2024 Washington DC area College commits

[Anonymous]

My daughter is the queen of the A minus at NCS. She has no Bs of any type but at least 50% A minus grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is the queen of the A minus at NCS. She has no Bs of any type but at least 50% A minus grades.

At STA they would be an A which is really helpful to students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:92 is not an A at Sidwell, it is the dreaded A-minus. A-minus=3.7 when GPA is calculated, so it hurts bad in college admissions. You need 93% for an A at Sidwell.

The top colleges all have local reps who understand this very well. They are paid to compare the rigor at one school to the rigor at another. Grade inflation/deflation isn't as important as some of you think it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:92 is not an A at Sidwell, it is the dreaded A-minus. A-minus=3.7 when GPA is calculated, so it hurts bad in college admissions. You need 93% for an A at Sidwell.

The top colleges all have local reps who understand this very well. They are paid to compare the rigor at one school to the rigor at another. Grade inflation/deflation isn't as important as some of you think it is.

These Instagram pages say differently. Potomac is crushing it and it’s no secret it is nowhere as rigorous as the top 5 privates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:92 is not an A at Sidwell, it is the dreaded A-minus. A-minus=3.7 when GPA is calculated, so it hurts bad in college admissions. You need 93% for an A at Sidwell.

The top colleges all have local reps who understand this very well. They are paid to compare the rigor at one school to the rigor at another. Grade inflation/deflation isn't as important as some of you think it is.

You keep saying it but the results don’t match what you are saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:92 is not an A at Sidwell, it is the dreaded A-minus. A-minus=3.7 when GPA is calculated, so it hurts bad in college admissions. You need 93% for an A at Sidwell.

The top colleges all have local reps who understand this very well. They are paid to compare the rigor at one school to the rigor at another. Grade inflation/deflation isn't as important as some of you think it is.

Correct. I used to think like the previous poster but have recently seen Naviance data from STA. The final GPA is what is important and a 90% is not viewed by colleges as the same as a 95% (the later being incredibly rare and gives a very strong shot at Duke/Harvard and the former being a kid who is more Boston College bound)

[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.

Wishful thinking on your part.

Based on Instagram posts, 83% of Sidwell’s c/o 2023 posted their college destinations. Based on those posts, 17/125 (13.6%) are currently attending Ivies. I personally know 4 students from that class who didn’t post. They are freshman at Ivies this year (21/125=16.8%). There were also several 2023 Sidwell grads who were admitted to more than one Ivy that year, so the overall Ivy admissions rate is higher than 16.8%.

In terms of top 25 colleges/universities, 54% of Sidwell’s c/o 2023 who posted on Instagram landed at top 25 colleges. Even if those were the only students attending top 25 colleges (they’re not), that’s still a whopping 46% of the total graduating class. In other words, it’s safe to say that Sidwell sent at least 50% of its c/o 2023 graduates to top 25 colleges and universities.

What public school in this area is sending more than half of its students to top 25 colleges?!? Please feel free to look up the Sidwell Instagram page I’m referencing.

If true this is outstanding college exmissions. Really top notch. If 50% are going T25, wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:92 is not an A at Sidwell, it is the dreaded A-minus. A-minus=3.7 when GPA is calculated, so it hurts bad in college admissions. You need 93% for an A at Sidwell.

The top colleges all have local reps who understand this very well. They are paid to compare the rigor at one school to the rigor at another. Grade inflation/deflation isn't as important as some of you think it is.

You keep saying it but the results don’t match what you are saying.

If you're talking about STA, yes they do. The reps clearly understand the numeric GPA because they do not view all "A" GPAs from STA the same. Not at all.
There are very clear lines in the Naviance data. A 95% is viewed entirely differently than a 90%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:92 is not an A at Sidwell, it is the dreaded A-minus. A-minus=3.7 when GPA is calculated, so it hurts bad in college admissions. You need 93% for an A at Sidwell.

The top colleges all have local reps who understand this very well. They are paid to compare the rigor at one school to the rigor at another. Grade inflation/deflation isn't as important as some of you think it is.

You keep saying it but the results don’t match what you are saying.

