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Anonymous wrote:Ok so anyone here switch from private to Wilson? Thoughts? Feeling like private is a bit over rated right now. I have three kids and its a hefty price tag. Would love to stay home but can t because of that private school tuition. Since I'm from Dc and know what DC public school were like in the 80's it's very hard for me to shake that idea. Thanks!

I actually met a white woman who moved her son from St. Alban's to Wilson b/c she thought he would have a better chance to attend Princeton. He transferred to Wilson and went to Princeton.

How strategic of her ( ???)

Anonymous wrote:Ok so anyone here switch from private to Wilson? Thoughts? Feeling like private is a bit over rated right now. I have three kids and its a hefty price tag. Would love to stay home but can t because of that private school tuition. Since I'm from Dc and know what DC public school were like in the 80's it's very hard for me to shake that idea. Thanks!

I actually met a white woman who moved her son from St. Alban's to Wilson b/c she thought he would have a better chance to attend Princeton. He transferred to Wilson and went to Princeton.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! My kids are at a DC private. perhaps I should consider Wilson for high school. Serious question, are rich white kids discriminated against at Wilson? I'm not a troll this a legitimate question. I realize that Wilson has all sorts of kids from all sorts of backgrounds but it is predominately AA and just as an AA family would understandably worry about their child being discriminated against I have the same worry about my anglo kid.

You are mistaken. It is 39% black. No single race is predominant.

The racial profile for Wilson is as follows:

35% black
23% hispanic/latino
30% white
7% asian
5% multiple races
1% native american

If you think they're going to let Wilson become majority white you're sadly mistaken. The goons at the DCPS cartel will not let it happen.

What on earth in this thread makes you think anyone wants that? Seriously, knock it off.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! My kids are at a DC private. perhaps I should consider Wilson for high school. Serious question, are rich white kids discriminated against at Wilson? I'm not a troll this a legitimate question. I realize that Wilson has all sorts of kids from all sorts of backgrounds but it is predominately AA and just as an AA family would understandably worry about their child being discriminated against I have the same worry about my anglo kid.

You are mistaken. It is 39% black. No single race is predominant.

The racial profile for Wilson is as follows:

35% black
23% hispanic/latino
30% white
7% asian
5% multiple races
1% native american

If you think they're going to let Wilson become majority white you're sadly mistaken. The goons at the DCPS cartel will not let it happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Do Wilson parents factor in no UVA or UMD option when staying in DC? Out of state or private tuition is a pretty lofty price tag for most public families I know.

UVA and UMD are options. Some hope the DC TAG funds that offset out of state tuition by $10K per year will still exist. https://osse.dc.gov/dctag The income cap is $762,000.

Others can afford out of state tuition, so the difference is not worth moving for.

Actually given how much UVA has shifted towards taking out of state students, DC kids might have a better chance than many VA kids. If DC-TAG remains in place (which is a very big if), in some sense DC students have many more options than VA/MD, since they are able to apply to any state school in the country and get up to $10,000 towards the gap between in-state and out-of-state tuition.

Anonymous wrote:Do Wilson parents factor in no UVA or UMD option when staying in DC? Out of state or private tuition is a pretty lofty price tag for most public families I know.

UVA and UMD are options. Some hope the DC TAG funds that offset out of state tuition by $10K per year will still exist. https://osse.dc.gov/dctag The income cap is $762,000.

Others can afford out of state tuition, so the difference is not worth moving for.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! My kids are at a DC private. perhaps I should consider Wilson for high school. Serious question, are rich white kids discriminated against at Wilson? I'm not a troll this a legitimate question. I realize that Wilson has all sorts of kids from all sorts of backgrounds but it is predominately AA and just as an AA family would understandably worry about their child being discriminated against I have the same worry about my anglo kid.

You are mistaken. It is 39% black. No single race is predominant.

The racial profile for Wilson is as follows:

35% black
23% hispanic/latino
30% white
7% asian
5% multiple races
1% native american

Yes, that is more current. I was using the DCPS profile page, which is a year behind.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok so anyone here switch from private to Wilson? Thoughts? Feeling like private is a bit over rated right now. I have three kids and its a hefty price tag. Would love to stay home but can t because of that private school tuition. Since I'm from Dc and know what DC public school were like in the 80's it's very hard for me to shake that idea. Thanks!

I'm assuming you didn't attend Wilson in the 80s. I have many friends that are successful attorneys, professors, doctors, etc that graduated from Wilson in late 80s/early 90s. A lot that went Ivy.

I attended DCPS and graduated Wilson in the 90s. Same situation, lots of students in general going to four year colleges, and not a small number of students going to Ivy or highly ranked/regarded private or state schools. I'm still in contact with tons of people from DCPS and Wilson and many are successful and doing well.

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Anonymous wrote:The Yale part is more true than the jail part.

This is for the class of 2016: http://www.wilsonhs.org/ourpages/auto/2011/4/15/39942607/Wilsonprofile2016-17webreduced.pdf

Mind you, this is where they actually went. Kids get into schools hoping for financial aid packages that may not work out, or they get a full ride to a less prestigious school and take it (smart move).

Thanks for including this link (we are IB for Wilson, but with an early elementary kid). Anyone know the graduation rate at Wilson?

Sorry, hit submit too soon. Also the % who went to a 4-year college?

the link has the % to 4 year colleges (68%) but not graduation rate. Although if you look at the enrollment numbers by grade - 398 seniors, 447 juniors, 458 sophomores and 520 freshmen it does seem to indicate there is a large drop off in numbers from freshmen to senior.

