How are Big 3s doing with ED?

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Anonymous wrote:GDS is doing well this year - They still look stronger than Sidwell this year, but they are not killing it like last year when they had an astounding number of tippy top admissions: many Harvard (6) Princeton (3), etc.

The hysterical posts from Sidwell parents on this thread seem to indicate these parents think Sidwell still has the best record overall despite the fact last year, both St Albans and GDS did better.

Based on GDS’ and Sidwell’s IG accounts (STS’s doesn’t exist), Sidwell is doing significantly better than GDS (per usual) when it comes to college matriculations. If one is able to count, the truth is obvious.

STA’s college placement is underwhelming. Its website indicates that it only excels at sending students to UChicago. Sidwell does well at UChicago and every Ivy, which isn’t something STA can say. STA hasn’t sent a single student to Penn or Brown in the past 5 years! Penn sent 6 students to Penn LAST YEAR (2024).

https://www.stalbansschool.org/about/meet-st-albans

Sidwell sent 6 students to Penn LAST YEAR (2024).

If true, I stand corrected. STA hasn’t sent more than 5 students to Penn and Brown over the past 5 years. That’s not good. And you will never convince me it’s because STA students just don’t want to go to those two Ivies.

Those kids are at Dartmouth and Princeton and not applied to Brown per the school naviance. Many STA kids CURRENTLY at Dartmouth and Princeton and a few at Yale, Harvard, and Penn. What is your obsession with Penn? It is weird. How many Sidwell kids at Dartmouth or Princeton? Not many considering it is much larger than STA.

That’s a fight you really don’t want to have. Sidwell students are admitted to every Ivy every year. STA cannot say the same. Last year, Sidwell sent 6 students to Penn, 4 to Harvard, 2 each to Dartmouth, Cornell, and Columbia. And 1 each to the the remaining Ivies, except Princeton. The Princeton admit chose Harvard.

STA has only sent 10 students to Harvard over the past 5 years. During that same time period, Sidwell has sent about 20 students to Harvard. Sidwell is larger than STA, but it isn’t close to double its size.

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yes, and the Sidwell Ivies you mentioned are the usual collection of athletes, minorities and legacies (Harvard soccer recruit, Dartmouth board member's kid, etc, etc, etc). Meanwhile Sidwell also sent 6+ smart but unhooked kids to Chicago. Same story, different school.

You wish. Sidwell is nothing like STA (and thank the Lord for that!). Sidwell students are admitted to every Ivy, every year. That’s not true for STA students. In addition, Sidwell’s Ivy admits are a combination of the hooked and unhooked (2/4 of Harvard’s admits were unhooked). It appears that STA students can’t get admitted to certain Ivies unless they’re sports recruits.

There seems to be something sincerely wrong with your posts. I suggest you seek some professional help. You have some sort of weird grievance against STA. Seek help.

You first. You’re projecting your weird fixation with (defending) STA onto me. There’s nothing appealing about that school, so the idea that I’m fixated is laughable.

Obsessed

Your projection is your confession.

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Why in the world does anyone post repeatedly and obsessively about the college results of a school that their child does not attend? I think many of us (even among the DCUM addicted) agree that this is strange.

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Anonymous wrote:GDS is doing well this year - They still look stronger than Sidwell this year, but they are not killing it like last year when they had an astounding number of tippy top admissions: many Harvard (6) Princeton (3), etc.

The hysterical posts from Sidwell parents on this thread seem to indicate these parents think Sidwell still has the best record overall despite the fact last year, both St Albans and GDS did better.

Based on GDS’ and Sidwell’s IG accounts (STS’s doesn’t exist), Sidwell is doing significantly better than GDS (per usual) when it comes to college matriculations. If one is able to count, the truth is obvious.

STA’s college placement is underwhelming. Its website indicates that it only excels at sending students to UChicago. Sidwell does well at UChicago and every Ivy, which isn’t something STA can say. STA hasn’t sent a single student to Penn or Brown in the past 5 years! Penn sent 6 students to Penn LAST YEAR (2024).

https://www.stalbansschool.org/about/meet-st-albans

Sidwell sent 6 students to Penn LAST YEAR (2024).

If true, I stand corrected. STA hasn’t sent more than 5 students to Penn and Brown over the past 5 years. That’s not good. And you will never convince me it’s because STA students just don’t want to go to those two Ivies.

Those kids are at Dartmouth and Princeton and not applied to Brown per the school naviance. Many STA kids CURRENTLY at Dartmouth and Princeton and a few at Yale, Harvard, and Penn. What is your obsession with Penn? It is weird. How many Sidwell kids at Dartmouth or Princeton? Not many considering it is much larger than STA.

