11 got into MIT and 5 attended.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Blair Naviance, I can’t see how many got into MIT in 2021 but other recent years there were 5 acceptances. In 2018, 11 got into MIT and 5 attended.

MIT used to accept lots from Blair before 2020. Not any more.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll admit that it’s a very impressive list. No other non-magnet public school in the DMV compares. Well over 20 admissions to the Ivies, Stanford, and MIT. You won’t find that at Langley or McLean. No way.

20/500? That’s 4%. So, if you do really well at one of the areas best publics, you have a 4% chance of attending an Ivy+. Then, you have to take into account the number who got admitted based on a hook, like legacy and athletics. That’s probably half, at least. So, not that impressive.

I personally know three kids (there are more) from Langley going to Ivies this year. They’re all athletic recruits.

It’s more than 4 percent on that list going Ivy+. And there are MANY on that list going top 25. You can poo poo all you want, but it’s a damned good list.

DP, but the bragging rights here, if it’s really necessary to go down that route, rightfully belong to individual students attending schools of their choice, not some Whitman parent living vicariously, and not very graciously, through others (and whose own kids may never get anywhere near HYPSM or another Ivy).

For the record, I’m the one who you accused of “bragging.” My kids went to one of the better reputed NOVA public high schools. They didn’t go to Whitman. I don’t know anyone with Whitman connections, in fact. I just saw the heading on this thread and clicked out of curiosity.

You’re just as silly as OP. Congratulations.

“Better reputed”

Eat me. The point is that Whitman appears to do better than the "better reputed" NOVA high schools in college placement.

This is true. But it has been explained here that 1) Whitman has more legacies; 2) NOVA has TJ that draws some top McLean/Langley students.

TJ is being watered down by the school board. You might see the gap between Whitman and Langley/McLean disappear in a few years.

You’re also more likely to apply to or decide to attend an Ivy when your in-state option is UMCP rather than UVA or W&M.

Only people with low expectations would aim for state schools.

Agree. U. Penn is right down there with Grand Canyon and Trump U.

What's your beef with UPenn? There are some people who don't like it (too pre professional, etc.) but it's a good fit for some kids. And with a 7% admit rate its pretty selective.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Blair Naviance, I can’t see how many got into MIT in 2021 but other recent years there were 5 acceptances. In 2018, 11 got into MIT and 5 attended.

MIT used to accept lots from Blair before 2020. Not any more.

Haha

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Blair Naviance, I can’t see how many got into MIT in 2021 but other recent years there were 5 acceptances. In 2018, 11 got into MIT and 5 attended.

You can almost definitively say those who rejected MIT went to Harvard or Stanford.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Blair Naviance, I can’t see how many got into MIT in 2021 but other recent years there were 5 acceptances. In 2018, 11 got into MIT and 5 attended.

MIT used to accept lots from Blair before 2020. Not any more.

What does this mean?

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Blair Naviance, I can’t see how many got into MIT in 2021 but other recent years there were 5 acceptances. In 2018, 11 got into MIT and 5 attended.

You can almost definitively say those who rejected MIT went to Harvard or Stanford.

Oh, nonsense. You people pretend to know so much more than you actually do. Pathetic.

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That is a very impressive list. Happy to see three kids off to Syracuse! As a parent in Loudoun County I agree with the comment that more VA kids will go off to UVA or W&M that otherwise would be going to private schools like Lehigh, Colgate, Richmond, Wake Forest.

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Anonymous wrote:More impressive than privates.

It's about the same, percentage wise. We looked at this list a few years back and then at local privates (Landon, Sidwell, maybe one other) and they all seemed to have around 5% to Ivy League colleges and similar percentages to other big schools. The difference lay in overseas colleges. While Whitman has 3 or 4 going to Canada, maybe a similar number to UK colleges, the privates seem to send more overseas and to wider regions, which is probably a reflection on the origins of the student's family.

Check the list again. One of the nice things about being at Whitman is the number of kids from other countries. There are a lot of international destinations for the class of 2021, as always.

Actually I know all about being *foreign* at Whitman but looking at the list again as you suggest, doesn't yield a different result to the one I assessed above.