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Anonymous wrote:WRT NCS, 39 girls have shared where they are going if you’re referring to the student run instagram account. Last I checked, this is not the whole class! My daughter is in US at NCS and while not a senior, she has friends who are. What a lot of you are posting is just shitty. These girls work so hard at the expense of their social lives, family time and often, their happiness/mental health. If parents are disappointed, that’s between them and their daughters (although I think that’s crappy too—you should know by senior year if your daughter doesn’t have the grades for xyz school and YOU should encourage them to apply to realistic places!) The pressure on these girls is tremendous and strangers on the internet stalking their college admissions is just nuts.

I think the only poster that said their results were not good was the GDS poster. I think their results are good from what I have seen or heard.

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Anonymous wrote:WRT NCS, 39 girls have shared where they are going if you’re referring to the student run instagram account. Last I checked, this is not the whole class! My daughter is in US at NCS and while not a senior, she has friends who are. What a lot of you are posting is just shitty. These girls work so hard at the expense of their social lives, family time and often, their happiness/mental health. If parents are disappointed, that’s between them and their daughters (although I think that’s crappy too—you should know by senior year if your daughter doesn’t have the grades for xyz school and YOU should encourage them to apply to realistic places!) The pressure on these girls is tremendous and strangers on the internet stalking their college admissions is just nuts.

None of these things should ever be scarified no matter what. Parents job is to make sure these things are not sacrificed. If that means changing schools or changing sports or extracurriculars that take up all of their free time every weekend then that should happen. But it is never acceptable for parents to allow kids to sacrifice mental health or overall happiness for what? That should be the number one priority.

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Anonymous wrote:WRT NCS, 39 girls have shared where they are going if you’re referring to the student run instagram account. Last I checked, this is not the whole class! My daughter is in US at NCS and while not a senior, she has friends who are. What a lot of you are posting is just shitty. These girls work so hard at the expense of their social lives, family time and often, their happiness/mental health. If parents are disappointed, that’s between them and their daughters (although I think that’s crappy too—you should know by senior year if your daughter doesn’t have the grades for xyz school and YOU should encourage them to apply to realistic places!) The pressure on these girls is tremendous and strangers on the internet stalking their college admissions is just nuts.

Sounds like a fun place to go to school.

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Parent of a very happy NCS girl here. None of PP’s claims have been my experience. My daughter is happy, has a very vibrant social life, plenty of free time AND good grades.

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of a very happy NCS girl here. None of PP’s claims have been my experience. My daughter is happy, has a very vibrant social life, plenty of free time AND good grades.

what grade?

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of a very happy NCS girl here. None of PP’s claims have been my experience. My daughter is happy, has a very vibrant social life, plenty of free time AND good grades.

same, 12th.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS did really well this year! In a small class of 70ish, there are at least:

Harvard: 1
Princeton: 2
MIT: 1
Columbia: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Dartmouth: 1

There will be more to come I think. With the exception of the girl going to MIT, there isn't an athletic recruit in the bunch. Nice job Class of 2028!

Congrats to all those kids But this is why the NCS parent boosters who denigrate GDS and say NCS is a "better" school than GDS get to me. Maybe the Cathedral schools are great, but not in terms of college acceptances 2024. I think the old guard of DC doesn't like that what they see as a "super-liberal" school is having this kind of success.

In a class of 125 at GDS
These are committed students (Just posted so far and more to come)
6 Harvard
3 Princeton
2 Dartmouth
2 cornell
1 U Penn
1 Brown
1 Yale (unposted to IG)
1 Columbia

I'm the poster with the NCS information. Not sure why you turned this into a competition between the schools. Nowhere did I say that NCS was better than any other school, just that they had good results this year. It's a small graduating class and it's an all-girls school (and girls have a higher bar (even at top schools) because more of them are applying).

It would be wonderful if we could all just celebrate the college successes of all the students instead of trying to use one year of data to argue that a particular school is better than another. So much more goes into a high school experience than college results. I actually think my DD would have liked GDS better than NCS and I wish we would have sent her there, but not because of the class of 2024 college acceptances.

