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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS does a great job getting lots of kids into UVA, W&M, Tech, and JMU.  They don't care about Harvard.  Depending on your needs, this could be great or terrible.[/quote]

Same is true for FCPS, aside from TJ. The college lists from both school systems are mediocre. [/quote]

I doubt you'll find many public school systems that do much better.  The kids from APS who deserve to go to top 10 USNWR schools get in.  APS doesn't hold them back relative to other public systems.[/quote]

I am an Arlington parent with 1 who just graduated from college and two currently at UVa.  I have lived and breathed APS college admissions for the past 5 years.

Have any of you posters who are so critical of what colleges APS and FCPS students are accepted at and attend actually had or have a high school student at any of these high schools?  I doubt it or you would not sound so ignorant.

Getting accepted is a very different landscape and much more difficult than when most of us applied to college 20+ years ago for a variety of reasons which you will find out soon enough when your kids are high school juniors.

And then there's the fact that a top college or university costs $65K or more per year for one child.  Many parents in Arlington that I know don't even give their child the option of applying to schools that cost that much when their child can go to William & Mary or UVa for less than half of that. [/quote]

I think this last point is especially key when you're comparing APS to the Bethesda schools someone else cited above. A top student at APS can go to UVa for a fraction of what it will cost to go to an Ivy, and the diploma still has a great reputation. If you're a top student at a Bethesda high school, you're probably not viewing University of Maryland the same way.[/quote]

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