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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

It is more nuanced than that. The following factor into the college decision:

1. How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy. If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year. JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc. There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy. Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds. These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages. Not the case at all. Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out. Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2. The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes. The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low. They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true. You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school. So many boxes get checked.

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.

Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class. Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in. The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in. Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person. This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc.. Again, only based on what I know.

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.

Not much one can do about that because it is a DCPS decision. I actually wish they would follow Montgomery County and show acceptance by HS, so you could sit there with your mouth agape and wonder why I moved to MCPS thinking my college acceptance chances would improve.

Maybe the PP was talking out of his a*ss. Count me skeptical.

I don't think that hiding college acceptances is a DCPS requirement. For example, below is a list of colleges for a recent class at Walls.

My guess is that JR gets a handful of T10 acceptances every year but the results are mostly mediocre, and they want to hide that fact. The graduation rate is only 87%. Plus, if you look at PARCC scores, 3/4 of JR students are below grade level in science, 2/3 are below grade level in math, and 2/5 are below grade level in English. A lot of JR students don't go to college or attend community college at most.

Walls admissions for Class of 2020:

Allegheny College
American University
Appalachian State University
Arizona State University-Tempe
Arkansas Baptist College
Ball State University
Bard College
Barnard College
Bates College
Belmont University
Beloit College
Benedict College
Bennington College
Bethune-Cookman University
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State University-Los Angeles
California State University-San Bernardino
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Catholic University of America
Chapman University
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Clark Atlanta University
Clark University
Clemson University
Colby College
College of Charleston
Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Columbia University in the City of New York
Cooper Union
Coppin State University
Cornell University
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
CUNY Brooklyn College
CUNY Hunter College
Delaware State University
DePaul University
Drew University
Drexel University
Duke University
Duquesne University
Earlham College
Eastern Michigan University
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
Fairfield University
Fashion Institute of Technology
Fayetteville State University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida State University
Fordham University
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia State University
Gettysburg College
Grambling State University
Hampshire College
Hampton University
Harvey Mudd College
High Point University
Hobart William Smith Colleges
Howard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores
Ithaca College
James Madison University
John Cabot University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
King's College London (University of London)
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Lincoln University
Livingstone College
Longwood University
Louisiana State University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College
Maryland Institute College of Art
Marymount University
McDaniel College
McGill University
Miami University-Oxford (Business)
Michigan State University
Mills College
Monmouth University
Montgomery College
Morehouse College
Morgan State University
Mount St. Mary's University - Maryland
Muhlenberg College
New England College
New Mexico State University
New York University
New York University (Shanghai)
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A & T State University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Northeastern University
Northern Arizona University
Northern Vermont University-Lyndon
Northwestern University
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Otis College of Art and Design
Pace University-New York
Pennsylvania State University
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Purdue University
Queen Mary University of London
Radford University
Reed College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rice University
Roanoke College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Saint Augustine's University
Saint Mary's College of California
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Sarah Lawrence College
Savannah College of Art and Design
Seton Hall University
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Skidmore College
Smith College
Sonoma State University
Southern University and A & M College
Spelman College
St Mary's College of Maryland
St. John's College
St. John's University
Stanford University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Suffolk University
SUNY at Purchase College
SUNY College at Oswego
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Syracuse University
Talladega College
Temple University
Texas A & M University-College Station
The Naropa University
The New School
The University of Arizona
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Texas at Austin
Towson University
Trinity College
Trinity University
Trinity Washington University
Tufts University
Tulane University of Louisiana
United States Air Force Academy
United States Naval Academy
Universiteit van Amsterdam
University at Albany, SUNY
University College London
University of Bristol
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Davis
University of California-Irvine
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Riverside
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of California-Santa Cruz
University of California, San Diego
University of Central Florida
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Exeter
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Glasgow
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
University of Maine
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
University of Miami
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of North Carolina at Asheville
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina Wilmington
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton
University of South Carolina-Columbia
University of Southampton
University of St Andrews
University of Tampa
University of the District of Columbia
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vassar College
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia State University
Washington Adventist University
Washington State University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Wilkes University
William and Mary
Winston-Salem State University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Xavier University
Xavier University of Louisiana
Yale University

You are hilariously wrong about this.

