DCI college acceptances
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Anonymous
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Congrats to all the DCI grads! Well done.
- parent of kids not at DCI or a feeder |
Anonymous
No kids at DCI but just look at their waitlist data. If majority of kids don’t stay, then there should be lots of available seats in 9th and easy to get into the high school. That’s not the case. |
Anonymous
And a couple at Cornell and I have heard of several waitlisted at other Ivys. |
Anonymous
(which is pretty impressive for a class of 100 or so kids, all of whom were accepted into DCI or its feeders by lottery). |
Anonymous
I agree. Above is an important point in that DCI can’t self select like neighborhood schools or private schools. It’s random thru the lottery and they take kids from all over the city. So if many of the kids are doing well enough in the program to get into good schools, that’s an accomplishment. But I think most remarkable is the 10 million in scholarship money. Now one student could have gotten scholarship money from multiple schools in that total. But still, it’s impressive for a class of just 100 students. |
Anonymous
| The above may be true, but I think it is well documented that families who can navigate a lottery system and support bilingual learning are not representative of the city as a whole. |
Anonymous
| Colby College acceptance. Good SLAC. |
Anonymous
Bilingual learning is a niche area in education in this country. It is not meant to represent the majority. Bilingual and a good IB diploma program in FCPS isn’t representative of NoVA and in MCPS isn’t representative of Montgomery county either. In fact, show me a bilingual and IB diploma program that is representative of any major school district in this country. Now if you look at Europe where the majority of its citizens are bilingual or multilingual, that’s another story. Also around 75% of the kids in this city aren’t even on grade level with basic ELA and math. I would never put my child in an immersion or bilingual program if he was struggling in basic English stuff. Just common sense. BTW, data in the city shows that the ward with the highest percentage of kids going to charters and OOB DCPS schools are from ward 7 and 8 so lots of families from all wards navigating and playing the lottery but especially 7 and 8. If you don’t want a specialty track, go with the traditional middle/high school track option. Just because the majority of kids in the city are not bilingual and going for an IB diploma doesn’t diminish the fact that it’s accessible to all in the city thru the lottery. It also doesn’t diminish the accomplishments of the current graduating kids at DCI. |
Anonymous
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Kudos to the IB education! Two seniors that I know of have been accepted at prestigious universities in Canada and England!
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Anonymous
It is a lottery to get into the school. Maybe they should increase the size of the school so more have the opportunity to attend? |
Anonymous
| How many kids are competing the IB diploma? |
Anonymous
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Lobby the District to help make space available to high-performing charters instead of selling out to developers or keeping huge buildings open that are completely underutilized like Roosevelt (hello, how much was that renovation again?) and Coolidge.
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Anonymous
It was 21 last year. |
Anonymous
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Actually, it’s complicated. There are students who are in the CP and students in the DP. completing the DP does not mean you earn the IB diploma. For that you have to also pass a certain number of IB assessments on top of passing the class. And they couldn’t administer the tests last year or this year so they had to earn IB credits on internal assessments which the kids didn’t know either year were the “tests that counted”. All DCI graduates last year DID earn the Seal of Biliteracy” on their diplomas though, which is amazing!
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Anonymous
| Are the IB exam scores published? Do the students do well? |