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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. 2 to W&M and 7 to UVA-- that's sobering. [/quote]

It's hard to say whether it's sobering or not.  There are other high schools that routinely send over a dozen grads to W&M and over 30 to U. Va.  Clearly Edison isn't attracting as many top-achieving kids as other schools - we all knew that already - but it still leaves open the question whether a particular child does any better (greater chance of admission with the same stats) or worse (unlikely to end up with as good stats as students elsewhere) at Edison than at other schools.   [/quote]

Edison is a lot smaller than most of the other high schools in the county - according to this PDF http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/historical/pdfs/Ethnicity_Race_Gender/2015-16%20EthnicRaceGenderReport.pdf they had 1,934 students in 2015-2016. The only smaller schools were Falls Church and Lee (and TJ). Proportionally they still send fewer than the other top HS to W&M and UVA but you can't directly compare their numbers to the bigger schools like Lake Braddock.[/quote]

Looks like your chances to go would be high then! UVA is only going to take but so many kids from 1 HS. Also, maybe kids got in but couldn't afford it. Edison is not in a very high socioeconomic area. This would not sway me for choosing Edison for my child. [/quote]

But that's the issue.  Edison appears to send few kids to U. Va. and W&M on both an absolute and a proportionate basis.  Do you have any actual evidence that students with similar credentials benefit from attending Edison, due to admissions quotas for other schools?    [/quote]

based on another thread on the College topics (DCUM), it may be that UVA is too "preppy" and stuffy for kids at Edison and maybe they choose to go elsewhere.  The kids who got into MIT/Stanford and other higher end schools probably had uva as an option.  [/quote]

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