Anonymous wrote:In full transparency, my kid matriculated in Fall, 2010 at UVA. My recollection of matriculations from TCW was close to 40 graduates. I tried VERY hard to do a google look back today and I'm good at google without success. Such numbers should be widely available on ACPS which I searched by year.


I still stand that my TCW graduate in 2010 had many more peers matriculating at UVA; certainly more than current year 2018, twenty two or some. My recollection is much higher and I memorialized it personally at the time.

Wait- you're saying of the 700 something grads in your sons year only 40 went to college or 40 went to UVA?

In full transparency, my kid matriculated in Fall, 2010 at UVA. My recollection of matriculations from TCW was close to 40 graduates. I tried VERY hard to do a google look back today and I'm good at google without success. Such numbers should be widely available on ACPS which I searched by year.


I still stand that my TCW graduate in 2010 had many more peers matriculating at UVA; certainly more than current year 2018, twenty two or some. My recollection is much higher and I memorialized it personally at the time.

As the parent of a B+/A student currently in 8th grade at GW, this is incredibly depressing.

Anonymous wrote:UVA matriculations are down.

Way down. Looking at the top 3 publics, UVA, WM and VT, the admissions figure is roughly half of the percentage that it used to be.

Anonymous wrote:For a school with 793 seniors, only 23 to UVA and W&M is seriously underwhelming, if those are the facts.

There's what, 12 public universities in Virginia? 23 of those kids got into ODU, several at other schools. There's 221 going to NVCC - maybe they can't afford to go straight to 4 year college. That's still something. These kids are going to good schools that will change their lives.

UVA matriculations are down.

For a school with 793 seniors, only 23 to UVA and W&M is seriously underwhelming, if those are the facts.

Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Boston College, Bucknell, Carleton, William and Mary (3), Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Ga. Tech, JMU (14), Macalester, Rhodes, Rice, Sarah Lawrence, Swarthmore, GW, Juilliard, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia (20), Vassar, Washington and Lee, Yale (2). So this means 58 students to top schools (and others to very good schools like Elon, Syracuse, St. Olaf, U of Pittsburgh, Richmond, Rochester, etc.)

The college list posted by the school is here: http://www.acpsk12.org/news/?p=9798

Some very good schools on the list. But only 3 to WM? Only 7 to Virginia Tech - not even 1% of the class, even though the T.C. STEM program is huge? Only 1 Duke? Only 1 Georgetown? Only 1 Emory? The other colleges named were only one each, except two to Richmond.

And look who isn't on the list at all:

Brown
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Stanford
University of Chicago
Northwestern
Tufts
BU

And not a single service academy. Not one.

I think it proves if you work hard at TC, you can get into a selective college. Colleges do want kids from TC. Obviously a lot of the students live in poverty which can create situations that make educational attainment difficult.

Also this s more solid than other Alexandria privates like SSSAS and BI. Not quite EHS, but with all the $$$ that skews their admssions.

Anonymous wrote:Like 700-800 seniors at TC, right? I am sure you meant well by posting that, but it just underscores how those are the exception and not the norm.

Agreed. 793.

T.C. Williams Celebrates Largest Graduation Cohort in Recent History and Huge Increase in Number of College-Bound Students

http://www.acpsk12.org/news/?p=9794

None to VaTech?

Like 700-800 seniors at TC, right? I am sure you meant well by posting that, but it just underscores how those are the exception and not the norm.

Better than SSSAS..

Why only 3 to W&M? Just curious.Rest of the admissions sounds solid.

Amherst, Boston College, Bucknell, Carleton, William and Mary (3), Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Ga. Tech, JMU (14), Macalester, Rhodes, Rice, Sarah Lawrence, Swarthmore, GW, Juilliard, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia (20), Vassar, Washington and Lee, Yale (2). So this means 58 students to top schools (and others to very good schools like Elon, Syracuse, St. Olaf, U of Pittsburgh, Richmond, Rochester, etc.)