Burgundy Farm teachers and foreign language and science program
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College destinations of Burgundy kids:
Congrats to the Class of 2008 Burgundy's Class of 2008 is graduating from high school and preparing for their next adventures. Below is a list of some of the colleges they will be attending. A complete list will be included in the upcoming issue of Voices. Amherst College Bennett College Bucknell University College of Charleston Columbia University Cornell University Haverford College Hobart and William Smith Colleges Ithaca College Kenyon College McDaniel College Northeastern University Princeton University Savannah College of Art and Design St. John's College Stanford University The College of William & Mary Tulane University University of Houston University of Pittsburgh University of Vermont Virginia Commonwealth University Xavier University Yale University |
Anonymous
Thanks for posting. Do you have the full list of actual enrollments? Including the junior colleges, and the number of kids who were confident enough to not need to go to college? |
Anonymous
| The above list is actual enrollments. It is incomplete b/c list was published before some kids had reported info. It is pretty close to complete, though, since there are only about 30 kids in each graduating class and this list has destinations for 25 kids. I don't know where the other 5 or so kids ended up, but honestly, PP, snark aside, if 25 out of 30 kids go to these colleges and the remaining five become plumbers and beauticians, I'm still thinking, hot damn! Pretty good for a little tiny school that's not part of the rat race. Compare this college list to the "big three" -- it doesn't get much better. |
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Don't bother, PP. some people have trouble comprehending than not everyone in the world wants what they want, or needs what they want. If someone's determined to hate a place, you won't change their mind.
And why would you want to change their mind? If someone doesn't "get" Burgundy, good: they'll stay away from it, and leave this little gem of a school to those of us who do get it. This is actually something I worry about: Burgundy becoming "hot," and attracting the wrong people-- the socially competitive, the uber rich, the people who think hours spent on homework is the best sign of academic seriousness, the people who think training their kids to be bullies or mean girls will help them get ahead in the "real" world, the people who sign their four year olds up for Mandarin and pre-calc. Let them think Burgundy's no good-- I sure don't want to have to see them on campus. |
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07:49 again and Burgundy parent. My DC qualifies for FFX AAP, as would about 50+% of DC's year group classmates. Another 10-15% might, or possibly only for local pull-out, say in math. Some would not. That's the cohort. Really. Is it that way every year, with every class? I don't know. But I know there is a critical mass of critical thinkers in small classes with lots of project based curriculum.
Not sure why 22:21's attempting to cast a spooky shadow over a real college list. There are undoubtedly a couple of gap year kids, or someone not yet sure what direction to take. A small percentage, and I don't see how this are harming my child's education in any way. |
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Anonymous
This list would be so much more useful if we knew where these kids attended High School. |
Anonymous
| Go to their website you can find their exmissions in two seconds |
Anonymous
| Their exmissions data is very broad and not year-specific. It's hard to judge if the college acceptances are related to Burgundy and progressive education or the more traditional upper schools. |
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08:37
How about the exmissions data judges the individuals? And those individuals attended Burgundy and then another school for their upper years. (and maybe others pre- and post- Burgundy) Those individuals now represent who they are, young adults who have been influenced by family, friends, the schools they attended, and any other activity or religious community they were a part of during their 18 years. |
Anonymous
| 8:37: The list above is year-specific. And I think the point this list makes is that kids coming from Burgundy obviously have not been put at a disadvantage when it comes to high school. They went to high school (a wide variety of schools) and cleaned up. |
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Not sure I'd agree with the "cleaned up" bit, but aside from that, yes, this is precisely the point. Can Burgundy take all the credit for the colleges kids get into? Of course not. But equally, this list suggests that Watever else it does, going to Burgundy hardly "disadvantages" kids in some terrible way. If it did, you would not see them getting into good high schools and you would not expect them to get into good colleges. In fact, they appear to do fine. |
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When someone is paying $25k+ per year for their child's education, they are hoping for a bit more than it just not being detrimental. I can see the question in judging a k-8 based on the later college admissions. If my dc did public K-8 and then went to a big 3 school, do you think anyone would be claiming it was all because of their years in public, and the big 3 school was irrelevant? |
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23:06 said t. There is no persuading some people. If you say Burgundy kids go to good colleges she will say that's no credit to Burgundy, it's just a credit to their high schools. If you say they also get into good high schools, she'll say this is despite Burgundy, not because of it, and insist (based on nothing) that they all encounter "problems" adjusting to their high schools.
Ignore it. Burgundy is a good school for people who get it,many a bad school for people who don't. Which, at least in this sense, makes it much like most other decent schools in the area. |
Anonymous
| Where do Burgundy grads go to continue a similar education? |