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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We put four kids all the way through APS, two at HB and two at their neighborhood high school.  Our youngest graduated nearly a decade ago.  Irate parents made the same arguments that you all are making now -- it's not fair, they need to expand, blah blah blah.  Nothing ever changes.  The fact is, all of our kids got good educations, went to good colleges, and turned out fine.  I guarantee that, a decade from now, you are all going to laugh about how much time you wasted worrying about such trivial -- and, I have to say, snowflake -- stuff.  Take a deep breath . . .   [/quote]

There will be over 3,000 kids at W-L.  Much different now.  The competition to get into a top State school from there —UVA, etc, incredibly hard with quotas by the iniversities and competition within. [b] I heard kids have to do the IB program for top schools or they won’t even look at them.  Many were completely stressed out by it.[/b][/quote]

See, you're just plain wrong and demonstrably so.  According the SCHEV, when our youngest graduated from her Arlington high school nine years ago 43.4 percent of Arlington applicants to UVA and 42 percent of Arlington applicants to William and Mary were admitted.  Average SAT scores of in state enrolled students were 1317 at UVA back then and 1324 at W&M.

Five years earlier than that, average SAT scores in state at UVA was 1315 and at W&M was 1331.

Last year 37.8 percent of Arlington applicants got into UVA and 53.6 percent of Arlington applicants got into W&M, with SATs in state averaging 1337 at UVA and 1329 at W&M.

The bottom line:  SAT scores for in state students at W&M are actually lower now than they were 15 years ago, and at UVA they're only 20 points higher.  And while the admissions rate for Arlington applicants has dropped over the years for UVA, it hasn't dropped for W&M.  My hunch is that a big reason for the drop in admissions rate at UVA is because kids are applying to more schools than they did 10 or 15 years ago, and including more reach schools.  The quality of admitted students hasn't changed very much though.  [/quote]

Not true. Students that do all AP classes at W-L have also been accepted into top schools, even Ivy League, all within the past few years. As long as the student is deliberate in course selection--all AP or IB--that's fine. There's no need to do the full IB Diploma just to get into a good school. Also, the percentage of students getting into good schools has stayed the same, even as the school population has increased over the past 30 years. That will not change as the school population continues to fluctuate. [/quote]

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