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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools.  i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water. [/quote]

College admissions in 2018 are NOTHING like they were 20 years ago.  Are you living under a rock?  None of us who got into the Ivies then would get in now.  The acceptance rates are a small fraction of what they were.  
It's gotten even more insane in the past 5 or even 2 years.  [/quote]

i thought that was mostly a myth, in part because the number of high school kids has been shrinking, but i must admit i have not paid much attention to college acceptance rates since i was 18 years old. my only point was that i would have thought a much-desired school like wilson, in a wealthy neighborhood of a big city filled with type-a personalities, would have a more impressive list of college acceptances than what's been listed here so far. [/quote]

It sounds like you don't live in DC, nor do you know much about Wilson demographics.  Wilson has many kids who attend who don't live in-boundary, but who travel from all around the city to attend.  Some are from economically disadvantaged backgrounds--actually, the DCPS profile says 24% fit this definition.  The most recent numbers I could find suggest that more than 400 Wilson students are considered "at-risk," meaning they are homeless, in foster care, qualify for temporary financial or supplemental nutrition assistance, or are one or more years older than their grade level.

So while some students do live close by, are from well-educated, affluent families, etc., Wilson has students from all 8 wards of the city, from varying backgrounds.[/quote]

ive lived in dc for 20 years. the vast majority of wilson kids are inboundary. if you closed down wilson, housing prices in the area would fall pretty dramatically, i suspect. the reason why it's so expensive over there is because people are buying their way into wilson. [/quote]

Up until 4 years ago, the boundary for Wilson was 1/3 of the city geographically.  Sections of Capital Hill were in the Wilson boundary. This was changed but grandfathering was in existence until last year so saying that most of the kids have been in boundary historically does not say much to challenge the idea that Wilson has kids from all over the city.

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