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Reply to "Yorktown HS (APS) compared to Wilson High School (DCPS)"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I graduated from Yorktown many years ago (early 2000s), we always had a slew of Ivy League/Ivy equivalent (Stanford/MIT/Duke/Chicago) admissions. What has happened? I just moved back to North Arlington. Has Yorktown gone downhill? [/quote] Yes, primarily for two reasons: (1) APS incentivizes kids to pupil place to W-L for IB, but allows W-L to offer both AP and IB so there aren't many reciprocal pupil placements from W-L to Yorktown; and (2) the AAP program in FCPS attracts more Asian families with high-achieving kids to FCPS than APS. White parents in APS respond by calling the nearby schools in FCPS "pressure cookers," but the days when Walt Whitman, Langley and Yorktown were considered the top three public high schools in the DC area are gone. [/quote]
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