That’s a fight you really don’t want to have. Sidwell students are admitted to every Ivy every year. STA cannot say the same. Last year, Sidwell sent 6 students to Penn, 4 to Harvard, 2 each to Dartmouth, Cornell, and Columbia. And 1 each to the the remaining Ivies, except Princeton. The Princeton admit chose Harvard.

STA has only sent 10 students to Harvard over the past 5 years. During that same time period, Sidwell has sent about 20 students to Harvard. Sidwell is larger than STA, but it isn’t close to double its size.

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yes, and the Sidwell Ivies you mentioned are the usual collection of athletes, minorities and legacies (Harvard soccer recruit, Dartmouth board member's kid, etc, etc, etc). Meanwhile Sidwell also sent 6+ smart but unhooked kids to Chicago. Same story, different school.

You wish. Sidwell is nothing like STA (and thank the Lord for that!). Sidwell students are admitted to every Ivy, every year. That’s not true for STA students. In addition, Sidwell’s Ivy admits are a combination of the hooked and unhooked (2/4 of Harvard’s admits were unhooked). It appears that STA students can’t get admitted to certain Ivies unless they’re sports recruits.

There seems to be something sincerely wrong with your posts. I suggest you seek some professional help. You have some sort of weird grievance against STA. Seek help.

You first. You’re projecting your weird fixation with (defending) STA onto me. There’s nothing appealing about that school, so the idea that I’m fixated is laughable.

Nope there is something very deep and off about your posts.

Are you the same poster demanding to see STA’s matriculation list? For those of us that know the many many many STA grads currently at top 25 schools we just ignore your posts as they are not based in truth or facts.

No, there is something weird, off, and obsessive about your constant defense of STA’s meh college results. I haven’t asked about that school’s matriculation list because I don’t care enough about that middling school. Someone up thread posted a link from the school, so I clicked. I’m not at all surprised to find that STA doesn’t have an IG page because its results aren’t much better than Landon’s.

Look at you, “ignoring” my posts. 🤣

GIRL, You are so FUNNY!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world does anyone post repeatedly and obsessively about the college results of a school that their child does not attend? I think many of us (even among the DCUM addicted) agree that this is strange.

Yet here you are, posting ”repeatedly and obsessively.” Cat meet kettle.

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world does anyone post repeatedly and obsessively about the college results of a school that their child does not attend? I think many of us (even among the DCUM addicted) agree that this is strange.

Yet here you are, posting ”repeatedly and obsessively.” Cat meet kettle.

DP. Clearly we are dealing with a teenage troll here - seriously? "Cat meet kettle." You mean "pot meet kettle" don't you?

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world does anyone post repeatedly and obsessively about the college results of a school that their child does not attend? I think many of us (even among the DCUM addicted) agree that this is strange.

Yet here you are, posting ”repeatedly and obsessively.” Cat meet kettle.

DP. Clearly we are dealing with a teenage troll here - seriously? "Cat meet kettle." You mean "pot meet kettle" don't you?

The idiom "the pot calling the kettle black" is similar to "cat, meet kettle" in that it highlights hypocrisy and suggests that people should examine their own faults before criticizing others. The idiom is used when someone criticizes another person for a fault that they themselves have.

You have learned something new today. You’re welcome.

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world does anyone post repeatedly and obsessively about the college results of a school that their child does not attend? I think many of us (even among the DCUM addicted) agree that this is strange.

Yet here you are, posting ”repeatedly and obsessively.” Cat meet kettle.

DP. Clearly we are dealing with a teenage troll here - seriously? "Cat meet kettle." You mean "pot meet kettle" don't you?

The idiom "the pot calling the kettle black" is similar to "cat, meet kettle" in that it highlights hypocrisy and suggests that people should examine their own faults before criticizing others. The idiom is used when someone criticizes another person for a fault that they themselves have.

You have learned something new today. You’re welcome.

What? Even Google AI gives no results for that except one person's instagram meme.

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Anonymous wrote:Mentioned on another post, but have big 3 schools (specifically cathedral schools) been doing well in the early round? Hear many got into Cornell.

The Sidwell students are killing it right now! What percentage of these kids are hooked? Are they more hooked than the other Big 3/5 schools?

As a parent of a 12th grader, more like getting killed than killing it. Most of my DD's friends have been deferred, with a few outright rejected. I don't know enough about each kid's record (and I don't want to know about each kid's record) to know if it's a very bad year (on top of what's now been a long string of bad years at Sidwell) or whether lots of kids weren't being realistic and wasted their ED shot. But there's obviously still time for good things to happen.

