sidwell college results--does everyone have top grades or are they getting in kids into strong schools imperfect grades?

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the obvious answer that selective college admissions are just harder for girls? If you have a coed class, you have an advantage (if all else is equal).

Oh stop it. Girls are just as smart as boys and able to qualify for admission just as well. troll.

What? I did not say they’re not as smart. Girls’ admissions disadvantage is well documented. It’s because there are disproportionately MORE smart high scoring girl applicants than boys.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the obvious answer that selective college admissions are just harder for girls? If you have a coed class, you have an advantage (if all else is equal).

Oh stop it. Girls are just as smart as boys and able to qualify for admission just as well. troll.

What? I did not say they’re not as smart. Girls’ admissions disadvantage is well documented. It’s because there are disproportionately MORE smart high scoring girl applicants than boys.

For example this explains what I’m saying: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/17/8050259/discrimination-against-women-is-a-real-problem-in-college-admissions

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NCS college counseling actually says that being male is "a hook."

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Can you imagine being these students and reading the way others are talking about kids they don’t even know? And putting so much value on where they go to college without knowing anything else about them?

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine being these students and reading the way others are talking about kids they don’t even know? And putting so much value on where they go to college without knowing anything else about them?

**Sigh**

That’s called…life. These “kids” are 18 years old and heading off to college in a couple of months. If their skin isn’t thick enough to handle this very mild discussion, then I’m not sure they’re ready for adulthood.
In other words, suck it up buttercup!

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the obvious answer that selective college admissions are just harder for girls? If you have a coed class, you have an advantage (if all else is equal).

Oh stop it. Girls are just as smart as boys and able to qualify for admission just as well. troll.

What? I did not say they’re not as smart. Girls’ admissions disadvantage is well documented. It’s because there are disproportionately MORE smart high scoring girl applicants than boys.

Yes, the numbers are something like 20 qualified female applicants for 1 qualified male applicant.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like all of the top private schools are placing half the class in T50 to me. Why the competition? These kids are doing great!

You gotta drive your kid to be in top 10% otherwise might have well saved the money and gone public

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Anonymous wrote:but still OP's question is relevant. Do those w Top 30 postings all have 3.8+

No they don’t.

So Sidwell is gettng 3.6 and 3.7 kids into top 40 schools?

It would seem that they would have to be based on the average GPA and the schools kids are attending.

That is strikingly different than NCS (for example). Girls with a 3.6 are not getting into a top40 school.
The drop off in colleges for girls under a 3.8 is pretty striking.

Are you talking about this year 2024? If so data is not out and there is no way you know the gpa of every single girl in the senior class. No way. My daughter is a junior and she does not even know the gpas of her best friends. I call bs on your post.

At NCS also we do know who the top 15 are because Cum Laude has been announced.

which doesn't exactly parallel the GPA that kids apply to college with since it doesn't include freshman year. It
also does not account for rigor.
There are always girls who are cum laude with weak transcripts--for example, no calculus and no science APs. While others with post calculus math and 3-4 science APs do not. So it's not the full picture for college admissions at all.

Wait you can get Cum Laude without taking calc or science? I had no idea. This seems really unfair.

Yes. This happens every year. Girls who take the easiest possible classes (no honors, no math beyond regular pre-calculus) make it while girls who take math 4 levels up and 6 APs do not.
STA does it differently--they include rigor.

When is cum laude awarded? Senior year? College admits are finished by then so it is not like it is changing much by receiving the award even though it is great. That is life. Life is not fair. Not sure why some think otherwise. STA does a lot of things differently.

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Anonymous wrote:why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

Anti-NCS troll strikes again. Same verbiage words changed around a bit but same idea.

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Anonymous wrote:why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

Anti-NCS troll strikes again. Same verbiage words changed around a bit but same idea.

It sounds like the person you’re calling an anti-NCS troll is an NCS parent. If so, that’s not a good look for NCS.

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Question. What do people mean when they talk about a school "placing" students or "getting students in"? How much power does a CO have these days? I'm not even sure that counselors call the admissions people like they did in the past.

I have a senior graduating from a Big3 this year and don't feel like the counselor did much at all besides writing the counselor's letter. I certainly would never say that the school got my senior into college.

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Anonymous wrote:why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

Anti-NCS troll strikes again. Same verbiage words changed around a bit but same idea.

No, I'm not an NCS troll (and frankly I'm not even sure what that means.) I haven't posted about this before.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like all of the top private schools are placing half the class in T50 to me. Why the competition? These kids are doing great!

You gotta drive your kid to be in top 10% otherwise might have well saved the money and gone public

The sidwell kids in the "top 10%" are not there because their parents are driving them

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Anonymous wrote:why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

1. Only 41 of 71 seniors have posted their decisions.

2. 10 of the 49 are into Ivies and MIT/Duke/West Point. That is 24% of the girls who have posted.

3. The results that you refer to as “dropping like a rock” include NYU, Wash U in StL, Middlebury, U of Chicago, Michigan, Wellesley, Wake Forest and Georgetown. Many others chose to go international— univ of St. Andrews, Trinity in Dublin…

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Anonymous wrote:why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

1. Only 41 of 71 seniors have posted their decisions.

2. 10 of the 49 are into Ivies and MIT/Duke/West Point. That is 24% of the girls who have posted.

3. The results that you refer to as “dropping like a rock” include NYU, Wash U in StL, Middlebury, U of Chicago, Michigan, Wellesley, Wake Forest and Georgetown. Many others chose to go international— univ of St. Andrews, Trinity in Dublin…

DP. Where are you getting these numbers? NCS’ IG account shows 41 c/o ‘24 posts, not 49. There are only 6 Ivies posted on IG—stop trying to conflate that number with Ivy plus/military academies. No one has mentioned the Sidwell students that will attend Stanford or the Naval Academy on this thread. I don’t think NCS or Sidwell need to be compared, but if you’re going to do so, it should be apples to apples.

SN: For the record, I think the NCS results posted so far are great! There’s no need to make up numbers though.