2024 Washington DC area College commits

[Anonymous]

Also, DC privates make it tough to learn the truth in order to keep applications up. If the unhooked parents knew that their kid needed to be in the top 10% or at least top 15% at Sidwell, GDS, or STA to have any chance to get into a T25 college, a lot more people would choose public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools that are considered much less rigorous are getting the same if not better results if we are looking at all of these schools shown?

The "much less rigorous" schools are sending 40% of their graduates to top 25 schools?

Potomac is not considered a top 5 school by most and their stats look pretty amazing.

Would disagree with this and most top schools you see listed as a kid of legacy/athlete and trustees. Wait until end of year to decide if more too 25 for unhooked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poster at 17:46 is 100% correct. Everybody should read that. Parents don't believe the truth until it happens to their own kid. The truth is being from a "Big 3" school does not really help much if at all with college admission versus being from a public for the unhooked kid.

Wrong. Facts say private kids get in at a much higher percentage.

The real news is that kids at easier privates coming in with 3.8 and 3.9 GPA’s or 93 grade average are raking in the admission spots at top colleges while kids coming from notoriously higher ranked schools with 3.5-3.7 school averages are getting shut out. Never believed it until I saw it. Exception is STA with I think a 92 or 93 class average which is serving them well.

So what does this mean? You all were right - GPA matters more than anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No A minuses at Saint Alban's, is that true?

If so, it is a huge advantage for their kids because GPA is the most important factor in admissions.

Sidwell gives massive numbers of A minuses, and it is one of many factors that hurts their students chances of admissions compared with other schools.

Same with Potomac just saying

Meaning what? They are similar to STA or Sidwell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, DC privates make it tough to learn the truth in order to keep applications up. If the unhooked parents knew that their kid needed to be in the top 10% or at least top 15% at Sidwell, GDS, or STA to have any chance to get into a T25 college, a lot more people would choose public.

I posted about this yesterday regarding STA/NCS and my post was literally deleted. The schools are doing whatever they can to keep this information locked down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poster at 17:46 is 100% correct. Everybody should read that. Parents don't believe the truth until it happens to their own kid. The truth is being from a "Big 3" school does not really help much if at all with college admission versus being from a public for the unhooked kid.

Wrong. Facts say private kids get in at a much higher percentage.

The real news is that kids at easier privates coming in with 3.8 and 3.9 GPA’s or 93 grade average are raking in the admission spots at top colleges while kids coming from notoriously higher ranked schools with 3.5-3.7 school averages are getting shut out. Never believed it until I saw it. Exception is STA with I think a 92 or 93 class average which is serving them well.

So what does this mean? You all were right - GPA matters more than anything else.

STA does not have a 92/93 class average. It's more like an 89. 92/93 is where the elite college admissions start.

[Anonymous]

Weird that they deleted your post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poster at 17:46 is 100% correct. Everybody should read that. Parents don't believe the truth until it happens to their own kid. The truth is being from a "Big 3" school does not really help much if at all with college admission versus being from a public for the unhooked kid.

Wrong. Facts say private kids get in at a much higher percentage.

The real news is that kids at easier privates coming in with 3.8 and 3.9 GPA’s or 93 grade average are raking in the admission spots at top colleges while kids coming from notoriously higher ranked schools with 3.5-3.7 school averages are getting shut out. Never believed it until I saw it. Exception is STA with I think a 92 or 93 class average which is serving them well.

So what does this mean? You all were right - GPA matters more than anything else.

This is 100 percent true. A lot of parents are reconsidering strategy for younger siblings. Why this is happening -maybe so many kids applying that there isn’t the time to review applications so a 3.9
stands out even if DC knows that a 3.9 depending on school is a very different t student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poster at 17:46 is 100% correct. Everybody should read that. Parents don't believe the truth until it happens to their own kid. The truth is being from a "Big 3" school does not really help much if at all with college admission versus being from a public for the unhooked kid.

Wrong. Facts say private kids get in at a much higher percentage.

The real news is that kids at easier privates coming in with 3.8 and 3.9 GPA’s or 93 grade average are raking in the admission spots at top colleges while kids coming from notoriously higher ranked schools with 3.5-3.7 school averages are getting shut out. Never believed it until I saw it. Exception is STA with I think a 92 or 93 class average which is serving them well.

So what does this mean? You all were right - GPA matters more than anything else.

STA does not have a 92/93 class average. It's more like an 89. 92/93 is where the elite college admissions start.

A lot of kids have 91-93 averages at sta which equals a 3.7-3.85 ish

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools that are considered much less rigorous are getting the same if not better results if we are looking at all of these schools shown?

The "much less rigorous" schools are sending 40% of their graduates to top 25 schools?

Potomac is not considered a top 5 school by most and their stats look pretty amazing.

Would disagree with this and most top schools you see listed as a kid of legacy/athlete and trustees. Wait until end of year to decide if more too 25 for unhooked.

This is 100% correct except for a couple of the Duke admits that were unhooked but top students. The legacies/hooked students were mostly top notch that everyone would agree on. Will be very interesting to see how RD plays out for the unhooked indeed across the board!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poster at 17:46 is 100% correct. Everybody should read that. Parents don't believe the truth until it happens to their own kid. The truth is being from a "Big 3" school does not really help much if at all with college admission versus being from a public for the unhooked kid.

