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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard that HB's 2025 class had 1 Columbia, 1 Harvard, 1 Cornell, not counting another longtime HB student went to Harvard after doing senior year at a special program.

That strikes me as pretty consistent across time.

Elite students can get into elite schools from any APS high school. HB is great. So is Wakefield, people, just in a different way. If they have the option, let the kid choose to be where they think they'll flourish and it's likely they'll thrive. Kind of the idea behind HB in the first place.[/quote]

Nope.

2025 - Columbia and Cornell - 1 each. No Harvard. 
2024 - MIT (1)
2023 - MIT (1)

That's 1-2 each year nowhere close to 4-5.

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You're just wrong.  Did you even look at the link I sent?  I'll reattach it here to help you out.  HB didn't just send one to MIT in 2023 -- they also sent one to Brown and another to Columbia.  So that's three, not one.  And as I noted they sent another to Duke.

https://hbwoodlawn.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2024/03/2023-Senior-Plans-by-State.pdf[/quote]

that's just 2 ivies, not 4-5 like you keep claiming[/quote]

for a class of 100 kids...[/quote]

100 kids? I thought hb was a school size of 750, so wouldn’t that be closer to 200?

That’s a smaller class size than almost all private schools in the area[/quote]

Its seven grades, HB is both a middle school and a high school. There are a lot of limitations from having such small grades--they don't offer a lot of advanced high school classes at all/every year/standalone ([b]often there is both AP and regular in the same room at the same period[/b]). Plus all of the other differences between public HB and private schools (facility size comparable to a 700-student middle school, no middle school sports or on site high school sports, no endowment to fund special activities, etc). Student body size is the other comparison I would make to a private school, its definitely a public school.   [/quote]

People do not think this through when they send kids there.  If you have a high achieving academic kid who would take upwards of 10+ APs at one of the large high schools, HB is not a good fit.[/quote]

or maybe it is - in that it seems easier to get your guidance counselor to check the "took the most challenging course load possible" box at HB than at W&L. And that leaves more time for starting your own non-profit or whatever other thing your kid needs to do to get into a top Ivy. [/quote]

Sure, that is one way of looking at things if your ultimate goal is getting that box checked and who cares about the actual education part.[/quote]

The education comes at the college you are excited about attending. [/quote]

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