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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HB had a good year, with at least one student going to:

Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Northwestern, Duke, and Johns Hopkins in a class of ~80.[/quote]

HB typically has "good years."  Assuming conservatively that 4 HB classes graduate a roughly equal amount of students to one McLean (it's really five, since HB has fewer than 100 in a class), in the  four years before this year HB sent combined:

UVA (21)
William & Mary (19)
Brown (6)
Yale (4)
Reed (4)
Pomona (2)
Georgetown (2)
Wesleyan (2)
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
Northwestern
Duke
Johns Hopkins
University of Chicago
Wash U
Rice
Naval Academy
Vanderbilt
Carleton
Bowdoin
Emory
Grinnell
Macalester
Bates
Tufts
Wesleyan
Emory
Bryn Mawr
Smith
NYU
Carnegie Mellon

Not a lot of non-magnet school anywhere in our earlier with these results.[/quote]

HB had 119 seniors in May according to APS, and the self-selection involved in students and families applying for the H-B lottery tends to ensure a high quality student body. Having said that, I don’t think these statistics outshine a school like McLean, where kids have gotten into all the Ivies and Stanford over the time period during which you compiled this data (and three kids got into Yale this year alone).[/quote]

We don't have HB's results for this year yet, nimrod.  That's why I used the LAST four years.  According to HB's own reporting, the numbers were:

2017:  86
2016:  85
2015:  96
2014:  86

TOTAL:  353, or 23 FEWER than the 376 reporting for McLean.

So, yea, this year McLean got six into the Ivies:  3 Yale, 1 Harvard, and 2 Cornell.   HB doubled that with FEWER students:  6 Brown, 4 Yale, 1 Harvard, 1 Columbia.  [/quote]

You can't use 4 year old data for a fair comparison.  Elite college admissions are much more difficult now than 4 years ago.[/quote]

No, they're not.  Harvard's acceptance rate was 6.9 percent in 2014 and 5.2 percent in 2017.  Yale was 7.5 and now 6.7.  Brown was 9.2 and now 9.3.  Brown was 14.0 and now 15.2.  Princeton was 7.2 and now 8.3.  Etc.

FACTS.  [/quote]

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