The year my kid graduated JR, there were kids headed to Harvard, Penn, Yale, Emory, Princeton, and a boatload of other selective schools. My kid's college had an 11% acceptance rate, and he wasn't among the kids in his friend group heading to a super prestigious school.

In you post, you say "I don't have any data, so I'm going to assume that the school is hiding something and further asssume that my wildly ignorant fantasy is the truth." You should say less.

NP but you are an idiot.

Nothing you said contradicted the previous post.

The PP cited data. You cited ... your personal, unverified knowledge about the year your kid graduated, which you didn't mention.

You should say nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

It is more nuanced than that. The following factor into the college decision:

1. How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy. If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year. JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc. There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy. Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds. These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages. Not the case at all. Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out. Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2. The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes. The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low. They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true. You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school. So many boxes get checked.

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.

Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class. Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in. The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in. Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person. This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc.. Again, only based on what I know.

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.

Not much one can do about that because it is a DCPS decision. I actually wish they would follow Montgomery County and show acceptance by HS, so you could sit there with your mouth agape and wonder why I moved to MCPS thinking my college acceptance chances would improve.

Maybe the PP was talking out of his a*ss. Count me skeptical.

I don't think that hiding college acceptances is a DCPS requirement. For example, below is a list of colleges for a recent class at Walls.

My guess is that JR gets a handful of T10 acceptances every year but the results are mostly mediocre, and they want to hide that fact. The graduation rate is only 87%. Plus, if you look at PARCC scores, 3/4 of JR students are below grade level in science, 2/3 are below grade level in math, and 2/5 are below grade level in English. A lot of JR students don't go to college or attend community college at most.

Walls admissions for Class of 2020:

Allegheny College
American University
Appalachian State University
Arizona State University-Tempe
Arkansas Baptist College
Ball State University
Bard College
Barnard College
Bates College
Belmont University
Beloit College
Benedict College
Bennington College
Bethune-Cookman University
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State University-Los Angeles
California State University-San Bernardino
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Catholic University of America
Chapman University
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Clark Atlanta University
Clark University
Clemson University
Colby College
College of Charleston
Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Columbia University in the City of New York
Cooper Union
Coppin State University
Cornell University
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
CUNY Brooklyn College
CUNY Hunter College
Delaware State University
DePaul University
Drew University
Drexel University
Duke University
Duquesne University
Earlham College
Eastern Michigan University
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
Fairfield University
Fashion Institute of Technology
Fayetteville State University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida State University
Fordham University
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia State University
Gettysburg College
Grambling State University
Hampshire College
Hampton University
Harvey Mudd College
High Point University
Hobart William Smith Colleges
Howard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores
Ithaca College
James Madison University
John Cabot University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
King's College London (University of London)
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Lincoln University
Livingstone College
Longwood University
Louisiana State University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College
Maryland Institute College of Art
Marymount University
McDaniel College
McGill University
Miami University-Oxford (Business)
Michigan State University
Mills College
Monmouth University
Montgomery College
Morehouse College
Morgan State University
Mount St. Mary's University - Maryland
Muhlenberg College
New England College
New Mexico State University
New York University
New York University (Shanghai)
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A & T State University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Northeastern University
Northern Arizona University
Northern Vermont University-Lyndon
Northwestern University
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Otis College of Art and Design
Pace University-New York
Pennsylvania State University
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Purdue University
Queen Mary University of London
Radford University
Reed College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rice University
Roanoke College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Saint Augustine's University
Saint Mary's College of California
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Sarah Lawrence College
Savannah College of Art and Design
Seton Hall University
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Skidmore College
Smith College
Sonoma State University
Southern University and A & M College
Spelman College
St Mary's College of Maryland
St. John's College
St. John's University
Stanford University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Suffolk University
SUNY at Purchase College
SUNY College at Oswego
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Syracuse University
Talladega College
Temple University
Texas A & M University-College Station
The Naropa University
The New School
The University of Arizona
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Texas at Austin
Towson University
Trinity College
Trinity University
Trinity Washington University
Tufts University
Tulane University of Louisiana
United States Air Force Academy
United States Naval Academy
Universiteit van Amsterdam
University at Albany, SUNY
University College London
University of Bristol
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Davis
University of California-Irvine
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Riverside
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of California-Santa Cruz
University of California, San Diego
University of Central Florida
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Exeter
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Glasgow
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
University of Maine
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
University of Miami
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of North Carolina at Asheville
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina Wilmington
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton
University of South Carolina-Columbia
University of Southampton
University of St Andrews
University of Tampa
University of the District of Columbia
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vassar College
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia State University
Washington Adventist University
Washington State University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Wilkes University
William and Mary
Winston-Salem State University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Xavier University
Xavier University of Louisiana
Yale University

