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Anonymous wrote:What are the stats for Fairfax High?

And James Madison in Vienna

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Anonymous wrote:In 2017, HB Woodlawn sent more kids to VCU than to UVA, and sent more kids to JMU than UVA in 2016.

Not even remotely surprising. VCU has the best arts program in the state -- and one of the best in the country -- and HB has a lot of kids with an arts bent.

UVA has never been a big draw for HB grads. Too mainstream for many. Doesn't mean they're not applying or not getting in. For the year you listed, yes, only 4 went -- but 10 got in.

In 2016 almost twice as many HB students applied to UVA as VCU. Try again.

So what? Virtually every top NOVA high school student applies to either UVA or William and Mary or both. The point is, they didn't go. Plus I thought you said 2017, not 2016. And in 2017 28 kids applied to UVA and 26 applied to VCU. That's not double.

So what? More turned down by UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2017, HB Woodlawn sent more kids to VCU than to UVA, and sent more kids to JMU than UVA in 2016.

Not even remotely surprising. VCU has the best arts program in the state -- and one of the best in the country -- and HB has a lot of kids with an arts bent.

UVA has never been a big draw for HB grads. Too mainstream for many. Doesn't mean they're not applying or not getting in. For the year you listed, yes, only 4 went -- but 10 got in.

In 2016 almost twice as many HB students applied to UVA as VCU. Try again.

So what? Virtually every top NOVA high school student applies to either UVA or William and Mary or both. The point is, they didn't go. Plus I thought you said 2017, not 2016. And in 2017 28 kids applied to UVA and 26 applied to VCU. That's not double.

So what? More turned down by UVA.

You're arguing in circles and making no sense. The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ. But, since we're on the subject, the majority of William & Mary applicants (10 of 18) did get in. That's damn impressive, and I'll bet it didn't happen at McLean.

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Don’t be so sure. There are years when Langley and McLean each have more NMSFs than all of APS, including HB Woodlawn.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t be so sure. There are years when Langley and McLean each have more NMSFs than all of APS, including HB Woodlawn.

And more kids in cram schools.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2017, HB Woodlawn sent more kids to VCU than to UVA, and sent more kids to JMU than UVA in 2016.

Not even remotely surprising. VCU has the best arts program in the state -- and one of the best in the country -- and HB has a lot of kids with an arts bent.

UVA has never been a big draw for HB grads. Too mainstream for many. Doesn't mean they're not applying or not getting in. For the year you listed, yes, only 4 went -- but 10 got in.

In 2016 almost twice as many HB students applied to UVA as VCU. Try again.

So what? Virtually every top NOVA high school student applies to either UVA or William and Mary or both. The point is, they didn't go. Plus I thought you said 2017, not 2016. And in 2017 28 kids applied to UVA and 26 applied to VCU. That's not double.

So what? More turned down by UVA.

You're arguing in circles and making no sense. The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ. But, since we're on the subject, the majority of William & Mary applicants (10 of 18) did get in. That's damn impressive, and I'll bet it didn't happen at McLean.

That would seem pretty doubtful. UVA in-state acceptance rate has been low 40s, so it would seem likely some schools are over 50%. Same could be true of OOS schools with few people applying.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2017, HB Woodlawn sent more kids to VCU than to UVA, and sent more kids to JMU than UVA in 2016.

Not even remotely surprising. VCU has the best arts program in the state -- and one of the best in the country -- and HB has a lot of kids with an arts bent.

UVA has never been a big draw for HB grads. Too mainstream for many. Doesn't mean they're not applying or not getting in. For the year you listed, yes, only 4 went -- but 10 got in.

In 2016 almost twice as many HB students applied to UVA as VCU. Try again.

So what? Virtually every top NOVA high school student applies to either UVA or William and Mary or both. The point is, they didn't go. Plus I thought you said 2017, not 2016. And in 2017 28 kids applied to UVA and 26 applied to VCU. That's not double.

So what? More turned down by UVA.

You're arguing in circles and making no sense. The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ. But, since we're on the subject, the majority of William & Mary applicants (10 of 18) did get in. That's damn impressive, and I'll bet it didn't happen at McLean.

That would seem pretty doubtful. UVA in-state acceptance rate has been low 40s, so it would seem likely some schools are over 50%. Same could be true of OOS schools with few people applying.

You can't look at acceptance rates of the big in-state schools and compare them to privates. It's apples an oranges. The public high schools self-select as do the students themselves with the result being that only the students in the top ten percent or so of the class (with exception of TJ) apply to UVA. Their college counselors know they won't get in so steer them elsewhere. The college counselors also have their own letter of recommendation to send into UVA so it is not in the student's best interests to apply if the college counselor knows they don't fit their school's Naviance profile for UVA. This is the same for UCLA and Berkeley.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2017, HB Woodlawn sent more kids to VCU than to UVA, and sent more kids to JMU than UVA in 2016.

