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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YHS and W&L is choosing between two different but very good schools.  There’s no advantage to a student to attending one or the other FOR PURPOSES OF GETTING INTO COLLEGE.  There are significant differences that can be described generally as: at W&L, easier to make a sports team, more diverse, IB program offered, and your distance to school will vary depending on where you live.    I’m sure others will list other things.   People have different preferences and your child may have vastly different experiences which would matter to their academic performance.   But UVA  accepts the exact same number for each school every year and elite acceptances are the equivalent.   I suspect YHS does better for middle/bottom of class due to socioeconomic differences but I don’t know. [/quote]

As WL rises in size to 3000 students, will sport team access shrink?[/quote]

W-L is growing to 2700. That’s the capacity APS planned for with the addition. Sports teams are easier to make at W-L vs Yorktown but still competitive within the district and occasionally region and state depending on the sport. There are also plenty of no cut varsity sports and new ones like ultimate frisbee. Crew (rowing) at W-L is still no cut. Same with wrestling, track, swim / dive, etc. Obviously basketball, softball, baseball, etc will always have cuts. In sum, I wouldn’t worry about sports access. [/quote]
Hopefully spots on highly desired teams will grow with the size of the student body.  Big high schools where I grew up had Varsity, JV, sophomore, and freshman basketball teams.  Good freshman and sophomores could play up, but it did create more spots for more kids to play.[/quote]

Not happening.  There isn’t enough field/gym space as it is. [/quote]

It's really unlikely - not the PP, but at a huge school in FCPS where only elite kids can play most sports.  There are two or three no-cut sports (crew is one), and football has a JV (with eventual cuts), but things like swim, golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, and most other sports are insanely hard to get into.  It's a real disadvantage.  Even the clubs are somewhat competitive.  [/quote]

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