The Potomac School

McLean · VA · Private independent · K-12 combined

Private

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Your state's public flagship

University of Virginia-Main Campus

17%

admit rate

$21,803

in-state tuition/yr · $59,512 out-of-state

1410–1530

SAT 25–75 · ACT 32–34

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $21,565/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

The Potomac School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 136 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

Years, as the document states them
past four years

College · Students

University of Virginia 24

College of William & Mary 18

Wake Forest University 13

Dartmouth College 12

Boston College 9

Duke University 9

Georgetown University 9

University of Miami 9

Brown University 8

Colby College 8

Harvard University 8

Middlebury College 8

New York University 8

Northwestern University 8

Colgate University 7

Pennsylvania State University 7

Tulane University 7

University of Chicago 7

University of Pennsylvania 7

Virginia Tech 7

Williams College 7

Northeastern University 6

Princeton University 6

University of Southern California 6

Vanderbilt University 6

Washington and Lee University 6

Washington University 6

Emory University 5

Syracuse University 5

University of Maryland 5

and 106 more

Barnard College 4

Boston University 4

Bucknell University 4

Clemson University 4

Cornell University 4

George Washington University 4

Hamilton College 4

Indiana University at Bloomington 4

Michigan State University 4

Spelman College 4

Stanford University 4

Tufts University 4

University of Michigan 4

University of Richmond 4

Wesleyan University 4

Auburn University 3

Case Western Reserve University 3

Columbia University 3

Davidson College 3

Dickinson College 3

George Mason University 3

James Madison University 3

John Hopkins University 3

Kenyon College 3

Lafayette College 3

Purdue University 3

Rice University 3

Texas Christian University 3

United States Naval Academy 3

University of California, Berkeley 3

University of California, Los Angeles 3

University of Wisconsin, Madison 3

Amherst College 2

Bates College 2

Bowdoin College 2

Carleton College 2

Carnegie Mellon University 2

Denison University 2

Haverford College 2

Howard University 2

Lehigh University 2

Morehouse College 2

Pomona College 2

Savannah College of Art and Design 2

Southern Methodist University 2

Swarthmore College 2

University of Colorado, Boulder 2

University of Georgia 2

University of North Carolina 2

University of Notre Dame 2

University of Oxford 2

Yale University 2

American University 1

Christopher Newport University 1

Claremont McKenna College 1

College of the Holy Cross 1

East Carolina University 1

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University 1

Fordham University 1

Franklin & Marshall College 1

Georgia Institute of Technology 1

Gettysburg College 1

Hampden-Sydney Collage 1

High Point University 1

Imperial College London 1

Loyola Marymount University 1

Loyola University Maryland 1

Macalester College 1

Marymount University 1

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences 1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1

McGill University 1

Merrimack College 1

Missouri University of Science and Technology 1

Oberlin College 1

Ohio State University 1

Pitzer College 1

Providence College 1

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1

Roanoke College 1

San Diego State University 1

Santa Clara University 1

Sante Fe College 1

Shepherd University 1

Skidmore College 1

Smith College 1

St. Lawrence University 1

Stevenson University 1

Trinity College 1

University of Arizona 1

University of California, San Diego 1

University of California, Santa Barbara 1

University of Denver 1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1

University of Mary Washington 1

University of Massachusetts 1

University of Montana 1

University of South Carolina 1

University of St Andrews 1

University of Texas at Austin 1

University of Toronto 1

Villanova University 1

Virginia Wesleyan University 1

Wabash College 1

Wellesley College 1

Xavier University 1

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Independently verified As published by The Potomac School — Matriculation page ↗. Found at: College Counseling > Matriculation, state-by-state college list.

About this listing

The Potomac School is listed by NAIS + founder list. It has not reported to the federal Private School Survey, which is voluntary, so enrollment figures are not available here — many of the country's oldest independent schools are in the same position. The school's own site: www.potomacschool.org ↗

Not enough enrollment history on file to chart a trend for this school yet.

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