PP Here. I said congrats to the NCS kids whose acceptances you mentioned. And it's not a competition but you must be new to DCUM if you have not seen the many many virulent posts from Cathedral School parents insisting that GDS is not "Big 3" and that St Albans/NCS are the best schools in the region(only to be followed by Sidwell parents declaring their supremacy...) So yes, I think it's fair to say I actually don't think NCS had great results. You are free to disagree. I also think it's untrue that privileged mostly white girls have a "higher bar." I think that may be something you want to tell yourself when other equally privileged kids from a liberal co-ed school have better results. The colleges do not view private school kids from GDS differently from private school kids from NCS. Your girls were not disadvantaged. This year another school simply had better overall results. Now I fully expect someone to chime in that all the GDS kids were somehow "hooked" which is completely untrue, but seems to be what people want to hear when they see these stats.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I am curious about the STA results.

STA results are very good. I would say 60% into top 25 schools. Less than 5 boys into what one might think are non-competitive entry schools.
They're definitely better than the NCS admits. Some of this is due to the fact that boys are easier to place then girls in 2024. Some is the NCS grading.

Hmmm, my daughter has excellent grades, she is not an anomaly. STA has not announced a list, so you must be going off of anecdotal info that is incomplete.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS did really well this year! In a small class of 70ish, there are at least:

Harvard: 1
Princeton: 2
MIT: 1
Columbia: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Dartmouth: 1

There will be more to come I think. With the exception of the girl going to MIT, there isn't an athletic recruit in the bunch. Nice job Class of 2028!

Congrats to all those kids But this is why the NCS parent boosters who denigrate GDS and say NCS is a "better" school than GDS get to me. Maybe the Cathedral schools are great, but not in terms of college acceptances 2024. I think the old guard of DC doesn't like that what they see as a "super-liberal" school is having this kind of success.

In a class of 125 at GDS
These are committed students (Just posted so far and more to come)
6 Harvard
3 Princeton
2 Dartmouth
2 cornell
1 U Penn
1 Brown
1 Yale (unposted to IG)
1 Columbia

I'm the poster with the NCS information. Not sure why you turned this into a competition between the schools. Nowhere did I say that NCS was better than any other school, just that they had good results this year. It's a small graduating class and it's an all-girls school (and girls have a higher bar (even at top schools) because more of them are applying).

It would be wonderful if we could all just celebrate the college successes of all the students instead of trying to use one year of data to argue that a particular school is better than another. So much more goes into a high school experience than college results. I actually think my DD would have liked GDS better than NCS and I wish we would have sent her there, but not because of the class of 2024 college acceptances.

PP Here. I said congrats to the NCS kids whose acceptances you mentioned. And it's not a competition but you must be new to DCUM if you have not seen the many many virulent posts from Cathedral School parents insisting that GDS is not "Big 3" and that St Albans/NCS are the best schools in the region(only to be followed by Sidwell parents declaring their supremacy...) So yes, I think it's fair to say I actually don't think NCS had great results. You are free to disagree. I also think it's untrue that privileged mostly white girls have a "higher bar." I think that may be something you want to tell yourself when other equally privileged kids from a liberal co-ed school have better results. The colleges do not view private school kids from GDS differently from private school kids from NCS. Your girls were not disadvantaged. This year another school simply had better overall results. Now I fully expect someone to chime in that all the GDS kids were somehow "hooked" which is completely untrue, but seems to be what people want to hear when they see these stats.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

DP. GDS and Sidwell do not compute GPAs and do not do class ranking. It helps in their college admissions immensely.

NCS doesn't do class ranking. And according to the 6 college counselor my child talked to at the Georgetown Prep college fair, most say they compute a GPA when one isn't provided. A few said they recalculate everyones. It's done by a computer program and is fed to admissions. They can see the grades, they aren't stupid.

My kids also attended the college fair from other school and did your kid really ask 6 counselors that question and then about GPA when one isn't provided?

Yes, some of her classmates were spewing the nonsense the PP stated about GPA on or off of transcripts. She had 6 conversations that all seemed to align. She took notes and shared them with us.

You sound very judgmental. Your daughter should not be gossiping about her classmates and making fun of questions they may have asked. They have a right to ask whatever they want. It is a bad reflection on her and you.

An 11th grade girl listened to a few classmates sharing information, thought it sounded odd and sought out college professionals to confirm or correct. You don't like the answer she received at a college fair (because it doesn't align with your claims), so you attack, label her a gossip and me as judgmental.

Misinformation is not helpful to anyone. Attacking this student is a bad reflection on you.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS did really well this year! In a small class of 70ish, there are at least:

Harvard: 1
Princeton: 2
MIT: 1
Columbia: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Dartmouth: 1

There will be more to come I think. With the exception of the girl going to MIT, there isn't an athletic recruit in the bunch. Nice job Class of 2028!

