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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The recent Arlington Magazine article on 2013 APS college acceptances had 8 of 28 Wakefield applicants getting into UVA vs. 38 at Yorktown and 43 at W-L.  The other figures are off as well.   The school reported eight admissions to W&M, for example, not 35.

The other poster says she got information in 2013 from Naviance, but perhaps the Naviance data includes admissions over a multi-year period that is still considered relevant to current high school applicants.   The Wakefield data is nowhere near as great as she made it sound.

Sorry. [/quote]

I don't have the magazine in front of me to check your numbers, but assuming your data are correct, you have left out some important info. If 8 of 28 Wakefield students got into UVA, that's an acceptance rate of 28.6%. Are you saying that the acceptance rates for W-L and Yorktown were significantly higher? I don't remember that being the case, but am happy to be corrected.

Let's also not forget that Wakefield is smaller than W-L and Yorktown, so all things equal will have fewer applicants to any college. (Yorktown has 1784 students, W-L has 1992, Wakefield has 1533.)[/quote]

The point I made was that the person who posted earlier that Wakefield had 39 admits to U. Va and 35 admits to W&M from the Class of 2013 was almost certainly wrong.  I assume it was an honest error based on a misunderstanding of the Naviance data.

You're right - I hadn't looked at the acceptance rate to U. Va from Wakefield.  According to the article, the admissions rate of Wakefield applicants to U. Va. in 2013 was also lower than the admissions rate at Yorktown and W-L.  So there are fewer applicants from Wakefield than at other schools, and those applicants are less likely to be admitted.   I don't think you can draw any conclusion as to why that's the case.  It could be that the applicants at Wakefield were less qualified candidates, or it might be that U. Va admissions offices look more favorably on two equally qualified candidates if they attend Yorktown or W-L.   [/quote]

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