Is it possible to find out where Fairfax Co high school graduates go to college? I am trying to find a listing of each FX Co. High School and which colleges their graduates attended?

The percentage of kids FX Co high school grads that that go to 4 year private colleges is fairly low (around 7-10%). The percentage that go to public 4 year schools is a bit higher (around 50%).


I'd like know which colleges they go to. Any ideas?

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Nova

Strayer

and until recently, ITT

I tried googling with no luck.

Anywhere they want to. A 1.5GPA in Fairfax County translates to a 4.0GPA at the next best school system in the U.S.

American colleges and universities are kryptonited by FCPS students.

With such a great public school system in Virginia, most fairfax county student do stay in state to take advantage. FFX is a high achieving area so lots of students go to JMU, VT, W&M, and UVA which are kind of seen as the progression of schools you want to go to (I leave out W&L because it's private liberal arts college that doesn't attract tons of students from northern virginia). Many students also go to GMU/VCU/ CNU

I went to Rappohannock. We call it Rap. I majored in Rap. I got a PhD in Rap. Yo

UVA - most economical and most prestigious public school

GW - rich kids who for some reason wants to pay through the roof

GT - rich kids who had GW as a safety school

GMU - average students who missed out on JMU or VT

JMU - better than average students who missed out on UVA

VT - couldn't gone to GMU or JMU, but chose VT due to interests

I meant "VT - could've*** gone to GMU or JMU, but chose VT due to interests"

I wonder if I'm the only FCPS grad to attend the U S Merchant Marine Academy?

It was a great choice for me. I now command a ULCC (very large tanker) and it's a wonderful life. Great pay and lots of time off. Too much time off actually, I get itchy if I'm ashore too long. Salt water in my veins I guess.

Any other USMMA Mariners here?

You can probably FOIA this information. They have to leave the names off, but that doesn't matter. All the Guidance offices keep lists of where the kids go. Ask to see them. Piece of cake.

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/policies-regulations-and-notices/virginia-freedom-information-act-vfoia

411 Wrote:
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> UVA - most economical and most prestigious public
> school
>
> GW - rich kids who for some reason wants to pay
> through the roof
>
> GT - rich kids who had GW as a safety school
>
> GMU - average students who missed out on JMU or
> VT
>
> JMU - better than average students who missed out
> on UVA
>
> VT - couldn't gone to GMU or JMU, but chose VT due
> to interests

William and Mary, Old Dominion, Mary Washington, Newport News, Radford, Longwood, NOVA

I forgot Marymount University. Basically like Wharton.

Our daughter is a senior this year and we are finding that VA schools don't offer any scholarships to in-state students. She can go to comparable out-of-state schools at a much lower cost. Fairfax county's - and oakton HS's - reputations rock!

A sample of the colleges recruiting at our school....

Tuesday 9/6
9:00 High Point University

Wednesday 9/7
9:50 University of Virginia

Thursday 9/8
10:00 University of Dayton

Friday 9/9
1:20 University of St Andrews

Monday 9/12
8:00 Bryant University

Tuesday 9/13
10:45 Johns Hopkins University

Wednesday 9/14
10:00 Bucknell University
10:45 Lynchburg College

Thursday 9/15
11:15 Dickinson College

Friday 9/16
8:00 United States Air Force Academy

Monday 9/19
8:45 Elon University
9:45 Wittenberg University

Tuesday 9/20
8:45 Louisiana State University

Thursday 9/22
8:00 Bridgewater College
9:00 Goucher College
9:55 Seton Hall University
11:15 Radford University
12:00 Lafayette College

Friday 9/23
10:30 Pace University

Monday 9/26
8:00 Old Dominion University
9:00 New York University
9:50 University of Richmond
10:45 Merrimack College
2:15 Belmont Abbey College

Tuesday 9/27
8:00 University of Maryland, Baltimore County
9:55 Georgia Tech
12:30 Kenyon College
1:20 Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (Germany)
2:15 St. Bonaventure University

Wednesday 9/28
9:00 Fordham University
9:55 Saint Vincent College
10:45 Spelman College
12:30 Regent's University London
2:15 Saint Anselm College

Thursday 9/29
8:00 University of Colorado at Boulder
8:45 Marymount University
11:45 George Mason University
2:30 Thomas Aquinas College

Friday 9/30
8:00 Birmingham-Southern College
9:30 College of William & Mary
11:00 Temple University
1:00 Ferrum College

Which HS is yours? We don't get that many visits all year.

