Anonymous wrote:The school newspaper just published the list of colleges for the class of 2021.

Va Tech 22
UVA 21
James Madison 17
William & Mary 11
VCU 10
Indiana 7
George Mason 6
Clemson 5
Georgetown 5
U Michigan 5
U Wisconsin 5
Christopher Newport 4
Delaware 4
Duke 4
Penn State 4
Purdue 4
UCLA 4
Boston U 3
Brown 3
BYU 3
Cornell 3
Mary Washington 3
NOVA 3
NYU 3
Shenandoah 3
Toronto 3
U Colorado 3
U Miami 3
UMCP 3
American 2
Bucknell 2
Carnegie Mellon 2
Catholic 2
Elon 2
GWU 2
Hollins 2
Howard 2
Liberty 2
Michigan State 2
NC State 2
Northeastern 2
Penn 2
Pitt 2
Radford 2
Richmond 2
SD State 2
St Andrews 2
Stanford 2
U Georgia 2
U Washington 2
UCI 2
Villanova 2
Wake Forest 2
Wash U 2
Arizona 1
Auburn 1
Babson 1
Baldwin Wallace 1
Citadel 1
Claremont McKenna 1
Colgate 1
Colombia/Sciences Po 1
Colorado Mines 1
Dartmouth 1
Drexel 1
Emory 1
Endicott 1
Florida State 1
Fordham 1
Hamilton 1
Harvard 1
Haverford 1
Ithaca 1
Kentucky 1
Lafayette 1
Marymount 1
Mercyhurst 1
MIT 1
North Carolina 1
Oberlin 1
Occidental 1
Ohio State 1
Ole Miss 1
Pepperdine 1
Rhode Island 1
RIT 1
Savannah College of Art 1
Scripps 1
Sewanee 1
South Carolina 1
Temple 1
Texas A&M 1
Tufts 1
U Chicago 1
U Southern Cal 1
U Tennessee 1
U Texas Austin 1
UC Berkeley 1
UC Davis 1
UCSB 1
Utah State 1
VMI 1
W&M/St Andrews 1
Wellesley 1
Wesleyan 1
West Virginia 1
Whitman 1
Woodbury 1
Xavier 1
Yale 1

Some pretty good HYPSM (Harvard, Yale, Stanford (2), MIT) , and some other good schools with multiple matriculations such as Duke, Brown, Penn, Michigan, Georgetown, UCLA, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Wake Forest, Wisconsin, as well as others such as Wesleyan, Dartmouth, Haverford, Tufts, Chicago, SouthernCal, UCB, UCSB, Wellesley, North Carolina, UT-Austin, etc. These schools showed up in 2020, and in similar numbers for the most part.

However, the really interesting datapoints are for the major Virginia schools:

VA Tech 22 (down from 35 in 2020)
UVA 21 (down from 27 in 2020)
George Mason 6 (down from 18 in 2020)

The number of matriculants for W&M, VCU, JMU, CNU and MWU are about the same from 2020.

From this, you can see the impact of the 1st generation and test-optional policies of UVA and VT on one of the better FCPS HS. We were not imagining this impact, despite those who said that this year is not so different from previous years.

The numbers for Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Clemson, UCLA, Penn State, Delaware and other public flagships went up significantly over 2020. These are probably DCs displaced from UVA and VT, since the numbers for other Virginia publics were stable.

I am not certain why GMU went down so much from 2020.

Finally, the class of 2021 was 579 students in total, and the above figures only include half of the class (as was the case last year) so some of the NOVA and community college numbers are probably underreported.

Anonymous wrote:
Here are the Langley Class of 2021 destinations. They've done videos the last few years, so there are also a lot of nice houses and cute dogs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za2jDJxvaKw

Anonymous wrote:Underwhelming for a premier high school in one of the best school districts with all the legacies and athletic recruits.

Too many going to community colleges and GMUs and JMUs. Expected better.

Anonymous wrote:Underwhelming for a premier high school in one of the best school districts with all the legacies and athletic recruits.

Too many going to community colleges and GMUs and JMUs. Expected better.

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Anonymous wrote:If you’d like to see how the other half lives:
https://instagram.com/titansdecisions2021?utm_medium=copy_link

I thought this was equally impressive. Still lots of good schools represented with a focus on value. Some kids appear to be doing ROTC and/or enlisting which means they should get funding to pursue college later. Others seem to be planning on NOVA and then transferring. Nothing wrong with either plan. I suspect many of these kids may be the first in their families to attend college. More representation of HBCUs. The goal is to get an education and set yourself up for success in life.

+1 I thought this was a pretty impressive list overall. A girl got into the Coast Guard academy! That’s awesome!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’d like to see how the other half lives:
https://instagram.com/titansdecisions2021?utm_medium=copy_link

I thought this was equally impressive. Still lots of good schools represented with a focus on value. Some kids appear to be doing ROTC and/or enlisting which means they should get funding to pursue college later. Others seem to be planning on NOVA and then transferring. Nothing wrong with either plan. I suspect many of these kids may be the first in their families to attend college. More representation of HBCUs. The goal is to get an education and set yourself up for success in life.