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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't speak to the quality of education at Latin, but the list of acceptances looks similar to what I saw in my graduating class at Yorktown 20 years ago. In my HS class, there were a few (like maybe 3) kids who went to ivies or Stanford, and a lot who went to UVA or William and Mary, but most other college bound kids went to the schools listed above. So I don't see this listing of schools as unimpressive, especially since DC has no decent in state options.[/quote]

Yorktown's acceptance list has never looked anything like this...those folks would have burned the Arlington school board office to the ground.[/quote]

Since I happen to have access to Washington-Lee's naviance, I can tell you what the Ivy admissions were like in another Arlington high school in 2014. Class size somewhere around 500.

Harvard--2 out of 14 applicants (Harvard actually has admitted a stunning 19% of applicants from W-L in the last 8 years; I assume that means W-L grads have done well there)
Yale--0/9
Princeton--0/15
Brown--1/17
Dartmouth--0/6
Columbia--1/19
Penn--2/15
Cornell--3/19

Assuming that many of these applications are from the same kids, I'd say something like 20-25 W-L students out of 500 are applying to Ivy League schools, and maybe 3? of them are accepted. 3/500. (FTR, Yorktown has not dissimilar results.) So does that put the Latin acceptances in perspective?[/quote]

No it does not.  How do things look in the tier below Ivies?   That's what really seems to be missing from the Latin acceptance list.   [/quote]

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