Georgetown Day vs. Maret?

[Anonymous]

Is GDS a good fit for a strong, introspective dedicated creative, alittle quickly/quiet, student, who has anxiety (that is being treated)? We’d welcome input!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:colleges aim for the average admit/acceptance for each school or area.
in that regard, if your school is pulling more % acceptances than each school's quote acceptance rate, that is impressive.

What does that mean?

[Anonymous]

means if brown accepts 9% of its total applicants it is unlikely to stray above that for a school or area unless there are some very very strong candidates.
9% of 130 or 9% of 500. 9%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:means if brown accepts 9% of its total applicants it is unlikely to stray above that for a school or area unless there are some very very strong candidates.
9% of 130 or 9% of 500. 9%.

In the case of applicants from GDS the Ivies clearly go materially above their average acceptance rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:means if brown accepts 9% of its total applicants it is unlikely to stray above that for a school or area unless there are some very very strong candidates.
9% of 130 or 9% of 500. 9%.

In the case of applicants from GDS the Ivies clearly go materially above their average acceptance rate.

That's not true, and I'm a GDS parent. 11 (.09*125) GDS students did NOT get accepted to Brown this year. And the ones who do get accepted are all legacies, URM or athletes. The only reason GDS has a 3-5 kids going to Harvard/Yale each year is because so many of them are legacies. There are many other kids who are H/Y legacies who do NOT get in, and good luck getting in if you don't fall into one of those 3 above hooked categories.

There are some top schools which have a history of liking GDS kids (Penn, Wash U, NYU, Tufts), and the top SLACs like GDS kids - especially boys.

College admissions should not be the principal reason why you're sending your kid to GDS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:means if brown accepts 9% of its total applicants it is unlikely to stray above that for a school or area unless there are some very very strong candidates.
9% of 130 or 9% of 500. 9%.

In the case of applicants from GDS the Ivies clearly go materially above their average acceptance rate.

That's not true, and I'm a GDS parent. 11 (.09*125) GDS students did NOT get accepted to Brown this year. And the ones who do get accepted are all legacies, URM or athletes. The only reason GDS has a 3-5 kids going to Harvard/Yale each year is because so many of them are legacies. There are many other kids who are H/Y legacies who do NOT get in, and good luck getting in if you don't fall into one of those 3 above hooked categories.

There are some top schools which have a history of liking GDS kids (Penn, Wash U, NYU, Tufts), and the top SLACs like GDS kids - especially boys.

College admissions should not be the principal reason why you're sending your kid to GDS.

I agree with the conclusion, but not with the math--unless all 125 seniors applied to Brown.

[Anonymous]

Obviously the entire GDS senior class doesn't go to Harvard ,,, or even to Brown. But GDS seniors do quite well compared to seniors in peer Big 3 and next tier privates. Whether it's the seniors or the school one can debate. It's probably that combustible combination of great kids matched with great educators, that leads to great results.

[Anonymous]

Where is the GDS troll?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is the GDS troll?

The PP shows refreshing humility.

[Anonymous]

I'm a parent at one of the schools, and honestly it depends on the grade. Our children are lucky enough to be in sweet grades with relaxed, kind parents. I think it would help to see if admissions would let you talk to some parents and see how you feel/ask specific questions about the grade. They may lie, but that is the major determining factor as they both produce stellar students who go onto great things.

[Anonymous]

Teacher here. I completely agree with 12:33.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent at one of the schools, and honestly it depends on the grade. Our children are lucky enough to be in sweet grades with relaxed, kind parents. I think it would help to see if admissions would let you talk to some parents and see how you feel/ask specific questions about the grade. They may lie, but that is the major determining factor as they both produce stellar students who go onto great things.

What can maret or gds give me regarding what the graduate are doing 5 and 10 years out of school?

They must track that, plus mailing addresses, donations and reunions.

[Anonymous]

A decade out a lot of GDS young alums are on their way in amazing careers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A decade out a lot of GDS young alums are on their way in amazing careers.

Your kids have been out of the house for ten years and you still have nothing better to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A decade out a lot of GDS young alums are on their way in amazing careers.

A GDS young alum won a Rhodes a couple of years ago.