Congrats to all those kids But this is why the NCS parent boosters who denigrate GDS and say NCS is a "better" school than GDS get to me. Maybe the Cathedral schools are great, but not in terms of college acceptances 2024. I think the old guard of DC doesn't like that what they see as a "super-liberal" school is having this kind of success.

In a class of 125 at GDS
These are committed students (Just posted so far and more to come)
6 Harvard
3 Princeton
2 Dartmouth
2 cornell
1 U Penn
1 Brown
1 Yale (unposted to IG)
1 Columbia

I'm the poster with the NCS information. Not sure why you turned this into a competition between the schools. Nowhere did I say that NCS was better than any other school, just that they had good results this year. It's a small graduating class and it's an all-girls school (and girls have a higher bar (even at top schools) because more of them are applying).

It would be wonderful if we could all just celebrate the college successes of all the students instead of trying to use one year of data to argue that a particular school is better than another. So much more goes into a high school experience than college results. I actually think my DD would have liked GDS better than NCS and I wish we would have sent her there, but not because of the class of 2024 college acceptances.

PP Here. I said congrats to the NCS kids whose acceptances you mentioned. And it's not a competition but you must be new to DCUM if you have not seen the many many virulent posts from Cathedral School parents insisting that GDS is not "Big 3" and that St Albans/NCS are the best schools in the region(only to be followed by Sidwell parents declaring their supremacy...) So yes, I think it's fair to say I actually don't think NCS had great results. You are free to disagree. I also think it's untrue that privileged mostly white girls have a "higher bar." I think that may be something you want to tell yourself when other equally privileged kids from a liberal co-ed school have better results. The colleges do not view private school kids from GDS differently from private school kids from NCS. Your girls were not disadvantaged. This year another school simply had better overall results. Now I fully expect someone to chime in that all the GDS kids were somehow "hooked" which is completely untrue, but seems to be what people want to hear when they see these stats.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I am curious about the STA results.

STA results are very good. I would say 60% into top 25 schools. Less than 5 boys into what one might think are non-competitive entry schools.
They're definitely better than the NCS admits. Some of this is due to the fact that boys are easier to place then girls in 2024. Some is the NCS grading.

Hmmm, my daughter has excellent grades, she is not an anomaly. STA has not announced a list, so you must be going off of anecdotal info that is incomplete.

I have a kid in the class. He knows where 90% of the class is going. In my experience of parenting both, the STA boys talk about this far more than the girls do. They are super open about things in general--grades on tests, grades in courses, college matriculations. The girls keep it all quiet. My son will sit down for lunch at school and know how everyone did on a test that was just handed back or go to sports practice and know where everyone in that senior year's class applied to college and where they got in. My daughter's group of very close friends doesn't even share this stuff with each other.

It's easily 60%+ to top 25 schools.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS did really well this year! In a small class of 70ish, there are at least:

Harvard: 1
Princeton: 2
MIT: 1
Columbia: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Dartmouth: 1

There will be more to come I think. With the exception of the girl going to MIT, there isn't an athletic recruit in the bunch. Nice job Class of 2028!

Congrats to all those kids But this is why the NCS parent boosters who denigrate GDS and say NCS is a "better" school than GDS get to me. Maybe the Cathedral schools are great, but not in terms of college acceptances 2024. I think the old guard of DC doesn't like that what they see as a "super-liberal" school is having this kind of success.

In a class of 125 at GDS
These are committed students (Just posted so far and more to come)
6 Harvard
3 Princeton
2 Dartmouth
2 cornell
1 U Penn
1 Brown
1 Yale (unposted to IG)
1 Columbia

I'm the poster with the NCS information. Not sure why you turned this into a competition between the schools. Nowhere did I say that NCS was better than any other school, just that they had good results this year. It's a small graduating class and it's an all-girls school (and girls have a higher bar (even at top schools) because more of them are applying).

It would be wonderful if we could all just celebrate the college successes of all the students instead of trying to use one year of data to argue that a particular school is better than another. So much more goes into a high school experience than college results. I actually think my DD would have liked GDS better than NCS and I wish we would have sent her there, but not because of the class of 2024 college acceptances.

