Harvard, Yale "feeders"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is not THAT small. It's 1200 students overall. And while my kids went to bigger, public schools they largely had the same friends from first grade on, and I have to tell you: I couldn't tell you where half their best friends' parents went to school (then again other classmates' parents) and what they did for a living, and I certainly could not recite every extracurricular activity in which the friends engaged. And I was a very involved parent.

Some of us have a life beyond our children's schooling.

Overall size of school is irrelevant. It's only something like 115-125 per grade in high school, so not too many families. I'm more surprised by your claim that your kids have had the same friends since 1st grade, but you don't know much about those friends or the parents. My kids are in middle school at a local private school, and I'm not a particularly engaged parent, but even I could tell you what all their friends' parents do and where most of them went to college. Maybe it's a size difference. I get the sense there are lots more parent activities at my kids' school than at our local public school, and because the classes and grades are so small, you can't help but spend a lot of time small talking with other parents. There's only so long you can talk about the weather and the Nats, so conversation naturally extends to other things. I guess if it's a public school with 200-300 kids in the grade, you'd be less likely to get to know other parents as well.

Creepy. And very DC for people to be obsessed with undergrad pedigrees. Ugh. Very 21st century SFS too, sad to say.

How do you hold the two thoughts simultaneously in your tiny brain? That the majority of kids admitted were legacies, on obvious reference to and obsession with parent's school history on you part, and for the disputer of your statement as being obsessed with undergrad pedigree. I don't get it. Perhaps you can explain your reasoning.

You are not

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is not THAT small. It's 1200 students overall. And while my kids went to bigger, public schools they largely had the same friends from first grade on, and I have to tell you: I couldn't tell you where half their best friends' parents went to school (then again other classmates' parents) and what they did for a living, and I certainly could not recite every extracurricular activity in which the friends engaged. And I was a very involved parent.

Some of us have a life beyond our children's schooling.

Overall size of school is irrelevant. It's only something like 115-125 per grade in high school, so not too many families. I'm more surprised by your claim that your kids have had the same friends since 1st grade, but you don't know much about those friends or the parents. My kids are in middle school at a local private school, and I'm not a particularly engaged parent, but even I could tell you what all their friends' parents do and where most of them went to college. Maybe it's a size difference. I get the sense there are lots more parent activities at my kids' school than at our local public school, and because the classes and grades are so small, you can't help but spend a lot of time small talking with other parents. There's only so long you can talk about the weather and the Nats, so conversation naturally extends to other things. I guess if it's a public school with 200-300 kids in the grade, you'd be less likely to get to know other parents as well.

Creepy. And very DC for people to be obsessed with undergrad pedigrees. Ugh. Very 21st century SFS too, sad to say.

How do you hold the two thoughts simultaneously in your tiny brain? That the majority of kids admitted were legacies, on obvious reference to and obsession with parent's school history on you part, and for the disputer of your statement as being obsessed with undergrad pedigree. I don't get it. Perhaps you can explain your reasoning.

Nice Quaker values there! Not a great defense of Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Creepy. And very DC for people to be obsessed with undergrad pedigrees. Ugh. Very 21st century SFS too, sad to say.

No, it's not obsession with anything. It's simply being willing to talk with people and learn something about them. Maybe you should try listening to other people for a change, rather than spending all your time judging them.

I'm 50. I haven't said "where'd you go undergrad" in social situations for about 25 years. Sorry, the person who knows the undergraduate pedigrees of all fellow parents is obsessed.

I'm 47, and I get asked "so where'd you go o school?," or some variant, all the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Creepy. And very DC for people to be obsessed with undergrad pedigrees. Ugh. Very 21st century SFS too, sad to say.

No, it's not obsession with anything. It's simply being willing to talk with people and learn something about them. Maybe you should try listening to other people for a change, rather than spending all your time judging them.

I'm 50. I haven't said "where'd you go undergrad" in social situations for about 25 years. Sorry, the person who knows the undergraduate pedigrees of all fellow parents is obsessed.

I'm 47, and I get asked "so where'd you go o school?," or some variant, all the time.

Not to mention that people (or their kids) wear shirts or hats with their alma mater on it at least once in a great while, and who doesn't talk about alma maters during football season or during March Madness? Then again, that wouldn't apply to HYP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Creepy. And very DC for people to be obsessed with undergrad pedigrees. Ugh. Very 21st century SFS too, sad to say.

No, it's not obsession with anything. It's simply being willing to talk with people and learn something about them. Maybe you should try listening to other people for a change, rather than spending all your time judging them.

I'm 50. I haven't said "where'd you go undergrad" in social situations for about 25 years. Sorry, the person who knows the undergraduate pedigrees of all fellow parents is obsessed.

I'm 47, and I get asked "so where'd you go o school?," or some variant, all the time.

Not to mention that people (or their kids) wear shirts or hats with their alma mater on it at least once in a great while, and who doesn't talk about alma maters during football season or during March Madness? Then again, that wouldn't apply to HYP

NP. You know if someone you know went to an elite school. You just do and if you went to the same, it immediately establishes a connection and it is easier to become friends. Don't you feel more comfortable with people who share a similar background, went to the same college, grew up in the same town, etc as you?

[Anonymous]

I hear it's another banner year for GDS applications to Harvard. Good luck to all!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Creepy. And very DC for people to be obsessed with undergrad pedigrees. Ugh. Very 21st century SFS too, sad to say.

No, it's not obsession with anything. It's simply being willing to talk with people and learn something about them. Maybe you should try listening to other people for a change, rather than spending all your time judging them.

I'm 50. I haven't said "where'd you go undergrad" in social situations for about 25 years. Sorry, the person who knows the undergraduate pedigrees of all fellow parents is obsessed.

I'm 47, and I get asked "so where'd you go o school?," or some variant, all the time.

Not to mention that people (or their kids) wear shirts or hats with their alma mater on it at least once in a great while, and who doesn't talk about alma maters during football season or during March Madness? Then again, that wouldn't apply to HYP

NP. You know if someone you know went to an elite school. You just do and if you went to the same, it immediately establishes a connection and it is easier to become friends. Don't you feel more comfortable with people who share a similar background, went to the same college, grew up in the same town, etc as you?

Um ... no.

[Anonymous]

To answer OP, Sidwell and St. Albans send the most to Harvard and Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To answer OP, Sidwell and St. Albans send the most to Harvard and Yale.

To correct you, Thomas Jefferson sent the most over the past 5 and the past 10 years.

[Anonymous]

Here is a list of private schools that sends at least 30% of their 2014 graduating class to the Ivies, Stanford and MIT.

http://successfulstudent.org/26-best-private-schools-2014/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To answer OP, Sidwell and St. Albans send the most to Harvard and Yale.

To correct you, Thomas Jefferson sent the most over the past 5 and the past 10 years.

Proof please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can always move to Montana, Alaska, Mississippi, etc.

This. When I taught at Harvard, one of my most memorable students was from Montana.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a list of private schools that sends at least 30% of their 2014 graduating class to the Ivies, Stanford and MIT.

http://successfulstudent.org/26-best-private-schools-2014/

Yeah, but none of those schools have as many D1 lacrosse commits as Landon. So there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear it's another banner year for GDS applications to Harvard. Good luck to all!

Very exciting news at GDS right now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is a list of private schools that sends at least 30% of their 2014 graduating class to the Ivies, Stanford and MIT.

http://successfulstudent.org/26-best-private-schools-2014/

Yeah, but none of those schools have as many D1 lacrosse commits as Landon. So there.

That makes sense since the first time I've ever heard of Landon was when that UVA lacrosse player murdered his girlfriend in a drunken rage.