APS College Admits 2026

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Anonymous wrote:No one has all the data at this point, are you basing your thoughts on what's been posted on Instagram?

What data are you expecting. They don’t publish matriculations, so Instagram is all we will likely get.

Arlington magazine post data available from each school, but it won’t be until over the summer. Of course it is self reported information but better than what you’re getting from Instagram.

No, it posts ACCEPTANCE data. It does not post matriculation data. Why? Because APS doesn’t track matriculation data. They have 55 people doing curriculum review and calendar revisions and DEI and feeding the community and not a single person tracks college outcomes. So Arlington magazine has no way to track this. No one has a freaking clue whether there are more or less matriculations to UVA this year (well, except UVA). You will absolutely see the acceptance data and that’s hovered at 10% of the class for W&L and YHS for years.

I think that is correct that Arlington Magazine reports acceptance data, not matriculation. Therefore, whether you see 2 ivy admits at one school, or 10 at another, it could theoretically be 1-2 students at each of the schools. the instagrams are actually more telling imo - something that shows matriculation.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has all the data at this point, are you basing your thoughts on what's been posted on Instagram?

What data are you expecting. They don’t publish matriculations, so Instagram is all we will likely get.

Arlington magazine post data available from each school, but it won’t be until over the summer. Of course it is self reported information but better than what you’re getting from Instagram.

No, it posts ACCEPTANCE data. It does not post matriculation data. Why? Because APS doesn’t track matriculation data. They have 55 people doing curriculum review and calendar revisions and DEI and feeding the community and not a single person tracks college outcomes. So Arlington magazine has no way to track this. No one has a freaking clue whether there are more or less matriculations to UVA this year (well, except UVA). You will absolutely see the acceptance data and that’s hovered at 10% of the class for W&L and YHS for years.

You're a flaming weirdo. What's the school system gonna do, put guns to the graduates' heads? They can't force graduates to share where they matriculated. Besides, it's acceptances that count.

Who said anything about force? What are you talking about? No one in APS even asks. They don’t follow up. You know why? APS doesn’t care. Not interested a lick.

Sure, I agree acceptances count. EXCEPT, you have zero insight into what those acceptances mean when kid 1 is a superstar and gets into Harvard and Northwestern and Cornell and UVA and Michigan. Is it one kid with five acceptances or five kids with five high end results? The data becomes pretty meaningless without matriculation.

My son graduated from WL a few years ago and the main ask about where he was going was in some communications about the senior end of year stuff. The kids' college destinations were printed in the senior newspaper - only distributed in print to seniors. It had far more destination info than the Instagram. DS and his friends didn't share on the Instagram decisions but did for the paper. I know they did the same paper the next year so I assume it's a standard thing.

So, they have the data, they just choose to not share it.

My W&L counselor said they don’t have the data and don’t keep it or track it or use it. Glad your seniors got a paper.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has all the data at this point, are you basing your thoughts on what's been posted on Instagram?

What data are you expecting. They don’t publish matriculations, so Instagram is all we will likely get.

Arlington magazine post data available from each school, but it won’t be until over the summer. Of course it is self reported information but better than what you’re getting from Instagram.

No, it posts ACCEPTANCE data. It does not post matriculation data. Why? Because APS doesn’t track matriculation data. They have 55 people doing curriculum review and calendar revisions and DEI and feeding the community and not a single person tracks college outcomes. So Arlington magazine has no way to track this. No one has a freaking clue whether there are more or less matriculations to UVA this year (well, except UVA). You will absolutely see the acceptance data and that’s hovered at 10% of the class for W&L and YHS for years.

You're a flaming weirdo. What's the school system gonna do, put guns to the graduates' heads? They can't force graduates to share where they matriculated. Besides, it's acceptances that count.

Who said anything about force? What are you talking about? No one in APS even asks. They don’t follow up. You know why? APS doesn’t care. Not interested a lick.

