Sidwell College Admissions This Year

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Anonymous wrote:Once again Sidwell had a good year with college admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:This is not that incredibly challenging. Use the largest weighting factor for the highest level class offered and so on.

The point is, it is a very out of date chart. Most students are in the middle math track--should they all be using the Accel/Adv weighting for each year of math? Also, can you tell me what levels of language instruction qualify for "the highest level class offered?" Sidwell has a level of language instruction that correlates to AP, and then some languages go on after that. So does the AP level class get the Accel/Adv weighting? Or the AP weighting? If it gets Accel/Adv, which levels get AP weighting?

I think the college counseling office can tell you which classes get which weights. I seem to recall the middle track math classes got some sort of bump.

Except the entire thing is really irrelevant, since they are clear that they do not officially calculate GPA (even an unweighted one) or provide it to any entity other than service academies and for some scholarships.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not that incredibly challenging. Use the largest weighting factor for the highest level class offered and so on.

The point is, it is a very out of date chart. Most students are in the middle math track--should they all be using the Accel/Adv weighting for each year of math? Also, can you tell me what levels of language instruction qualify for "the highest level class offered?" Sidwell has a level of language instruction that correlates to AP, and then some languages go on after that. So does the AP level class get the Accel/Adv weighting? Or the AP weighting? If it gets Accel/Adv, which levels get AP weighting?

I think the college counseling office can tell you which classes get which weights. I seem to recall the middle track math classes got some sort of bump.

Except the entire thing is really irrelevant, since they are clear that they do not officially calculate GPA (even an unweighted one) or provide it to any entity other than service academies and for some scholarships.

Agree. I think it was a mistake for Sidwell to get into the GPA calculating business. They did not do that until about five years ago.

[Anonymous]

Folks, SFS still has a couple of AP classes but this is the last year or two they will be offered. What is bizarre is why they would indicate a higher weighted rating for AP classes than their own Accelerated/Advanced courses. I thought the main rationale for getting rid of APs was that SFS’ own accelerated and advanced curriculum provided so much more depth than AP and of course college AOs recognized this. Another lie to go with the general lack of transparency for parents and students about the SFS academic profile sent to colleges with transcripts - not very Quakerly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks, SFS still has a couple of AP classes but this is the last year or two they will be offered. What is bizarre is why they would indicate a higher weighted rating for AP classes than their own Accelerated/Advanced courses. I thought the main rationale for getting rid of APs was that SFS’ own accelerated and advanced curriculum provided so much more depth than AP and of course college AOs recognized this. Another lie to go with the general lack of transparency for parents and students about the SFS academic profile sent to colleges with transcripts - not very Quakerly.

Sidwell does not still have any AP classes. If you look at the curriculum guide from even a couple years ago, there are no classes with "AP" in the course title. A couple course descriptions identify the specific AP exam that students in the class would be prepared to take. I agree with you though, that it would be very interesting to see the Sidwell academic profile and how it identifies or addresses the rigor of the curriculum and compares particular classes or tracks.

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Their Instagram page is showing some pretty good acceptances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks, SFS still has a couple of AP classes but this is the last year or two they will be offered. What is bizarre is why they would indicate a higher weighted rating for AP classes than their own Accelerated/Advanced courses. I thought the main rationale for getting rid of APs was that SFS’ own accelerated and advanced curriculum provided so much more depth than AP and of course college AOs recognized this. Another lie to go with the general lack of transparency for parents and students about the SFS academic profile sent to colleges with transcripts - not very Quakerly.

I think this chart others have provided is just some generic guideline to help parents to re-calculate a weighted GPA. It's a bit silly though, given it doesn't really reflect their courses. Personally, I'd take the any of the AP or IA courses and add a point. But even doing that wouldn't help make my child's GPA comparable to a public school with tons of AP and honors because there was never an opportunity to take higher humanities. But it would help re-calc GPA to compare internally for rigor....but that's useless since we have no idea what others' weighted GPA's are internally.

[Anonymous]

Interesting in the Phillips Andover college admissions profile that several students take AP courses in math and science that are still listed in their course catalog even though they officially supposedly stopped offering AP courses several years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once again Sidwell had a good year with college admissions.

End of thread.

Oh yes? Please elaborate ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once again Sidwell had a good year with college admissions.

End of thread.

Oh yes? Please elaborate ?

You can see all the results on instagram, at least until this point.

[Anonymous]

If you want to brag about your kids college admission that is fine but just post an anonymous post on here. Sending random strangers to an instagram meant for a certain high school community seems really needy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once again Sidwell had a good year with college admissions.

End of thread.

Oh yes? Please elaborate ?

You can see all the results on instagram, at least until this point.

I counted 26 posts. Hardly “ALL” the results

[Anonymous]

Senior Parent here. Per DC, there are about 20 (Ivy + Stanford) and another 15-20 in the t25ish group Chicago/Michigan/top SLAcs with some additional info yet to be processed.

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Anonymous wrote:Senior Parent here. Per DC, there are about 20 (Ivy + Stanford) and another 15-20 in the t25ish group Chicago/Michigan/top SLAcs with some additional info yet to be processed.

Do you have the breakdown?

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Anonymous wrote:Senior Parent here. Per DC, there are about 20 (Ivy + Stanford) and another 15-20 in the t25ish group Chicago/Michigan/top SLAcs with some additional info yet to be processed.

Do you have the breakdown?

Breakdown of..? You mean the number for each Univ? Or the Athlete/Legacy/URM breakdown? In either case, I have some additional details but not the full breakdown..no