You are hilariously wrong about this.

The year my kid graduated JR, there were kids headed to Harvard, Penn, Yale, Emory, Princeton, and a boatload of other selective schools. My kid's college had an 11% acceptance rate, and he wasn't among the kids in his friend group heading to a super prestigious school.

In you post, you say "I don't have any data, so I'm going to assume that the school is hiding something and further asssume that my wildly ignorant fantasy is the truth." You should say less.

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Anonymous wrote:A few teacherless classes?!? How does that work? I don't have a kid in public, but this would be a serious problem. Yikes.

I know! The stuff people are OK with. I wouldn't be for my kid! --a teacher

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

It is more nuanced than that. The following factor into the college decision:

1. How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy. If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year. JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc. There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy. Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds. These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages. Not the case at all. Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out. Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2. The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes. The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low. They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true. You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school. So many boxes get checked.

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.

Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class. Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in. The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in. Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person. This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc.. Again, only based on what I know.

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.

Not much one can do about that because it is a DCPS decision. I actually wish they would follow Montgomery County and show acceptance by HS, so you could sit there with your mouth agape and wonder why I moved to MCPS thinking my college acceptance chances would improve.

Maybe the PP was talking out of his a*ss. Count me skeptical.

I don't think that hiding college acceptances is a DCPS requirement. For example, below is a list of colleges for a recent class at Walls.

My guess is that JR gets a handful of T10 acceptances every year but the results are mostly mediocre, and they want to hide that fact. The graduation rate is only 87%. Plus, if you look at PARCC scores, 3/4 of JR students are below grade level in science, 2/3 are below grade level in math, and 2/5 are below grade level in English. A lot of JR students don't go to college or attend community college at most.

Walls admissions for Class of 2020:

