ED - Carnage at the Big 3

[Anonymous]

Not true at STA. Already 14 boys in ivies (HPY Dartmouth and Columbia) plus another batch at top schools. And still waiting for UChicago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not true at STA. Already 14 boys in ivies (HPY Dartmouth and Columbia) plus another batch at top schools. And still waiting for UChicago

Lacrosse bros

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not true at STA. Already 14 boys in ivies (HPY Dartmouth and Columbia) plus another batch at top schools. And still waiting for UChicago

Lacrosse bros

Considering how bad the STA lacrosse team is, that seems unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not true at STA. Already 14 boys in ivies (HPY Dartmouth and Columbia) plus another batch at top schools. And still waiting for UChicago

Lacrosse bros

Hey it's "Lax Bros" to you!

[Anonymous]

What we’ve heard so far about Sidwell ED and EA to HSPY sounds pretty good too.

[Anonymous]

Dont be deceived. Mostly douchey families with connections. Kids didn't earn it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What we’ve heard so far about Sidwell ED and EA to HSPY sounds pretty good too.

OP was complaining about unhooked, "normal" kids not being admitted. Overall admissions can be pretty good, but doesn't mean that the ones getting in are normal, by their definition (which excluded legacies, athletes, URMs, Questbridge, 1600/4.0 UW).

[Anonymous]

This is a weird thread. No real information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not true at STA. Already 14 boys in ivies (HPY Dartmouth and Columbia) plus another batch at top schools. And still waiting for UChicago

And you know they aren’t alumni kids? My kids are at a non DC private but the credentials of the parents around here are top flight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The game is up. The bill has come due. Unless you were URM, Questbridge, RA or Alumni you weren’t getting in. Exception were perfect test scores and GPA. Ugly ugly year. Think the scandal from last year changed the game. Normal balanced kids aren’t getting in - don’t kid yourself.
Was a horrible year at STA, Sidwell, NCS and GDS.

Perhaps the issue is that these schools don't properly teach the difference between 3 and 4?

[Anonymous]

Excuses, excuses, excuses OP!

[Anonymous]

So there is a little charter school in DC - called BASIS DC.

Its senior class has just under 50 students. 3 admitted to Yale, 1 to Dartmouth, 1 to MIT (class of 2020 is the 4th graduating class in the school's history). 1 Questbridge match, the rest are unhooked.

So maybe there is something to OP's lament. To a certain degree, these kinds of schools are only going to take so many from DC/MD/VA. And perhaps they are choosing more public school kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So there is a little charter school in DC - called BASIS DC.

Its senior class has just under 50 students. 3 admitted to Yale, 1 to Dartmouth, 1 to MIT (class of 2020 is the 4th graduating class in the school's history). 1 Questbridge match, the rest are unhooked.

So maybe there is something to OP's lament. To a certain degree, these kinds of schools are only going to take so many from DC/MD/VA. And perhaps they are choosing more public school kids.

Correction, one of the Yale admits was legacy. The only legacy of the bunch listed above.

[Anonymous]

I just wanted to note that that this is an outstanding thread title.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So there is a little charter school in DC - called BASIS DC.

Its senior class has just under 50 students. 3 admitted to Yale, 1 to Dartmouth, 1 to MIT (class of 2020 is the 4th graduating class in the school's history). 1 Questbridge match, the rest are unhooked.

So maybe there is something to OP's lament. To a certain degree, these kinds of schools are only going to take so many from DC/MD/VA. And perhaps they are choosing more public school kids.

Correction, one of the Yale admits was legacy. The only legacy of the bunch listed above.

And none of them are URM?