PP Here. I said congrats to the NCS kids whose acceptances you mentioned. And it's not a competition but you must be new to DCUM if you have not seen the many many virulent posts from Cathedral School parents insisting that GDS is not "Big 3" and that St Albans/NCS are the best schools in the region(only to be followed by Sidwell parents declaring their supremacy...) So yes, I think it's fair to say I actually don't think NCS had great results. You are free to disagree. I also think it's untrue that privileged mostly white girls have a "higher bar." I think that may be something you want to tell yourself when other equally privileged kids from a liberal co-ed school have better results. The colleges do not view private school kids from GDS differently from private school kids from NCS. Your girls were not disadvantaged. This year another school simply had better overall results. Now I fully expect someone to chime in that all the GDS kids were somehow "hooked" which is completely untrue, but seems to be what people want to hear when they see these stats.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I am curious about the STA results.

STA results are very good. I would say 60% into top 25 schools. Less than 5 boys into what one might think are non-competitive entry schools.
They're definitely better than the NCS admits. Some of this is due to the fact that boys are easier to place then girls in 2024. Some is the NCS grading.

Hmmm, my daughter has excellent grades, she is not an anomaly. STA has not announced a list, so you must be going off of anecdotal info that is incomplete.

I have a kid in the class. He knows where 90% of the class is going. In my experience of parenting both, the STA boys talk about this far more than the girls do. They are super open about things in general--grades on tests, grades in courses, college matriculations. The girls keep it all quiet. My son will sit down for lunch at school and know how everyone did on a test that was just handed back or go to sports practice and know where everyone in that senior year's class applied to college and where they got in. My daughter's group of very close friends doesn't even share this stuff with each other.

It's easily 60%+ to top 25 schools.

Is that SLACs as well in regards to top 25? Pretty amazing results.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS did really well this year! In a small class of 70ish, there are at least:

Harvard: 1
Princeton: 2
MIT: 1
Columbia: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Dartmouth: 1

There will be more to come I think. With the exception of the girl going to MIT, there isn't an athletic recruit in the bunch. Nice job Class of 2028!

Congrats to all those kids But this is why the NCS parent boosters who denigrate GDS and say NCS is a "better" school than GDS get to me. Maybe the Cathedral schools are great, but not in terms of college acceptances 2024. I think the old guard of DC doesn't like that what they see as a "super-liberal" school is having this kind of success.

In a class of 125 at GDS
These are committed students (Just posted so far and more to come)
6 Harvard
3 Princeton
2 Dartmouth
2 cornell
1 U Penn
1 Brown
1 Yale (unposted to IG)
1 Columbia

I'm the poster with the NCS information. Not sure why you turned this into a competition between the schools. Nowhere did I say that NCS was better than any other school, just that they had good results this year. It's a small graduating class and it's an all-girls school (and girls have a higher bar (even at top schools) because more of them are applying).

It would be wonderful if we could all just celebrate the college successes of all the students instead of trying to use one year of data to argue that a particular school is better than another. So much more goes into a high school experience than college results. I actually think my DD would have liked GDS better than NCS and I wish we would have sent her there, but not because of the class of 2024 college acceptances.

PP Here. I said congrats to the NCS kids whose acceptances you mentioned. And it's not a competition but you must be new to DCUM if you have not seen the many many virulent posts from Cathedral School parents insisting that GDS is not "Big 3" and that St Albans/NCS are the best schools in the region(only to be followed by Sidwell parents declaring their supremacy...) So yes, I think it's fair to say I actually don't think NCS had great results. You are free to disagree. I also think it's untrue that privileged mostly white girls have a "higher bar." I think that may be something you want to tell yourself when other equally privileged kids from a liberal co-ed school have better results. The colleges do not view private school kids from GDS differently from private school kids from NCS. Your girls were not disadvantaged. This year another school simply had better overall results. Now I fully expect someone to chime in that all the GDS kids were somehow "hooked" which is completely untrue, but seems to be what people want to hear when they see these stats.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I am curious about the STA results.

STA results are very good. I would say 60% into top 25 schools. Less than 5 boys into what one might think are non-competitive entry schools.
They're definitely better than the NCS admits. Some of this is due to the fact that boys are easier to place then girls in 2024. Some is the NCS grading.

Hmmm, my daughter has excellent grades, she is not an anomaly. STA has not announced a list, so you must be going off of anecdotal info that is incomplete.

I have a kid in the class. He knows where 90% of the class is going. In my experience of parenting both, the STA boys talk about this far more than the girls do. They are super open about things in general--grades on tests, grades in courses, college matriculations. The girls keep it all quiet. My son will sit down for lunch at school and know how everyone did on a test that was just handed back or go to sports practice and know where everyone in that senior year's class applied to college and where they got in. My daughter's group of very close friends doesn't even share this stuff with each other.

