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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those are not the "top Ivies" Harvard, Yale, Princeton. I counted 12 for each. That is for all of Bethesda and does not count students who were accepted at more than one Ivy. So from 100,000 students, 36. of those 6 from the magnet, Blair. very impressive. That's 0.036 %[/quote]

Idiot. You think 100,000 seniors graduated from public high schools in Bethesda alone in 2013? No way. The list shows 7 high schools. Let's assume that each has an average class size of 600 kids (which is a huge overestimation for some of these 7 high schools, because Blair is the largest, and it has something like 650 kids in a class).  So we're talking maybe 4,200 (max) graduating seniors from those 7 high schools in 2013.

Also, as I'm sure you know, lots of kids at these schools either aren't going to colleges, or they're going to the UMD because they're too middle class to get merit aid. So you'd need to adjust that 4,200 denominator downward for the kids who are actually applying to college,  who either expect to get financial aid or can afford to be full pay at HYP. If this were Sidwell, and half the class was applying to HYP, then you might have a reasonable point.

Instead, it would be more reasonable to look at the acceptance rates of the kids we actually applied. Which, as it happens, we can do because the data are right there in the table.

For Yale: 24 BCC kids applied to Yale, 2 accepted, for an acceptance rate of 2/24 = 8% which is higher than the national average for acceptance at Yale. 17 Whitman kids applied to Yale and 1 was an accepted, for an acceptance rate 1/17 = 5.8%, probably slightly lower than the national average.  Wooton and WJ had lower rates, Blair did better.

Eyeballing Harvard and Princeton, the acceptance rates from Whitman, BCC and Blair all look to be about the national average. You can do the math if you want, but I don't have the time.

Also, this is just for one year. These numbers bounce around a whole lot each year. So reading a whole lot into them would be silly.
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