Another piece on entitled parents in independent schools and Sidwell by The Atlantic

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Do you know how admissions works at all? Colleges can only accept so many kids from each school which is why in some ways it can me more difficult for a kid from a private school to get into a top university. Ex: in a class of 80, 5 to 10 kids may have perfect SAt scores. Sadly, yale or like schools cannot accept all of the perfect SAT scoring children from the private school.

I don't send my kids to private school for top college placement. The majority of successful people in this country did not attend an ivy or the like.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know how admissions works at all? Colleges can only accept so many kids from each school which is why in some ways it can me more difficult for a kid from a private school to get into a top university. Ex: in a class of 80, 5 to 10 kids may have perfect SAt scores. Sadly, yale or like schools cannot accept all of the perfect SAT scoring children from the private school.

I don't send my kids to private school for top college placement. The majority of successful people in this country did not attend an ivy or the like.

There is no quota regarding how many kids from a single high school can attend a university.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that GDS is constantly comparing itself to SFS says a lot. I never hear it the other way around.

Correct. GDS has always been for wannabe Sidwell kids / families.
* cue the, "We turned down Sidwell for GDS!!"

Neither one sends very many to the Ivy league, especially given how many legacies there are. So maybe both are perfectly fine, but nothing special schools.

Citation with respect to GDS? Not surprising you don’t have one because you don’t know what your talking about. GDS has an enviable Ivy record among the Big 3.

Look unless your school is sending large numbers of kids to the Ivy League, it's not that different from hundreds if not thousands of public schools across this country (let alone the Big 3). If only one or two kids are getting into Harvard each year, then, well, you're not spectacular. Good? Yes. Spectacular? No. (And, again, we should expect private schools to send lots of kids to the Ivy league, if only because so many of their parents are alumni, which, we all know, is a very big advantage in the admissions process).

Exactly. DC parents need to broaden their worldview. There are schools in Boston and New York who send 15-17 kids out of 50 to Harvard...every single year. I've lived in all three of these cities (DC, NY, Boston), and DC has to have the most insecure parents of them all. And that's saying something.

Which school(s) send 15 of 50 (i.e., 30%) of kids to Harvard each year?

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that GDS is constantly comparing itself to SFS says a lot. I never hear it the other way around.

Correct. GDS has always been for wannabe Sidwell kids / families.
* cue the, "We turned down Sidwell for GDS!!"

Neither one sends very many to the Ivy league, especially given how many legacies there are. So maybe both are perfectly fine, but nothing special schools.

Citation with respect to GDS? Not surprising you don’t have one because you don’t know what your talking about. GDS has an enviable Ivy record among the Big 3.

Look unless your school is sending large numbers of kids to the Ivy League, it's not that different from hundreds if not thousands of public schools across this country (let alone the Big 3). If only one or two kids are getting into Harvard each year, then, well, you're not spectacular. Good? Yes. Spectacular? No. (And, again, we should expect private schools to send lots of kids to the Ivy league, if only because so many of their parents are alumni, which, we all know, is a very big advantage in the admissions process).

Exactly. DC parents need to broaden their worldview. There are schools in Boston and New York who send 15-17 kids out of 50 to Harvard...every single year. I've lived in all three of these cities (DC, NY, Boston), and DC has to have the most insecure parents of them all. And that's saying something.

Which school(s) send 15 of 50 (i.e., 30%) of kids to Harvard each year?

meant to say Ivy League (sorry, about to board a plane). Roxbury latin, for example, sends 36% to Ivy League. last year sent 8 to Harvard alone. and they have a very small graduating class. its sister school, Windsor, sends around 30% to Ivy League every year. Milton Academy sent something like 30 to Ivy League last year, again with 7 to Harvard alone. Sent 12 to Yale in two years. it's about 160 in the graduating class at milton--not much larger than Sidwell. Trinity in New York sends about 40% to Ivy League every year, and so does collegiate. lots of schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know how admissions works at all? Colleges can only accept so many kids from each school which is why in some ways it can me more difficult for a kid from a private school to get into a top university. Ex: in a class of 80, 5 to 10 kids may have perfect SAt scores. Sadly, yale or like schools cannot accept all of the perfect SAT scoring children from the private school.

I don't send my kids to private school for top college placement. The majority of successful people in this country did not attend an ivy or the like.

Excuses. Colleges can take whichever students they like.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that GDS is constantly comparing itself to SFS says a lot. I never hear it the other way around.

Correct. GDS has always been for wannabe Sidwell kids / families.
* cue the, "We turned down Sidwell for GDS!!"

Neither one sends very many to the Ivy league, especially given how many legacies there are. So maybe both are perfectly fine, but nothing special schools.

Citation with respect to GDS? Not surprising you don’t have one because you don’t know what your talking about. GDS has an enviable Ivy record among the Big 3.

Look unless your school is sending large numbers of kids to the Ivy League, it's not that different from hundreds if not thousands of public schools across this country (let alone the Big 3). If only one or two kids are getting into Harvard each year, then, well, you're not spectacular. Good? Yes. Spectacular? No. (And, again, we should expect private schools to send lots of kids to the Ivy league, if only because so many of their parents are alumni, which, we all know, is a very big advantage in the admissions process).

Exactly. DC parents need to broaden their worldview. There are schools in Boston and New York who send 15-17 kids out of 50 to Harvard...every single year. I've lived in all three of these cities (DC, NY, Boston), and DC has to have the most insecure parents of them all. And that's saying something.

