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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/where-arlington-grads-applied-and-were-accepted-to-college/[/quote]

The Arlington Magazine stats actually make the situation look BETTER than it really is.  The reason is that they report acceptances and not matriculations.  This means that, for a given school, the reported acceptances from Dartmouth, Duke, Denison and Davidson could all be attributed to the same student.  [/quote]

I think we're all aware of this. It doesn't answer the original question, though, of how APS compares to other public school systems. If this is simply the pattern for a solid public school system and not a sign that APS is failing compared to comparable school systems, then this data doesn't concern me. If APS is lagging behind peer systems, though, that's cause for concern and we need to identify why.[/quote]

For at least the last 10 years, HB Woodlawn, Washington-Lee and Yorktown all lag behind McLean HS and Langley and well behind Walt Whitman, BCC and Churchill (in Montgomery Co, MD).  Not sure why, but it is disturbing.  
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Source? This is the kind of data I'd like to see, but I want to see actual data rather than rumor, reputation and speculation.[/quote]

There has been some discussion of these sorts of questions on the College forum.  I think there was a VA-related spinoff to this thread, which discusses results in the Bethesda schools: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/669618.page

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/669618.page  [/quote]

That's a little hard to compare because they're looking at only select high schools in the system (and some of the strongest at that) whereas the APS data looks at the entire school system. [/quote]

Arlington Magazine breaks it down by high school:  HBW, W-L, Ytown, Wakefield.  Compare those rates against the Montgomery County School rates quoted below, and APS doesn't measure up.   I would feel better if the Arlington Magazine numbers were all wrong, but that's wishful thinking.

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Bethesda Magazine made its annual chart for college acceptances public to non-subscribers recently: http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/...er-October-2017/College-Bound/ Here are some acceptance rates for top schools with the 2017 acceptance rate overall in parentheses as comparison. Seems like a strong year overall.

Acceptance rates at some top universities: 
 Brown- 5.6% (compared to 9% overall) 
 Caltech- 12.5% (8%) 
 Columbia- 7.1% (6%) 
 Carnegie Mellon- 31.9% (14%) 
 Dartmouth- 12.1% (10%) 
 Cornell- 17.2% (13%) 
 Duke- 13.1% (10%) 
 Emory- 23.1% (22%) 
 Georgetown- 22.5% (16%) 
 Harvard- 4.2% (5%) 
 Hopkins- 9.5% (11%) 
 MIT- 10.4% (7%) 
 Northwestern- 8.9% (9%) 
 Rice- 15.6% (16%) 
 Stanford- 5% (5%) 
 Berkeley- 23.5% (18%) 
 UCLA- 28.3% (16%) 
 UChicago- 9.4% (8%) 
 U of M- 30% (27%) 
 UPenn- 10.6% (9%) 
 USCal- 22.4% (17%) 
UVA- 14% (27%) 
 Vanderbilt- 11.1% (10%) 
 WashU- 26.9% (17%) 
 Yale- 11.2% (7%)

Acceptance rates at some top SLACs: 
 Amherst- 13.2% (12%) 
 Bowdoin- 8.2% (15%) 
 Carleton- 34% (21%) 
 Claremont McKenna College- 0% (11%) 
 Davidson- 29.7% (20%) 
 Middlebury-22.8% (20%) 
 Pomona- 6.1% (8%) 
 Swarthmore- 11.5% (10%) 
 Wellesley- 36.3% (22%) 
 Williams- 12.7% (15%) 
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That because the in state options in Maryland are sub par..[/quote]

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