It's easily 60%+ to top 25 schools.

Is that SLACs as well in regards to top 25? Pretty amazing results.

It’s like this every year. Wait for the Bulletin this summer and look at it for yourself. If you don’t have a kid at STA, you should know some. They will let you know. If you don’t, your lack of knowledge and need for “the receipts” is a major tell.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS did really well this year! In a small class of 70ish, there are at least:

Harvard: 1
Princeton: 2
MIT: 1
Columbia: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Dartmouth: 1

There will be more to come I think. With the exception of the girl going to MIT, there isn't an athletic recruit in the bunch. Nice job Class of 2028!

Congrats to all those kids But this is why the NCS parent boosters who denigrate GDS and say NCS is a "better" school than GDS get to me. Maybe the Cathedral schools are great, but not in terms of college acceptances 2024. I think the old guard of DC doesn't like that what they see as a "super-liberal" school is having this kind of success.

In a class of 125 at GDS
These are committed students (Just posted so far and more to come)
6 Harvard
3 Princeton
2 Dartmouth
2 cornell
1 U Penn
1 Brown
1 Yale (unposted to IG)
1 Columbia

I'm the poster with the NCS information. Not sure why you turned this into a competition between the schools. Nowhere did I say that NCS was better than any other school, just that they had good results this year. It's a small graduating class and it's an all-girls school (and girls have a higher bar (even at top schools) because more of them are applying).

It would be wonderful if we could all just celebrate the college successes of all the students instead of trying to use one year of data to argue that a particular school is better than another. So much more goes into a high school experience than college results. I actually think my DD would have liked GDS better than NCS and I wish we would have sent her there, but not because of the class of 2024 college acceptances.

PP Here. I said congrats to the NCS kids whose acceptances you mentioned. And it's not a competition but you must be new to DCUM if you have not seen the many many virulent posts from Cathedral School parents insisting that GDS is not "Big 3" and that St Albans/NCS are the best schools in the region(only to be followed by Sidwell parents declaring their supremacy...) So yes, I think it's fair to say I actually don't think NCS had great results. You are free to disagree. I also think it's untrue that privileged mostly white girls have a "higher bar." I think that may be something you want to tell yourself when other equally privileged kids from a liberal co-ed school have better results. The colleges do not view private school kids from GDS differently from private school kids from NCS. Your girls were not disadvantaged. This year another school simply had better overall results. Now I fully expect someone to chime in that all the GDS kids were somehow "hooked" which is completely untrue, but seems to be what people want to hear when they see these stats.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I am curious about the STA results.

STA results are very good. I would say 60% into top 25 schools. Less than 5 boys into what one might think are non-competitive entry schools.
They're definitely better than the NCS admits. Some of this is due to the fact that boys are easier to place then girls in 2024. Some is the NCS grading.

Hmmm, my daughter has excellent grades, she is not an anomaly. STA has not announced a list, so you must be going off of anecdotal info that is incomplete.

What about the notorious grade deflation? How many girls with excellent grades?

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Anonymous wrote:NCS did really well this year! In a small class of 70ish, there are at least:

Harvard: 1
Princeton: 2
MIT: 1
Columbia: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Dartmouth: 1

There will be more to come I think. With the exception of the girl going to MIT, there isn't an athletic recruit in the bunch. Nice job Class of 2028!

Congrats to all those kids But this is why the NCS parent boosters who denigrate GDS and say NCS is a "better" school than GDS get to me. Maybe the Cathedral schools are great, but not in terms of college acceptances 2024. I think the old guard of DC doesn't like that what they see as a "super-liberal" school is having this kind of success.

In a class of 125 at GDS
These are committed students (Just posted so far and more to come)
6 Harvard
3 Princeton
2 Dartmouth
2 cornell
1 U Penn
1 Brown
1 Yale (unposted to IG)
1 Columbia

I'm the poster with the NCS information. Not sure why you turned this into a competition between the schools. Nowhere did I say that NCS was better than any other school, just that they had good results this year. It's a small graduating class and it's an all-girls school (and girls have a higher bar (even at top schools) because more of them are applying).

It would be wonderful if we could all just celebrate the college successes of all the students instead of trying to use one year of data to argue that a particular school is better than another. So much more goes into a high school experience than college results. I actually think my DD would have liked GDS better than NCS and I wish we would have sent her there, but not because of the class of 2024 college acceptances.