Allegheny College
American University
Appalachian State University
Arizona State University-Tempe
Arkansas Baptist College
Ball State University
Bard College
Barnard College
Bates College
Belmont University
Beloit College
Benedict College
Bennington College
Bethune-Cookman University
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State University-Los Angeles
California State University-San Bernardino
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Catholic University of America
Chapman University
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Clark Atlanta University
Clark University
Clemson University
Colby College
College of Charleston
Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Columbia University in the City of New York
Cooper Union
Coppin State University
Cornell University
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
CUNY Brooklyn College
CUNY Hunter College
Delaware State University
DePaul University
Drew University
Drexel University
Duke University
Duquesne University
Earlham College
Eastern Michigan University
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
Fairfield University
Fashion Institute of Technology
Fayetteville State University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida State University
Fordham University
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia State University
Gettysburg College
Grambling State University
Hampshire College
Hampton University
Harvey Mudd College
High Point University
Hobart William Smith Colleges
Howard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores
Ithaca College
James Madison University
John Cabot University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
King's College London (University of London)
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Lincoln University
Livingstone College
Longwood University
Louisiana State University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College
Maryland Institute College of Art
Marymount University
McDaniel College
McGill University
Miami University-Oxford (Business)
Michigan State University
Mills College
Monmouth University
Montgomery College
Morehouse College
Morgan State University
Mount St. Mary's University - Maryland
Muhlenberg College
New England College
New Mexico State University
New York University
New York University (Shanghai)
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A & T State University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Northeastern University
Northern Arizona University
Northern Vermont University-Lyndon
Northwestern University
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Otis College of Art and Design
Pace University-New York
Pennsylvania State University
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Purdue University
Queen Mary University of London
Radford University
Reed College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rice University
Roanoke College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Saint Augustine's University
Saint Mary's College of California
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Sarah Lawrence College
Savannah College of Art and Design
Seton Hall University
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Skidmore College
Smith College
Sonoma State University
Southern University and A & M College
Spelman College
St Mary's College of Maryland
St. John's College
St. John's University
Stanford University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Suffolk University
SUNY at Purchase College
SUNY College at Oswego
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Syracuse University
Talladega College
Temple University
Texas A & M University-College Station
The Naropa University
The New School
The University of Arizona
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Texas at Austin
Towson University
Trinity College
Trinity University
Trinity Washington University
Tufts University
Tulane University of Louisiana
United States Air Force Academy
United States Naval Academy
Universiteit van Amsterdam
University at Albany, SUNY
University College London
University of Bristol
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Davis
University of California-Irvine
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Riverside
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of California-Santa Cruz
University of California, San Diego
University of Central Florida
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Exeter
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Glasgow
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
University of Maine
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
University of Miami
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of North Carolina at Asheville
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina Wilmington
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton
University of South Carolina-Columbia
University of Southampton
University of St Andrews
University of Tampa
University of the District of Columbia
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vassar College
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia State University
Washington Adventist University
Washington State University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Wilkes University
William and Mary
Winston-Salem State University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Xavier University
Xavier University of Louisiana
Yale University

I'm not exactly sure what the list is proving since I just clicked into this thread for the first time, but I'm pretty surprised at how terrible this list is. Half of the colleges on here shouldn't even exist (and likely won't as the college age population shrinks and student debt becomes harder to afford/obtain). There are a few good schools but most of these kids are going to garbage

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

It is more nuanced than that. The following factor into the college decision:

1. How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy. If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year. JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc. There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy. Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds. These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages. Not the case at all. Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out. Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2. The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes. The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low. They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true. You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school. So many boxes get checked.

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.

Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class. Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in. The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in. Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person. This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc.. Again, only based on what I know.

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.

Not much one can do about that because it is a DCPS decision. I actually wish they would follow Montgomery County and show acceptance by HS, so you could sit there with your mouth agape and wonder why I moved to MCPS thinking my college acceptance chances would improve.

Maybe the PP was talking out of his a*ss. Count me skeptical.

I don't think that hiding college acceptances is a DCPS requirement. For example, below is a list of colleges for a recent class at Walls.

My guess is that JR gets a handful of T10 acceptances every year but the results are mostly mediocre, and they want to hide that fact. The graduation rate is only 87%. Plus, if you look at PARCC scores, 3/4 of JR students are below grade level in science, 2/3 are below grade level in math, and 2/5 are below grade level in English. A lot of JR students don't go to college or attend community college at most.