Not even remotely surprising. VCU has the best arts program in the state -- and one of the best in the country -- and HB has a lot of kids with an arts bent.

UVA has never been a big draw for HB grads. Too mainstream for many. Doesn't mean they're not applying or not getting in. For the year you listed, yes, only 4 went -- but 10 got in.

In 2016 almost twice as many HB students applied to UVA as VCU. Try again.

So what? Virtually every top NOVA high school student applies to either UVA or William and Mary or both. The point is, they didn't go. Plus I thought you said 2017, not 2016. And in 2017 28 kids applied to UVA and 26 applied to VCU. That's not double.

So what? More turned down by UVA.

You're arguing in circles and making no sense. The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ. But, since we're on the subject, the majority of William & Mary applicants (10 of 18) did get in. That's damn impressive, and I'll bet it didn't happen at McLean.

That would seem pretty doubtful. UVA in-state acceptance rate has been low 40s, so it would seem likely some schools are over 50%. Same could be true of OOS schools with few people applying.

It has dropped to 25.6% and, yes, the applicants self-select so you can't compare to private SLACs or other private universities. EAch state system is unique. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds

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Anonymous wrote:In 2017, HB Woodlawn sent more kids to VCU than to UVA, and sent more kids to JMU than UVA in 2016.

Not even remotely surprising. VCU has the best arts program in the state -- and one of the best in the country -- and HB has a lot of kids with an arts bent.

UVA has never been a big draw for HB grads. Too mainstream for many. Doesn't mean they're not applying or not getting in. For the year you listed, yes, only 4 went -- but 10 got in.

In 2016 almost twice as many HB students applied to UVA as VCU. Try again.

So what? Virtually every top NOVA high school student applies to either UVA or William and Mary or both. The point is, they didn't go. Plus I thought you said 2017, not 2016. And in 2017 28 kids applied to UVA and 26 applied to VCU. That's not double.

So what? More turned down by UVA.

You're arguing in circles and making no sense. The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ. But, since we're on the subject, the majority of William & Mary applicants (10 of 18) did get in. That's damn impressive, and I'll bet it didn't happen at McLean.

That would seem pretty doubtful. UVA in-state acceptance rate has been low 40s, so it would seem likely some schools are over 50%. Same could be true of OOS schools with few people applying.

It has dropped to 25.6% and, yes, the applicants self-select so you can't compare to private SLACs or other private universities. EAch state system is unique. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds

Geez. That is incorrect. (And it is easy to see that it is incorrect). You may be looking at overall, not in-state, which is what was claimed. Look at SCHEV Data. UVA in-state acceptance rate last year (the most recent with complete data) was 44.3%.

If you look further on SCHEV you can see that the acceptance rate is given by county. The second county I clicked on, Clarke County, had a UVA acceptance rate of 64.3% (9 of 14). There goes the argument that "The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ". There is only one public high school in Clarke County, by the way.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2017, HB Woodlawn sent more kids to VCU than to UVA, and sent more kids to JMU than UVA in 2016.

Not even remotely surprising. VCU has the best arts program in the state -- and one of the best in the country -- and HB has a lot of kids with an arts bent.

UVA has never been a big draw for HB grads. Too mainstream for many. Doesn't mean they're not applying or not getting in. For the year you listed, yes, only 4 went -- but 10 got in.

In 2016 almost twice as many HB students applied to UVA as VCU. Try again.

So what? Virtually every top NOVA high school student applies to either UVA or William and Mary or both. The point is, they didn't go. Plus I thought you said 2017, not 2016. And in 2017 28 kids applied to UVA and 26 applied to VCU. That's not double.

So what? More turned down by UVA.

You're arguing in circles and making no sense. The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ. But, since we're on the subject, the majority of William & Mary applicants (10 of 18) did get in. That's damn impressive, and I'll bet it didn't happen at McLean.

That would seem pretty doubtful. UVA in-state acceptance rate has been low 40s, so it would seem likely some schools are over 50%. Same could be true of OOS schools with few people applying.

It has dropped to 25.6% and, yes, the applicants self-select so you can't compare to private SLACs or other private universities. EAch state system is unique. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds

Geez. That is incorrect. (And it is easy to see that it is incorrect). You may be looking at overall, not in-state, which is what was claimed. Look at SCHEV Data. UVA in-state acceptance rate last year (the most recent with complete data) was 44.3%.