PP Here. I said congrats to the NCS kids whose acceptances you mentioned. And it's not a competition but you must be new to DCUM if you have not seen the many many virulent posts from Cathedral School parents insisting that GDS is not "Big 3" and that St Albans/NCS are the best schools in the region(only to be followed by Sidwell parents declaring their supremacy...) So yes, I think it's fair to say I actually don't think NCS had great results. You are free to disagree. I also think it's untrue that privileged mostly white girls have a "higher bar." I think that may be something you want to tell yourself when other equally privileged kids from a liberal co-ed school have better results. The colleges do not view private school kids from GDS differently from private school kids from NCS. Your girls were not disadvantaged. This year another school simply had better overall results. Now I fully expect someone to chime in that all the GDS kids were somehow "hooked" which is completely untrue, but seems to be what people want to hear when they see these stats.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I am curious about the STA results.

STA results are very good. I would say 60% into top 25 schools. Less than 5 boys into what one might think are non-competitive entry schools.
They're definitely better than the NCS admits. Some of this is due to the fact that boys are easier to place then girls in 2024. Some is the NCS grading.

Hmmm, my daughter has excellent grades, she is not an anomaly. STA has not announced a list, so you must be going off of anecdotal info that is incomplete.

What about the notorious grade deflation? How many girls with excellent grades?

The average GPA is around a 3.5. So this gives an idea.

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weighted or unweighted? When someone says a high GPA and their kid doesn’t take high classes it just doesn’t mean the same thing as the kids who take hard classes.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS did really well this year! In a small class of 70ish, there are at least:

Harvard: 1
Princeton: 2
MIT: 1
Columbia: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Dartmouth: 1

There will be more to come I think. With the exception of the girl going to MIT, there isn't an athletic recruit in the bunch. Nice job Class of 2028!

Congrats to all those kids But this is why the NCS parent boosters who denigrate GDS and say NCS is a "better" school than GDS get to me. Maybe the Cathedral schools are great, but not in terms of college acceptances 2024. I think the old guard of DC doesn't like that what they see as a "super-liberal" school is having this kind of success.

In a class of 125 at GDS
These are committed students (Just posted so far and more to come)
6 Harvard
3 Princeton
2 Dartmouth
2 cornell
1 U Penn
1 Brown
1 Yale (unposted to IG)
1 Columbia

I'm the poster with the NCS information. Not sure why you turned this into a competition between the schools. Nowhere did I say that NCS was better than any other school, just that they had good results this year. It's a small graduating class and it's an all-girls school (and girls have a higher bar (even at top schools) because more of them are applying).

It would be wonderful if we could all just celebrate the college successes of all the students instead of trying to use one year of data to argue that a particular school is better than another. So much more goes into a high school experience than college results. I actually think my DD would have liked GDS better than NCS and I wish we would have sent her there, but not because of the class of 2024 college acceptances.

PP Here. I said congrats to the NCS kids whose acceptances you mentioned. And it's not a competition but you must be new to DCUM if you have not seen the many many virulent posts from Cathedral School parents insisting that GDS is not "Big 3" and that St Albans/NCS are the best schools in the region(only to be followed by Sidwell parents declaring their supremacy...) So yes, I think it's fair to say I actually don't think NCS had great results. You are free to disagree. I also think it's untrue that privileged mostly white girls have a "higher bar." I think that may be something you want to tell yourself when other equally privileged kids from a liberal co-ed school have better results. The colleges do not view private school kids from GDS differently from private school kids from NCS. Your girls were not disadvantaged. This year another school simply had better overall results. Now I fully expect someone to chime in that all the GDS kids were somehow "hooked" which is completely untrue, but seems to be what people want to hear when they see these stats.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I am curious about the STA results.

STA results are very good. I would say 60% into top 25 schools. Less than 5 boys into what one might think are non-competitive entry schools.
They're definitely better than the NCS admits. Some of this is due to the fact that boys are easier to place then girls in 2024. Some is the NCS grading.

Hmmm, my daughter has excellent grades, she is not an anomaly. STA has not announced a list, so you must be going off of anecdotal info that is incomplete.

What about the notorious grade deflation? How many girls with excellent grades?

Grade deflation? I'd be interested to know if the average GPA of NCS students has dropped over the past twenty years. My sense is people are complaning that schools such as NCS haven't adopted the policy prevalent in public schools of giving everyone an A. That is, is NCS deflating grades or are many high schools inflating them?