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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS does a great job getting lots of kids into UVA, W&M, Tech, and JMU.  They don't care about Harvard.  Depending on your needs, this could be great or terrible.[/quote]

Same is true for FCPS, aside from TJ. The college lists from both school systems are mediocre. [/quote]

I doubt you'll find many public school systems that do much better.  The kids from APS who deserve to go to top 10 USNWR schools get in.  APS doesn't hold them back relative to other public systems.[/quote]

I am an Arlington parent with 1 who just graduated from college and two currently at UVa.  I have lived and breathed APS college admissions for the past 5 years.

Have any of you posters who are so critical of what colleges APS and FCPS students are accepted at and attend actually had or have a high school student at any of these high schools?  I doubt it or you would not sound so ignorant.

Getting accepted is a very different landscape and much more difficult than when most of us applied to college 20+ years ago for a variety of reasons which you will find out soon enough when your kids are high school juniors.

And then there's the fact that a top college or university costs $65K or more per year for one child.  Many parents in Arlington that I know don't even give their child the option of applying to schools that cost that much when their child can go to William & Mary or UVa for less than half of that. [/quote]

Why is admission allegedly so much more difficult now?[/quote]

Many Ivies and schools such as MIT and Stanford have low single digit acceptance rates now.  When I was applying in the early 90s, UChicago was practically a safety school with acceptance rate around 50%.  U Chicago now accepts about 7%.  My alma mater Stanford accepted over 20% back then and now accepts less than 5%.  Further, it is MUCH tougher for students coming out of areas like ours and getting into a top 25 college than even 10 years ago.

Well said.  I don't think most parents realize how difficult it really is.  The Arlington Magazine numbers are a dose of reality.

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