SSSAS College Acceptances

[Anonymous]

I'd bet that part of the difference between SSSA and the "big 3" is there are less parents who are donating or connected in ways that help their underqualified kids get in. You really have to read the the matriculation stats with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd bet that part of the difference between SSSA and the "big 3" is there are less parents who are donating or connected in ways that help their underqualified kids get in. You really have to read the the matriculation stats with a grain of salt.

No.

[Anonymous]

ummm, yes. Want to people to out the families who do this?

Anyway, how do we really know the accurate stats for Big 3's when so many won't publish them?

[Anonymous]

SSSA is tiny - like 125 per class - so if you see 5 went Ivy last year (or whatever pp cited), no that’s not the same as a public school class of 600 sending 5 kids Ivy.

Also, there are I think more kids who go to ivies from, for example, sidwell, but in large part that’s self selection. Intense parents who strive for Ivy League admissions for their kids will seek out sidwell. Sssa is a great school but no question it is more laid back and less intense than a school like that (though as that other thread demonstrates the intensity at sidwell is not always a good thing for kids).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd bet that part of the difference between SSSA and the "big 3" is there are less parents who are donating or connected in ways that help their underqualified kids get in. You really have to read the the matriculation stats with a grain of salt.

No.

+1.

[Anonymous]

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So some big 3 families aren't buying their way in? Wake up Karen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SSSA is tiny - like 125 per class - so if you see 5 went Ivy last year (or whatever pp cited), no that’s not the same as a public school class of 600 sending 5 kids Ivy.

Also, there are I think more kids who go to ivies from, for example, sidwell, but in large part that’s self selection. Intense parents who strive for Ivy League admissions for their kids will seek out sidwell. Sssa is a great school but no question it is more laid back and less intense than a school like that (though as that other thread demonstrates the intensity at sidwell is not always a good thing for kids).

Sure, but when you control for SES, and then compare apples to apples, the high SES population at TC has very similar college stats to SSSAS, if not better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:non-athlete, non-legacy, middle 50% is not going IVY or even top 25 at Big3.

Not true.

Agreed. The kids in this category will likely end up at a top SLAC, and should be competitive for large universities in the 15-25 rankings.

They’ll end up at a need aware SLAC- look at the threads of parents freaking out over their kids with big 3 GPAs around 3

That's mostly due to test optional. If you don't have an SAT to give context to the 3.0, you'd be worried this year.

[Anonymous]

Good lord, what a thread!

I am a former SSSAS teacher. I really enjoyed teaching there and had a lot of really hardworking, talented, bright kids.

I looked at the 2020 matriculation list on their website and the students are going to lot of great schools. For example, Bates, Williams, Tufts, Georgetown, Morehouse, Spelman, Kenyon, Macalester University, UCal Berkeley are not Ivies but all are extremely competitive and excellent schools.

There are about 120 kids in each senior class, so it's not a big school.


NORTHEAST:
Bates College
Boston College
Brown University
Bucknell University (3)
Connecticut College
Northeastern University
Trinity College (CT)
Tufts University
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
University of Connecticut
Williams College

MID-ATLANTIC:
American University (2)
Colgate University
Cornell University (2)
Franklin & Marshall College
Georgetown University (2)
Hamilton College (2)
James Madison University (2)
Lehigh University
Loyola University (MD) (2)
Penn State University
Princeton University (2)
Radford University (2)
Saint Joseph's University (PA)
St. Thomas Aquinas College
Temple University
Towson University
United States Military Academy (2)
University of Delaware (2)
Washington College (MD)
University of Richmond
University of Virginia (5)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Tech (7)
Washington & Lee University
Washington College (MD)

SOUTHEAST:
Clemson University
College of Charleston (2)
College of William & Mary (3)
East Carolina University
East Tennessee State University
Elon University (5)
Furman University (3)
High Point University
Morehouse College
Spelman College (2)
Tulane University (2)
University of Alabama
University of Florida
University of Georgia (2)
University of Miami
University of North Carolina –
Chapel Hill
University of South Carolina (5)
Winthrop University

MIDWEST:
Denison University (3)
Kenyon University
Miami University (Ohio) (2)
University of Chicago
University of Michigan (2)

WEST:
Colorado College (2)
Macalester University
Occidental College (2)
United States Air Force Academy
University of California - Berkeley
University of Denver
University of Oregon

CANADA:
Queens College (Canada)
University of Toronto

[Anonymous]

that looks like a list of schools you'd expect UMC kids to go to regardless of high school. Some great, some good and some not so good

[Anonymous]

Whomever put together that list is a little geographically challenged - Colgate, Cornell, and Hamilton are in New York, well to the north of Bucknell that is in PA, yet Bucknell is on the Northeast list and the other three are mid-atlantic??

[Anonymous]

It’s more of a sports school than academic so a lot of the top schools are probably sports recruits.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that UMD doesn't seem well represented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whomever put together that list is a little geographically challenged - Colgate, Cornell, and Hamilton are in New York, well to the north of Bucknell that is in PA, yet Bucknell is on the Northeast list and the other three are mid-atlantic??

So is USMA

[Anonymous]

We have a child at SSSAS. It's a fantastic school in our opinion. The teachers are excellent and they really care. We have friends with kids who attend the Cathedral Schools, GDS, Sidwell and Potomac and most of them are incredibly stressed out. When we were looking at schools it didn't even cross our mind to look at college acceptances. We were looking for a place where our daughter would be challenged, but nurtured and we didn't want a pressure cooker. SSSAS is a great fit for her.

As far as college goes, there are a ton of schools out there and we don't care about "name" or "prestige." We want her to find a school that fits her interests and one that she's excited about. Our only requirement is that she cannot live in our basement.

She's getting a great education and is going to be ready for whatever college she chooses. The most important thing is that she's happy.