Anonymous
Post 09/01/2021 08:12     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
I don't know any kids who got rejected from MD but accepted out of state to WIl

MD is super selective now and some high state kids are being rejected for sure. But they are usually ending up at Penn State, Ohio and Delaware.

Wisconsin is for kids whose grades/scores are just below Michigan. As Michigan has gotten more and more impossible to get into, WI is a solid second public choice. WI is also $52K while IL is $56K and MI is $65K.

Florida is for the budget conscious. As they have been buying their way up the US News rankings over the last decade with investments in buildings and growing their alumni donations - their cut rate out of state tuition costs of $44K is meant to attract higher SAT scores from the Northeast-- both increasing their (alleged) selectivity and their national (as opposed to regional) reputation.

Obviously Florida has nowhere near the network and reputation Wisconsin has in this area since WI has been highly ranked for decades without manipulating the rankings. But neither of them are Michigan or UCLA or Berkeley. THat's why those schools are $65K- because they can be.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2021 22:35     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I totally understand why so many would go to Wisconsin over UMD. If you have ever been to Madison, you would get it.

Huh????
Only 15+ go to Wisconsin
More than 100 will go to UMD.


People are voluntarily paying twice the tuition to go to Wisconsin over their in-state option.

People are voluntarily paying twice, trice etc..to go to Michigan, UF, UNC, UCLA and many, many more. Out of state schools So what's your point?
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2021 19:35     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I totally understand why so many would go to Wisconsin over UMD. If you have ever been to Madison, you would get it.

Huh????
Only 15+ go to Wisconsin
More than 100 will go to UMD.


People are voluntarily paying twice the tuition to go to Wisconsin over their in-state option.


UMD is not so easy to get into these days, and as a MD resident, if my DC didn't get into UMD, I would have paid to send them to Wisconsin over any of the other MD state schools in a heartbeat. Nobody has heard of any of them and Wisconsin is highly regarded across the country.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2021 15:29     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Agree. U. Penn is right down there with Grand Canyon and Trump U.


U. Penn is not a state school.

But Michigan, UCLA, Cal, Wisconsin, (heck, I'll throw UF in there too) are.

They are all great schools and a lot of fun, too.


What a lofty expectation for college, having "fun". Please shoot me now.


I have very awesome memories of college AND did well! Fun is one of the criteria I tell my kid to think about when choosing a college


Agreed. I graduated from that low expectations public school of WI. I had great academics AND I had a ton of fun. And my WI degree has never once failed me for what I wanted to do with my career choices. Like PP, I want my children to find a school where they think they will have fun. They will have nothing but fond memories.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2021 23:09     Subject: Re:Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m most struck by the number of kids going to better public schools. The numbers are from memory, so some may be off, but these alone account for about a quarter of the class. Ivy admissions account for about 5 % of the class.

UMD - College Park (20+)
UVA (8)
Virginia Tech (5)
Wisconsin (15!!)
Michigan (8)
UNC (5)
Indiana(8)
UC -SB (5)


+1

So many Wisconsin for a Maryland public school! That was surprising to me. But I wonder if most kids choose not to report to this public site? It seems like this wouldn't appeal to kids who value their privacy.


Most kids who did not report probably just forgot to do so and missed the deadline, not out of any concern of privacy. Their Facebook and Instagram postings have much more revealing of intimacy than their college names.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2021 17:30     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I totally understand why so many would go to Wisconsin over UMD. If you have ever been to Madison, you would get it.

Huh????
Only 15+ go to Wisconsin
More than 100 will go to UMD.


People are voluntarily paying twice the tuition to go to Wisconsin over their in-state option.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2021 15:48     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:I totally understand why so many would go to Wisconsin over UMD. If you have ever been to Madison, you would get it.

Huh????
Only 15+ go to Wisconsin
More than 100 will go to UMD.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2021 09:05     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
I totally understand why so many would go to Wisconsin over UMD. If you have ever been to Madison, you would get it.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2021 07:37     Subject: Re:Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m most struck by the number of kids going to better public schools. The numbers are from memory, so some may be off, but these alone account for about a quarter of the class. Ivy admissions account for about 5 % of the class.

UMD - College Park (20+)
UVA (8)
Virginia Tech (5)
Wisconsin (15!!)
Michigan (8)
UNC (5)
Indiana(8)
UC -SB (5)


+1

So many Wisconsin for a Maryland public school! That was surprising to me. But I wonder if most kids choose not to report to this public site? It seems like this wouldn't appeal to kids who value their privacy.


The information is published in the school newspaper and not everyone reports. The class of 2021 only shows 329 student destinations while the school graduated close to 500.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2021 22:21     Subject: Re:Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m most struck by the number of kids going to better public schools. The numbers are from memory, so some may be off, but these alone account for about a quarter of the class. Ivy admissions account for about 5 % of the class.

UMD - College Park (20+)
UVA (8)
Virginia Tech (5)
Wisconsin (15!!)
Michigan (8)
UNC (5)
Indiana(8)
UC -SB (5)


+1

So many Wisconsin for a Maryland public school! That was surprising to me. But I wonder if most kids choose not to report to this public site? It seems like this wouldn't appeal to kids who value their privacy.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2021 01:13     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Agree. U. Penn is right down there with Grand Canyon and Trump U.


U. Penn is not a state school.

But Michigan, UCLA, Cal, Wisconsin, (heck, I'll throw UF in there too) are.

They are all great schools and a lot of fun, too.


Don’t throw UF in there please lololol

UCLA and Cal are extremely high in academic caliber...trust me, people are working their asses off over there. They’re ivy caliber, if you want to be ivy centric
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2021 00:58     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:very impressive, compared to where some are paying 30K plus a year and all they come out with is anxiety and depression! Not just saying.


It's so great to be able to get that at Whitman for free!


Not to mention Whitman is much more competitive and academically challenging than private schools of the area...l
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2021 00:56     Subject: Whitman HS destination 2021
Anonymous wrote:Great job, kids. No Duke? Interesting. Lots of future Hoosiers. I'm not surprised that Indiana is getting very popular.
More than a few Vandy and Dartmouth. HPYS too, nice work.


No one got into Duke this year.