Actually, that is the size of each class, which shows that enrollment has been increasing steadily each year, not that kids are dropping out. It's not like every class started at 520 and dropped to 398. More kids are staying in DCPS, so each class is increasing in size, which is why they have been adjusting boundaries. Same with Deal MS. Next year the 7th and 6th grades will have 5 teams instead of 4 due to increased enrollment. Same with the elementary feeders, which is why they are building the schools to higher capacities. Each class gets bigger.

Each incoming class does get bigger - but as each class progresses there is drop-off over the 4-years. So the incoming freshman class of 520 will definitely have less students when they graduate. The OSSE enrollment numbers bear this out but I don't think that is so unusual for public high schools.

Also important to point out that Wilson families can see where students apply, accept and enroll over the last few years by using Naviance. The list of colleges is just a small snapshot. So for example for the 2016 graduates applying to HYP - 9 students applied to Princeton, 1 was accepted and 0 enrolled. Harvard 12 applied, 2 were accepted and 2 enrolled. Yale 10 applied, 1 was accepted and 1 enrolled.

Do Wilson parents factor in no UVA or UMD option when staying in DC? Out of state or private tuition is a pretty lofty price tag for most public families I know.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! My kids are at a DC private. perhaps I should consider Wilson for high school. Serious question, are rich white kids discriminated against at Wilson? I'm not a troll this a legitimate question. I realize that Wilson has all sorts of kids from all sorts of backgrounds but it is predominately AA and just as an AA family would understandably worry about their child being discriminated against I have the same worry about my anglo kid.

You are mistaken. It is 39% black. No single race is predominant.

The racial profile for Wilson is as follows:

35% black
23% hispanic/latino
30% white
7% asian
5% multiple races
1% native american

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Anonymous wrote:The Yale part is more true than the jail part.

This is for the class of 2016: http://www.wilsonhs.org/ourpages/auto/2011/4/15/39942607/Wilsonprofile2016-17webreduced.pdf

Mind you, this is where they actually went. Kids get into schools hoping for financial aid packages that may not work out, or they get a full ride to a less prestigious school and take it (smart move).

Thanks for including this link (we are IB for Wilson, but with an early elementary kid). Anyone know the graduation rate at Wilson?

Sorry, hit submit too soon. Also the % who went to a 4-year college?

the link has the % to 4 year colleges (68%) but not graduation rate. Although if you look at the enrollment numbers by grade - 398 seniors, 447 juniors, 458 sophomores and 520 freshmen it does seem to indicate there is a large drop off in numbers from freshmen to senior.

Actually, that is the size of each class, which shows that enrollment has been increasing steadily each year, not that kids are dropping out. It's not like every class started at 520 and dropped to 398. More kids are staying in DCPS, so each class is increasing in size, which is why they have been adjusting boundaries. Same with Deal MS. Next year the 7th and 6th grades will have 5 teams instead of 4 due to increased enrollment. Same with the elementary feeders, which is why they are building the schools to higher capacities. Each class gets bigger.

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Anonymous wrote:The Yale part is more true than the jail part.

This is for the class of 2016: http://www.wilsonhs.org/ourpages/auto/2011/4/15/39942607/Wilsonprofile2016-17webreduced.pdf

Mind you, this is where they actually went. Kids get into schools hoping for financial aid packages that may not work out, or they get a full ride to a less prestigious school and take it (smart move).

Thanks for including this link (we are IB for Wilson, but with an early elementary kid). Anyone know the graduation rate at Wilson?

Sorry, hit submit too soon. Also the % who went to a 4-year college?

That's in the link: 68% to 4-year, 20% to 2-year. So 270 out of 398 seniors went to 4-year colleges (80 to 2-year colleges) and amassed $31 million in scholarships (!). Interesting that they break out the SAT scores to include the subset of kids who also took subject SATs (everyone takes the SAT for free regardless of intent to go to college, so this subset is helpful). Average for that subgroup was 1953.

I don't know about the graduation rate (though obviously it is at least 88%).

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Anonymous wrote:The Yale part is more true than the jail part.

This is for the class of 2016: http://www.wilsonhs.org/ourpages/auto/2011/4/15/39942607/Wilsonprofile2016-17webreduced.pdf

Mind you, this is where they actually went. Kids get into schools hoping for financial aid packages that may not work out, or they get a full ride to a less prestigious school and take it (smart move).

Thanks for including this link (we are IB for Wilson, but with an early elementary kid). Anyone know the graduation rate at Wilson?

Sorry, hit submit too soon. Also the % who went to a 4-year college?

the link has the % to 4 year colleges (68%) but not graduation rate. Although if you look at the enrollment numbers by grade - 398 seniors, 447 juniors, 458 sophomores and 520 freshmen it does seem to indicate there is a large drop off in numbers from freshmen to senior.

PP here--thanks, I missed the graduation rate the first time! It's not listed very prominently.

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Anonymous wrote:The Yale part is more true than the jail part.

This is for the class of 2016: http://www.wilsonhs.org/ourpages/auto/2011/4/15/39942607/Wilsonprofile2016-17webreduced.pdf

Mind you, this is where they actually went. Kids get into schools hoping for financial aid packages that may not work out, or they get a full ride to a less prestigious school and take it (smart move).

Thanks for including this link (we are IB for Wilson, but with an early elementary kid). Anyone know the graduation rate at Wilson?

Sorry, hit submit too soon. Also the % who went to a 4-year college?

the link has the % to 4 year colleges (68%) but not graduation rate. Although if you look at the enrollment numbers by grade - 398 seniors, 447 juniors, 458 sophomores and 520 freshmen it does seem to indicate there is a large drop off in numbers from freshmen to senior.