Sure, I agree acceptances count. EXCEPT, you have zero insight into what those acceptances mean when kid 1 is a superstar and gets into Harvard and Northwestern and Cornell and UVA and Michigan. Is it one kid with five acceptances or five kids with five high end results? The data becomes pretty meaningless without matriculation.

My son graduated from WL a few years ago and the main ask about where he was going was in some communications about the senior end of year stuff. The kids' college destinations were printed in the senior newspaper - only distributed in print to seniors. It had far more destination info than the Instagram. DS and his friends didn't share on the Instagram decisions but did for the paper. I know they did the same paper the next year so I assume it's a standard thing.

So, they have the data, they just choose to not share it.

My W&L counselor said they don’t have the data and don’t keep it or track it or use it. Glad your seniors got a paper.

That's strange, it seems they definitely would have the data, since it's all electronic now and the counselors are involved.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has all the data at this point, are you basing your thoughts on what's been posted on Instagram?

What data are you expecting. They don’t publish matriculations, so Instagram is all we will likely get.

Arlington magazine post data available from each school, but it won’t be until over the summer. Of course it is self reported information but better than what you’re getting from Instagram.

No, it posts ACCEPTANCE data. It does not post matriculation data. Why? Because APS doesn’t track matriculation data. They have 55 people doing curriculum review and calendar revisions and DEI and feeding the community and not a single person tracks college outcomes. So Arlington magazine has no way to track this. No one has a freaking clue whether there are more or less matriculations to UVA this year (well, except UVA). You will absolutely see the acceptance data and that’s hovered at 10% of the class for W&L and YHS for years.

You're a flaming weirdo. What's the school system gonna do, put guns to the graduates' heads? They can't force graduates to share where they matriculated. Besides, it's acceptances that count.

Who said anything about force? What are you talking about? No one in APS even asks. They don’t follow up. You know why? APS doesn’t care. Not interested a lick.

Sure, I agree acceptances count. EXCEPT, you have zero insight into what those acceptances mean when kid 1 is a superstar and gets into Harvard and Northwestern and Cornell and UVA and Michigan. Is it one kid with five acceptances or five kids with five high end results? The data becomes pretty meaningless without matriculation.

My son graduated from WL a few years ago and the main ask about where he was going was in some communications about the senior end of year stuff. The kids' college destinations were printed in the senior newspaper - only distributed in print to seniors. It had far more destination info than the Instagram. DS and his friends didn't share on the Instagram decisions but did for the paper. I know they did the same paper the next year so I assume it's a standard thing.

So, they have the data, they just choose to not share it.

My W&L counselor said they don’t have the data and don’t keep it or track it or use it. Glad your seniors got a paper.

That's strange, it seems they definitely would have the data, since it's all electronic now and the counselors are involved.

NP, and my DC's W-L counselor is awful. Just awful. So I wouldn't expect them to know or share if they did know.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has all the data at this point, are you basing your thoughts on what's been posted on Instagram?

What data are you expecting. They don’t publish matriculations, so Instagram is all we will likely get.

Arlington magazine post data available from each school, but it won’t be until over the summer. Of course it is self reported information but better than what you’re getting from Instagram.

No, it posts ACCEPTANCE data. It does not post matriculation data. Why? Because APS doesn’t track matriculation data. They have 55 people doing curriculum review and calendar revisions and DEI and feeding the community and not a single person tracks college outcomes. So Arlington magazine has no way to track this. No one has a freaking clue whether there are more or less matriculations to UVA this year (well, except UVA). You will absolutely see the acceptance data and that’s hovered at 10% of the class for W&L and YHS for years.

You're a flaming weirdo. What's the school system gonna do, put guns to the graduates' heads? They can't force graduates to share where they matriculated. Besides, it's acceptances that count.

Who said anything about force? What are you talking about? No one in APS even asks. They don’t follow up. You know why? APS doesn’t care. Not interested a lick.