If you look further on SCHEV you can see that the acceptance rate is given by county. The second county I clicked on, Clarke County, had a UVA acceptance rate of 64.3% (9 of 14). There goes the argument that "The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ". There is only one public high school in Clarke County, by the way.

DP. Oh FFS. You are absolutely correct PP. College on finding the one public high school in VA with college results as good as TJ— Clarke County HS. 84% white, only 14% FARMs, 98% HS grad rate (which can’t be right ???), and still only GS 6.

Any ROVA pool is going to have much lower admission standards. And a small number of applicants is going to lead to outliers. You know what OP meant. I guess the HS that has three kids apply and 2 get in is even more impressive?

Let’s try this— the only good public high school in the country eating more than 50% in is TJ. And most years TJ is around 2/3 of applicants admitted. .

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Ugghhh. Congrats on finding. And getting more than 50% in. Clearly my bedtime.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2017, HB Woodlawn sent more kids to VCU than to UVA, and sent more kids to JMU than UVA in 2016.

Not even remotely surprising. VCU has the best arts program in the state -- and one of the best in the country -- and HB has a lot of kids with an arts bent.

UVA has never been a big draw for HB grads. Too mainstream for many. Doesn't mean they're not applying or not getting in. For the year you listed, yes, only 4 went -- but 10 got in.

In 2016 almost twice as many HB students applied to UVA as VCU. Try again.

So what? Virtually every top NOVA high school student applies to either UVA or William and Mary or both. The point is, they didn't go. Plus I thought you said 2017, not 2016. And in 2017 28 kids applied to UVA and 26 applied to VCU. That's not double.

So what? More turned down by UVA.

You're arguing in circles and making no sense. The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ. But, since we're on the subject, the majority of William & Mary applicants (10 of 18) did get in. That's damn impressive, and I'll bet it didn't happen at McLean.

That would seem pretty doubtful. UVA in-state acceptance rate has been low 40s, so it would seem likely some schools are over 50%. Same could be true of OOS schools with few people applying.

It has dropped to 25.6% and, yes, the applicants self-select so you can't compare to private SLACs or other private universities. EAch state system is unique. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds

Geez. That is incorrect. (And it is easy to see that it is incorrect). You may be looking at overall, not in-state, which is what was claimed. Look at SCHEV Data. UVA in-state acceptance rate last year (the most recent with complete data) was 44.3%.

If you look further on SCHEV you can see that the acceptance rate is given by county. The second county I clicked on, Clarke County, had a UVA acceptance rate of 64.3% (9 of 14). There goes the argument that "The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ". There is only one public high school in Clarke County, by the way.

DP. Oh FFS. You are absolutely correct PP. College on finding the one public high school in VA with college results as good as TJ— Clarke County HS. 84% white, only 14% FARMs, 98% HS grad rate (which can’t be right ???), and still only GS 6.

Any ROVA pool is going to have much lower admission standards. And a small number of applicants is going to lead to outliers. You know what OP meant. I guess the HS that has three kids apply and 2 get in is even more impressive?

Let’s try this— the only good public high school in the country eating more than 50% in is TJ. And most years TJ is around 2/3 of applicants admitted. .

OK, based on your response, I'm really sorry that I was correct and actually bothered to do the (obvious) math. Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have questioned President Trump when he said his inaugural was the best attended ever (even though there seemed to be lots of empty space). . .

Would it have really hurt you much to come in and say "yes, the poster you were responding to significantly overstated in-state UVA selectivity (26% claimed vs 44% actual [for 2017]), but I still think TJ is a really good school"?

Oh and by the way, Maggie Walker, another Governor's school located in "ROVA", has historically sent approximately the same percentage of graduates to UVA as TJ. Maggie Walker was named the 11th best public high school in the nation (again, despite the high burden of being in ROVA).

https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/northern-virginia-leads-uva-w-m-admissions/article_0d4c5fcd-505d-5261-bf95-59509fe1192b.html
https://thebestschools.org/rankings/best-public-high-schools-us/

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Anonymous wrote:HB had a good year, with at least one student going to:

Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Northwestern, Duke, and Johns Hopkins in a class of ~80.

I do not believe any HB student is going to Cornell next year. The rest of these are correct (one student to each of those schools, not more than one). The graduating class was around 90 students, not 80.
It was a particularly strong class this year. (That seems to be true at a number of schools.)

I agree that it would be a mistake to consider past years' admission statistics, as accepted student percentages have dropped this year at so many colleges.

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Anyone have similar information about Montgomery county high schools?

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Fairfax High?