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[quote=Anonymous]Quota is a bad word that no one likes to use but of course there are absolutely, roughly speaking, percentages of students accepted each year from different schools.

These percentages can change over time and sometimes there might be an outlier year here or there or a year when there is a dip. You'll see a lot more of these outlier years at private schools where the numbers are a lot smaller and where the college counselors work hard to help present each individual student.

But if you are at FCPS, for example, and go on to Naviance you can absolutely see how students with your GPA and SAT scores stand.  And all the implications of what I have just written are absolutely true: a kid with a 4.2 at TJ will be judged against his peers as will the kid with the 4.2 at McLean HS as will the kid at Justic HS. So the likelihood of getting into UVA with a 4.2 and 1450 is pretty much nil at McLean but likely at other FCPS schools.

All that said, OP needs to understand that you can't tell from Naviance what majors/colleges students are applying to. Virginia Tech is a great example. LOTS of kids get into Virginia Tech from FCPS, so it  looks like a not very difficult admit. But, in fact, top students are turned away from engineering, for example, while mid-level students get into the College of Arts and Sciences.[/quote]

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