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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In real life, no one games admissions this way, not are similar numbers or percentages admitted to schools like U.Va. from each area school. To the extent there are quotas, they are regional rather than school-based.

The last time Arlington Magazine had a story on college admissions, it showed the number getting into top schools from Wakefield was far below the numbers from Yorktown and W-L. [/quote]

That's because the best students from the Wakefield attendance area have been transferring into IB at W-L or accepting spots at HB, and more rarely TJHS. But now there are way more kids than spots available so I don't expect this to remain an issue.

Why bring this up now? And repeatedly in multiple threads? Is it because you're afraid of the boundary change headed your way? Your kid will be fine at Wakefield. You child will have no less (and probably no greater a chance) of attending a top university whether they go to Yorktown, W-L, or Wakefield.

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The evidence I've seen suggests just the opposite. No one sends their kid to a school where they'll be ignored in favor of the FARMS and ESOL kids hoping that, by standing out, their snowflake will have an easier path to a top school.  Usually, it's only when the top kids from schools like Wakefield apply to schools, they start to realize that they have credentials that appear very average to admissions officers.

But, in any event, if you have evidence to the contrary, get Arlington Magazine to do an update for the Class of 2016.[/quote]

I don't know who you're arguing with. I'm not suggesting that people are sending their kids to Wakefiled to game the system (that is some other poster), nor am I suggesting that it would work. I am suggesting that the demographics of Wakefield are bound to change. Just as the demographics of the feeder ES and MS have. There are not enough seats at other programs (private or within APS) to accommodate the middle and upper middle class kids that are going to be in HS within 10 years. And I can't imagine that all those families will move away either. So, I am bullish on Wakefield. I am not disputing the current demographics, test scores, what have you. They are as they are. But the reason behind them should be understood. It's not the school itself, the administration, or that top students don't have their needs met. It's that so few of this cohort of top students have been enrolled at Wakefield, historically. But the crowding situation has made it so that more and more of the top students are going to be turned away from IB, from HB, from the top privates. And not every parent can afford nor desires to move. I guess we'll see. [/quote]

I agree with this. I'm curious pp, do you feel the same about TC? I'm less familiar with Alexandria.[/quote]

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