Wilson College Acceptances

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Tufts

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i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

DCPS' top public school students are distributed across SWW, Banneker and Wilson. There are also strong DC students at private and charter schools. You really can't compare DC students results to your small town high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

Where on earth did you get this impression?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

Where on earth did you get this impression?

housing tends to be a little pricey around wilson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

Where on earth did you get this impression?

housing tends to be a little pricey around wilson

Housing is pricey near Eastern and Dunbar too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

Where on earth did you get this impression?

housing tends to be a little pricey around wilson

Housing is pricey near Eastern and Dunbar too.

true, though not nearly as much. also, unlike with wilson, there are non-school reasons to want to live in the areas near eastern and dunbar.

[Anonymous]

It’s your best option in DC. Amazing??? That’s really pushing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

College admissions in 2018 are NOTHING like they were 20 years ago. Are you living under a rock? None of us who got into the Ivies then would get in now. The acceptance rates are a small fraction of what they were.
It's gotten even more insane in the past 5 or even 2 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

College admissions in 2018 are NOTHING like they were 20 years ago. Are you living under a rock? None of us who got into the Ivies then would get in now. The acceptance rates are a small fraction of what they were.
It's gotten even more insane in the past 5 or even 2 years.

i thought that was mostly a myth, in part because the number of high school kids has been shrinking, but i must admit i have not paid much attention to college acceptance rates since i was 18 years old. my only point was that i would have thought a much-desired school like wilson, in a wealthy neighborhood of a big city filled with type-a personalities, would have a more impressive list of college acceptances than what's been listed here so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

Where on earth did you get this impression?

Well, someone HERE told me I didn't value my child's education if I didn't get her into a Wilson feeder. So.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools. i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water.

College admissions in 2018 are NOTHING like they were 20 years ago. Are you living under a rock? None of us who got into the Ivies then would get in now. The acceptance rates are a small fraction of what they were.
It's gotten even more insane in the past 5 or even 2 years.

i thought that was mostly a myth, in part because the number of high school kids has been shrinking, but i must admit i have not paid much attention to college acceptance rates since i was 18 years old. my only point was that i would have thought a much-desired school like wilson, in a wealthy neighborhood of a big city filled with type-a personalities, would have a more impressive list of college acceptances than what's been listed here so far.

what's more impressive than HYP? All have been listed...I guess there's no Caltech....

[Anonymous]

If every child who lives IB for Wilson attended Wilson the list might look a bit different.

But the “truly wealthy Type A” families have kids at Sidwell, St. Albans, Holton, GDS, Potomac and Walls in addition to Wilson. Ward 3 overall will be represented well at Harvard and the rest of the Top 20 schools next fall.

[Anonymous]

I think in rhis area, most of the Caltech tyoes are at TJ and Blair, though. No DC public or private is great with sciences

[Anonymous]

Caltech acceptance rate for last year was about 7% so no surprise there.

Wilson is a good school. It's funny how much it's being vilified by charter school advocates. We are in boundary and did not consider it because of the terrible things we were told. And please do not believe those who say that anyone who does homework gets an "A" . Maybe in general music or health classes but believe me, there was a Physics class where the teacher only gave one "A", 2 "B+", a few "C"S and "D"s and failed the rest.