Anonymous
05/30/2019 11:26
Subject: Re:Wilson College Acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wilson transitioning to mostly white will help these students for a bit considering its urban reputation. It will be a decade before the colleges realize that the DC of old is changing.
It will be sooner. Have you read about the SAT's new adversity scores for each student based on school data and census tract information? It was in the NYTimes last week. Swing by the DCUM College board for the ranting rather than doing it here.
Did it occur to you guys that when colleges look for urban kids they are literally looking for kids who grew up in a city environment, take public transportation and have some street smarts, to add to the suburban and rural kids they also take? Wilson kids are urban kids.
Oh that’s funny, thought your last line was a typo. Because Wilson is a suburban school. Just as suburban as the one I went to in anothe city’s suburbs. Only DCUM would make a point of how “urban” it is, lol! The mean streets of UNW.
Urban =/= "mean streets" or "the hood," and colleges checking boxes for urban kids are not doing so to pull at risk kids off the "mean streets." The 'urban' kids at many colleges are wealthy New Yorkers and kids from ritzy city zip codes.
Urban: adjective
relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area • urban development
located in or characteristic of a city
Also, about a quarter of the city is zoned for Wilson and another 40% of Wilson students live beyond that zone. Wilson educates 20% of DCPS high school students. The physical location may not have skyscrapers since no part of DC does, but many of the tallest residential buildings in DC are zoned for Wilson, most Wilson students do not live in suburban style, single family homes, very few of them drive, and all of them can get around town using public transportation. They did not spend most of their youth having breakfast and dinner in Mom's minivan.
DP NW and really most of DC looks like any other suburb or even less dense event the so called ghetoo areas. There are almost no real apartment tower skyscrapers in DC. Also most of the folks in the SFH areas of NW aren't going to Wilson they are going to private school.
Anonymous
05/30/2019 09:50
Subject: Re:Wilson College Acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wilson transitioning to mostly white will help these students for a bit considering its urban reputation. It will be a decade before the colleges realize that the DC of old is changing.
It will be sooner. Have you read about the SAT's new adversity scores for each student based on school data and census tract information? It was in the NYTimes last week. Swing by the DCUM College board for the ranting rather than doing it here.
Did it occur to you guys that when colleges look for urban kids they are literally looking for kids who grew up in a city environment, take public transportation and have some street smarts, to add to the suburban and rural kids they also take? Wilson kids are urban kids.
Oh that’s funny, thought your last line was a typo. Because Wilson is a suburban school. Just as suburban as the one I went to in anothe city’s suburbs. Only DCUM would make a point of how “urban” it is, lol! The mean streets of UNW.
Urban =/= "mean streets" or "the hood," and colleges checking boxes for urban kids are not doing so to pull at risk kids off the "mean streets." The 'urban' kids at many colleges are wealthy New Yorkers and kids from ritzy city zip codes.
Urban: adjective
relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area • urban development
located in or characteristic of a city
Also, about a quarter of the city is zoned for Wilson and another 40% of Wilson students live beyond that zone. Wilson educates 20% of DCPS high school students. The physical location may not have skyscrapers since no part of DC does, but many of the tallest residential buildings in DC are zoned for Wilson, most Wilson students do not live in suburban style, single family homes, very few of them drive, and all of them can get around town using public transportation. They did not spend most of their youth having breakfast and dinner in Mom's minivan.
Anonymous
05/30/2019 09:30
Subject: Wilson College Acceptances
But Wilson kids know how to ride a subway. And maybe, just maybe, a bus. (Eye roll)
Anonymous
05/30/2019 09:09
Subject: Re:Wilson College Acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wilson transitioning to mostly white will help these students for a bit considering its urban reputation. It will be a decade before the colleges realize that the DC of old is changing.
It will be sooner. Have you read about the SAT's new adversity scores for each student based on school data and census tract information? It was in the NYTimes last week. Swing by the DCUM College board for the ranting rather than doing it here.
