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Anonymous wrote: I school like TC needs all the bragging it can get so I find it highly unlikely if they had all these great acceptances that they would not advertise them quite widely and loudly.

Here's what they said this year:

Out of the currently enrolled 705 seniors, 651 will graduate on Saturday. The remaining students will attend summer school. Fifty-three percent of the graduating class will attend four-year colleges, 40 percent will attend two-year colleges or technical schools and 7 percent will join the military or work.

Our students will be attending schools such as Dartmouth College (to which a student received a full scholarship), Yale University (one of two students attending received a full scholarship), Stanford University, University of Chicago, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Tulane University, Vassar College, University of Alabama, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Florida A&M University and Miami University. Almost all Virginia schools are represented, as well as all of the armed forces.

The class includes two National Merit Finalists, four National Achievement Scholarship Program Semi-Finalists and one National Achievement Scholarship Recipient.

So maybe 3 kids got accepted to Ivy leagues schools. Hardly the scores of students that PP are proclaiming.

Well, if over a dozen are attending Ivies (Ivies, not some equivalent), that would suggest that more than "maybe 3" were admitted.

Right. So out of 750 seniors, my guess is that at least a few dozen were accepted to the ives, while much fewer chose to attend.

You want us to believe that 36 kids in one class who graduated from TC Williams went to Ivy League colleges. Come on now!!! How many from Langley went to Ivies, 100 kids? It's just not possible. I am not bashing TC either. I do believe that for a white student who is strong academically, he/she will find her peer group and will do very well. I fully believe a student can graduate from TC Williams and be completely prepared for any college.

But I don't believe 36 kids went to Ivies from any one school in the DC area.

We are AA and I wasn't comfortable sending my boys to TC so we moved to FCPS. It's a shame because we loved Alexandria but everyone we knew was also moving or going private. We weren't willing to chance it.

Please re-read the post. Several dozen Ivy admission offers; more than plausible. Perhaps only a dozen or so actual Ivy enrollments. Admission offer does not equal enrollment.

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Anonymous wrote: I school like TC needs all the bragging it can get so I find it highly unlikely if they had all these great acceptances that they would not advertise them quite widely and loudly.

Here's what they said this year:

Out of the currently enrolled 705 seniors, 651 will graduate on Saturday. The remaining students will attend summer school. Fifty-three percent of the graduating class will attend four-year colleges, 40 percent will attend two-year colleges or technical schools and 7 percent will join the military or work.

Our students will be attending schools such as Dartmouth College (to which a student received a full scholarship), Yale University (one of two students attending received a full scholarship), Stanford University, University of Chicago, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Tulane University, Vassar College, University of Alabama, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Florida A&M University and Miami University. Almost all Virginia schools are represented, as well as all of the armed forces.

The class includes two National Merit Finalists, four National Achievement Scholarship Program Semi-Finalists and one National Achievement Scholarship Recipient.

So maybe 3 kids got accepted to Ivy leagues schools. Hardly the scores of students that PP are proclaiming.

Well, if over a dozen are attending Ivies (Ivies, not some equivalent), that would suggest that more than "maybe 3" were admitted.

Right. So out of 750 seniors, my guess is that at least a few dozen were accepted to the ives, while much fewer chose to attend.

You want us to believe that 36 kids in one class who graduated from TC Williams went to Ivy League colleges. Come on now!!! How many from Langley went to Ivies, 100 kids? It's just not possible. I am not bashing TC either. I do believe that for a white student who is strong academically, he/she will find her peer group and will do very well. I fully believe a student can graduate from TC Williams and be completely prepared for any college.

But I don't believe 36 kids went to Ivies from any one school in the DC area.

We are AA and I wasn't comfortable sending my boys to TC so we moved to FCPS. It's a shame because we loved Alexandria but everyone we knew was also moving or going private. We weren't willing to chance it.

Please re-read the post. Several dozen Ivy admission offers; more than plausible. Perhaps only a dozen or so actual Ivy enrollments. Admission offer does not equal enrollment.

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Anonymous wrote: I school like TC needs all the bragging it can get so I find it highly unlikely if they had all these great acceptances that they would not advertise them quite widely and loudly.

