Strange logic! |
they talked about this on a podcast I listen to not long ago. not crumbs, but if they want a kid who is not the "best on paper" kid out of that school group, they'll take the kid they want and also another top kid (or two) from same HS so it doesn't look too crazy. It's called tailcoating or something. |
The Bethesda magazine compilation from 2022 and 2023 indicates you are wrong when considered in light of STA, Sidwell and GDS in 2022 and 2023. I know nothing of Maret or NoVa publics. But, the school I know best, Sidwell, vs. BCC, JR/Wilson, Whitman ... it's not actually close PP. On a per capita basis. |
The Bethesda magazine is missing well over half the Whitman kids. |
This just isn’t correct. But you can say anything when not looking at actual results. The vast majority of kids at public high schools are going to an instate public, and there are some excellent ones locally. But the matriculation isn’t comparable to the better dmv private schools, on a per capita basis to account for the vast difference in the size of the class. |
Sure it can. Friend got a much better FA offer from Columbia than Yale. Mine got a far better offer from Wesleyan than a couple Ivies. |
But you can only count 20% of the class at the W schools because reasons. |
Another public school parent. I wish there were more of a mix here. So tired of wvery thread being dominated by a private school subset. My guess is entitlement. There is a sense among some (not all of course) that the private school investment entitles their kid to a certain tier of college. |
Public schools have their own version of this. Family paid for Hopkins CTY, years of math/cs enrichment, musical instrument lessons and summer programs etc etc viewing it all as a down-payment on a top tier school. Not unusual at W and magnets in MCPS. |
Or maybe private school parents love their children more than you and as a result are more willing to advocate for changes that help them rather than sit back and do nothing. |
But if you have been saying for college and could afford the 50 k a year for Big 3… you should be able to afford it. |
Sure tell yourself you are “advocating”… Signed a fellow Big 3 parent |
The fact that you identified yourself as a big 3 parent is, on its own, pathetic. No one cares. |
Come on, the whole premise that AOs rank applicants from one school solely on the basis of stats is so troll- worthy. |
I think folks here have said it’s true? Is it not? |