Walls admissions for Class of 2020:

Allegheny College
American University
Appalachian State University
Arizona State University-Tempe
Arkansas Baptist College
Ball State University
Bard College
Barnard College
Bates College
Belmont University
Beloit College
Benedict College
Bennington College
Bethune-Cookman University
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State University-Los Angeles
California State University-San Bernardino
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Catholic University of America
Chapman University
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Clark Atlanta University
Clark University
Clemson University
Colby College
College of Charleston
Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Columbia University in the City of New York
Cooper Union
Coppin State University
Cornell University
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
CUNY Brooklyn College
CUNY Hunter College
Delaware State University
DePaul University
Drew University
Drexel University
Duke University
Duquesne University
Earlham College
Eastern Michigan University
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
Fairfield University
Fashion Institute of Technology
Fayetteville State University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida State University
Fordham University
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia State University
Gettysburg College
Grambling State University
Hampshire College
Hampton University
Harvey Mudd College
High Point University
Hobart William Smith Colleges
Howard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores
Ithaca College
James Madison University
John Cabot University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
King's College London (University of London)
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Lincoln University
Livingstone College
Longwood University
Louisiana State University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College
Maryland Institute College of Art
Marymount University
McDaniel College
McGill University
Miami University-Oxford (Business)
Michigan State University
Mills College
Monmouth University
Montgomery College
Morehouse College
Morgan State University
Mount St. Mary's University - Maryland
Muhlenberg College
New England College
New Mexico State University
New York University
New York University (Shanghai)
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A & T State University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Northeastern University
Northern Arizona University
Northern Vermont University-Lyndon
Northwestern University
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Otis College of Art and Design
Pace University-New York
Pennsylvania State University
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Purdue University
Queen Mary University of London
Radford University
Reed College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rice University
Roanoke College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Saint Augustine's University
Saint Mary's College of California
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Sarah Lawrence College
Savannah College of Art and Design
Seton Hall University
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Skidmore College
Smith College
Sonoma State University
Southern University and A & M College
Spelman College
St Mary's College of Maryland
St. John's College
St. John's University
Stanford University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Suffolk University
SUNY at Purchase College
SUNY College at Oswego
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Syracuse University
Talladega College
Temple University
Texas A & M University-College Station
The Naropa University
The New School
The University of Arizona
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Texas at Austin
Towson University
Trinity College
Trinity University
Trinity Washington University
Tufts University
Tulane University of Louisiana
United States Air Force Academy
United States Naval Academy
Universiteit van Amsterdam
University at Albany, SUNY
University College London
University of Bristol
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Davis
University of California-Irvine
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Riverside
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of California-Santa Cruz
University of California, San Diego
University of Central Florida
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Exeter
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Glasgow
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
University of Maine
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
University of Miami
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of North Carolina at Asheville
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina Wilmington
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton
University of South Carolina-Columbia
University of Southampton
University of St Andrews
University of Tampa
University of the District of Columbia
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vassar College
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia State University
Washington Adventist University
Washington State University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Wilkes University
William and Mary
Winston-Salem State University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Xavier University
Xavier University of Louisiana
Yale University

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Anonymous wrote:Not buying it. Even YHP and Stanford aren't looking for 14-15 APs. They're looking for academic depth and extra curricular accomplishment and at least 6 or 7 APs with scores of 5 or IBD points totals of 40+. Nobody does this at JR.

I don't understand this comment whatsoever. My own kid took 13 plus DE at GW.

I would not say it is actually because kids are trying to overload on APs (though there are the few that really want to be valedictorian)...it is because you either take AP or grade level. Grade level is a complete waste of time, so even if you don't want to take AP English Lit...you take it because you are not going to take grade level English.

So, you take AP for all core courses (math, science, English, social studies/humanities) in 11th and 12th...that is 8 right there. Add in AP language, add in AP Comp Sci Principles and Comp Sci A (popular STEM APs). You are now at 11 APs. Many kids are taking 1 or 2 as Sophomores.

Also, US colleges don't really care about your AP Test score. That is for placement when you are accepted. They care about the grade in the class.

UK and Canadian colleges actually very much do care about AP Test scores.

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

It is more nuanced than that. The following factor into the college decision:

1. How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy. If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year. JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc. There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy. Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds. These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages. Not the case at all. Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out. Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2. The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes. The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low. They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true. You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school. So many boxes get checked.

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.

Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class. Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in. The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in. Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person. This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc.. Again, only based on what I know.

