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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I'll take the top 10% of ACHS college placement ANYDAY over the top 10% of any other HS in Arlington. It's not even close.
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If your kid is normal and from a decent family they will crush it at AC. If your kid is damaged and you don't have the funds to deal with it, well, youre screwed everywhere.[/quote]

is this what ACPS parents tell themselves to make you feel better? This is not true at all. Look at the instagram college feeds from APS high schools. Ivies, MIT, top SLACs - how can you do better than that? [/quote]

[b]ACHS grads crush Arlington grads and everyone knows this.[/b]That's the entire point that makes Arlington families so angry, that and their racist tendencies.

Go look at ACHSdecisions26 and try to claim it's worse than any of the WL, Yorktown feeds. Hint- it's not. It's leagues above.

Noe ask yourself why that bothers you so much.[/quote]

Not the PP. They don’t know the bolded because it isn’t true.

Here are the destinations for ACHS class of 25 (page 11): https://alextimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/5.29.25-Layout-C.pdf

Here is the same for Yorktown, though this looks like an incomplete list (there are some people on the Instagram page not included in this list at a quick glance): https://yorktownsentry.com/16953/galleries/the-senior-issue-graduation-2025/

ACHS had 984 total grads. Yorktown had 641. Of the top 20 colleges using USNWR, ACHS had kids going to 7 of them. Yorktown had kids going to 6 of them, despite the class being a third smaller and not even having the full list. ACHS is not “crushing” or being “leagues above” anything. And I say this as an Alexandria parent who really wishes it were true.

The one area it probably excels is as a feeder to UVA, as it is easier to be toward the top at ACHS and UVA seems to limit how many kids they take from each school.
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Tell me you don't work in statistics without telling me you don't work in statistics. Please God don't tell me you work in polling..... or admit that you do and really work in proving bias.

"incomplete list"

"of the top 20 that use USNWR"

Butttttttt, you still want to use the data to claim that APS is better when the data you supplied showed the actual opposite. [i]But there are reasons!!![/i]

Look, lady, IDGAF at this stage in the game (in terms of a pissing match) because TC/AC put my two oldest in top 20 schools and my youngest just got ED to UVA, but if you see some utility in trying to convince me they would have done better at... Wakefield.... keep pissing in the wind.[/quote]

Lol you accuse people of not understanding statistics but you fail to see that the ACHS results are not better when adjusted for size or that the Yorktown list has acceptances missing. You also fail to see that your earlier argument was that ACHS results “crushed” Arlington schools and were “leagues above,” when they actually are worse (again, adjusted for size, which is likely a concept beyond your understanding).

More importantly, you sound completely crazy. OP, this is the fun you get to experience in Alexandria![/quote]

You can't adjust if the data is incomplete, fool. So, you dont know anything about statistics. Thanks for the admission. Now tell us why this bothers you so much that you had to rapid fire respond three times in a row when you were wrong?[/quote]

You can if you know how many kids graduated, fool. The number of kids that graduated is not based on those lists—we know it separately through basic googling. So 6 (at a minimum) of the T20 schools for a class of 641, versus 7 of the T20 for a class of 984. Yorktown’s result is already better on a per capita basis without knowing if there are other schools we haven’t included yet beyond the 6. We can also conclude that a larger share of the top 10% (which was also being debated) goes to top schools at Yorktown than at ACHS. See? Not that hard if you apply even the slightest amount of brain power.

As to your question of why I responded when I was right*, the answer is that there is a pervasive myth in Alexandria that if you can survive ACHS, it offers better college outcomes than other places. The old “Yale or jail” trope. But it’s actually more like UVA/VT or jail. Which is fine. But people shouldn’t be tricked into staying in ACHS just for better college outcomes when there aren’t any.[/quote]

Statistics are exact, fool. They are not to massaged to your conclusion. I have no doubt you know this but your odd anger is preventing you from playing by the rules so I call it out this last time. Two of my three kids got into T20 and the third s at UVA. Find me an APS family that can claim the same or STFU. I'm done being your therapist.[/quote]

One anecdote doesn’t prove your point. And if you think this is hard to find in APS, well that just shows you don’t know anything about APS. My own family is one and there are many more. Look, a truly talented kid can do well from anywhere including ACPS. And I wonder if it’s easier for a high stats kid to get into UVA from ACPS because there’s less competition within the school for these slots. But that does not speak well of the school itself.

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