Link to Andover & Exeter 2024 seniors college choices

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Anonymous wrote:Here is a NYC Public school that is not even one of the top public HS in the city (it is good till 8th and then kids go to other specialized HS in the city). The kids who join in 9th have usually not made to cut for specialized HS in NYC. The class size is around 150.

https://www.instagram.com/nestmdecisions2024/

"The current acceptance rate for NEST+m Upper Grades is 1.3%, receiving approximately 6700 applications and 88 seats." I'm going to guess that's a pretty smart group.

(Also, there's only 32 posts for a class of 150-175. That's not especially representative.)

Low acceptance rate is because it's citywide in a huge city with limited options. It's qualifications are 97%ile on an IQ test, middle school grades, and since 2017, administrator holistic preference. So that's smart on the scale of 100K USA seniors, which goes pretty deep into the bench of selective colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is Exeter

https://www.instagram.com/pea24decisions?igsh=YTlxYzduNDRqNDNz

This isn’t any better than your average blue ribbon public school.

4 Harvard? 4 MIT? Several to Yale? TJ might do better. I don't think Whitman or Churchill have that number.

NESCAC schools tend to be popular with boarding school kids, but there are other solid schools like UChicago represented.

Wootton has so has Churchill, my guess is Whitman has too.

Mine went to MIT and Yale from Wootton. Not athletes. Their peers from Churchill and Whitman went to the above as well.

Not uncommon from any of. the W schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is Exeter

https://www.instagram.com/pea24decisions?igsh=YTlxYzduNDRqNDNz

This isn’t any better than your average blue ribbon public school.

4 Harvard? 4 MIT? Several to Yale? TJ might do better. I don't think Whitman or Churchill have that number.

NESCAC schools tend to be popular with boarding school kids, but there are other solid schools like UChicago represented.

I went to a flyover country public high school and we only had 2 go to Harvard but many more to Colombia, Stanford etc.

I see a lot of unimpressive schools on the list. Fine but I can imagine many parents sending their kids to a fancy boarding school care about prestige and don’t want to tell their friends their kid is going to Denison in the fall.

Maybe what you imagine is not other parents motivations for selecting boarding school. Boarding school kids seem to love schools like Denison.

You say this but I’m not convinced. I’m from this world, and prestige matters.

Lots of boarding school kids seem to go to places like Denison. I assume the parents know the colleges students at these places usually matriculate to and they are ok with it.

Michael Scott went to Denison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is Exeter

https://www.instagram.com/pea24decisions?igsh=YTlxYzduNDRqNDNz

This isn’t any better than your average blue ribbon public school.

4 Harvard? 4 MIT? Several to Yale? TJ might do better. I don't think Whitman or Churchill have that number.

NESCAC schools tend to be popular with boarding school kids, but there are other solid schools like UChicago represented.

Wootton has so has Churchill, my guess is Whitman has too.

Mine went to MIT and Yale from Wootton. Not athletes. Their peers from Churchill and Whitman went to the above as well.

Not uncommon from any of. the W schools.

According to Bethesda Magazine, the W school numbers aren’t high at all. Especially when you consider all the affluent Bethesda and Potomac families and the Ivy legacies.

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I guess I'm an outlier by being impressed by PEA's acceptances. Many kids are going to selective schools. I am sure there are public schools with stronger numbers in the tri-state area and Boston. There is a mix of schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is Exeter

https://www.instagram.com/pea24decisions?igsh=YTlxYzduNDRqNDNz

I think those are all fake names

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is Exeter

https://www.instagram.com/pea24decisions?igsh=YTlxYzduNDRqNDNz

This isn’t any better than your average blue ribbon public school.

4 Harvard? 4 MIT? Several to Yale? TJ might do better. I don't think Whitman or Churchill have that number.

NESCAC schools tend to be popular with boarding school kids, but there are other solid schools like UChicago represented.

Wootton has so has Churchill, my guess is Whitman has too.

Mine went to MIT and Yale from Wootton. Not athletes. Their peers from Churchill and Whitman went to the above as well.

Not uncommon from any of. the W schools.

According to Bethesda Magazine, the W school numbers aren’t high at all. Especially when you consider all the affluent Bethesda and Potomac families and the Ivy legacies.

Yup. “Not uncommon” is doing a lot of work there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is Exeter

https://www.instagram.com/pea24decisions?igsh=YTlxYzduNDRqNDNz

This isn’t any better than your average blue ribbon public school.

4 Harvard? 4 MIT? Several to Yale? TJ might do better. I don't think Whitman or Churchill have that number.

NESCAC schools tend to be popular with boarding school kids, but there are other solid schools like UChicago represented.

Wootton has so has Churchill, my guess is Whitman has too.

Mine went to MIT and Yale from Wootton. Not athletes. Their peers from Churchill and Whitman went to the above as well.

Not uncommon from any of. the W schools.

But they will still work for Collegiate, Sidwell and St. Paul’s alums.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is a NYC Public school that is not even one of the top public HS in the city (it is good till 8th and then kids go to other specialized HS in the city). The kids who join in 9th have usually not made to cut for specialized HS in NYC. The class size is around 150.

https://www.instagram.com/nestmdecisions2024/

"The current acceptance rate for NEST+m Upper Grades is 1.3%, receiving approximately 6700 applications and 88 seats." I'm going to guess that's a pretty smart group.

(Also, there's only 32 posts for a class of 150-175. That's not especially representative.)

Low acceptance rate is because it's citywide in a huge city with limited options. It's qualifications are 97%ile on an IQ test, middle school grades, and since 2017, administrator holistic preference. So that's smart on the scale of 100K USA seniors, which goes pretty deep into the bench of selective colleges.

Most kids who join NEST in K through the 97% selection route leave by high school. The school is not known for its high school at all. It's great only K-8.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is Exeter

https://www.instagram.com/pea24decisions?igsh=YTlxYzduNDRqNDNz

This isn’t any better than your average blue ribbon public school.

It has been said many times before on this site, but the glory days of "Ivy feeder schools" are long gone. The Ivy admits at these schools would've gotten in from their local public. The kids graduating in the top 20% of Exeter are extremely brilliant kids. I've known of students who transfered into Exeter with a 4.5+ GPA and immediately sunk to a B/B+ average.

In many cases, being the top student in your local public school would yield much better results than fighting to remain within the median at Exeter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a NYC Public school that is not even one of the top public HS in the city (it is good till 8th and then kids go to other specialized HS in the city). The kids who join in 9th have usually not made to cut for specialized HS in NYC. The class size is around 150.

https://www.instagram.com/nestmdecisions2024/

NEST is decent, but certainly nowhere near the Stuy/BxSci tier. These kids definitely had easier work than the kids at the Exeter/Andover-type schools. I'd also imagine that an average Andover student would probably be a straight-A student at a school like NEST.

At this point, I have to wonder the purpose of putting kids in pressure-cooker private or magnet high schools. The college outcomes are basically the same at the publics now.