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.

Not much one can do about that because it is a DCPS decision. I actually wish they would follow Montgomery County and show acceptance by HS, so you could sit there with your mouth agape and wonder why I moved to MCPS thinking my college acceptance chances would improve.

Maybe the PP was talking out of his a*ss. Count me skeptical.

I don't think that hiding college acceptances is a DCPS requirement. For example, below is a list of colleges for a recent class at Walls.

My guess is that JR gets a handful of T10 acceptances every year but the results are mostly mediocre, and they want to hide that fact. The graduation rate is only 87%. Plus, if you look at PARCC scores, 3/4 of JR students are below grade level in science, 2/3 are below grade level in math, and 2/5 are below grade level in English. A lot of JR students don't go to college or attend community college at most.

Walls admissions for Class of 2020:

Allegheny College
American University
Appalachian State University
Arizona State University-Tempe
Arkansas Baptist College
Ball State University
Bard College
Barnard College
Bates College
Belmont University
Beloit College
Benedict College
Bennington College
Bethune-Cookman University
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State University-Los Angeles
California State University-San Bernardino
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Catholic University of America
Chapman University
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Clark Atlanta University
Clark University
Clemson University
Colby College
College of Charleston
Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Columbia University in the City of New York
Cooper Union
Coppin State University
Cornell University
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
CUNY Brooklyn College
CUNY Hunter College
Delaware State University
DePaul University
Drew University
Drexel University
Duke University
Duquesne University
Earlham College
Eastern Michigan University
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
Fairfield University
Fashion Institute of Technology
Fayetteville State University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida State University
Fordham University
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia State University
Gettysburg College
Grambling State University
Hampshire College
Hampton University
Harvey Mudd College
High Point University
Hobart William Smith Colleges
Howard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores
Ithaca College
James Madison University
John Cabot University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
King's College London (University of London)
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Lincoln University
Livingstone College
Longwood University
Louisiana State University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College
Maryland Institute College of Art
Marymount University
McDaniel College
McGill University
Miami University-Oxford (Business)
Michigan State University
Mills College
Monmouth University
Montgomery College
Morehouse College
Morgan State University
Mount St. Mary's University - Maryland
Muhlenberg College
New England College
New Mexico State University
New York University
New York University (Shanghai)
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A & T State University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Northeastern University
Northern Arizona University
Northern Vermont University-Lyndon
Northwestern University
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Otis College of Art and Design
Pace University-New York
Pennsylvania State University
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Purdue University
Queen Mary University of London
Radford University
Reed College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rice University
Roanoke College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Saint Augustine's University
Saint Mary's College of California
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Sarah Lawrence College
Savannah College of Art and Design
Seton Hall University
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Skidmore College
Smith College
Sonoma State University
Southern University and A & M College
Spelman College
St Mary's College of Maryland
St. John's College
St. John's University
Stanford University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Suffolk University
SUNY at Purchase College
SUNY College at Oswego
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Syracuse University
Talladega College
Temple University
Texas A & M University-College Station
The Naropa University
The New School
The University of Arizona
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Texas at Austin
Towson University
Trinity College
Trinity University
Trinity Washington University
Tufts University
Tulane University of Louisiana
United States Air Force Academy
United States Naval Academy
Universiteit van Amsterdam
University at Albany, SUNY
University College London
University of Bristol
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Davis
University of California-Irvine
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Riverside
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of California-Santa Cruz
University of California, San Diego
University of Central Florida
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Exeter
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Glasgow
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
University of Maine
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
University of Miami
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of North Carolina at Asheville
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina Wilmington
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton
University of South Carolina-Columbia
University of Southampton
University of St Andrews
University of Tampa
University of the District of Columbia
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vassar College
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia State University
Washington Adventist University
Washington State University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Wilkes University
William and Mary
Winston-Salem State University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Xavier University
Xavier University of Louisiana
Yale University

I'm not exactly sure what the list is proving since I just clicked into this thread for the first time, but I'm pretty surprised at how terrible this list is. Half of the colleges on here shouldn't even exist (and likely won't as the college age population shrinks and student debt becomes harder to afford/obtain). There are a few good schools but most of these kids are going to garbage

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

It is more nuanced than that. The following factor into the college decision:

1. How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy. If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year. JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc. There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy. Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds. These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages. Not the case at all. Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out. Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2. The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes. The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low. They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true. You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school. So many boxes get checked.

