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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Yale part is more true than the jail part.

This is for the class of 2016: http://www.wilsonhs.org/ourpages/auto/2011/4/15/39942607/Wilsonprofile2016-17webreduced.pdf

Mind you, this is where they actually went. Kids get into schools hoping for financial aid packages that may not work out, or they get a full ride to a less prestigious school and take it (smart move).[/quote]

Thanks for including this link (we are IB for Wilson, but with an early elementary kid).  Anyone know the graduation rate at Wilson?[/quote]

Sorry, hit submit too soon.  Also the % who went to a 4-year college?[/quote]
the link has the % to 4 year colleges (68%) but not graduation rate. Although if you look at the enrollment numbers by grade - 398 seniors, 447 juniors, 458 sophomores and 520 freshmen it does seem to indicate there is a large drop off in numbers from freshmen to senior.[/quote]

Actually, that is the size of each class, which shows that enrollment has been increasing steadily each year, not that kids are dropping out. It's not like every class started at 520 and dropped to 398. More kids are staying in DCPS, so each class is increasing in size, which is why they have been adjusting boundaries. Same with Deal MS. Next year the 7th and 6th grades will have 5 teams instead of 4 due to increased enrollment. Same with the elementary feeders, which is why they are building the schools to higher capacities. Each class gets bigger.[/quote]

Each incoming class does get bigger - but as each class progresses there is drop-off over the 4-years. So the incoming freshman class of 520 will definitely have less students when they graduate. The OSSE enrollment numbers bear this out but I don't think that is so unusual for public high schools.

Also important to point out that Wilson families can see where students apply, accept and enroll over the last few years by using Naviance.  The list of colleges is just a small snapshot. So for example for the 2016 graduates applying to HYP - 9 students applied to Princeton, 1 was accepted and 0 enrolled.  Harvard 12 applied, 2 were accepted and 2 enrolled.  Yale 10 applied, 1 was accepted and 1 enrolled.   [/quote]

What is naviance?[/quote]

Naviance is a computer platform that high schools guidance counselors use to manage college applications. MOCO schools have been using it forever and Wilson started using it about 2 or 3 years ago. It provides a lot of useful data to parents showing how your child's grades and test scores align with different colleges.  You can also see historical data on where students apply and have been accepted or rejected. One trend I've seen is that Wilson students get into Ivy's but some choose not to attend and I can only assume this is for financial reasons. Anwya its a great resource and a better source of college success at Wilson than what appears on these threads.[/quote]

I'm an independent high school counselor (with Ivy degrees) who can't stand Naviance.  MOCO has long used the software as justification to cut college counselor positions.  Wilson started using it after years of parents complaining bitterly that upperclassmen were getting less and less face time with (dramatically overworked) counselors.  This increasingly popular software program has a grim way of reducing kids to graded, GPAs and scores, leading a great many to sell themselves short in applying to colleges.  Families of the brightest college bound kids often don't understand that elite colleges value intangibles like intellectual curiosity, passion, motivation, drive, talent, strong executive function skills, creativity etc. over grades and rank in class.  I encourage my clients to take the data Naviance spits out with a grain of salt (or a bag of salt in many cases). High schools commonly manipulate Naviance data on where kids apply and are accepted or rejected, because self reporting is the rule (colleges and private schools seldom use Naviance, and for good reason).  I've seen kids Naviance effectively advised not to apply to Ivies get into multiple Ivies.

PS. Few Wilson kids get into Ivies, few who get into Ivies chose not to attend, and many false application narratives are in the mix.

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