Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't legacies factor into the Harvard acceptances? Hard to believe it doesn't. MANY of the DC schools have strong legazies.

Legacies do figure in, but IME many of the DC area public and private schools have tons of parents who went to very competitive colleges. In my DS's class at a MCPS elementary school, there are three parents who were in the same class at Harvard, and more who were in different classes.

The distinction isn't so much which schools have Ivy league legacies, as most schools (private and public) in this area do. It's which school has Ivy grads who are the most high-powered and successful. Those applications are turbocharged.

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I'll take a stab:
1. STA and GDS (tie)
2. Sidwell
3. NCS
4. ?

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Who is winning the the Harvard Bowl so far this year?

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Alabama.

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G.D.S.

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Cambridge on the Potomac

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It is shaping up to be another great year for GDS seniors. I'll leave it at that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I presume its the largest. The question you should be asking is which school has the highest percentage in proportion to those that apply who are not legacies.

The best site for this but does exactly answer your question is below. You will note that the ones with the highest % that get into HYPMS (Harvard, Yale Princeton, MIT, STanford) in the DC area are
national cathedral, st albans and then Maret in that order.

http://matriculationstats.org/day-schools-outside-of-nyc

But it's not for all schools, only those that publish thisinformation.

Which would take Sidwell out of the sample since they don't publish

I know four families at Sidwell. Together they have sent 11 kids through the school. Not one of their kids got into an Ivy League school. Only one kid is still there and is a senior applying to college now. Not Ivy league material. I think there is a reason Sidwell doesn't publish their exmission stats!

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Rigorous analysis, thanks. Sidwell only sent 30 students to Ivys last year, so they must be hiding something.

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Anonymous wrote:It is shaping up to be another great year for GDS seniors. I'll leave it at that.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is shaping up to be another great year for GDS seniors. I'll leave it at that.

+1

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My neighbors kid was admitted early to Harvard a few days ago. Very sweet couldn't be happier for them. I do find it interesting that this kid just had straight up great grades in the hardest classes and great SAT Scores. They had no extracurriculars, played no sports or musical instruments, belonged to no clubs and just took Jihns Hopkins classes in the summer...just school and that's it. I guess it worked for them.

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Anonymous wrote:My neighbors kid was admitted early to Harvard a few days ago. Very sweet couldn't be happier for them. I do find it interesting that this kid just had straight up great grades in the hardest classes and great SAT Scores. They had no extracurriculars, played no sports or musical instruments, belonged to no clubs and just took Jihns Hopkins classes in the summer...just school and that's it. I guess it worked for them.

From which school? GDS?

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Of course he attends GDS...

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it that Harvard is no longer the top choice among students in the DMV? It seems that every Stanford or Princeton student I know turned down Harvard. I don’t know a single student who turned down Stanford or Princeton for Harvard. It seems that Stanford and Princeton are now in a class by themselves among DMV students. I know it’s splitting hairs because all of the top 5 schools are terrific, but the emergence of Stanford and Princeton as the “top of the top” is a bit surprising.

My DD turned down Princeton for Harvard. Very happy about the choice as well.