Anonymous
09/30/2025 20:03
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
Anonymous wrote:We go to a Virginia public HS that is not Langley/Oakton/McLean/etc.
Top kids are looking at maybe Duke/Cornell/Darmouth but maybe 1-2 kids a year go to a T15 school. Maybe 20 or so kids a class go to UVA, another 40 go to Tech, same for JMU, a sprinkling go to W&M if they want a small school. Then you have the party kids going to big southern state schools. Then you have the kids that didn't get into JMU who are at Longwood, CNU, etc.
Is this what others are seeing?
Pretty much, and I’m fine with that (Robinson pyramid, fwiw).
Anonymous
09/30/2025 19:44
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
Many FCPS parents think: if my kid is a great student, UVA is good-enough. In the end when their kid is outside the top 10-15% of their class, they're going to VT/JMU. Outside the top 1/3 to 1/2, it's all the rest of VA state colleges.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 19:34
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
Only 1-2 to a top 15 sounds really low to me, but I don't know.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 19:32
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
Yes I agree the stats are off and obscenely high for this board, just like on the money forum everyone make $800k+ HHI.
Since it’s an anonymous forum, I realize that it’s 1/2 lies and 1/2 not a representative sample of the population.
Since it’s an anonymous forum, I realize that it’s 1/2 lies and 1/2 not a representative sample of the population.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:50
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
Many high schools have instagram accounts showing where kids are going.
Generally, most kids are not going to highly selective schools, even in NoVA. It’s just how the math works. This board, or a highly selective private hs, has selection bias & thus not reflective of the general population
Generally, most kids are not going to highly selective schools, even in NoVA. It’s just how the math works. This board, or a highly selective private hs, has selection bias & thus not reflective of the general population
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:32
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
18:28 maybe they send them off to a middling VA state school and are grateful the kid got in somewhere not realizing their kid and their kid's HS peers represent the tippy top of admission to those colleges. They could have had a lot less stress in high school and gotten in anyway.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:31
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
no bc we are at a private high school.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:28
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
OP, yes and no. Too many parents won't think outside the box and aren't willing to pay for out of state, or are afraid their children will settle somewhere out of state, or they've spent too much on multiple kitchen renovations and didn't save for college, or never paid for college themselves because they were military, or signed their kid up for too many AP classes and are shocked with the low gpa convinced the kid doesn't deserve and isn't mature enough for a 4 yr college.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:21
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
Anonymous wrote:We go to a Virginia public HS that is not Langley/Oakton/McLean/etc.
Top kids are looking at maybe Duke/Cornell/Darmouth but maybe 1-2 kids a year go to a T15 school. Maybe 20 or so kids a class go to UVA, another 40 go to Tech, same for JMU, a sprinkling go to W&M if they want a small school. Then you have the party kids going to big southern state schools. Then you have the kids that didn't get into JMU who are at Longwood, CNU, etc.
Is this what others are seeing?
yes this is our public not nova, in VA.
Our privates are different: about 1/5th of the graduating class goes to UVA, and 1/10th to T15/ivy, about half with hooks. The unhooked are always in the top 10%, ones just outside top10% can ED and get in UChicago, Dartmouth, Cornell unhooked, and lately Columbia ED, the top unhooked kids go to the rest of the ivies or S or MIT, the very top get in RD to ivy/T10 but most pick an ED instead
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:17
Subject: Re:Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Which school?
Not naming the school. A northern virginia public high school that is not bad but not one of the fancy ones.
So ridiculous. Not playing your game unless you name the school. Big difference between West Potomac and Madison. This is anonymous. Why would be secretive?
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:14
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
1-2 to top 15 seems odd…but at JR admittedly there is no in state and UVA OOS is really expensive…so we usually see like 15 kids to top 15 schools.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:13
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
same
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:12
Subject: Re:Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
Anonymous wrote:Which school?
Not naming the school. A northern virginia public high school that is not bad but not one of the fancy ones.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:10
Subject: Re:Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
Which school?
Anonymous
09/30/2025 18:09
Subject: Does anyone else feel like this board is nothing like what they are seeing IRL at their kid's public HS?
We go to a Virginia public HS that is not Langley/Oakton/McLean/etc.
Top kids are looking at maybe Duke/Cornell/Darmouth but maybe 1-2 kids a year go to a T15 school. Maybe 20 or so kids a class go to UVA, another 40 go to Tech, same for JMU, a sprinkling go to W&M if they want a small school. Then you have the party kids going to big southern state schools. Then you have the kids that didn't get into JMU who are at Longwood, CNU, etc.
Is this what others are seeing?
Top kids are looking at maybe Duke/Cornell/Darmouth but maybe 1-2 kids a year go to a T15 school. Maybe 20 or so kids a class go to UVA, another 40 go to Tech, same for JMU, a sprinkling go to W&M if they want a small school. Then you have the party kids going to big southern state schools. Then you have the kids that didn't get into JMU who are at Longwood, CNU, etc.
Is this what others are seeing?