Whitman HS - 2018 Class Destinations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of a poor result considering how much parents invest in the real estate to live in that school district and all the money spent on enrichment and extracurricular activities. What a waste of money.

Don't feed the troll. Don't do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy League:

Yale - 4
Brown - 2
Columbia - 2
Cornell - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Princeton - 2
Harvard - 1
Penn - 0

Other Top Schools
Stanford - 0
Berkeley - 2
Chicago - 1
UCLA - 3

21 of 500?.

Is top 10% of the class going to Top 25 rated schools still? Or is half the school getting rounded up 4.0s and colleges can’t make heads nor tails of people?

55 kids (roughly 12%) are going to the schools ranked in the top 25 by US News. Last year that number was 61.

Thanks. This is same % as sfs and gds each year but with 130 person class, and a clearer ranking system (gpa rank is more laddered than whatever MCPS is doing giving everyone an A or a B)

[Anonymous]

Benchmark is if you are over under the college’s admit rate.
Colleges rarely go over it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League:

Yale - 4
Brown - 2
Columbia - 2
Cornell - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Princeton - 2
Harvard - 1
Penn - 0

Other Top Schools
Stanford - 0
Berkeley - 2
Chicago - 1
UCLA - 3

21 of 500?.

Is top 10% of the class going to Top 25 rated schools still? Or is half the school getting rounded up 4.0s and colleges can’t make heads nor tails of people?

55 kids (roughly 12%) are going to the schools ranked in the top 25 by US News. Last year that number was 61.

Thanks. This is same % as sfs and gds each year but with 130 person class, and a clearer ranking system (gpa rank is more laddered than whatever MCPS is doing giving everyone an A or a B)

NOT TRUE. Not everyone gets an A or a B.

[Anonymous]

Does Whitman give out A-, B+, etc for class grades and weight them 3.67 and 3.34 respectively?

[Anonymous]

I think DC's SWW has a better placement record.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Whitman give out A-, B+, etc for class grades and weight them 3.67 and 3.34 respectively?

No. Only A,B,C, etc. at Whitman. Honors and AP weighted the same - full point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think DC's SWW has a better placement record.

Cool story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does Whitman give out A-, B+, etc for class grades and weight them 3.67 and 3.34 respectively?

No. Only A,B,C, etc. at Whitman. Honors and AP weighted the same - full point.

Full point for Honors too? Wow. FCPS only gives .5 for Honors, full point for AP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy League:

Yale - 4
Brown - 2
Columbia - 2
Cornell - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Princeton - 2
Harvard - 1
Penn - 0

Other Top Schools
Stanford - 0
Berkeley - 2
Chicago - 1
UCLA - 3

21 of 500?.

Is top 10% of the class going to Top 25 rated schools still? Or is half the school getting rounded up 4.0s and colleges can’t make heads nor tails of people?

55 kids (roughly 12%) are going to the schools ranked in the top 25 by US News. Last year that number was 61.

Thanks. This is same % as sfs and gds each year but with 130 person class, and a clearer ranking system (gpa rank is more laddered than whatever MCPS is doing giving everyone an A or a B)

Did you mean % or number? Are 55 kids going to top 25 schools or 12% of a 130 person class going to a top 25 school? 55 kids would be close to 45% of a class of 130 kids which would be very impressive indeed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League:

Yale - 4
Brown - 2
Columbia - 2
Cornell - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Princeton - 2
Harvard - 1
Penn - 0

Other Top Schools
Stanford - 0
Berkeley - 2
Chicago - 1
UCLA - 3

21 of 500?.

Is top 10% of the class going to Top 25 rated schools still? Or is half the school getting rounded up 4.0s and colleges can’t make heads nor tails of people?

55 kids (roughly 12%) are going to the schools ranked in the top 25 by US News. Last year that number was 61.

Thanks. This is same % as sfs and gds each year but with 130 person class, and a clearer ranking system (gpa rank is more laddered than whatever MCPS is doing giving everyone an A or a B)

Did you mean % or number? Are 55 kids going to top 25 schools or 12% of a 130 person class going to a top 25 school? 55 kids would be close to 45% of a class of 130 kids which would be very impressive indeed.

55 kids out of the graduating class of 458 from Whitman. 12%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League:

Yale - 4
Brown - 2
Columbia - 2
Cornell - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Princeton - 2
Harvard - 1
Penn - 0

Other Top Schools
Stanford - 0
Berkeley - 2
Chicago - 1
UCLA - 3

21 of 500?.

Is top 10% of the class going to Top 25 rated schools still? Or is half the school getting rounded up 4.0s and colleges can’t make heads nor tails of people?

55 kids (roughly 12%) are going to the schools ranked in the top 25 by US News. Last year that number was 61.

Thanks. This is same % as sfs and gds each year but with 130 person class, and a clearer ranking system (gpa rank is more laddered than whatever MCPS is doing giving everyone an A or a B)

Did you mean % or number? Are 55 kids going to top 25 schools or 12% of a 130 person class going to a top 25 school? 55 kids would be close to 45% of a class of 130 kids which would be very impressive indeed.

55 kids out of the graduating class of 458 from Whitman. 12%.

I was actually asking about the SFS and GDS post

[Anonymous]

SFS with approx. 36% of students going to US News top 25 (including all the ties in rankings). STA, NCS, GDS pretty similar I imagine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am from a non-W cluster and I think the list is super impressive. Way to go Whitman seniors!!! Look at all those top schools, wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The gap year number is shocking. This is such a bad idea for most students.

Why do you believe this is a bad idea?