Whitman HS - 2018 Class Destinations

[Anonymous]

Top 5 Destinations for this years graduating class per the Black & White newspaper

UMD - 65
Montgomery College - 20
Gap Year - 13
Michigan - 12
Penn State - 11

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Other MD in-state selections:

Salisbury - 5
St. Mary's of MD - 4
Towson - 3
UMBC - 3
Bowie State - 1

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Ivy League:

Yale - 4
Brown - 2
Columbia - 2
Cornell - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Princeton - 2
Harvard - 1
Penn - 0

Other Top Schools
Stanford - 0
Berkeley - 2
Chicago - 1
UCLA - 3

[Anonymous]

My DC graduated 4 years ago and this looks similar in some ways but UMD continues to go up, largely due to cost. In DCs year there were at least 10-12 who went to Cornell and several to Penn.

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The gap year number is shocking. This is such a bad idea for most students.

[Anonymous]

Can you include numbers for the top SLACs (if there are any)?

[Anonymous]

You only listed 158 kids. That few going to college?

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Anonymous wrote:The gap year number is shocking. This is such a bad idea for most students.

13 of 500 kids is not that many. In my DCs Whitman class 2 of his friends did gap years- they had already been accepted at college - one at Harvard and one at Dartmouth. They are in college now and seem to be doing well. I think most of the gap year kids at Whitman have been accepted at very good colleges already.

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Anonymous wrote:You only listed 158 kids. That few going to college?

Only listed top ones. There are a total of 458 kids who reported (some didn't respond and other asked not to be included in the list).
List includes approximately 180 schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you include numbers for the top SLACs (if there are any)?

Bates 1
College of Wooster 1
Haverford 1
Vassar 1
Washington and Lee 1

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Next most popular schools:

Georgia 8
Indiana 7
Tulane 7
VT 7
Wisconsin 7
Colorado 6
Undecided 6
Georgetown 5
Salisbury 5
South Carolina 5
USC 5
Vermont 5
Elon 4
Miami 4
Miami Ohio 4
NYU 4
Pitt 4
Rochester 4
St. Mary's of MD 4
Syracuse 4
Tufts 4
UVA 4
Yale 4

[Anonymous]

None to Duke? 7 kids went there from the class of 2017. Surprised so few are going to Cornell.

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Anonymous wrote:None to Duke? 7 kids went there from the class of 2017. Surprised so few are going to Cornell.

Duke has 2.

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Anonymous wrote:Next most popular schools:

Georgia 8
Indiana 7
Tulane 7
VT 7
Wisconsin 7
Colorado 6
Undecided 6
Georgetown 5
Salisbury 5
South Carolina 5
USC 5
Vermont 5
Elon 4
Miami 4
Miami Ohio 4
NYU 4
Pitt 4
Rochester 4
St. Mary's of MD 4
Syracuse 4
Tufts 4
UVA 4
Yale 4

Underwhelming list.

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Anonymous wrote:The gap year number is shocking. This is such a bad idea for most students.

13 out of 500 is very low.

There are plenty of reasons to take a gap year. My kid took a gap year because of medical issues that prevented him from going away. The treatment worked and he's heading off in the fall.