Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Duke exercised good judgment on Sidwell.

Lol—At least two Sidwell students were admitted to Duke from this year’s graduating class. They both chose Ivies over Duke.
Duke usually admits a couple of Sidwell students each year. The problem is that those students almost always get admitted to an Ivy as well. They usually choose the Ivy.
Duke knows this and I’m sure Sidwell is not its favorite DC Metro private school [shrug].

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3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts

This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.

Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).

Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.

3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago

The only reason DC private schools are perhaps an imperfect comparison is due to our lack of any reasonable in-state options.

This of course doesn't take anything away from the Sidwell kids attending the schools above, but rather what the list would look like if we had the equivalent of a UGA and a GA Tech...or any decent in-state option.

That said, I don't know the %age of Sidwell kids that are not DC residents and therefore have either UVA or UMD as options. My sense is there are far fewer VA kids compared to MD kids.

Most of Sidwell’s US students come from Maryland. Those students have a solid in-state option.

UPPER SCHOOL
STUDENTS
Enrollment: 508
Upper School Residency:
Maryland: 245
DC: 191
Virginia: 72

I meant to add that when MD and VA residents are combined, ~62% of Sidwell US students have a solid in in-state option (in MD and VA). However, UVA, W&M, UMD are not super popular destinations for Sidwell students either. They typically send about 1-2 students to those schools each year.

I wonder what the numbers look like for UVA and W&M from a school like Flint Hill which I imagine probably pulls like 90% from VA.

Potomac probably isn’t a great representation as they have large DC and MD contingents as well.

At least 12 students are going to UVA from Potomac’s class of ‘25. UVA is very popular at that school!

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Duke exercised good judgment on Sidwell.

That’s not nice. Sidwell has some really dedicated haters. 🙄

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Out of curiosity how do top Catholic schools like Notre Dame and Holy Cross do at Sidwell. Excluded Georgetown . Know ND and HC do well at Georgetown Prep, Gonzaga and Stone Ridge.

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Anonymous wrote:Out of curiosity how do top Catholic schools like Notre Dame and Holy Cross do at Sidwell. Excluded Georgetown . Know ND and HC do well at Georgetown Prep, Gonzaga and Stone Ridge.

None of those schools are particularly popular/sought after by SFS students.
I haven’t heard of a student going to HC or ND in years. There are at least one or two students who go to BC and Georgetown every year (more are always admitted though).

Outside of Ivy+ universities, Northwestern, WashU, NYU, and a few SLACs (Middlebury, Pomona, Swat, Amherst, Colby, Colgate) are pretty popular. Tulane was especially popular this year (definitely more so than in years past).

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Thanks why a BC over more prestigious Holy Cross or Notre Dame?

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks why a BC over more prestigious Holy Cross or Notre Dame?

Boston is a far better city to spend 4 years than South Bend or Worcester.

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^Same could be said about New Haven or Hamilton NY.

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Anonymous wrote:^Same could be said about New Haven or Hamilton NY.

Yale’s Ivy League status is a huge mitigating factor—the city is less important in that instance. Notre Dame, HC, and Hamilton have a much bigger hurdle to clear because of their locations. That’s why you don’t see a lot of Sidwell students clambering to get into those schools. These are city/city-adjacent kids.

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Westminster Atlanta kids aren't city/city-adjacent?

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks why a BC over more prestigious Holy Cross or Notre Dame?

Boston is a far better city to spend 4 years than South Bend or Worcester.

Dumb decision to make. Always ND over BC.

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^Agree would take ND and HC over BC 7 days a week.

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Anonymous wrote:^Agree would take ND and HC over BC 7 days a week.

That’s you. Other people may make different decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks why a BC over more prestigious Holy Cross or Notre Dame?

Boston is a far better city to spend 4 years than South Bend or Worcester.

Boston is a great city but South Bend is immaterial for Notre Dame. NDs campus and college experience Trump nearly all others.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks why a BC over more prestigious Holy Cross or Notre Dame?

Boston is a far better city to spend 4 years than South Bend or Worcester.

Boston is a great city but South Bend is immaterial for Notre Dame. NDs campus and college experience Trump nearly all others.

Well, Sidwell’s students seem to disagree—most of them obviously don’t want to go to ND. That’s fine because everything doesn’t have to be for everyone. Move on.