Sidwell College Admissions This Year

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't Sidwell have better college acceptances than public high schools?

Yes, and it does! 🎉

Better than TJ?

In their dreams.

[Anonymous]

The kids have found this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The kids have found this thread.

Petty SFS parent found this thread.

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I really hope it is the kids and not the parents

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The kids have found this thread.

Petty SFS parent found this thread.

Or TJ parents with something to prove 🤫

[Anonymous]

For SFS Class of 2022, after all the anxiety, things turned out just fine. The vast majority of SFS Class of 2022 are happy and, you know what, that’s all that matters. Keep that in mind, SFS Class of 2023, as we approach the homestretch. It all works out; it really does. Zen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why have they locked the TJ college admission thread while this one remains open?

$$$

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Anonymous wrote:Email today from the head of the CCO implies a good amount of frustration bubbling up.

Also strange that the CCO would need to send an email at this late stage clarifying their role. Maybe they should have spent more time talking about that kind of thing in the grade level meetings instead of just going over checklists that anyone could look at online.

They said it a million times at meetings in 10th and 11th grade. Sorry if you don't recall that. They were crystal clear. Having to send that email today should be an embarrassment to the parents who are complaining.

PP here. I am not a parent who has complained. I do disagree that they ever clearly explained their role to parents or that they said it a million times at meetings in 10th and 11th grade. Rather than saying parents should be embarrassed, maybe the CCO should be embarrassed that their role is not crystal clear to everyone. The fact that there are apparently enough parents with different expectations that an email is necessary should be evidence of the confusion.

They said in meetings in 10th and 11th grade that they do not make the decisions, they cannot call and lobby Admissions officers, etc. They can advocate for an applicant if an AO calls and they can make sure all of the paperwork is in on time and they can help develop lists based on the questions asked of the parents and students in 11th grade.

I don't know what to tell you or the people who apparently are complaining to the CCO.

Junior parent here. This topic has never been covered at all in the 10th or 11th grade meetings that I attended, but we haven't attended our individual meeting yet....

That said, I have no expectation that the CCO is calling AO's to lobby for applicants. I don't know how they would have the time (the CCO or the AO's!). Furthermore, I can only imagine the way this would play out in terms of favoritism and equity.

reading this thread. In the end I do not think it is about lobbying but in how the counselor fills out the school form. This can hurt a candidate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email today from the head of the CCO implies a good amount of frustration bubbling up.

Also strange that the CCO would need to send an email at this late stage clarifying their role. Maybe they should have spent more time talking about that kind of thing in the grade level meetings instead of just going over checklists that anyone could look at online.

At any private school to be honest….

They said it a million times at meetings in 10th and 11th grade. Sorry if you don't recall that. They were crystal clear. Having to send that email today should be an embarrassment to the parents who are complaining.

PP here. I am not a parent who has complained. I do disagree that they ever clearly explained their role to parents or that they said it a million times at meetings in 10th and 11th grade. Rather than saying parents should be embarrassed, maybe the CCO should be embarrassed that their role is not crystal clear to everyone. The fact that there are apparently enough parents with different expectations that an email is necessary should be evidence of the confusion.

They said in meetings in 10th and 11th grade that they do not make the decisions, they cannot call and lobby Admissions officers, etc. They can advocate for an applicant if an AO calls and they can make sure all of the paperwork is in on time and they can help develop lists based on the questions asked of the parents and students in 11th grade.

I don't know what to tell you or the people who apparently are complaining to the CCO.

Junior parent here. This topic has never been covered at all in the 10th or 11th grade meetings that I attended, but we haven't attended our individual meeting yet....

That said, I have no expectation that the CCO is calling AO's to lobby for applicants. I don't know how they would have the time (the CCO or the AO's!). Furthermore, I can only imagine the way this would play out in terms of favoritism and equity.

reading this thread. In the end I do not think it is about lobbying but in how the counselor fills out the school form. This can hurt a candidate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Email today from the head of the CCO implies a good amount of frustration bubbling up.

Also strange that the CCO would need to send an email at this late stage clarifying their role. Maybe they should have spent more time talking about that kind of thing in the grade level meetings instead of just going over checklists that anyone could look at online.

At any private school to be honest….

They said it a million times at meetings in 10th and 11th grade. Sorry if you don't recall that. They were crystal clear. Having to send that email today should be an embarrassment to the parents who are complaining.

PP here. I am not a parent who has complained. I do disagree that they ever clearly explained their role to parents or that they said it a million times at meetings in 10th and 11th grade. Rather than saying parents should be embarrassed, maybe the CCO should be embarrassed that their role is not crystal clear to everyone. The fact that there are apparently enough parents with different expectations that an email is necessary should be evidence of the confusion.

They said in meetings in 10th and 11th grade that they do not make the decisions, they cannot call and lobby Admissions officers, etc. They can advocate for an applicant if an AO calls and they can make sure all of the paperwork is in on time and they can help develop lists based on the questions asked of the parents and students in 11th grade.

I don't know what to tell you or the people who apparently are complaining to the CCO.

Junior parent here. This topic has never been covered at all in the 10th or 11th grade meetings that I attended, but we haven't attended our individual meeting yet....

That said, I have no expectation that the CCO is calling AO's to lobby for applicants. I don't know how they would have the time (the CCO or the AO's!). Furthermore, I can only imagine the way this would play out in terms of favoritism and equity.

reading this thread. In the end I do not think it is about lobbying but in how the counselor fills out the school form. This can hurt a candidate.

This would be true in any private school

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Anonymous wrote: It turned out to be a great class with wonderful, motivated kids challenged to be a part of the solution of our societal woes.

I’m very relieved to hear this. With so many areas of the world in turmoil, & the US military recruiting being so low, I was worried we wouldn’t have the personnel needed to carry out our various missions.

But now that I hear that the SFS grads are eager to solve our societal woes, I’m sure they will be enlisting in droves. And graduates of similar schools will follow their example.

It’s great that we have progressed past the terrible situation we had decades ago when the poor & uneducated did the fighting & while the privileged studied economics & perfected their squash game at top universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Underwhelming acceptances. Try to do better than a public HS nearby.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: It turned out to be a great class with wonderful, motivated kids challenged to be a part of the solution of our societal woes.

I’m very relieved to hear this. With so many areas of the world in turmoil, & the US military recruiting being so low, I was worried we wouldn’t have the personnel needed to carry out our various missions.

But now that I hear that the SFS grads are eager to solve our societal woes, I’m sure they will be enlisting in droves. And graduates of similar schools will follow their example.

It’s great that we have progressed past the terrible situation we had decades ago when the poor & uneducated did the fighting & while the privileged studied economics & perfected their squash game at top universities.

War does not solve societal woes, it is a societal woe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Underwhelming acceptances. Try to do better than a public HS nearby.

Pathetic if that is the result of Sidwell with all the connections and donations and legacies in the world.

Not to mention preferences for URMs, Athletes and VIPs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: It turned out to be a great class with wonderful, motivated kids challenged to be a part of the solution of our societal woes.

I’m very relieved to hear this. With so many areas of the world in turmoil, & the US military recruiting being so low, I was worried we wouldn’t have the personnel needed to carry out our various missions.

But now that I hear that the SFS grads are eager to solve our societal woes, I’m sure they will be enlisting in droves. And graduates of similar schools will follow their example.

It’s great that we have progressed past the terrible situation we had decades ago when the poor & uneducated did the fighting & while the privileged studied economics & perfected their squash game at top universities.

War does not solve societal woes, it is a societal woe.

You ever try negotiating away a societal woe?