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

Why??

Anonymous wrote:I don't even know what SWW means.

School Without Walls (some people on DCUM just call it Walls) is a DCPS magnet high school.

I don't even know what SWW means.

Anonymous wrote:No Northwestern?

2 going to Northwestern.

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Anonymous wrote:I think DC's SWW has a better placement record.

Who cares?

+1 and why would anyone expect otherwise?

-Whitman grad

No Northwestern?

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Anonymous wrote: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

21 of 500?.

Is top 10% of the class going to Top 25 rated schools still? Or is half the school getting rounded up 4.0s and colleges can’t make heads nor tails of people?

55 kids (roughly 12%) are going to the schools ranked in the top 25 by US News. Last year that number was 61.

Thanks. This is same % as sfs and gds each year but with 130 person class, and a clearer ranking system (gpa rank is more laddered than whatever MCPS is doing giving everyone an A or a B)

NOT TRUE. Not everyone gets an A or a B.

AGAIN! Another post oozing with jealousy.

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of a poor result considering how much parents invest in the real estate to live in that school district and all the money spent on enrichment and extracurricular activities. What a waste of money.

Don't feed the troll. Don't do it.

Jealousy is oozing from that post. LOL!

Anonymous wrote:SFS with approx. 36% of students going to US News top 25 (including all the ties in rankings). STA, NCS, GDS pretty similar I imagine.

Link?

Anonymous wrote:SFS with approx. 36% of students going to US News top 25 (including all the ties in rankings). STA, NCS, GDS pretty similar I imagine.

Wow that is impressive
I am also guessing that if you go to one of these top private high schools and get into a top 25 school you are likely to accept the spot. I am guessing that many of the top students at Whitman might have turned down a top school because they couldn’t afford to attend or perhaps didn’t even apply. The best colleges don’t give much merit based aid
Same reason why 40% of the graduating class of Magnet schools like Blair Science and Richard Montgomery IB end up at UMD College Park

Anonymous wrote:Wow! This is surprising to me. I’m the parent of a 6th grader (and 3rd grader) in the Whitman pyramid. I think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a school like UMD or going to CC or a Penn State, Georgia, etc. but many of the people I know talk it up like every other kid is going to a Yale or harvard or Stanford.

I agree with you 100%. UMD is an amazing school, and it is only getting better.

Anonymous wrote:I think DC's SWW has a better placement record.

Who cares?