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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are lots of AP classes and kids who do well in them that are bright. I just don’t understand why those same type of students can’t get into the same schools as a Potomac kids if they had the same APs and grades. They don’t have good SAT scores?  What is it?  The college outcomes are just not as good. [/quote]

Potomac will absolutely accept a kid with lower SSAT if the parents went Ivy or have another solid hook over a kid with higher SSAT and no hook.  Potomac is all about the hook.  Ask me how I know.   Low SSAT will often mean lower SAT and during the test optional craze, that was fine.  But that is ebbing and the need for high SAT or AP is surging back.  Potomac’s strategy was successful when schools put emphasis on legacy and even more so during test optional.  So now the legacy from UVA doesn’t matter but the SAT and APs sure do.  So Potomac is absolutely doing some internal deliberations about its 9th grade admissions because it needs to get those kids into college with their low scores.  If they think they can overcome mediocre grades/scores with sports, that helps.  But it is true that recently it’s strategy does result in better college outcomes but not actually admission of just the brightest kids.  This makes the application process to 9th very opaque because the applicant’s grades and tests aren’t the entire picture and often are just a small part.  [/quote]

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