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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCCPS resident here. I can tell you that if your family is interested in UVA this is a great school. SO many kids got into UVA this year and many had very mid stats, not sure they would have gotten in from FCPS or Arlington. There are 5 AP classes. I think the IB is well run and soon most colleges will accept SL classes for credit not just HL giving it a leg up from AP. It is true that it is socially claustrophobic and if you have a falling out with a friend group it can be very bad-dealing with this now. The upside is that given you cant escape any social drama  when you finish the HS you are more aware of social dynamics because the lessons are in your face.[/quote]

I was intrigued by this claim and the numbers are easily verifiable on line through SCHEV.  From what I can see, FCCPS admission rates to UVA as compared to APS are all over the place.  Sometimes FC rates are much higher (like in the 40s) and other times they’re on par with APS (in the 30s).  This doesn’t really tell you much, though, because the data for Arlington isn’t broken down by high school and many many more students apply to UVA from Arlington than from FC.

The Arlington admit rates being reported are much more consistent than FC, though, and that suggests that the numbers for FC are class-specific - the classes are so small - and don’t mean that going to school there gives you a material advantage.

And Broad Street is a traffic nightmare devoid of much of anything interesting and not exactly my idea of “walkable.”

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This year at least 10-15 choose Ivy or Georgia Tech over UVA so not everyone that gets in to UVA actually goes. The stats of kids going into UVA is not great, and many get in TO.
In regards to math, my kids are into math and they are doing AP Calc BC as juniors. So math is very well represented here. Also they will work with you to get ahead in math if you dont meet the cut offs in middle school.[/quote]

I did the math based on Arlington Magazine numbers and UVA for the last five years has admitted almost exactly 10% each year of the Yorktown and W&L classes.   THAT DOES NOT MEAN TOP 10% for those who can’t read nor does it mean that 10% went.  I’d be shocked if Falls Church was that different.  Send me the link on admissions — NOT insta pages — and I’ll check it for you.  I just don’t think these big good local phonic HS are really all that different for purposes of applying to college, as evidenced by the consistency with which UVA admits kids here in Arlington.   [/quote]

Arlington Magazine numbers are inaccurate.  SCHEV is the official website for Virginia higher education and its numbers are the accurate ones. [/quote]

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