Please help me understand: Potomac has only 1 to MIT in 6 years?

[Anonymous]

What trauma - Potomac parents must be so embarrassed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Potomac parent here. Please apply elsewhere. We don't need your nutso personality. Potomac is s special place. Freakshows like you ruin it for everyone.

Yeah, we got enough of that already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Potomac parent here. Please apply elsewhere. We don't need your nutso personality. Potomac is s special place. Freakshows like you ruin it for everyone.

[phone]. Please stay away from Potomac.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:this is a 4 year snapshot of enrollment (not admission):

https://www.potomacschool.org/academics/college-counseling/where-our-students-go-to-college

Op here.

Thank you. From your link, zero was enrolled. I got my data from www.polarislist.com
It seems two sources echo to each other.

From the link above, 1 matriculated.

Most updated data is here (straight from the school): https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1633639751/potomac/ap4tmsd361kuo5zs7pg3/school-profile2021-22.pdf

2 matriculated from 2018-2021

other top schools:
California Institute of Technology
Harvard University (12)
Princeton University (4)
Stanford University (8)
Yale University (3)

Legacy and other hooks play a role, probably not may kids with MIT parents.

MIT doesn't accept legacy admits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:... the probability of any student in the United States getting admitted to MIT in a year is 0.036% (lower if you consider non-us admits). Against that one in about 500 kids across the course of 5 years at Potomac getting admitted, or 0.2 pct. Doesn't look bad at all.

This ignores that the vast majority of students in the USA and the world at large, and frankly at Potomac, would have no business applying or attending MIT. I think OP is correct to question why a school that has an advanced stem program has such bad luck with MIT admissions. Your use of percentages was misleading. You should be comparing highly able stem students in your percentages only, so lets say that there are 3 applicants to MIT each year from potomac, if in 6 years that makes 18 or so applicants total, with only 1 getting in that seems likely, given that the rate of admission to MIT is so slim, and they are inundated with highly able applicants every year and couldn't possibly take all of them. MIT also does not consider legacy in admissions, or seek out wealthy students, so that does not help like it might with other schools and Ivys.
Your child will get a great education at Potomac but MIT admissions will not be a guarantee, even if they would do well there. Same at any other HS. Sorry.