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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know where this data comes from, and I'm sure it's not totally accurate. However, it's worth noting that at BCC, seniors are required to update their info on Naviance in order to receive their diplomas. So schools aren't quite as clueless as some of the PPs here suggest, and I suspect these numbers published by Bethesda magazine are at least directionally accurate. Most importantly, especially for those of you who haven't been through this process before, the top 10-20 most competitive colleges receive an insane number of applications and take a tiny proportion - most of whom are legacies, athletes or have some other hook.

Also I'm surprised by the disparities in application numbers even between HS with similar demographics. BCC seems to throw in more applications to many colleges, as compared to WJ, Whitman or even Churchill. Not for the uber-elite schools or for UMD, where there's generally some consistency. But look at Bowdoin, Emory, Univ of Miami, Tufts, Tulane and a bunch of other schools that are competitive but not T10 - BCC has 50% more applications than most of the other Bethesda HS, in some case 2x as many or more. As a BCC parent, that seems very curious.[/quote]

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