Sure, I agree acceptances count. EXCEPT, you have zero insight into what those acceptances mean when kid 1 is a superstar and gets into Harvard and Northwestern and Cornell and UVA and Michigan. Is it one kid with five acceptances or five kids with five high end results? The data becomes pretty meaningless without matriculation.

My son graduated from WL a few years ago and the main ask about where he was going was in some communications about the senior end of year stuff. The kids' college destinations were printed in the senior newspaper - only distributed in print to seniors. It had far more destination info than the Instagram. DS and his friends didn't share on the Instagram decisions but did for the paper. I know they did the same paper the next year so I assume it's a standard thing.

So, they have the data, they just choose to not share it.

My W&L counselor said they don’t have the data and don’t keep it or track it or use it. Glad your seniors got a paper.

That's strange, it seems they definitely would have the data, since it's all electronic now and the counselors are involved.

NP, and my DC's W-L counselor is awful. Just awful. So I wouldn't expect them to know or share if they did know.

The paper comes with the yearbook at the end of the school year

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has all the data at this point, are you basing your thoughts on what's been posted on Instagram?

What data are you expecting. They don’t publish matriculations, so Instagram is all we will likely get.

Arlington magazine post data available from each school, but it won’t be until over the summer. Of course it is self reported information but better than what you’re getting from Instagram.

No, it posts ACCEPTANCE data. It does not post matriculation data. Why? Because APS doesn’t track matriculation data. They have 55 people doing curriculum review and calendar revisions and DEI and feeding the community and not a single person tracks college outcomes. So Arlington magazine has no way to track this. No one has a freaking clue whether there are more or less matriculations to UVA this year (well, except UVA). You will absolutely see the acceptance data and that’s hovered at 10% of the class for W&L and YHS for years.

You're a flaming weirdo. What's the school system gonna do, put guns to the graduates' heads? They can't force graduates to share where they matriculated. Besides, it's acceptances that count.

Who said anything about force? What are you talking about? No one in APS even asks. They don’t follow up. You know why? APS doesn’t care. Not interested a lick.

Sure, I agree acceptances count. EXCEPT, you have zero insight into what those acceptances mean when kid 1 is a superstar and gets into Harvard and Northwestern and Cornell and UVA and Michigan. Is it one kid with five acceptances or five kids with five high end results? The data becomes pretty meaningless without matriculation.

My son graduated from WL a few years ago and the main ask about where he was going was in some communications about the senior end of year stuff. The kids' college destinations were printed in the senior newspaper - only distributed in print to seniors. It had far more destination info than the Instagram. DS and his friends didn't share on the Instagram decisions but did for the paper. I know they did the same paper the next year so I assume it's a standard thing.

So, they have the data, they just choose to not share it.

I wonder why they choose not to share it LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one has all the data at this point, are you basing your thoughts on what's been posted on Instagram?

What data are you expecting. They don’t publish matriculations, so Instagram is all we will likely get.

Arlington magazine post data available from each school, but it won’t be until over the summer. Of course it is self reported information but better than what you’re getting from Instagram.

No, it posts ACCEPTANCE data. It does not post matriculation data. Why? Because APS doesn’t track matriculation data. They have 55 people doing curriculum review and calendar revisions and DEI and feeding the community and not a single person tracks college outcomes. So Arlington magazine has no way to track this. No one has a freaking clue whether there are more or less matriculations to UVA this year (well, except UVA). You will absolutely see the acceptance data and that’s hovered at 10% of the class for W&L and YHS for years.

You're a flaming weirdo. What's the school system gonna do, put guns to the graduates' heads? They can't force graduates to share where they matriculated. Besides, it's acceptances that count.

Who said anything about force? What are you talking about? No one in APS even asks. They don’t follow up. You know why? APS doesn’t care. Not interested a lick.

Sure, I agree acceptances count. EXCEPT, you have zero insight into what those acceptances mean when kid 1 is a superstar and gets into Harvard and Northwestern and Cornell and UVA and Michigan. Is it one kid with five acceptances or five kids with five high end results? The data becomes pretty meaningless without matriculation.

