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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been interested in this matriculation question in the past, so pulled together matriculation info from recent years, including McLean 2018, TJ 2019, Potomac 2019-2022, Maret 2018-2022, and Bullis 2021-22.

Looking at %s not raw numbers, and limiting to the "college-bound" students from these, TJ had the highest HYPSM rate at ~8% (Potomac and Maret ~6%). McLean only 1%... though to be fair McLean has by far the highest % of students going to schools like George Mason or NVCC, so that dilutes their % a shade.

I then defined two more tiers beyond that... Tier 2:
SLAC Top 5 (Williams, Pomona, Amherst)
Private Top 6-14 (Penn, Northwestern)
Public Top 4 (UVA, Michigan)
Intl Top 5 (Toronto, Oxford))

And Tier 3: 
SLAC Top 6-13 (Washington & Lee, Middlebury)
Private Top 15-26 (NYU, Wash U St. Louis)
Public Top 6-15 (William & Mary, Illinois UrbChamp)
Intl Top 6-15 (British Columbia, Edinburgh)

TJ again has the highest percentage of students that matriculated to Tier 2... 26% Tier 2 vs. 22% for Potomac and Maret, 14% McLean and 13% Bullis.

And TJ again has the highest percentage of students that matriculated to Tier 3... 32% Tier 2 vs. 28% for Potomac, 20% Maret and Bullis, and 13% McLean

Again, caveating that McLean's numbers may be a bit low by comparison because their school has a larger cohort of local public-school level kids that shifts the percentages... if you adjusted for that McLean would be a few % higher on tiers 2 and 3.

But combining the above, that means roughly 2/3 of TJ students are matriculating to "Tier 3 or better" schools, 1/2 of Potomac and Maret, and more like 1/3 of McLean and Bullis.

If anyone can point me to links with additional matriculation data for graduating classes from these or other HS of interest in the area in recent years, I'd love to add more data points to this analysis.[/quote]

Putting Toronto and Oxford in the same tier is a genuine travesty.[/quote]

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