Did it occur to you guys that when colleges look for urban kids they are literally looking for kids who grew up in a city environment, take public transportation and have some street smarts, to add to the suburban and rural kids they also take? Wilson kids are urban kids.
Oh that’s funny, thought your last line was a typo. Because Wilson is a suburban school. Just as suburban as the one I went to in anothe city’s suburbs. Only DCUM would make a point of how “urban” it is, lol! The mean streets of UNW.
Anonymous
05/30/2019 06:39
Subject: Re:Wilson College Acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wilson transitioning to mostly white will help these students for a bit considering its urban reputation. It will be a decade before the colleges realize that the DC of old is changing.
It will be sooner. Have you read about the SAT's new adversity scores for each student based on school data and census tract information? It was in the NYTimes last week. Swing by the DCUM College board for the ranting rather than doing it here.
Did it occur to you guys that when colleges look for urban kids they are literally looking for kids who grew up in a city environment, take public transportation and have some street smarts, to add to the suburban and rural kids they also take? Wilson kids are urban kids.
Every 16 and 17 year old in the city meets that criteria, including private school students.
Aside from standout athletes and legacies, highly selective colleges are seeking very strong students who would be the first in their family to go to college or are from families that have struggled economically. And they are finding them in DC thanks to Questbridge, Posse and OSSE initiatives like these (https://osse.dc.gov/page/college-conversations, https://osse.dc.gov/service/osse-scholars-summer-enrichment-program.
Anonymous
05/30/2019 02:32
Subject: Re:Wilson College Acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wilson transitioning to mostly white will help these students for a bit considering its urban reputation. It will be a decade before the colleges realize that the DC of old is changing.
It will be sooner. Have you read about the SAT's new adversity scores for each student based on school data and census tract information? It was in the NYTimes last week. Swing by the DCUM College board for the ranting rather than doing it here.
Did it occur to you guys that when colleges look for urban kids they are literally looking for kids who grew up in a city environment, take public transportation and have some street smarts, to add to the suburban and rural kids they also take? Wilson kids are urban kids.
Anonymous
05/29/2019 22:13
Subject: Re:Wilson College Acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wilson transitioning to mostly white will help these students for a bit considering its urban reputation. It will be a decade before the colleges realize that the DC of old is changing.
It will be sooner. Have you read about the SAT's new adversity scores for each student based on school data and census tract information? It was in the NYTimes last week. Swing by the DCUM College board for the ranting rather than doing it here.
Yes. Everyone is mocking what the SAT is proposing to do. It seems like an Onion arody of what the Bennington faculty club might have dreamed up in 1970.
Colleges are doing it already, creating their own programs to calculate this or hiring other vendors. College Board wants to retain its usefulness and colleges will get the data in a standardized form at lower cost.
The point of it for purposes of this thread is to note that if you live in a wealthy, violence-free area where most adults have BAs or higher, then any bump you may get from attending an ‘urban’ high school will be negated.
But since Wilson hasn’t been Title 1 for several years, the word is already out.
Anonymous
05/29/2019 22:03
Subject: Re:Wilson College Acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wilson transitioning to mostly white will help these students for a bit considering its urban reputation. It will be a decade before the colleges realize that the DC of old is changing.
It will be sooner. Have you read about the SAT's new adversity scores for each student based on school data and census tract information? It was in the NYTimes last week. Swing by the DCUM College board for the ranting rather than doing it here.
Yes. Everyone is mocking what the SAT is proposing to do. It seems like an Onion arody of what the Bennington faculty club might have dreamed up in 1970.
Anonymous
05/29/2019 19:43
Subject: Re:Wilson College Acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Wilson transitioning to mostly white will help these students for a bit considering its urban reputation. It will be a decade before the colleges realize that the DC of old is changing.
It will be sooner. Have you read about the SAT's new adversity scores for each student based on school data and census tract information? It was in the NYTimes last week. Swing by the DCUM College board for the ranting rather than doing it here.