What's the average Wilson senior like?
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Anonymous
| We always hear the criminal delinquents or the studs that go to Duke and Columbia, but what's the average senior like -- or even above average? That middle 50% of the class is what creates the building's ethos, yes? |
Anonymous
| They are just like any other high school kid in the area. |
Anonymous
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Go to some Wilson events - a play or musical, a basketball game, a baseball game, a debate tournament - and talk to them.
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Anonymous
Yes, that's what we thought and never considered Wilson as an option until 11th grade. After we enrolled we knew that being at a HRCS was a total waste of time and bypassing great opportunities for growth. |
Anonymous
| The Wilson kids we know are great kids and they can't all be headed to Duke or Columbia based on numbers alone. So they must be in the middle 50%....They are smart, creative, sincere, politically active and, most refreshingly, not entitled. |
Anonymous
| Does the average Wilson kid go to college? What colleges do the 50-75 percentile seniors head to? |
Anonymous
| Huge range. Literally from Yale to jail. |
Anonymous
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Here is the Wilson profile for the class of 2016. Schools prepare these profiles and send them to colleges with transcripts to give some context when students are applying for admission. The profile includes a list of colleges that students in class of 2016 are attending.
68% went to 4-year schools and 20% to 2-year schools according to the profile. http://www.wilsonhs.org/ourpages/auto/2011/4/15/39942607/Wilsonprofile2016-17webreduced.pdf |
Anonymous
The lists I've seen are pretty much the same as any other large public high school that serves kids with a wide range of interests, abilities, and SES. This year's self reporting list has started here: http://wilsonhs.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=127999&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=566585 |
Anonymous
Interesting to know that the mean SAT for the subset of students who also took SAT subject tests is 1953. |
Anonymous
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Another thing to keep in mind is that the upper-middle class Wilson grads often don't attend the "best" college they get in to because they don't get aide at the top schools but get substantial scholarships at tier 2 schools.
I can think of at least six 2016 grads from my neighborhood (AU Park) who were admitted to places like Swarthmore or Cornell but attended lower tier schools because the price difference was huge. Their parents make too much for need based aid at the top schools and those schools don't offer any merit aid. Lower tier schools offer substantial merit aide. |
Anonymous
| Below average juvenile derelicts |
Anonymous
| The average student spans a wide range but most are just typical HS students who will go on to anything ranging from UDC CC to solid state schools like Wisconsin and UMD. There is fierce competition between the top 10% of the students but they are in their own micro world. |
Anonymous
520 kids in 9th? Wow. How many in the 8th grade feeders? |
Anonymous
Deal has about 500 on 8th grade. So I assume one. |