College admissions from APS

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How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

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Anonymous wrote:A goodly number of Arlington high schools are in privates and they take up some of the "Arlington" Ivy slots. The top schools don't want too many kids from any one place and if Harvard has a kid from Arlington from St Albans and one from Potomac and one from Sidwell, that's three already. They might only take one more from APS.

Harvard isn't taking 75% of its freshmen class from private schools. You should be looking at TJ and other public schools in NoVa and MoCo as well.

I guarantee that the lions share of ivy admissions FROM THIS AREA, are coming from private schools.

Wrong

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Anonymous wrote:A goodly number of Arlington high schools are in privates and they take up some of the "Arlington" Ivy slots. The top schools don't want too many kids from any one place and if Harvard has a kid from Arlington from St Albans and one from Potomac and one from Sidwell, that's three already. They might only take one more from APS.

Harvard isn't taking 75% of its freshmen class from private schools. You should be looking at TJ and other public schools in NoVa and MoCo as well.

I guarantee that the lions share of ivy admissions FROM THIS AREA, are coming from private schools.

I went to an Ivy in the early 80s and the "lion's share" of students from this area were from NoVa and MoCo. And that was before TJHSST even had graduating classes.

^ from NoVo and MoCo publics.

You're trying to compare college admissions 35 years ago to college admissions today? What rock do you live under?

The one that knows, as an Ivy alum, that the percentage of students coming from private schools has only decreased in recent decades.

Decreased to make room for homeschooled kids (yes) and a profound spike in acceptances by foreign students who pay full freight. But it's not like the % of acceptances from public high schools has increased.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

One (1) - Dartmouth.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

One (1) - Dartmouth.

Not true-- I know of two that went to Duke. Is Duke not an ivy?

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

One (1) - Dartmouth.

Not true-- I know of two that went to Duke. Is Duke not an ivy?

LOL. No.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

Curious why you think this is a relevant measuring stick? In your world, acceptance to an ivy may be a measure of success, but that is hardly a universal ambition.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

One (1) - Dartmouth.

Not true-- I know of two that went to Duke. Is Duke not an ivy?

And a bunch went to U(public ivy)VA!!!

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

Curious why you think this is a relevant measuring stick? In your world, acceptance to an ivy may be a measure of success, but that is hardly a universal ambition.

I'm not PP, but I do think this "Ivy or UVA or bust" mentality is fairly prevalent among families who've stretched to afford homes in the "best" school boundaries, to give their kids a perceived leg up in college admissions, and thus life. It's pretty foolish, but to deny that this sentiment exists, or to minimize it, is just naive.

The most ridiculous thing of all is that it really doesn't matter. MC and UMC kids from this area, whose families can afford single family homes in Arlington, but who don't get into top schools, are still going to do better than pretty much 99% of all kids in the US with very minimal effort. That's the real tragedy: that financial security and success has very little to do with merit, here and across our country.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

Curious why you think this is a relevant measuring stick? In your world, acceptance to an ivy may be a measure of success, but that is hardly a universal ambition.

Why so defensive?

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I think you protest too much. Yorktown once was considered one of the three top public schools in the DC region. For whatever reason, it's not even close to being in that category any longer, and no one really believes families in North Arlington, which has actually gotten wealthier, are indifferent about this.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

One (1) - Dartmouth.

Not true-- I know of two that went to Duke. Is Duke not an ivy?

Duke is a good school but it is DEFINITELY NOT an Ivy! It is clear that APS is not sending nearly as many kids to top colleges as it once did. FCPS isn't either but IMHO the dropoff is not as great even if you exclude TJ.

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I know it's considered a program and not a separate school, but how do H-B college acceptance rates compare to Yorktown, W-L, and Wakefield? Acceptance to top colleges that is.

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I feel like HBW tends to have better college admissions than the others, though W-L is close behind. I wonder if W-L attracts more driven kids since it has the IB program? Yorktown may be full of kids that want to go to a good college but don't care that much if it's not an Ivy. We're in that boat. I want my daughter to go somewhere good, and would obviously be thrilled if it was an Ivy, but would be fine with UVA or JMU or somewhere she can get a good education.

Wakefield's admissions stats aren't bad. I went to what was considered a very good midwestern public HS and probably 3/4 of the kids went to one of the two major state schools or community college. Only a few went anywhere outside the midwest or Texas, and only a couple to Ivies from a class of 454.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids from Yorktown's Class of 2017 ended up at Ivies?

One (1) - Dartmouth.

Ouch. That's lower than TC Williams.