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Anonymous wrote:One thing is clear from the stats in the "College Bound" article in Bethesda, MD - the schools out west have little to know interest in kids from MoCo public schools. I'm surprised how many of these kids end up at MD, PSU and Indiana.

I didn't read this article. Is it that students aren't applying to those schools? Or that they aren't being accepted?

I was fascinated by the schools that Arlington high school students applied to, as reported in the recent issue of Arlington Magazine. The list of schools applied to interested me far more than the reported acceptances, actually. I think some schools just get to be the "hot" choice, seemingly for no reason.

That said, Indiana U (I assume that's what you mean, in Bloomington?) would be a fabulously fun place to go to college.

Not much danger of IU becoming a "hot" college, though. The I stands for Indiana.

More than 200 kids from 6 MoCo high schools applied to IU. Kinda fascinating, isn't it?

Anonymous wrote:Definitely some random "hot" college. Haha!

And, dang, it looks much harder to get into an Ivy than it was 20 years ago.

Not just the Ivies! When I was in HS East Carolina would take anything with a pulse and a wallet; in the pdf pp attached ECU was turning away over 50% of applicants. I realize this is OOS, so getting accepted is more difficult, but still that was a surprise.

Definitely some random "hot" college. Haha!

And, dang, it looks much harder to get into an Ivy than it was 20 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing is clear from the stats in the "College Bound" article in Bethesda, MD - the schools out west have little to know interest in kids from MoCo public schools. I'm surprised how many of these kids end up at MD, PSU and Indiana.

I didn't read this article. Is it that students aren't applying to those schools? Or that they aren't being accepted?

I was fascinated by the schools that Arlington high school students applied to, as reported in the recent issue of Arlington Magazine. The list of schools applied to interested me far more than the reported acceptances, actually. I think some schools just get to be the "hot" choice, seemingly for no reason.

That said, Indiana U (I assume that's what you mean, in Bloomington?) would be a fabulously fun place to go to college.

Here is the Bethesda Mag list:
http://bethesdamagazine.com/College_Chart.pdf

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing is clear from the stats in the "College Bound" article in Bethesda, MD - the schools out west have little to know interest in kids from MoCo public schools. I'm surprised how many of these kids end up at MD, PSU and Indiana.

I didn't read this article. Is it that students aren't applying to those schools? Or that they aren't being accepted?

I was fascinated by the schools that Arlington high school students applied to, as reported in the recent issue of Arlington Magazine. The list of schools applied to interested me far more than the reported acceptances, actually. I think some schools just get to be the "hot" choice, seemingly for no reason.

That said, Indiana U (I assume that's what you mean, in Bloomington?) would be a fabulously fun place to go to college.

Not much danger of IU becoming a "hot" college, though. The I stands for Indiana.

Anonymous wrote:One thing is clear from the stats in the "College Bound" article in Bethesda, MD - the schools out west have little to know interest in kids from MoCo public schools. I'm surprised how many of these kids end up at MD, PSU and Indiana.

I didn't read this article. Is it that students aren't applying to those schools? Or that they aren't being accepted?

I was fascinated by the schools that Arlington high school students applied to, as reported in the recent issue of Arlington Magazine. The list of schools applied to interested me far more than the reported acceptances, actually. I think some schools just get to be the "hot" choice, seemingly for no reason.

That said, Indiana U (I assume that's what you mean, in Bloomington?) would be a fabulously fun place to go to college.

One thing is clear from the stats in the "College Bound" article in Bethesda, MD - the schools out west have little to know interest in kids from MoCo public schools. I'm surprised how many of these kids end up at MD, PSU and Indiana.

For the B/B+ student I've seen kids heading to Delaware, Penn State, Pitt and U Colorado Boulder.

Anonymous wrote:A number of southern schools have been making a big push for students from this area, following Duke's model, I think. For kids who are open to the idea of going south, some options to consider might be Davidson, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest.

To a large extent the outreach of these schools has been for Jewish students (Vanderbilt was quite open about this).

Small liberal arts colleges and universities in the midwest and south with good regional reputations but not a lot of national attention are definitely interested in students from this area, and many will sweeten the deal with merit aid for students that have grades/scores that put them above the 75th percentile for the school. Without knowing your DC's grades/scores, it is hard to make suggestions, but you might check out:

Elon
Guilford
College of Charleston
Stetson
Rollins
New College of Florida
Belmont
Rhodes
Ohio Wesleyan
Wooster
Butler
Earlham
Kalamazoo
Beloit
Lawrence
St. Olaf
Sewanee
Centre
Wabash
Lake Forest
Trinity (Texas)

For a top-notch student, some schools that may not be completely inundated with applications from this area:

Macalester
Grinnell
Kenyon
Carleton
Rice
Case Western

I believe Texas schools would be seeking students from this area. Absolutely. I also think that Texas schools are much overlooked in this area for whatever reason so there are less people from this area applying to them. For engineering, try Rice - which is recruiting in Baltimore on September 27. For SLAC - try Southwestern University (outside of Austin) or Trinity U. (San Antonio) They love to talk about geographic diversity, and they are both very good small schools that can and do offer merit aid as well as substantial need-based aid. I'm not sure about UT and Texas A&M, but it couldn't hurt to look at them. I'd also look at SMU if I were looking at Texas.

What about schools in Texas?

Lots of Midwest liberal arts colleges seem to be including; Wittenberg, DePauw, Wabash and Wooster.

and the West Coast schools could care less about attracting more East Coast students.

I don't think this is true. I think there is an ever-so-slight advantage when applying to Pomona/Claremont colleges, other West Coast liberal arts colleges.