Why the lack of VTech for Sidwell Seniors?

[Anonymous]

https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Pitt, Penn State, Wisconsin are all bolded but not neighboring VT?

[Anonymous]

Too public.

[Anonymous]

Probably want to go to college rather than getting a job with a company that makes baby monitors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably want to go to college rather than getting a job with a company that makes baby monitors.

What?

[Anonymous]

Blacksburg is a backwater, far from DC and inconvenient to get too. Penn State is closer. Pitt is a similar distance but a better drive and a great city. Madison is a state capital, a great college town, and an easy flight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably want to go to college rather than getting a job with a company that makes baby monitors.

What?

Pedantry. PP probably wants you to say "Virginia Tech" or "VaTech."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably want to go to college rather than getting a job with a company that makes baby monitors.

What?

Pedantry. PP probably wants you to say "Virginia Tech" or "VaTech."

I just thought it was funny that OP picked an uncommon way of abbreviating Virginia Tech that also happened to be something else.

[Anonymous]

Too poor. They go to expensive flagships or privates.

[Anonymous]

It's the usual troll who always refers to VT as "VTech." Very transparent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the usual troll who always refers to VT as "VTech." Very transparent.

NP. I will never understand why people from that school are soooo touchy about spelling. The folks from most other schools just aren't so twitchy about spelling.

[Anonymous]

I suspect there aren’t many Sidwell students from Virginia, and VT isn’t as appealing as an out of state option compared to places like Pitt and the others you mentioned.

[Anonymous]

I know a few Sidwell graduates who went on to V Tech in the past 5 years.

[Anonymous]

In viewing where Sidwell Friends graduates are well-represented, they seem to like LACs, particularly those in Maine (Bowdoin, Colby, Bates), New York (Hamilton, Colgate, Skidmore) and Pennsylvania (Haverford, Lafayette), along with Wesleyan (CT) and Pitzer (CA).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Pitt, Penn State, Wisconsin are all bolded but not neighboring VT?

Embarrassed they paid so much for HS only to get into a large public. Figured farther away, the name is less recognizable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suspect there aren’t many Sidwell students from Virginia, and VT isn’t as appealing as an out of state option compared to places like Pitt and the others you mentioned.

Agree. VT is great, but when my kid saw all that Pitt had to offer, he was more excited. And they're pretty equivalent schools, with each stronger in a few areas (VT stronger in some engineering, Pitt stronger in biomedical engineering, premed, nursing and anythign medical).