Getting deferred or rejected in ED from "everyone's dream school with <10% acceptance rate" is an expected result. It is not "getting killed." Some kids want to take that shot, knowing the real admissions game for them is in RD. That's fine. They are and will continue to be OK.

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Anonymous wrote:Mentioned on another post, but have big 3 schools (specifically cathedral schools) been doing well in the early round? Hear many got into Cornell.

The Sidwell students are killing it right now! What percentage of these kids are hooked? Are they more hooked than the other Big 3/5 schools?

As a parent of a 12th grader, more like getting killed than killing it. Most of my DD's friends have been deferred, with a few outright rejected. I don't know enough about each kid's record (and I don't want to know about each kid's record) to know if it's a very bad year (on top of what's now been a long string of bad years at Sidwell) or whether lots of kids weren't being realistic and wasted their ED shot. But there's obviously still time for good things to happen.

Getting deferred or rejected in ED from "everyone's dream school with <10% acceptance rate" is an expected result. It is not "getting killed." Some kids want to take that shot, knowing the real admissions game for them is in RD. That's fine. They are and will continue to be OK.

+100. The lack of perspective among PARENTS is both sad and astounding.

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2 Harvard EDs for sidwell

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Anonymous wrote:2 Harvard EDs for sidwell

Both unhooked?

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If true, I stand corrected. STA hasn’t sent more than 5 students to Penn and Brown over the past 5 years. That’s not good. And you will never convince me it’s because STA students just don’t want to go to those two Ivies.

You are wrong - for whatever reason, STA students do not apply to Brown. They sent 2-3 kids per year there through the class of 2016, then it just stopped. I have kids that graduated from classes in the last 5 years and did not hear about any Brown applicants. Culturally, Brown is a better fit for GDS or Sidwell (my kid who didn’t attend STA went there so I am quite familiar with the school).

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If true, I stand corrected. STA hasn’t sent more than 5 students to Penn and Brown over the past 5 years. That’s not good. And you will never convince me it’s because STA students just don’t want to go to those two Ivies.

You are wrong - for whatever reason, STA students do not apply to Brown. They sent 2-3 kids per year there through the class of 2016, then it just stopped. I have kids that graduated from classes in the last 5 years and did not hear about any Brown applicants. Culturally, Brown is a better fit for GDS or Sidwell (my kid who didn’t attend STA went there so I am quite familiar with the school).

Why argue with this troll. If he/she wants to hate STA, whatever. Who cares?

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If true, I stand corrected. STA hasn’t sent more than 5 students to Penn and Brown over the past 5 years. That’s not good. And you will never convince me it’s because STA students just don’t want to go to those two Ivies.

You are wrong - for whatever reason, STA students do not apply to Brown. They sent 2-3 kids per year there through the class of 2016, then it just stopped. I have kids that graduated from classes in the last 5 years and did not hear about any Brown applicants. Culturally, Brown is a better fit for GDS or Sidwell (my kid who didn’t attend STA went there so I am quite familiar with the school).

So if you didn’t “hear” about any STA applicants it didn’t happen, Nosy Nelly?!?
I hope you’re joking.

Anyway, Tulane, W&L, BC, and Wake Forest are clearly more popular among STA students. I’m sure ALL STA students prefer those academically superior universities to Brown. 🙄
It can’t possibly be the case that Brown just doesn’t like STA, right?

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If true, I stand corrected. STA hasn’t sent more than 5 students to Penn and Brown over the past 5 years. That’s not good. And you will never convince me it’s because STA students just don’t want to go to those two Ivies.

You are wrong - for whatever reason, STA students do not apply to Brown. They sent 2-3 kids per year there through the class of 2016, then it just stopped. I have kids that graduated from classes in the last 5 years and did not hear about any Brown applicants. Culturally, Brown is a better fit for GDS or Sidwell (my kid who didn’t attend STA went there so I am quite familiar with the school).

So if you didn’t “hear” about any STA applicants it didn’t happen, Nosy Nelly?!?
I hope you’re joking.

Anyway, Tulane, W&L, BC, and Wake Forest are clearly more popular among STA students. I’m sure ALL STA students prefer those academically superior universities to Brown. 🙄
It can’t possibly be the case that Brown just doesn’t like STA, right?

My kid has a trust fund and will not need to work. They have enough money to start any venture or company they wish to start or invest in and frankly they do not have to work at all if they choose. Why would they choose to attend schools that may not be socially fun? College experience should be a great one! They actually are at an Ivy but I would be okay and would have preferred if they were not!