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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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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…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

A few reasons...some of the students are from overseas. Also, St. Andrews and Trinity are hugely popular at top privates across the country, for various reasons. St. Andrews in particular has large US student body. I see a St Andrews on Sidwell's page. It's a great school, as is Trinity.

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Anonymous wrote:Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

10?! Really? I'm an NCS parent and did not think it was that high. Where did you get that number? I only know of 3 or 4.
great schools. Who wouldn't want to hob knob with Royals? And as PP mentioned, a couple of these girls have parents who are not American, so a broader perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

Maybe it's rare ...but there are 3 on Sidwell's page right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

10?! Really? I'm an NCS parent and did not think it was that high. Where did you get that number? I only know of 3 or 4.
great schools. Who wouldn't want to hob knob with Royals? And as PP mentioned, a couple of these girls have parents who are not American, so a broader perspective.

I know of 6 this year. Several are not listed--another Toronto and I believe a St Andrews.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

10?! Really? I'm an NCS parent and did not think it was that high. Where did you get that number? I only know of 3 or 4.
great schools. Who wouldn't want to hob knob with Royals? And as PP mentioned, a couple of these girls have parents who are not American, so a broader perspective.

I know of 6 this year. Several are not listed--another Toronto and I believe a St Andrews.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

10?! Really? I'm an NCS parent and did not think it was that high. Where did you get that number? I only know of 3 or 4.
great schools. Who wouldn't want to hob knob with Royals? And as PP mentioned, a couple of these girls have parents who are not American, so a broader perspective.

No, very few students would turn down admissions to an Ivy or T20 college to attend these foreign schools, when they can simply study abroad…and then live abroad. Every time I see a St. Andrews/Trinity/Toronto/McGill post from a Big 3 student I think, “oh you didn’t get into any good U.S. colleges.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

10?! Really? I'm an NCS parent and did not think it was that high. Where did you get that number? I only know of 3 or 4.
great schools. Who wouldn't want to hob knob with Royals? And as PP mentioned, a couple of these girls have parents who are not American, so a broader perspective.

No, very few students would turn down admissions to an Ivy or T20 college to attend these foreign schools, when they can simply study abroad…and then live abroad. Every time I see a St. Andrews/Trinity/Toronto/McGill post from a Big 3 student I think, “oh you didn’t get into any good U.S. colleges.”

That’s interesting. Do you think the same when you see College of Charleston?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

10?! Really? I'm an NCS parent and did not think it was that high. Where did you get that number? I only know of 3 or 4.
great schools. Who wouldn't want to hob knob with Royals? And as PP mentioned, a couple of these girls have parents who are not American, so a broader perspective.

No, very few students would turn down admissions to an Ivy or T20 college to attend these foreign schools, when they can simply study abroad…and then live abroad. Every time I see a St. Andrews/Trinity/Toronto/McGill post from a Big 3 student I think, “oh you didn’t get into any good U.S. colleges.”

Sure, but the difference is families who aren’t America don’t think only of US schools. So they probably line these schools up with others and pick the best school where they’re admitted. These schools are a lot better than many U.S. schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the NCS students who go overseas (Trinity Dublin, St. Andrews, Toronto, etc) go by choice or because they don't have strong US options?

This year there are about 10/71 NCS girls doing this.

Holton doesn't send anyone overseas and Sidwell/GDS rarely do. STA sends an occasional boy.

What is the story? Any senior parent know?

10?! Really? I'm an NCS parent and did not think it was that high. Where did you get that number? I only know of 3 or 4.
great schools. Who wouldn't want to hob knob with Royals? And as PP mentioned, a couple of these girls have parents who are not American, so a broader perspective.

No, very few students would turn down admissions to an Ivy or T20 college to attend these foreign schools, when they can simply study abroad…and then live abroad. Every time I see a St. Andrews/Trinity/Toronto/McGill post from a Big 3 student I think, “oh you didn’t get into any good U.S. colleges.”

yes and the required GPAs to these international colleges (although they are good schools) are suprisingly low if you look at Scoir/Naviance. They are definitely a place for Big3 schools to stash kids with 3.4-3.5s and kids with higher GPAs who didn't get better US options. (Plus, yes I'm sure they have some unique appeal to international families as well).

But when I see NCS sending 10% of the class to foreign schools and Holton sending 0% I think that the Holton girls definitely had better options.