If you're talking about STA, yes they do. The reps clearly understand the numeric GPA because they do not view all "A" GPAs from STA the same. Not at all.
There are very clear lines in the Naviance data. A 95% is viewed entirely differently than a 90%.

Wasn’t talking about STA. Everything is not about STA. Was talking about the results on all off the Instagram pages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:92 is not an A at Sidwell, it is the dreaded A-minus. A-minus=3.7 when GPA is calculated, so it hurts bad in college admissions. You need 93% for an A at Sidwell.

The top colleges all have local reps who understand this very well. They are paid to compare the rigor at one school to the rigor at another. Grade inflation/deflation isn't as important as some of you think it is.

You keep saying it but the results don’t match what you are saying.

If you're talking about STA, yes they do. The reps clearly understand the numeric GPA because they do not view all "A" GPAs from STA the same. Not at all.
There are very clear lines in the Naviance data. A 95% is viewed entirely differently than a 90%.

Umm some in low 90’s going to ivies and georgetown from STA in past recent years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell computes a GPA when kids are juniors, and they know where the kids stand from the counselor's letter.

As far as about half of kids getting into T25 schools, it is true, but is us mostly recruited athletes, URM, VIP parent kids, and top 10% kids plus many top 10-15% kids with legacy.

Sidwell has way more VIP parents and legacy than a public.

Sidwell computes a GPA for 11th graders that does not show up anywhere on the students’ transcripts, nor on any documents sent to colleges. It is only so a student knows their GPA when applying to colleges. However, colleges may compute the GPA differently than Sidwell since the GPA does not appear on the transcript.

Btw, more than half of Sidwell’s graduating classes do not fall into the categories listed above. There is always someone trying to downplay the success of Sidwell’s students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:92 is not an A at Sidwell, it is the dreaded A-minus. A-minus=3.7 when GPA is calculated, so it hurts bad in college admissions. You need 93% for an A at Sidwell.

The top colleges all have local reps who understand this very well. They are paid to compare the rigor at one school to the rigor at another. Grade inflation/deflation isn't as important as some of you think it is.

Nope, more misinformation. I just listened to a podcast featuring Cornell University’s admissions director. He said that the admissions committee reviews applications in batches, by school. Students are only compared to other students at their school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wishful thinking on your part.

Based on Instagram posts, 83% of Sidwell’s c/o 2023 posted their college destinations. Based on those posts, 17/125 (13.6%) are currently attending Ivies. I personally know 4 students from that class who didn’t post. They are freshman at Ivies this year (21/125=16.8%). There were also several 2023 Sidwell grads who were admitted to more than one Ivy that year, so the overall Ivy admissions rate is higher than 16.8%.

In terms of top 25 colleges/universities, 54% of Sidwell’s c/o 2023 who posted on Instagram landed at top 25 colleges. Even if those were the only students attending top 25 colleges (they’re not), that’s still a whopping 46% of the total graduating class. In other words, it’s safe to say that Sidwell sent at least 50% of its c/o 2023 graduates to top 25 colleges and universities.

What public school in this area is sending more than half of its students to top 25 colleges?!? Please feel free to look up the Sidwell Instagram page I’m referencing.

If true this is outstanding college exmissions. Really top notch. If 50% are going T25, wow.

It’s true. Go look at the 2023 Instagram page and see for yourself. That year, 83% of Sidwell’s seniors posted their results. Many of the non-posters were also admitted to Ivies and T25 colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is the queen of the A minus at NCS. She has no Bs of any type but at least 50% A minus grades.

So then she has around a 3.85. I assume she also has great test scores. I don’t feel sorry for her, she’ll get in to great schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:92 is not an A at Sidwell, it is the dreaded A-minus. A-minus=3.7 when GPA is calculated, so it hurts bad in college admissions. You need 93% for an A at Sidwell.

The top colleges all have local reps who understand this very well. They are paid to compare the rigor at one school to the rigor at another. Grade inflation/deflation isn't as important as some of you think it is.

These Instagram pages say differently. Potomac is crushing it and it’s no secret it is nowhere as rigorous as the top 5 privates.

Or maybe it is just as rigorous.