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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former HB parent here.  Are you saying HB no longer offers AP English?[/quote]

It does but not in 12th grade[/quote]

Interesting change.  Thanks.

I see that HB continues to have SAT scores that average around 1300, maybe 50 or so points higher than Yorktown and W-L.  They're good scores but could be better given the self-selected student body.  And the AP test scores aren't that great either.  They're fine, but not great.

Still, you can usually count on more than one and sometimes as many as four or five Ivy admits each year, which is impressive for a public school its size that doesn't require testing.  In recent years there have been two admits in the same class to Stanford, Brown and Yale.

All in all, I'd have to say that HB is as good but certainly no better  academically than the neighborhood schools, and generally speaking is probably less rigorous.  I still remember a highly academically driven family moving their HB kid under protest to the neighborhood school after middle school because they were unimpressed.  I thought at the time that they were being ridiculous but the kid ultimately ended up in a top 3 (Harvard, Stanford, Yale) law school, though, so I guess they knew what they were doing.   [/quote]

When was your last contact with HB? There have NOT been 4-5 Ivy admits each year at HB in the past few years.  No one has gotten into Stanford Brown or Yale in the past few years from HB. I'm aware of one admit each year at HB at the Ivy level or similar (Columbia and MIT) over the past 3 years or so. And then also a bunch more kids go other good schools but a tier or two below Ivy.

I do agree that HB is a good school but it is no better than other APS schools, and I'd also agree it is less rigorous. AP classes at HB have been a mixed bag, some have been a disappointment. Some teachers have not finished all the AP units or have not left time for review leaving kids on their own to study. This may be because of HB's condensed schedule. There's just less time to cover the material compared to other schools. APS' late start doesn't help either.

Again we do like HB even with the tradeoffs but there are definitely tradeoffs.

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Here are the colleges attended by HB grads every year from 2012-23.  The last two years aren't here, obviously, but I'd be surprised if they were dramatically different from the prior 12, which were pretty consistent.  Someone goes to Brown virtually every year, sometimes two, and in many years there's a Cornell or two, a Columbia, and from time to time a Harvard, Yale or Princeton.  One year Yale took two.  And there's an MIT and a couple Stanfords as well.

So, yea, I stand by what I said.  I said you can "usually count on more than one and sometimes as many as four or five," which is definitely true and is not the same thing as saying "4-5 Ivy admits each year" which are the words you chose to put into my mouth.

https://hbwoodlawn.apsva.us/students-pages/2012-senior-plans-by-state/

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