Four T.C. Williams seniors have qualified this year as National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists--up from last year’s one qualifier--Principal Peter Balas announced on Wednesday.
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Dwindling Student Parking
With a growing student body of nearly 4,000, the 175 official student parking spaces offered in Chinquapin circle this year barely hold up. The parking passes that allow students to park in the circle are property of the City of Alexandria, not of T.C. Williams, and cost $120 for the school year.
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AP Scores Take Off in ACPS
In 2018, T.C. Williams has improved its Advanced Placement test scores, having 72% of AP students scoring a three or higher on their exams. This is a significant increase within the last thirteen years, when in 2005 only 39% of students passed their AP exams. With more than one third of students from the King Street campus taking AP courses, these scores are at a record high.
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When “A” Is the New Average
As college admissions season approaches, high school seniors are compiling the transcripts and resumes they have been building since ninth grade. With admissions become increasingly competitive, these students are unknowingly being affected by an academic phenomenon 50 years in the making.
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What is Seminar?
This school year the Minnie Howard campus, International Academy, and King Street campus will have different versions of a new seminar period.
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To Light or Not to Light?
Unlike in the rest of the nation, “Friday Night Lights” have never been a tradition in Alexandria. T.C.’s historic football team, made famous by the Disney movie Remember the Titans, is unable to compete on Friday nights because of the lack of lighting at its home stadium.
