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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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ACPS must focus on academics above all. The Capital Improvement Plan over the next 15 years on new ACPS builds should reflect this focus with school basics, not all the fluff. Buildings don't educate, teachers and a organized admin do. Get rid of ACPS entrenchment and get on with ACPS academic improvement. [/quote]

Huh? Capital improvement and a focus on academics are not mutually exclusive. We need space for kids, which means we need buildings. And we need improvements to existing spaces that are well past need for repairs. As a student or teacher or administrator, how can you "focus on academics" if your classroom is a closet or your school is closed because of HVAC issues or flooding? Having adequate in which to teach and learn is important to academic success. Learning environment matters.

The college list seems fine to me. As someone posted above, these the schools chosen on decision day - it gives you no insight as to where students were accepted and chose not to go (or what schools they applied to for that matter). It also tells you nothing about where any given TC student in the future might apply and be accepted. And by the way, going private doesn't guarantee admission to any of the schools you list either - just my friends who spent 40K a year on private school whose kid is headed to VA Tech with 50 kids from TC. [/quote]

1.  It most certainly does tell you where the kids got in.  No one, not one TC student, got into Yale and turned it down for NoVa.  Not one.  Top colleges typically meet financial need, or come very close.  Going to a top college is no more [b][u]net[/u][/b]-expensive than going to Longwood.

2.  The kid at a higher-ranked private that winds up at VT is in the lower portion of the class.  A TC kid that is lucky enough to get into VT is in the top 15%.  Completely different target-ranges.

[b]TC is just lost on college admissions.  They cater to the appearance of serving the absolute bottom cohort.  [/b]
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When comparing TC with other higher performing schools in Arlington, it seems there are roughly the same admits to VT and UVA. Is there data that shows the bottom 25% of students at a top private are the same as the top 85% of students at TC?[/quote]

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