2024 Washington DC area College commits

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Private schools are certainly able to lure academic and athletic superstars for 9th grade who may have inherent edges in college admissions, but most of the class was admitted before the age of 9, and a lot when they could barely read.

Whitman and Churchill families are definitely not donut hole for the most part, plus they haven’t spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in private school tuition and have been able to save that and/or invest it.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

I agree. I am just not familiar with the "W" schools except a few people that fled them at our private. They are not on our radar. We are not in that world and won't be so it is irrelevant to us. Of interest would age similar privates in our area. That's it.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

Do you hear yourself?!? Comparing raw numbers is stupid and definitely misleading. Comparing the T20 college admissions results of some public behemoth with 600 graduating seniors to STA’s 75 TOTAL graduating seniors makes sense to you? Is that what’s being taught at your neighborhood public?

I’ll stop quoting percentages when you stop trying to compare “top” public schools to top private schools. You can’t compete where you don’t compare.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

NP. I just stopped by to say the OP did NOT include public schools in her original post (see page 1). A bunch of public school parents kept begging to have certain public schools added to the list, and now here we are. I’m not sure the OP is the one that added the publics.

In any case, I’m tired of having to scroll past numerous posts from public school parents on the private school forum. If I wanted to send my children to my “excellent” zoned public school, then I would.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

NP. I just stopped by to say the OP did NOT include public schools in her original post (see page 1). A bunch of public school parents kept begging to have certain public schools added to the list, and now here we are. I’m not sure the OP is the one that added the publics.

In any case, I’m tired of having to scroll past numerous posts from public school parents on the private school forum. If I wanted to send my children to my “excellent” zoned public school, then I would.

This. Truth be told if this was on another forum and private parents were adding in things to public forums they would be deleted.

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Any private school that gets 40 to 50% of their students into top 25 colleges and universities has got a great formula; That any private school in the country would want to emulate.

Sign of a great private high school is the percentage of kids admitted to top universities

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

Do you hear yourself?!? Comparing raw numbers is stupid and definitely misleading. Comparing the T20 college admissions results of some public behemoth with 600 graduating seniors to STA’s 75 TOTAL graduating seniors makes sense to you? Is that what’s being taught at your neighborhood public?

I’ll stop quoting percentages when you stop trying to compare “top” public schools to top private schools. You can’t compete where you don’t compare.

Gosh I’m so sorry that so many kids from public schools are outperforming your precious child in some private school. I know it must hurt deeply to be spending 60K/year only for your child to be admitted to Colby College or Colgate University. Sorry I struck a nerve but do carry on

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

Do you hear yourself?!? Comparing raw numbers is stupid and definitely misleading. Comparing the T20 college admissions results of some public behemoth with 600 graduating seniors to STA’s 75 TOTAL graduating seniors makes sense to you? Is that what’s being taught at your neighborhood public?

I’ll stop quoting percentages when you stop trying to compare “top” public schools to top private schools. You can’t compete where you don’t compare.

We are not at public school. Best of luck to you and public school parents but we made a choice to not be part of that world and I personally just have no interest to know what a W school is doing which is not even near me or in our district. You seem to be trying to compare publics to privates constantly and no one is interested.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

Do you hear yourself?!? Comparing raw numbers is stupid and definitely misleading. Comparing the T20 college admissions results of some public behemoth with 600 graduating seniors to STA’s 75 TOTAL graduating seniors makes sense to you? Is that what’s being taught at your neighborhood public?

I’ll stop quoting percentages when you stop trying to compare “top” public schools to top private schools. You can’t compete where you don’t compare.

Gosh I’m so sorry that so many kids from public schools are outperforming your precious child in some private school. I know it must hurt deeply to be spending 60K/year only for your child to be admitted to Colby College or Colgate University. Sorry I struck a nerve but do carry on

DP. No that’s not it. I could say a lot and I won’t because I don’t want to put down publics but trust me no one at privates has any doubt that private is better for their kids. It’s sad that you don’t get it.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

Do you hear yourself?!? Comparing raw numbers is stupid and definitely misleading. Comparing the T20 college admissions results of some public behemoth with 600 graduating seniors to STA’s 75 TOTAL graduating seniors makes sense to you? Is that what’s being taught at your neighborhood public?

I’ll stop quoting percentages when you stop trying to compare “top” public schools to top private schools. You can’t compete where you don’t compare.

Gosh I’m so sorry that so many kids from public schools are outperforming your precious child in some private school. I know it must hurt deeply to be spending 60K/year only for your child to be admitted to Colby College or Colgate University. Sorry I struck a nerve but do carry on

Outperforming?!? You think sending 5% of a public school’s graduating class to T20/25 colleges is outperforming a private school that sends 40% to 50% of its graduating class to the same colleges? At this point, I could make a sarcastic comment about public school education, statistics, and reading comprehension…but I’ll refrain. Try to enjoy your day, public school parent.

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Anonymous wrote:They aren’t better than the privates. Bethesda Magazine indicates that W school admissions outcomes are good, but hardly great.

How does it “indicate” this?

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

Do you hear yourself?!? Comparing raw numbers is stupid and definitely misleading. Comparing the T20 college admissions results of some public behemoth with 600 graduating seniors to STA’s 75 TOTAL graduating seniors makes sense to you? Is that what’s being taught at your neighborhood public?

I’ll stop quoting percentages when you stop trying to compare “top” public schools to top private schools. You can’t compete where you don’t compare.

Do you hear yourself!? Comparing percentage is stupid and definitely misleading because A) public school graduating class is way bigger, therefore the percentage will always be smaller ...
B) the vast majority of the public schools class doesn't even apply to the ivies or T20, so the percentage will always be wrong and misleading.

And you still haven't post the link for your Sidwell numbers.

DP

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

Then stop trying to compare W public schools (or whatever they’re called) to top DC private schools. You can’t have it both ways. The top publics in MD are sending 5% of their students to T20 colleges, while Big 3/5/7 are sending 25% or more. In Sidwell’s case, it’s more than 40%.

Try to be happy with your children’s free and adequate public schooling. Frequent comparison posts on the private school forum, like these, says you’re still struggling with that decision.

Please stop trying to quote percentages. It is so misleading! Of course the public school graduating class is way bigger so the percentage becomes way smaller. Let’s talk raw numbers and based on just raw numbers these schools have done very well. The only reason they came up was because the OP has listed college admission pages for both public and private schools and it’s quite impressive to see how well the kids are doing in public schools as well.

Do you hear yourself?!? Comparing raw numbers is stupid and definitely misleading. Comparing the T20 college admissions results of some public behemoth with 600 graduating seniors to STA’s 75 TOTAL graduating seniors makes sense to you? Is that what’s being taught at your neighborhood public?

I’ll stop quoting percentages when you stop trying to compare “top” public schools to top private schools. You can’t compete where you don’t compare.

Gosh I’m so sorry that so many kids from public schools are outperforming your precious child in some private school. I know it must hurt deeply to be spending 60K/year only for your child to be admitted to Colby College or Colgate University. Sorry I struck a nerve but do carry on

Outperforming?!? You think sending 5% of a public school’s graduating class to T20/25 colleges is outperforming a private school that sends 40% to 50% of its graduating class to the same colleges? At this point, I could make a sarcastic comment about public school education, statistics, and reading comprehension…but I’ll refrain. Try to enjoy your day, public school parent.

Where is the proof of that?