Wrong. Facts say private kids get in at a much higher percentage.

The real news is that kids at easier privates coming in with 3.8 and 3.9 GPA’s or 93 grade average are raking in the admission spots at top colleges while kids coming from notoriously higher ranked schools with 3.5-3.7 school averages are getting shut out. Never believed it until I saw it. Exception is STA with I think a 92 or 93 class average which is serving them well.

So what does this mean? You all were right - GPA matters more than anything else.

STA does not have a 92/93 class average. It's more like an 89. 92/93 is where the elite college admissions start.

A lot of kids have 91-93 averages at sta which equals a 3.7-3.85 ish

Not that many. The class average is typically about a 89.

[Anonymous]

Yes---Kids at the Field School this year are doing incredibly well. They have super gentle and easy learning there--the kids get all sorts of re-tests, extra credit, project based learning, etc. But they graduate with very high GPAs.

Meanwhile you guys should see the SCOIR data from NCS. It is dismal for girls under about a 3.6. And guess what the class average is for 2025? A 3.5.

The Ivies on the NCS Instagram this year? Those are the handful of 3.95+ girls.

Things are going to get ugly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Added National Cathedral School ("NCS") :

National Cathedral School
https://www.instagram.com/cathedral2024/?igsh=MXU2MnAyczJqd3BucA%3D%3D

Sidwell Friends School (SFS)
https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2024

https://www.instagram.com/dematha24seniors/

Maret
https://www.instagram.com/maretfrogs2024

Georgetown Day school (GDS)
https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors2024

Holton Arms
https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2024

Landon
https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors24

Potomac School
https://www.instagram.com/pmacdecisions2024/

Georgetown Visitation ("Visitation"/ "Visi")
https://www.instagram.com/v1s1collegedecisions2024/

Madeira
https://www.instagram.com/madeiradecisions24/

Washington International School ("WIS")
https://www.instagram.com/wisclassof2024/

Flint Hill
https://www.instagram.com/flinthilldecisions24

Edmund Burke
https://www.instagram.com/burkeseniors/

Field
https://www.instagram.com/fieldgrads.2024/

Bullis School
https://www.instagram.com/bullisseniors24/

Sandy Springs Friends School (SSFS)
https://www.instagram.com/ssfs24seniors

St. Stephens and St. Agnes School (DC)
https://www.instagram.com/sssasdecisions2024/

St. Andrews Episcopal School (SAES)
https://www.instagram.com/saes24decisions

Connelly School of the Holy Child (Holy Child)
https://www.instagram.com/hcseniors24

The Academy of the Holy Cross ("Holy Cross")
https://www.instagram.com/ahc_seniors24/

St. John’s College (high)
https://www.instagram.com/sjc2024seniors

The Heights
https://www.instagram.com/heights24.seniors

Oakcrest School (Vienna,VA)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0r5TMhxQTo/?igsh=ZXFqZ3V0aWYzeXB0

Stone Ridge
https://www.instagram.com/srseniors24/

Waldorf (Note Waldorf Schools use one page for nation-wide)
https://www.instagram.com/waldorfdecisions24/?igsh=azNkaWkzM2treHNy

DeMatha:

https://www.instagram.com/dematha24seniors/

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Walt Whitman (Bethesda):
https://www.instagram.com/vikingdestinations2024/

Winston Churchill (Potomac):
https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebulldog2024/

Walter Johnson High School ("WJ")
https://www.instagram.com/wherethewildcatsgo24/

Thomas S. Wootton High School ("Wootton")
https://www.instagram.com/peaceoutpatriots24/

Bethesda Chevy Chase High School ("BCC")
https://www.instagram.com/bccdecisions_2024/

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Additional school(s) for informational context:

Dalton School (prestigious NYC school) added for perspective:
https://www.instagram.com/daltonseniors23/

Keep in mind that all of these private school’s’ students have an advantage, regardless of which one because they are all expensive. Thus the families obviously have more money and they have more resources for tutors, extracurricular activities. Other things like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, DC privates make it tough to learn the truth in order to keep applications up. If the unhooked parents knew that their kid needed to be in the top 10% or at least top 15% at Sidwell, GDS, or STA to have any chance to get into a T25 college, a lot more people would choose public.

Sidwell doesn’t rank, or confer academic honors of any type (so there’s no cum laude society). Each college will have to figure out the “top 10% or at least top 15% at Sidwell” based only on who applies to that particular college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, DC privates make it tough to learn the truth in order to keep applications up. If the unhooked parents knew that their kid needed to be in the top 10% or at least top 15% at Sidwell, GDS, or STA to have any chance to get into a T25 college, a lot more people would choose public.

Sidwell doesn’t rank, or confer academic honors of any type (so there’s no cum laude society). Each college will have to figure out the “top 10% or at least top 15% at Sidwell” based only on who applies to that particular college.

Are you sure the counselor's letter doesn't give an idea of where the student stands relative to their peers?