My son graduated from WL a few years ago and the main ask about where he was going was in some communications about the senior end of year stuff. The kids' college destinations were printed in the senior newspaper - only distributed in print to seniors. It had far more destination info than the Instagram. DS and his friends didn't share on the Instagram decisions but did for the paper. I know they did the same paper the next year so I assume it's a standard thing.

So, they have the data, they just choose to not share it.

I wonder why they choose not to share it LOL

what are you talking about? as others have said, they did share it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has all the data at this point, are you basing your thoughts on what's been posted on Instagram?

What data are you expecting. They don’t publish matriculations, so Instagram is all we will likely get.

Arlington magazine post data available from each school, but it won’t be until over the summer. Of course it is self reported information but better than what you’re getting from Instagram.

No, it posts ACCEPTANCE data. It does not post matriculation data. Why? Because APS doesn’t track matriculation data. They have 55 people doing curriculum review and calendar revisions and DEI and feeding the community and not a single person tracks college outcomes. So Arlington magazine has no way to track this. No one has a freaking clue whether there are more or less matriculations to UVA this year (well, except UVA). You will absolutely see the acceptance data and that’s hovered at 10% of the class for W&L and YHS for years.

You're a flaming weirdo. What's the school system gonna do, put guns to the graduates' heads? They can't force graduates to share where they matriculated. Besides, it's acceptances that count.

Who said anything about force? What are you talking about? No one in APS even asks. They don’t follow up. You know why? APS doesn’t care. Not interested a lick.

Sure, I agree acceptances count. EXCEPT, you have zero insight into what those acceptances mean when kid 1 is a superstar and gets into Harvard and Northwestern and Cornell and UVA and Michigan. Is it one kid with five acceptances or five kids with five high end results? The data becomes pretty meaningless without matriculation.

My son graduated from WL a few years ago and the main ask about where he was going was in some communications about the senior end of year stuff. The kids' college destinations were printed in the senior newspaper - only distributed in print to seniors. It had far more destination info than the Instagram. DS and his friends didn't share on the Instagram decisions but did for the paper. I know they did the same paper the next year so I assume it's a standard thing.

So, they have the data, they just choose to not share it.

I wonder why they choose not to share it LOL

what are you talking about? as others have said, they did share it

Who’s “they?” The “they” I ask is my kids counselor and “they” — the person tasked with guiding my child through this process — have no ability to say where kids go from W&L. “They” direct us only to the acceptance data, which they do track. “They” don’t have any matriculation data and thus cannot share it.

[Anonymous]

I agree that the APS results this year look solid and better than in years past. For the ivy admits, are they generally hooked students (recruited athletes, legacy, etc.), or are there unhooked but otherwise strong students being admitted as well?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that the APS results this year look solid and better than in years past. For the ivy admits, are they generally hooked students (recruited athletes, legacy, etc.), or are there unhooked but otherwise strong students being admitted as well?

The ivy league admits appear to be mostly merit and/or legacy based.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that the APS results this year look solid and better than in years past. For the ivy admits, are they generally hooked students (recruited athletes, legacy, etc.), or are there unhooked but otherwise strong students being admitted as well?

The ivy league admits appear to be mostly merit and/or legacy based.

and how do you know the ins and outs of the ivy admits at all of the APS high schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that the APS results this year look solid and better than in years past. For the ivy admits, are they generally hooked students (recruited athletes, legacy, etc.), or are there unhooked but otherwise strong students being admitted as well?

The ivy league admits appear to be mostly merit and/or legacy based.

and how do you know the ins and outs of the ivy admits at all of the APS high schools?

The instagram posts typically state "rowing" or another sport if recruited. The more accurate list is in the end-of-year special edition of the student newspaper handed to seniors and their families. No one knows the extract ratio of legacies to merit-based admissions. That confidential info is part of the application itself.

[Anonymous]

Exactly you don’t know