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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd love to see exactly how the numbers shake out.  It's hard to deconstruct.  If there were really a quota for each school, there wouldn't be so many acceptances from TJ, and the number of acceptances from some of the highly ranked schools seems to be higher than from some of the other schools.  So the rub would be if you have great SATs at a Langley or McLean but still end up in the top 15-30% vs. top 10%, but would be in the top 10% at Falls Church.  But then there's probably a higher chance that kids in the top 10% at a Falls Church won't have the same SAT scores, so they may not get into UVA either.

lt's always a bit of a crap shoot.  You have to decide what your main goal would be from an educational perspective in picking a neighborhood zoned to a particular school and then balance that against the other considerations like budget and commute.

There's another thread on college acceptances and it shows that schools like Langley and McLean are sending a lot of kids to UVA but also to many other good schools.  But undoubtedly there are some kids who are headed to VT, OOS schools, and privates who would have picked UVA if they'd been accepted. [/quote]

There's also the fact that at some schools it is more likely than at other schools that there will be kids who could get into UVA, but who will stay close to home and attend GMU, for example, for work/family reasons. [/quote]

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