Keats Wrote:
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> Our daughter is a senior this year and we are
> finding that VA schools don't offer any
> scholarships to in-state students. She can go to
> comparable out-of-state schools at a much lower
> cost. Fairfax county's - and oakton HS's -
> reputations rock!


We found this out, also. They were throwing money at us left and right. Don't limit yourselves to looking at only Virginia schools. They didn't even ask about our net worth, which disqualifies us from anything and everything. They just wanted our child and were willing to bribe us. We got a private world-class specialty school for the same price as UVA, which turned our child down. A double cum laude and two STEM degrees later (in four years to boot) they can kiss our asses. Big mistake for them. And our child is on to grad school. Out of state. With a huge bribe/"enticement".

Keats Wrote:
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> Our daughter is a senior this year and we are
> finding that VA schools don't offer any
> scholarships to in-state students. She can go to
> comparable out-of-state schools at a much lower
> cost. Fairfax county's - and oakton HS's -
> reputations rock!

Actually that's not true.

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“We don’t have any rude, unpleasant people here. We’re different!”

Apparently tens of thousands are well prepared for Community College....

Northern Virginia Community College - Annandale Campus

2013-14 Tuition & Fees
$3,677 in-state
$8,411 out-of-state
Students
51,803 total <---- WOW!
19,700 full-time
32,103 part-time
49% male / 51% female


Full-time retention rate 70%
Part-time retention rate 45%
Graduation rate 23%
Transfer-out rate 16%
Entering students who are full-time first-time undergraduates 4 48%
Student-faculty ratio 22

Quite a few go to the largest and best university in the DC Metro area: The University of Maryland.

ryfhtjeh Wrote:
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> Keats Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Our daughter is a senior this year and we are
> > finding that VA schools don't offer any
> > scholarships to in-state students. She can go
> to
> > comparable out-of-state schools at a much lower
> > cost. Fairfax county's - and oakton HS's -
> > reputations rock!
>
>
> We found this out, also. They were throwing money
> at us left and right. Don't limit yourselves to
> looking at only Virginia schools. They didn't even
> ask about our net worth, which disqualifies us
> from anything and everything. They just wanted our
> child and were willing to bribe us. We got a
> private world-class specialty school for the same
> price as UVA, which turned our child down. A
> double cum laude and two STEM degrees later (in
> four years to boot) they can kiss our asses. Big
> mistake for them. And our child is on to grad
> school. Out of state. With a huge
> bribe/"enticement".

I don't have any evidence to refute your "double cum laude and two STEM degrees later" claim, but I guarantee that no "private world class specialty school" needs to "bribe" you to send your child there.

The schools that people in this thread are referring to as offering grants or other tuition assistance are on the level of Clemson, South Carolina, West Virginia, and the like, where the in-state caliber of students pales in comparison to the average Fairfax County grad.

"I don't have any evidence to refute your "double cum laude and two STEM degrees later" claim, but I guarantee that no "private world class specialty school" needs to "bribe" you to send your child there."

I have the evidence. They are a fairly expensive school, they wanted my kid because my kid had a great profile, and they made it worth our while.

We were "enticed". They wanted to build up their base of really good students (everybody wants to go here if they can), and that is one way to do it.

Money talks.

It is about time a nice white kid from a well-off family who worked their butt off and doesn't play sports got financially rewarded for their hard work. Nothing wrong with merit scholarships.

