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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have friends with children at Big 3, FCPS and MCPS.

High GPA kids and/or high test kids all did great. Looks the same as 5, 10 and 15 years ago.

More unqualified kids applying are making the acceptance rates plummet. But the kids with the goods are doing as well as ever.

Sorry to burst your bubble. [/quote]

As an immigrant, this entire school system was very foreign to me.  So I decided to track from DC HS freshman year where kids in her adv. academic program (not NOVA) got in, in order to provide me an idea of how to guide DC (no, we can not afford a college counselor).   Yes, her program always presents a slide show which shows where everybody is going to.

For graduates 2019 - 2021 (just around 100 graduates each year), the following committed for UVA (consistently 15), W&M (4/5), VT (12/15), JMU (now there was a shift downward from around 12 to 3), VCU (8, +/- 1).   The top 5% make it in the end consistently into T10 schools.  The top 10% make into T20.

Covid has not changed that and the kids performances (GPA, SAT/ACT, and EC are pretty consistently at the same level across the different classes.  From the kid with 12 DE to the kid with  "just" 6AP).[/quote]

15% go to uva? What public school only has a class of 100? What are the schools for top 5%?

I find this very hard to believe. I know kids from elite boarding schools with double ivy degree parents who were shut out. I know kids from top publics around the country with ivy legacy shut out. The top 5% of our public did not make it in to top 10 schools. [/quote]

I am sorry if I was not clear enough in my description.  The numbers referred to the number of students and the 100 is the total number of kids in the advanced academic program (starts out with 125 and usually ends in senior yr with around 100), not the entire HS.  In our district, competitive special programs are housed in regular HS.

UVA has reliably received 15 students from this public school program (sure it was a few more who were accepted but did not commit, but could not tell you for sure or how many).

The top 5% of this public school have ended up in the past 3 years at the following Top10: Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, Columbia.  Next 5% of the graduating class have ended at: Brown, Cornell, Rice, WUSTL, Duke.[/quote]

Maggie Walker?[/quote]

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