Here's what they said this year:

Out of the currently enrolled 705 seniors, 651 will graduate on Saturday. The remaining students will attend summer school. Fifty-three percent of the graduating class will attend four-year colleges, 40 percent will attend two-year colleges or technical schools and 7 percent will join the military or work.

Our students will be attending schools such as Dartmouth College (to which a student received a full scholarship), Yale University (one of two students attending received a full scholarship), Stanford University, University of Chicago, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Tulane University, Vassar College, University of Alabama, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Florida A&M University and Miami University. Almost all Virginia schools are represented, as well as all of the armed forces.

The class includes two National Merit Finalists, four National Achievement Scholarship Program Semi-Finalists and one National Achievement Scholarship Recipient.

So maybe 3 kids got accepted to Ivy leagues schools. Hardly the scores of students that PP are proclaiming.

Well, if over a dozen are attending Ivies (Ivies, not some equivalent), that would suggest that more than "maybe 3" were admitted.

Right. So out of 750 seniors, my guess is that at least a few dozen were accepted to the ives, while much fewer chose to attend.

You want us to believe that 36 kids in one class who graduated from TC Williams went to Ivy League colleges. Come on now!!! How many from Langley went to Ivies, 100 kids? It's just not possible. I am not bashing TC either. I do believe that for a white student who is strong academically, he/she will find her peer group and will do very well. I fully believe a student can graduate from TC Williams and be completely prepared for any college.

But I don't believe 36 kids went to Ivies from any one school in the DC area.

We are AA and I wasn't comfortable sending my boys to TC so we moved to FCPS. It's a shame because we loved Alexandria but everyone we knew was also moving or going private. We weren't willing to chance it.

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Which elementary? I find this very hard to believe.

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Anonymous wrote:We know only a few Alexandria families from our son's preschool that chose to ACPS for K, very few, less than a handful - those families were zoned for Mason. Most of our friend's children are in private or parochial.

We're zoned for Waynewood, a FCPS, and because of the middle/high school, opted to send our son elsewhere. I'm one those parents who likes the idea of starting K and staying throughout.

We on the other hand, had 14 children in our daughter's preschool class and 13 moved on to ACPS 3 years ago, 1 moved to Springfield because they wanted a larger house.

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Anonymous wrote: I school like TC needs all the bragging it can get so I find it highly unlikely if they had all these great acceptances that they would not advertise them quite widely and loudly.

Here's what they said this year:

Out of the currently enrolled 705 seniors, 651 will graduate on Saturday. The remaining students will attend summer school. Fifty-three percent of the graduating class will attend four-year colleges, 40 percent will attend two-year colleges or technical schools and 7 percent will join the military or work.

Our students will be attending schools such as Dartmouth College (to which a student received a full scholarship), Yale University (one of two students attending received a full scholarship), Stanford University, University of Chicago, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Tulane University, Vassar College, University of Alabama, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Florida A&M University and Miami University. Almost all Virginia schools are represented, as well as all of the armed forces.

The class includes two National Merit Finalists, four National Achievement Scholarship Program Semi-Finalists and one National Achievement Scholarship Recipient.

So maybe 3 kids got accepted to Ivy leagues schools. Hardly the scores of students that PP are proclaiming.

Well, if over a dozen are attending Ivies (Ivies, not some equivalent), that would suggest that more than "maybe 3" were admitted.

Right. So out of 750 seniors, my guess is that at least a few dozen were accepted to the ives, while much fewer chose to attend.

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Anonymous wrote: I school like TC needs all the bragging it can get so I find it highly unlikely if they had all these great acceptances that they would not advertise them quite widely and loudly.

Here's what they said this year:

Out of the currently enrolled 705 seniors, 651 will graduate on Saturday. The remaining students will attend summer school. Fifty-three percent of the graduating class will attend four-year colleges, 40 percent will attend two-year colleges or technical schools and 7 percent will join the military or work.

Our students will be attending schools such as Dartmouth College (to which a student received a full scholarship), Yale University (one of two students attending received a full scholarship), Stanford University, University of Chicago, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Tulane University, Vassar College, University of Alabama, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Florida A&M University and Miami University. Almost all Virginia schools are represented, as well as all of the armed forces.