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.

Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class. Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in. The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in. Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person. This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc.. Again, only based on what I know.

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.

Not much one can do about that because it is a DCPS decision. I actually wish they would follow Montgomery County and show acceptance by HS, so you could sit there with your mouth agape and wonder why I moved to MCPS thinking my college acceptance chances would improve.

Maybe the PP was talking out of his a*ss. Count me skeptical.

I don't think that hiding college acceptances is a DCPS requirement. For example, below is a list of colleges for a recent class at Walls.

My guess is that JR gets a handful of T10 acceptances every year but the results are mostly mediocre, and they want to hide that fact. The graduation rate is only 87%. Plus, if you look at PARCC scores, 3/4 of JR students are below grade level in science, 2/3 are below grade level in math, and 2/5 are below grade level in English. A lot of JR students don't go to college or attend community college at most.

Walls admissions for Class of 2020:

Allegheny College
American University
Appalachian State University
Arizona State University-Tempe
Arkansas Baptist College
Ball State University
Bard College
Barnard College
Bates College
Belmont University
Beloit College
Benedict College
Bennington College
Bethune-Cookman University
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State University-Los Angeles
California State University-San Bernardino
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Catholic University of America
Chapman University
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Clark Atlanta University
Clark University
Clemson University
Colby College
College of Charleston
Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Columbia University in the City of New York
Cooper Union
Coppin State University
Cornell University
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
CUNY Brooklyn College
CUNY Hunter College
Delaware State University
DePaul University
Drew University
Drexel University
Duke University
Duquesne University
Earlham College
Eastern Michigan University
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
Fairfield University
Fashion Institute of Technology
Fayetteville State University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida State University
Fordham University
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia State University
Gettysburg College
Grambling State University
Hampshire College
Hampton University
Harvey Mudd College
High Point University
Hobart William Smith Colleges
Howard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores
Ithaca College
James Madison University
John Cabot University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
King's College London (University of London)
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Lincoln University
Livingstone College
Longwood University
Louisiana State University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College
Maryland Institute College of Art
Marymount University
McDaniel College
McGill University
Miami University-Oxford (Business)
Michigan State University
Mills College
Monmouth University
Montgomery College
Morehouse College
Morgan State University
Mount St. Mary's University - Maryland
Muhlenberg College
New England College
New Mexico State University
New York University
New York University (Shanghai)
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A & T State University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Northeastern University
Northern Arizona University
Northern Vermont University-Lyndon
Northwestern University
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Otis College of Art and Design
Pace University-New York
Pennsylvania State University
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Purdue University
Queen Mary University of London
Radford University
Reed College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rice University
Roanoke College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Saint Augustine's University
Saint Mary's College of California
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Sarah Lawrence College
Savannah College of Art and Design
Seton Hall University
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Skidmore College
Smith College
Sonoma State University
Southern University and A & M College
Spelman College
St Mary's College of Maryland
St. John's College
St. John's University
Stanford University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Suffolk University
SUNY at Purchase College
SUNY College at Oswego
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Syracuse University
Talladega College
Temple University
Texas A & M University-College Station
The Naropa University
The New School
The University of Arizona
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Texas at Austin
Towson University
Trinity College
Trinity University
Trinity Washington University
Tufts University
Tulane University of Louisiana
United States Air Force Academy
United States Naval Academy
Universiteit van Amsterdam
University at Albany, SUNY
University College London
University of Bristol
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Davis
University of California-Irvine
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Riverside
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of California-Santa Cruz
University of California, San Diego
University of Central Florida
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Exeter
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Glasgow
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
University of Maine
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
University of Miami
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of North Carolina at Asheville
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina Wilmington
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton
University of South Carolina-Columbia
University of Southampton
University of St Andrews
University of Tampa
University of the District of Columbia
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vassar College
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia State University
Washington Adventist University
Washington State University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Wilkes University
William and Mary
Winston-Salem State University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Xavier University
Xavier University of Louisiana
Yale University