Which school(s) send 15 of 50 (i.e., 30%) of kids to Harvard each year?

meant to say Ivy League (sorry, about to board a plane). Roxbury latin, for example, sends 36% to Ivy League. last year sent 8 to Harvard alone. and they have a very small graduating class. its sister school, Windsor, sends around 30% to Ivy League every year. Milton Academy sent something like 30 to Ivy League last year, again with 7 to Harvard alone. Sent 12 to Yale in two years. it's about 160 in the graduating class at milton--not much larger than Sidwell. Trinity in New York sends about 40% to Ivy League every year, and so does collegiate. lots of schools.

How is this different than GDS?

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Anonymous wrote:Fun article from a strong writer about a topic that's already been hashed to death. She's good enough to make it more than a just-kill-me-now topic. This should serve as a warning to the rest of us: Sidwell-type parents, in true Trumpian fashion, aren't just going to let their kids' "birthright" slip from their hands as a new generation of motivated public school kids challenge the legacy system. They want their own little Ivankas and Tiffanys and Jareds to go to Harvard, too!

It's hilarious that you manage to blame this all on Trump, when Obama was the one who sent his daughters to Sidwell and (one, anyway) to Harvard.

You have reading comprehension issues. That’s not blaming it on the orange one, but pointing out that certain entitled Sidwell parents have more in common with him than they’d like to admit.

+1. Thank's PP for pointing out the comprehension problem.

I also thought it was "hilarious" that the poster trying to bash Obama and defend Trump didn't even understand the post he was citing. Idiot.

Then why didn't you call it "true Obamian fashion?"

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that GDS is constantly comparing itself to SFS says a lot. I never hear it the other way around.

Correct. GDS has always been for wannabe Sidwell kids / families.
* cue the, "We turned down Sidwell for GDS!!"

Neither one sends very many to the Ivy league, especially given how many legacies there are. So maybe both are perfectly fine, but nothing special schools.

Citation with respect to GDS? Not surprising you don’t have one because you don’t know what your talking about. GDS has an enviable Ivy record among the Big 3.

Look unless your school is sending large numbers of kids to the Ivy League, it's not that different from hundreds if not thousands of public schools across this country (let alone the Big 3). If only one or two kids are getting into Harvard each year, then, well, you're not spectacular. Good? Yes. Spectacular? No. (And, again, we should expect private schools to send lots of kids to the Ivy league, if only because so many of their parents are alumni, which, we all know, is a very big advantage in the admissions process).

Exactly. DC parents need to broaden their worldview. There are schools in Boston and New York who send 15-17 kids out of 50 to Harvard...every single year. I've lived in all three of these cities (DC, NY, Boston), and DC has to have the most insecure parents of them all. And that's saying something.

Which school(s) send 15 of 50 (i.e., 30%) of kids to Harvard each year?

meant to say Ivy League (sorry, about to board a plane). Roxbury latin, for example, sends 36% to Ivy League. last year sent 8 to Harvard alone. and they have a very small graduating class. its sister school, Windsor, sends around 30% to Ivy League every year. Milton Academy sent something like 30 to Ivy League last year, again with 7 to Harvard alone. Sent 12 to Yale in two years. it's about 160 in the graduating class at milton--not much larger than Sidwell. Trinity in New York sends about 40% to Ivy League every year, and so does collegiate. lots of schools.

I think those schools have even wealthier parents. I know someone who was worth about 250 mil. trying to get his kid into Trinity. He said it was so competitive and he was trying to get recommendations from CEOs and Chairmans.. NY is another league, whether they end up in the paper or not.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that GDS is constantly comparing itself to SFS says a lot. I never hear it the other way around.

Correct. GDS has always been for wannabe Sidwell kids / families.
* cue the, "We turned down Sidwell for GDS!!"

Neither one sends very many to the Ivy league, especially given how many legacies there are. So maybe both are perfectly fine, but nothing special schools.

Citation with respect to GDS? Not surprising you don’t have one because you don’t know what your talking about. GDS has an enviable Ivy record among the Big 3.

Look unless your school is sending large numbers of kids to the Ivy League, it's not that different from hundreds if not thousands of public schools across this country (let alone the Big 3). If only one or two kids are getting into Harvard each year, then, well, you're not spectacular. Good? Yes. Spectacular? No. (And, again, we should expect private schools to send lots of kids to the Ivy league, if only because so many of their parents are alumni, which, we all know, is a very big advantage in the admissions process).

Exactly. DC parents need to broaden their worldview. There are schools in Boston and New York who send 15-17 kids out of 50 to Harvard...every single year. I've lived in all three of these cities (DC, NY, Boston), and DC has to have the most insecure parents of them all. And that's saying something.

Which school(s) send 15 of 50 (i.e., 30%) of kids to Harvard each year?

meant to say Ivy League (sorry, about to board a plane). Roxbury latin, for example, sends 36% to Ivy League. last year sent 8 to Harvard alone. and they have a very small graduating class. its sister school, Windsor, sends around 30% to Ivy League every year. Milton Academy sent something like 30 to Ivy League last year, again with 7 to Harvard alone. Sent 12 to Yale in two years. it's about 160 in the graduating class at milton--not much larger than Sidwell. Trinity in New York sends about 40% to Ivy League every year, and so does collegiate. lots of schools.

I think those schools have even wealthier parents. I know someone who was worth about 250 mil. trying to get his kid into Trinity. He said it was so competitive and he was trying to get recommendations from CEOs and Chairmans.. NY is another league, whether they end up in the paper or not.

That's not true of the Boston schools as much, especially Roxbury Latin.