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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used this:

https://www.ivycoach.com/2017-ivy-league-admissions-statistics/

The best source would obviously be the common data set for each school, but I'm not going to invest the time to do that.

In any event, a dropping admission rate doesn't necessarily mean a schools is becoming more selective.  It just as likely means that more kids are applying, and that the rising applicant pools include more kids who wouldn't have gotten in last year or the year before, etc.  Every year kids apply to more and more colleges.

Then there's this:  HB's Ivy League success HASN'T dropped over the four or five years.  According to a PP, this year it's sending one to Harvard, one to Dartmouth, one to Cornell, and one to Ivy equivalent Stanford.  The argument that the last four year's numbers for HB shouldn't count because Ivy admissions were easier then only makes sense if this year's numbers were worse for HB than those years -- but they're not.  They're just as good if not better.

Finally, you can't have your cake and eat it too.  If you don't want to count the last four years for HB, you can't count them for McLean either.  Looking at this year alone, HB still outperforms McLean.  Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell -- all in a class that's 1/4 the size of McLean.  You'd need 16 Ivies this year at McLean (ok, 12 Ivies and 4 Stanfords) to match this result, and you don't have anywhere near that.  
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You keep comparing apples to oranges.  It's not a legitimate basis for a comparison, but it does help explain why so many Arlington parents are aghast at APS continuing to operate H.B. Woodlawn as a small school/program, even as the neighborhood schools get bigger and bigger. [/quote]

Why isn't it a legitimate basis for comparison?  You don't test into HB, and the school is more diverse and less wealthy than McLean.[/quote]

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