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

It is more nuanced than that. The following factor into the college decision:

1. How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy. If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year. JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc. There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy. Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds. These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages. Not the case at all. Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out. Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2. The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes. The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low. They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true. You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school. So many boxes get checked.

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.

Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class. Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in. The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in. Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person. This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc.. Again, only based on what I know.

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.

Not much one can do about that because it is a DCPS decision. I actually wish they would follow Montgomery County and show acceptance by HS, so you could sit there with your mouth agape and wonder why I moved to MCPS thinking my college acceptance chances would improve.

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

It is more nuanced than that. The following factor into the college decision:

1. How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy. If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year. JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc. There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy. Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds. These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages. Not the case at all. Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out. Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2. The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes. The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low. They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true. You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school. So many boxes get checked.

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.

Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class. Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in. The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in. Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person. This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc.. Again, only based on what I know.

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.

Not much one can do about that because it is a DCPS decision. I actually wish they would follow Montgomery County and show acceptance by HS, so you could sit there with your mouth agape and wonder why I moved to MCPS thinking my college acceptance chances would improve.

Kids self report on the school's seniors' IG page. That's pretty much real time.

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

It is more nuanced than that. The following factor into the college decision:

1. How many kids are applying to that specific college and how many have legacy. If you look at the history of college acceptances from various HSs, you will see it is fairly consistent year-to-year. JR will send 2-3 to Princeton every year, 2 to MIT, etc. There are way more kids applying to Ivies from Whitman than JR, and many more are going to have legacy. Your primary college competition is the other kids from your school, so if only 6 kids apply to Princeton from JR, you have pretty good odds. These kids will all have the Stats, so this is not a scenario where the JR kids all have 3.0 averages. Not the case at all. Whitman is going to have way more kids applying to Princeton, and Princeton will accept what they normally accept (don't know what it is) every year and the legacies will often win out. Sports recruits are a different animal and will add to the school totals.
2. The overall demographics of the school will actually put it in certain categories which allows the college to check various boxes. The colleges are ecstatic to say we accepted all these kids from this urban school where the median income is fairly low, and median test scores are low. They are more than happy to ignore the fact that the kids they are actually accepting live in $2MM houses and are not disadvantaged whatsoever.

Of course if you row crew for JR, you are an Ivy league dream come true. You are part of the national championship team and you go to an urban, hardscrabble school. So many boxes get checked.

Sort of but you are way overstating the JR acceptance rate at top universities.

Whitman and JR each have about 500 in a class. Typically, maybe 35 apply to Princeton from Whitman in a given year, and 1-3 get in. The same year, maybe 12 apply to Princeton from JR, and zero get in. Sure, every once in a while, someone gets into Princeton from JR but it is unusual.

Hmmm...I presume you are talking out of your A** and are a MOCO person. This year, JR already has one accepted from Princeton (only 4 ED applicants), last year 2 accepted, year before...wait for it...2 accepted.

This year, based only on what I know, JR has at least 1 for Harvard, 5 for Cornell, 2 for Brown, 1 for Penn, etc.. Again, only based on what I know.

Hmmm…weird how JR doesn't release any info about college acceptances…I guess that we will just have to take your word for it.

Not much one can do about that because it is a DCPS decision. I actually wish they would follow Montgomery County and show acceptance by HS, so you could sit there with your mouth agape and wonder why I moved to MCPS thinking my college acceptance chances would improve.