Also offered a tidy package from a top-tier out-of state public university. No financial analysis required.

Amen and no apologies here.

Just turn in those applications and see what happens. There is a lot more to academia than UVA.

Clem Sunn Wrote:
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> I don't have any evidence to refute your "double
> cum laude and two STEM degrees later" claim, but I
> guarantee that no "private world class specialty
> school" needs to "bribe" you to send your child
> there.
>
> The schools that people in this thread are
> referring to as offering grants or other tuition
> assistance are on the level of Clemson, South
> Carolina, West Virginia, and the like, where the
> in-state caliber of students pales in comparison
> to the average Fairfax County grad.

I don't know what the current situation is. A few years back one of my kids was offered grants from two Ivies that would have cut his total costs for the first two years in half. A friend of mine sent her kid to Rice tuition free. Other friends have sent their kids to top state schools out of state for in state tuition. Several top private schools have needs based grants that can cut tuition to zero.

Let's be honest though. If your kid has SATs of 2000 and a GPA that puts him in the top 10% of his class, you may think he's hot stuff. For many good schools though that will put your kid in the middle of the class. For top schools that may even put your kid in the bottom quarter. There aren't that many schools that are interested in offering serious financial incentives to get what (to them) is another average student to attend their school.

Gyhvy Wrote:
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> Clem Sunn Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I don't have any evidence to refute your
> "double
> > cum laude and two STEM degrees later" claim, but
> I
> > guarantee that no "private world class
> specialty
> > school" needs to "bribe" you to send your child
> > there.
> >
> > The schools that people in this thread are
> > referring to as offering grants or other
> tuition
> > assistance are on the level of Clemson, South
> > Carolina, West Virginia, and the like, where
> the
> > in-state caliber of students pales in
> comparison
> > to the average Fairfax County grad.
>
> I don't know what the current situation is. A few
> years back one of my kids was offered grants from
> two Ivies that would have cut his total costs for
> the first two years in half. A friend of mine
> sent her kid to Rice tuition free. Other friends
> have sent their kids to top state schools out of
> state for in state tuition. Several top private
> schools have needs based grants that can cut
> tuition to zero.
>
> Let's be honest though. If your kid has SATs of
> 2000 and a GPA that puts him in the top 10% of his
> class, you may think he's hot stuff. For many
> good schools though that will put your kid in the
> middle of the class. For top schools that may
> even put your kid in the bottom quarter. There
> aren't that many schools that are interested in
> offering serious financial incentives to get what
> (to them) is another average student to attend
> their school.


Realize this is an old thread, but as a recent graduate of UVA I thought I should highlight this particular comment. None of the schools in the top 25 need to "entice" families to apply. They get thousands, and some tens of thousands of applications each year. It's a schools market, and with the government willing to give virtually anyone a loan, the schools can charge whatever they wish, and people will pay it. I was able to transfer from NVCC into UVA, thus saving me half of what everyone else pays, but that's certainly not typical.

capt kidd Wrote:
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> I wonder if I'm the only FCPS grad to attend the U
> S Merchant Marine Academy?
>
> It was a great choice for me. I now command a
> ULCC (very large tanker) and it's a wonderful
> life. Great pay and lots of time off. Too much
> time off actually, I get itchy if I'm ashore too
> long. Salt water in my veins I guess.
>
> Any other USMMA Mariners here?


A bit late as I just saw this question.

A friend of mine has a son from FCPS that is going into his Sophomore year at the USMMA. He seems to really like it and is happy he can sleep until 7 am this year!

Both my kids are out of state. Not much in the way of any help, but they were not very excited about the VA schools once they started to look very close at them.

They really did not want to be around too many NOVA types.

#2 who was pretty much overlooked by a number of good schools in VA, was accepted to a large out of state University into a VERY selective program that accepts less that 20 students into the program annually. This program ROCKS and if the kid stays with it, they will be set for life.