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Reply to "2014 US New High School Rankings Released FCPS Dominates the Top 10"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take away the TJ kids and look at the other FCPS schools and compare percentages of kids getting accepted with like scores. Lower scores get in from lower schools. [/quote] I know some people would like to suggest you can arbitrage admissions by sending kids to "lower schools" where their scores will "count" for more, but where's the hard data? If only eight Wakefield kids got into U. Va. last year, but over 40 got into Yorktown and W-L, that tells me that either the advantage of attending a "lower school" is not all that great, or that the talent pool at Wakefield is very thin. FWIW, the admissions rate from Wakefield was also appreciably lower as well. I know South Lakes has done great with U. Va. admissions some years, but it would take more than anecdotes to convince most people that sending a kid there, rather than Oakton, is going to give him or her a leg up generally. [/quote]
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