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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]So I did some rough unscientific counting on the FCPS hs instagrams. Marshall had about 180 kids report, about 6 are headed to uva. Madison had 14 uva, I didn’t count the # reporting. McLean high has about 36, with 345 reporting.[/b]

Obviously the # of kids affects results, as does the economic diversity of the hs. Marshall has some impressive destinations like Caltech, Hopkins, Vanderbilt but those seem more outliers than the norm. McLean has many more top tier as well as general name brand. A lot of that is reflects who moves to McLean and why.

The uva thing is a little surprising to me bc dcum conventional wisdom is that uva seeks to distribute acceptances roughly equally between low, middle, and high Ses high schools—which roughly works out to 5% per school, to the point where people on this site often moan how it’s “easier” to get to uva from a lower Ses high school than a richer public.

Still, the Marshall #s for both uva and namebrand/top schools is noticeably lower. I believe Marshall high has about high # of kids who do the full ib diploma, so it had many bright and strong students. Do people think the differences reflect social class, a ton of Marshall kids just not reporting that they’re going to UVa or not being into bragging about their results, more Marshall kids turning down uva for cheaper options, Marshall students not doing as well in admissions bc of IB (seems unlikely?), Marshall kids being less likely to have college consultants than mclean kids (also related to social class)…?

Curious to hear any theories! [/quote]

One can only imagine what else this parent is doing! Counting individual Instagram posts of multiple high schools and tabulating the results?

This is the parent you have to worry about and be careful.
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Not OP, but why?

There are multiple threads on the college forum where posters went to greater lengths than OP to flag the Instagram pages for schools in the DC and NYC areas. [/quote]

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