The class includes two National Merit Finalists, four National Achievement Scholarship Program Semi-Finalists and one National Achievement Scholarship Recipient.

So maybe 3 kids got accepted to Ivy leagues schools. Hardly the scores of students that PP are proclaiming.

Again, if that were true, ACPS would be loudly bragging about it.

Look, it just doesn't happen. They get a few kids into Ivies but it's a public school that is struggling and devotes much of it's resources to the poor kids. Upper middle class kids need to be super self motivate and have parents with time and money to devote to outside tutoring and school to get things done. That describes a handful of kids.

Well, if over a dozen are attending Ivies (Ivies, not some equivalent), that would suggest that more than "maybe 3" were admitted.

Right. So out of 750 seniors, my guess is that at least a few dozen were accepted to the ives, while much fewer chose to attend.

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Anonymous wrote: I school like TC needs all the bragging it can get so I find it highly unlikely if they had all these great acceptances that they would not advertise them quite widely and loudly.

Here's what they said this year:

Out of the currently enrolled 705 seniors, 651 will graduate on Saturday. The remaining students will attend summer school. Fifty-three percent of the graduating class will attend four-year colleges, 40 percent will attend two-year colleges or technical schools and 7 percent will join the military or work.

Our students will be attending schools such as Dartmouth College (to which a student received a full scholarship), Yale University (one of two students attending received a full scholarship), Stanford University, University of Chicago, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Tulane University, Vassar College, University of Alabama, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Florida A&M University and Miami University. Almost all Virginia schools are represented, as well as all of the armed forces.

The class includes two National Merit Finalists, four National Achievement Scholarship Program Semi-Finalists and one National Achievement Scholarship Recipient.

So maybe 3 kids got accepted to Ivy leagues schools. Hardly the scores of students that PP are proclaiming.

Well, if over a dozen are attending Ivies (Ivies, not some equivalent), that would suggest that more than "maybe 3" were admitted.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I school like TC needs all the bragging it can get so I find it highly unlikely if they had all these great acceptances that they would not advertise them quite widely and loudly.

Here's what they said this year:

Out of the currently enrolled 705 seniors, 651 will graduate on Saturday. The remaining students will attend summer school. Fifty-three percent of the graduating class will attend four-year colleges, 40 percent will attend two-year colleges or technical schools and 7 percent will join the military or work.

Our students will be attending schools such as Dartmouth College (to which a student received a full scholarship), Yale University (one of two students attending received a full scholarship), Stanford University, University of Chicago, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Tulane University, Vassar College, University of Alabama, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Florida A&M University and Miami University. Almost all Virginia schools are represented, as well as all of the armed forces.

The class includes two National Merit Finalists, four National Achievement Scholarship Program Semi-Finalists and one National Achievement Scholarship Recipient.

So maybe 3 kids got accepted to Ivy leagues schools. Hardly the scores of students that PP are proclaiming.

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Anonymous wrote: I school like TC needs all the bragging it can get so I find it highly unlikely if they had all these great acceptances that they would not advertise them quite widely and loudly.

Here's what they said this year:

Out of the currently enrolled 705 seniors, 651 will graduate on Saturday. The remaining students will attend summer school. Fifty-three percent of the graduating class will attend four-year colleges, 40 percent will attend two-year colleges or technical schools and 7 percent will join the military or work.

Our students will be attending schools such as Dartmouth College (to which a student received a full scholarship), Yale University (one of two students attending received a full scholarship), Stanford University, University of Chicago, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Tulane University, Vassar College, University of Alabama, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Florida A&M University and Miami University. Almost all Virginia schools are represented, as well as all of the armed forces.

The class includes two National Merit Finalists, four National Achievement Scholarship Program Semi-Finalists and one National Achievement Scholarship Recipient.

Anonymous wrote:We know only a few Alexandria families from our son's preschool that chose to ACPS for K, very few, less than a handful - those families were zoned for Mason. Most of our friend's children are in private or parochial.

We're zoned for Waynewood, a FCPS, and because of the middle/high school, opted to send our son elsewhere. I'm one those parents who likes the idea of starting K and staying throughout.