This lists are nearly useless. Our school reports acceptances to Yale and Harvard and yet none of the kids knows who

What's scary is some of the quotes in the article. Like HS having 50% of the class graduating with a weighted 4.0 or above versus half as many 10 years ago.

Or the tutor's quote that she has all these students with inflated weighted 4.7 and 4.8 GPAs but they can't do algebra 1.

Anonymous wrote:No one from Whitman got into Yale or Harvard this year.

Oh dear.

This list is not accurate.

No one from Whitman got into Yale or Harvard this year.

Oh dear.

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Anonymous wrote:For top schools it seems like Georgetown and Meory are the best odds at 22%, and 20% respectively.

I would suspect a lot of Georgetown applicants in this area are hooked as alumni kids.

What’s Meory?

Emory...typo

How many of Blair acceptances are from the magnet?

Isn’t Naviance also self reported? IIRC my student was asked to report acceptances and complied somewhat but by the time the last of the regular decisions rolled in they mostly stopped reporting.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not rely on this for accuracy. I know a kid attending an Ivy from an HS that shows no acceptances from that school. Pretty sure a second kid from the same HS is also attending that same Ivy.

Those students may have had hooks. Our high school does not include students who got accepted with a hook (athletic, URM, etc).

So if the only student at your school accepted to Princeton was Latina your school would report 0? DCUM posters just make up anything.

Anonymous wrote:For top schools it seems like Georgetown and Meory are the best odds at 22%, and 20% respectively.

I would suspect a lot of Georgetown applicants in this area are hooked as alumni kids.

What’s Meory?

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Anonymous wrote:I would not rely on this for accuracy. I know a kid attending an Ivy from an HS that shows no acceptances from that school. Pretty sure a second kid from the same HS is also attending that same Ivy.

Those students may have had hooks. Our high school does not include students who got accepted with a hook (athletic, URM, etc).

Nope. Not the one I know, at least. No hook.

Anonymous wrote:The luster is, once again, not accurate. I just checked three random small application and/or acceptance rate-colleges for my DCs’ school (Whitman) that I knew have people going. All said zero enrolled.

It’s also hard to believe that Hollins received no applications at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not rely on this for accuracy. I know a kid attending an Ivy from an HS that shows no acceptances from that school. Pretty sure a second kid from the same HS is also attending that same Ivy.

Those students may have had hooks. Our high school does not include students who got accepted with a hook (athletic, URM, etc).

Nope -- MCPS High Schools don't have the resources or incentive to do that. Everyone included.
It is a head scratcher, though, why the numbers don't match up to the Naviance data we can each see for our own HS, since that is supposedly where the data for the article came from.

It’s really completely useless info. Even my very limited data, kids and their friends, shows this to be inaccurate and not slightly so.

For top schools it seems like Georgetown and Meory are the best odds at 22%, and 20% respectively.

Anonymous wrote:I would not rely on this for accuracy. I know a kid attending an Ivy from an HS that shows no acceptances from that school. Pretty sure a second kid from the same HS is also attending that same Ivy.

Those students may have had hooks. Our high school does not include students who got accepted with a hook (athletic, URM, etc).