Anonymous wrote:The gap year number is shocking. This is such a bad idea for most students.

13 out of 500 is very low.

There are plenty of reasons to take a gap year. My kid took a gap year because of medical issues that prevented him from going away. The treatment worked and he's heading off in the fall.

Anonymous wrote:Next most popular schools:

Georgia 8
Indiana 7
Tulane 7
VT 7
Wisconsin 7
Colorado 6
Undecided 6
Georgetown 5
Salisbury 5
South Carolina 5
USC 5
Vermont 5
Elon 4
Miami 4
Miami Ohio 4
NYU 4
Pitt 4
Rochester 4
St. Mary's of MD 4
Syracuse 4
Tufts 4
UVA 4
Yale 4

Underwhelming list.

Anonymous wrote:None to Duke? 7 kids went there from the class of 2017. Surprised so few are going to Cornell.

Duke has 2.

None to Duke? 7 kids went there from the class of 2017. Surprised so few are going to Cornell.

Next most popular schools:

Georgia 8
Indiana 7
Tulane 7
VT 7
Wisconsin 7
Colorado 6
Undecided 6
Georgetown 5
Salisbury 5
South Carolina 5
USC 5
Vermont 5
Elon 4
Miami 4
Miami Ohio 4
NYU 4
Pitt 4
Rochester 4
St. Mary's of MD 4
Syracuse 4
Tufts 4
UVA 4
Yale 4

Anonymous wrote:Can you include numbers for the top SLACs (if there are any)?

Bates 1
College of Wooster 1
Haverford 1
Vassar 1
Washington and Lee 1

Anonymous wrote:You only listed 158 kids. That few going to college?

Only listed top ones. There are a total of 458 kids who reported (some didn't respond and other asked not to be included in the list).
List includes approximately 180 schools.

Anonymous wrote:The gap year number is shocking. This is such a bad idea for most students.

13 of 500 kids is not that many. In my DCs Whitman class 2 of his friends did gap years- they had already been accepted at college - one at Harvard and one at Dartmouth. They are in college now and seem to be doing well. I think most of the gap year kids at Whitman have been accepted at very good colleges already.

You only listed 158 kids. That few going to college?

Can you include numbers for the top SLACs (if there are any)?

The gap year number is shocking. This is such a bad idea for most students.

My DC graduated 4 years ago and this looks similar in some ways but UMD continues to go up, largely due to cost. In DCs year there were at least 10-12 who went to Cornell and several to Penn.

Ivy League:

Yale - 4
Brown - 2
Columbia - 2
Cornell - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Princeton - 2
Harvard - 1
Penn - 0

Other Top Schools
Stanford - 0
Berkeley - 2
Chicago - 1
UCLA - 3

Other MD in-state selections:

Salisbury - 5
St. Mary's of MD - 4
Towson - 3
UMBC - 3
Bowie State - 1

Top 5 Destinations for this years graduating class per the Black & White newspaper

UMD - 65
Montgomery College - 20
Gap Year - 13
Michigan - 12
Penn State - 11