Anonymous wrote:These numbers dont seem good. For instance Georgetown's overall acceptance rate is 12% but the Bethesda rate is only 17%. All the resources and proximity only gets a 5% premium?

The strong Catholic universities like Georgetown, ND, and BC typically gravitate to admit Catholic school students. At my daughter's school, Georgetown admissions rate from 2022-25 was 44%. In 2025 alone it was 36%. Similar numbers for ND.

Another interesting contrast:

Washington & Lee, 13 applied, 2 accepted, no one is going.

Wesleyan, 55 applied, 18 accepted, 7 going.

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DMV kids really don't like BU much. A miserable 10% yield rate.

Because it's like $95K/year and no one around here qualifies for financial aid on our DMV salaries. Would you pay this much for BU if you made $300K and had any cheaper option? I sure as heck would not. Harvard yes. BU not a chance.

That's not it. NYU yield rate is nearly 5 times higher.

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DMV kids really don't like BU much. A miserable 10% yield rate.

Because it's like $95K/year and no one around here qualifies for financial aid on our DMV salaries. Would you pay this much for BU if you made $300K and had any cheaper option? I sure as heck would not. Harvard yes. BU not a chance.

DMV kids really don't like BU much. A miserable 10% yield rate.

I’m not from the area, but this does not look very impressive to be honest as an outsider.

Question -- how does the magazine get these data? Is it all self report?

Anonymous wrote:Wow Churchill was impressive!

A bit misleading at Churchill. UMD screwed Churchill hard this year. My kid with a 4.7 GPA and 13 APs could not get in even on wait list or delayed program. It skewed it a bit. A lot of those kids who wanted UMD to go instate had to go out of state. And with those GPAs they got into good schools. My kid I said if I am paying full freight pick the best school possible OOS.

And it went other way. My kid has two friends with almost a 4.8 WGPA who at at MoCo community college as parents did not want to pay OOS tuition and did not get into UMD. They plan to transfer over. My kids friends got into a bunch of great schools and still at MoCo. I am like she got into Pitt, Penn, American, NYU, and going to MoCo? Yep parents wont pay. So that also makes list look weird.

Wow Churchill was impressive!

I don't put a ton of faith in these because the #s don't even quite match with the instagram accounts (which are also self-reported), nor do they match with where my neighbors say their kids got in (lots to unpack there).

Anonymous wrote:These numbers dont seem good. For instance Georgetown's overall acceptance rate is 12% but the Bethesda rate is only 17%. All the resources and proximity only gets a 5% premium?

You need to remember that the stats on that list are not 100% accurate, not every student reponds.

Anonymous wrote:These numbers dont seem good. For instance Georgetown's overall acceptance rate is 12% but the Bethesda rate is only 17%. All the resources and proximity only gets a 5% premium?

The benefit of proximity to a private university (facbrat acceptance, etc) is usually concentrated in private schools.

These numbers dont seem good. For instance Georgetown's overall acceptance rate is 12% but the Bethesda rate is only 17%. All the resources and proximity only gets a 5% premium?

Thank you for posting this. So informative actually.

College destinations for class of 2025 has been published.
Looks like Blair HS did very well with MIT, JHU and most Ivies.
RMHS and the W schools also did well. Congrats to the graduates and all the best with starting college!

The college destinations are on pages 88-96
https://issuu.com/bethesdamagazine/docs/bethesda_magazine_-_september_october_2025