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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI, ACPS published it's class of 2016 "decision day" list of colleges and universities. Link below. 331 students headed to college. Since you mentioned UVA - 31 from the class of 2016 are headed there. TC students are also headed to Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Emory, UC Berkley. Lots going to other Virginia schools too (e.g., 50 to Va Tech, 16 to Radford).

http://www.acpsk12.org/news/?p=2666 [/quote]

This year's college list isn't really bad, but it's not anywhere near as good as any recent year's list.  No Harvard, no Yale, no UPenn, no Chicago, no MIT, not one single service academy (right near the Pentagon -- NONE?  No West Point or Annapolis or Colo Springs or New London or King's Point -- not even one kid?), no Duke, etc etc.  Only one each for Cornell, Stanford, Emory, and so forth.  Colleges that picked up one or two TC seniors every year seem to have moved to zero.  This is a very, truly bad result for TC this year.  Not a confidence-builder for any parent that looks carefully at the list and compares it to the list for any recent year.  One reason might be the SAT performance -- 2d lowest scores in the last decade.  The school board had better be ready to deliver an explanation to the parents and voters, because performance has really plummeted, in just one year.

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It's a nice list but when you do just a little math:

"A total of 331 students from T.C. Williams are college-bound in the fall"

The total senior class as of April 2016 is 707.   So @46% of the entire senior class are headed to college in the fall.

Of that 331 students, 142 students are headed to NOVA - that's @ 42% of the students heading to college

That leaves 189 students heading to other schools.

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The reason so many kids go on to NOVA from TC is because it is incredibly inexpensive, they can live at home so have no room and board and they can keep or get jobs.  For many at TC, this is the only realistic way of going to college and still supporting their families.  And - it is very smart.  NOVA has amazing agreements with schools throughout VA and even outside of VA which allow credits to count as such schools as VA Tech, UVA and many other great schools.  So students can pay a quarter of what they would pay at those school for their first two years of school and then finish at the more expensive schools. [b] TC actively encourages students to go this route who might otherwise not go to college.  It just makes sense and should not be viewed in a negative light when compared to private schools - private school students generally don't have those kinds of financial and family responsibilities.[/b][/quote]

What a spin job public school promoters in Alexandria City do here! :shock: Even NOVA (Northern Virginia Community College) is now just a fine college to go to, [i]but if you happen to go to a private college that you worked hard to get into, it's because you are lacking in the weight of "those kinds of financial and family responsibilities" that less fortunate ACPS students have. What nonsense pp.[/i] Go drink some more democratic city kool aid. Many Alexandria City private college students and their parents work their collective butts off to pay that college tuition before, during and after matriculation, and yes work two jobs, overtime or longer hours, and do without to pay those "born with a silver spoon in their mouth private college tuitions."

Alexandria City Public School is a mess because Alexandria City is a mess: filled with lame democratic views that are robbing Peter to pay Paul.[/quote]

PP here - I just have to laugh at the idea that I am an ACPS promoter.  Actually, I hope some day to be a parent in your position ie with a kid who gets into a fabulous college that we then work "our butts off" to send her to.  If our kid was lucky/smart/hardworking enough to get into a great school, there is nowhere I would rather put my money and I would happily work the extra hours (which we would certainly need to do).  But that's because I know enough to value a great education and because I have the education myself to be able to work extra hours and get a second well-paying job if I need to do so.  The kids I am talking about who would go to NOVA are in a totally different situation - not only are their parents not able/willing to support them, the kids themselves are often helping to support their own families by watching younger siblings and working to help the family make ends meet.  There are kids at TC who are working 30-40 hour jobs to help their families make it month to month.  If they were to move out and go to college elsewhere, not only would they have no family support, their families would suffer without the added income.  This is a totally different situation from the situation our kids would be in.  Again - this is the list of where kids are going to ATTEND college - not where they were ADMITTED to college.  I happen to know of a kid at TC who was admitted to five really great colleges - but of course he is only going to attend one of those schools so that is the only school on the list.  [/quote]

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