Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of this information is in the Arlington magazine that is posted

Applied number
Accepted
And matriculated

Bethesda mag does the same

Beware though it’s a little depressing

Can you share a link? Only data available that I can find online from Arlington magazine doesn’t have matriculation data. I am guessing that you are right that it’s depressing (and probably consistently so for all the local school districts and probably private as well).

What do you mean? It shows which HS have kids accepted at which colleges. If you're asking for something more, get over yourself.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks. I will ask the schools’ counselors and see if they are willing to share any numbers. I am not, of course, interested in seeing where child X matriculated. I am only interested in understanding the reality of getting into college from APS.

The vast majority of APS students go to college, OP. And PP is right — higher proportions at Yorktown and W-L than Wakefield, which reflects economics and demographics as much as it does college readiness prep in the education.

What is it you are driving at, exactly?

Anonymous wrote:Right, I have the admission data but it could inflate APS actual results where one child accounts for many/some admissions and the waterfall effect of that analysis.

Same is true for other school systems.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t say it “matters so much.” I would say, I am interested in understanding APS high schools’ college matriculation for purposes of including that piece of information in an overall analysis of choosing a high school for my child. Again, agree fully that college is very much a small part of that analysis but it’s not a nothing burger either.

What do you mean “choose a high school for my child?”

Why is it depressing? Because students and their families chose to go elsewhere?

OP, if you need a data project, Washington-Liberty's IB page includes data on where its diplomates went to college. You could compare that with the information from Arlington magazine and see if the kids who get into colleges you deem worthy did so from the IB program.

Critical thinking could then lead you to try to figure out if the kids got in because they did the full IB program or if the students who are interested in IB are just the sort of stronger students that colleges are more likely to admit.

I mean, if you have any critical thinking skills.

Anonymous wrote:All of this information is in the Arlington magazine that is posted

Applied number
Accepted
And matriculated

Bethesda mag does the same

Beware though it’s a little depressing

Can you share a link? Only data available that I can find online from Arlington magazine doesn’t have matriculation data. I am guessing that you are right that it’s depressing (and probably consistently so for all the local school districts and probably private as well).

All of this information is in the Arlington magazine that is posted

Applied number
Accepted
And matriculated

Bethesda mag does the same

Beware though it’s a little depressing

This is the dumbest criteria for picking a high school. OP sounds like she should send her kid to private school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there a persistent thread of parents posting on here saying - don't use any data or information to make any decision for your child, and also don't care about their current or future education because none of it matters and everyone is always fine.

Obviously posters here disagree and are asking for advice. Telling them that they shouldn't even care seems pointless and bitter. You don't care, so stop posting on this site!

What are you talking about? No one has said anything like that.

It feels as though OP really wants their kid to get into a particular college (or set of colleges) and is looking for ways to ensure it happens (or at least make it more likely). But you can't ensure that, and at the time you're looking at high schools, you have no way of knowing what colleges would be the best fit for your kid.

Agreed, and above PPs are right--just because X number of kids from a particular school got into or actually went to a certain college last year, or even the last three years, doesn't mean the same thing will happen this year (and it doesn't affect your kid's chances anyhow).

Put as many schools as you can into these buckets -- colleges that are a good fit, colleges that will accept your kid, and colleges where your kid can get a good education. There will be more than one school in the middle of that Venn diagram.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there a persistent thread of parents posting on here saying - don't use any data or information to make any decision for your child, and also don't care about their current or future education because none of it matters and everyone is always fine.

Obviously posters here disagree and are asking for advice. Telling them that they shouldn't even care seems pointless and bitter. You don't care, so stop posting on this site!

What are you talking about? No one has said anything like that.

It feels as though OP really wants their kid to get into a particular college (or set of colleges) and is looking for ways to ensure it happens (or at least make it more likely). But you can't ensure that, and at the time you're looking at high schools, you have no way of knowing what colleges would be the best fit for your kid.

Anonymous wrote:Why is there a persistent thread of parents posting on here saying - don't use any data or information to make any decision for your child, and also don't care about their current or future education because none of it matters and everyone is always fine.

Obviously posters here disagree and are asking for advice. Telling them that they shouldn't even care seems pointless and bitter. You don't care, so stop posting on this site!

What are you talking about? No one has said anything like that.

What will she do with this data? She should just send her kid to potomac and be done with this worry.

Admission data for UVA from W&L and YHS consistently hovers around 40+ kids for each school for the last several years. Accordingly, you can tell that about 7.5% of each class gets into UVA at least at this point in time.

This is not what OP was searching for, but it’s a data point nonetheless.

Why is there a persistent thread of parents posting on here saying - don't use any data or information to make any decision for your child, and also don't care about their current or future education because none of it matters and everyone is always fine.

Obviously posters here disagree and are asking for advice. Telling them that they shouldn't even care seems pointless and bitter. You don't care, so stop posting on this site!