After all the drama, Big3 college admissions are really as strong as ever this year

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is at NCS.
From what I can tell:
20% Ivies
10% U of Chicago
10% other top 20 universities
10% top 10 liberal arts colleges
Etc.
That is 50% of the class into TOP20 colleges/universities. Minimum.

Even with the deflated GPAs (well under 4.0), almost no APs, etc.

STA is similar.
Sidwell has pretty much gotten the entire class in top50 schools.
GDS is a bit uneven.

impressive!
Basis Independent McLean also good:
25% to T10
60% to T25

I see one Cornell admit.

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Anonymous wrote:Op seems to be exaggerating a bit as Sidwell list looks good but definitely has schools outside T50.

Much of the impressive Sidwell list is hooked.

You have no firsthand knowledge to back up this claim. There’s no way in the world you know where all of their parents attended college. None…so stop it.

LinkedIn & the internet in general exist. You search the last name & “DC” and, say, Dartmouth alumni dinner attendance lists come up.

Complete BS. At least half of Sidwell’s posted Ivy admits have common surnames, are not URMs, and do not mention sports in the future college plans. There’s zero chance that you can be certain that Sidwell student, “John Robinson,” (fictional name) is a Brown University legacy. There are simply too many Robinsons in DC. Further, John Robinson’s parents may actually live and work in Maryland or Virginia.

As a Sidwell insider, you can be quite certain, however.

You’re a Sidwell insider who has to use LinkedIn and internet searches to find parental information? Mmmkay.

Once again, complete and utter BS. Sidwell doesn’t ask about parents’ education background on admissions applications. The only way that administrators, teachers, other students, and you would know the parents’ colleges is if they ask the students. You DID not ask all of the aforementioned students for that information.

Now, get off Al Gore’s internet and go do something productive with your Sunday.

What?? You do realize that parents talk to each other, right? And aren't necessarily secretive about their backgrounds?

Np. Sidwell asks about parents’ educations and work profiles on applications (standard for private schools) and I frequently Google search the parents of the kids who I go to school with…Why not? If someone mentions that all their siblings went to Georgetown or something like that I’ll Google to see if their family donated a building (this actually happened and their family did donate a building).

My rising 9th grader applied/was accepted to Sidwell this past March. There are exactly zero questions on Sidwell’s application that ask where the applicant’s parents attended school. ZERO

Private schools run applicants' families through development software.

So do you work in Sidwell’s development office? Are you comparing that information to the Instagram page and posting here?
If so, you should be fired.

Haha, no. Just pointing out that schools don't have to ask for your creds anymore because they can find out themselves on the interwebs and with software.

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Anonymous wrote:Op seems to be exaggerating a bit as Sidwell list looks good but definitely has schools outside T50.

Much of the impressive Sidwell list is hooked.

You have no firsthand knowledge to back up this claim. There’s no way in the world you know where all of their parents attended college. None…so stop it.

LinkedIn & the internet in general exist. You search the last name & “DC” and, say, Dartmouth alumni dinner attendance lists come up.

Complete BS. At least half of Sidwell’s posted Ivy admits have common surnames, are not URMs, and do not mention sports in the future college plans. There’s zero chance that you can be certain that Sidwell student, “John Robinson,” (fictional name) is a Brown University legacy. There are simply too many Robinsons in DC. Further, John Robinson’s parents may actually live and work in Maryland or Virginia.

As a Sidwell insider, you can be quite certain, however.

You’re a Sidwell insider who has to use LinkedIn and internet searches to find parental information? Mmmkay.

Once again, complete and utter BS. Sidwell doesn’t ask about parents’ education background on admissions applications. The only way that administrators, teachers, other students, and you would know the parents’ colleges is if they ask the students. You DID not ask all of the aforementioned students for that information.

Now, get off Al Gore’s internet and go do something productive with your Sunday.

What?? You do realize that parents talk to each other, right? And aren't necessarily secretive about their backgrounds?

Np. Sidwell asks about parents’ educations and work profiles on applications (standard for private schools) and I frequently Google search the parents of the kids who I go to school with…Why not? If someone mentions that all their siblings went to Georgetown or something like that I’ll Google to see if their family donated a building (this actually happened and their family did donate a building).

My rising 9th grader applied/was accepted to Sidwell this past March. There are exactly zero questions on Sidwell’s application that ask where the applicant’s parents attended school. ZERO

Private schools run applicants' families through development software.

So do you work in Sidwell’s development office? Are you comparing that information to the Instagram page and posting here?
If so, you should be fired.

Most Seniors/Juniors know who the legacies etc are. No big mystery. One does not need to work in the development office. There is a PP who has been going on about how secretive all the information is about where the parents went to school etc. It really isn't such a big secret among the DCs. Everyone knows everything.

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I know, for fact, despite the protest say PPs on this this thread that all but 2 at our Big 3 were hooked. And, it is possible that those 2 were hooked too (in easy that I don't know).

I think our kids go to the same school, and I have suspicions that one of those two was hooked.

Ha ha..

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Anonymous wrote:Op seems to be exaggerating a bit as Sidwell list looks good but definitely has schools outside T50.

Much of the impressive Sidwell list is hooked.

You have no firsthand knowledge to back up this claim. There’s no way in the world you know where all of their parents attended college. None…so stop it.

LinkedIn & the internet in general exist. You search the last name & “DC” and, say, Dartmouth alumni dinner attendance lists come up.

Complete BS. At least half of Sidwell’s posted Ivy admits have common surnames, are not URMs, and do not mention sports in the future college plans. There’s zero chance that you can be certain that Sidwell student, “John Robinson,” (fictional name) is a Brown University legacy. There are simply too many Robinsons in DC. Further, John Robinson’s parents may actually live and work in Maryland or Virginia.

As a Sidwell insider, you can be quite certain, however.

You’re a Sidwell insider who has to use LinkedIn and internet searches to find parental information? Mmmkay.

Once again, complete and utter BS. Sidwell doesn’t ask about parents’ education background on admissions applications. The only way that administrators, teachers, other students, and you would know the parents’ colleges is if they ask the students. You DID not ask all of the aforementioned students for that information.

Now, get off Al Gore’s internet and go do something productive with your Sunday.

What?? You do realize that parents talk to each other, right? And aren't necessarily secretive about their backgrounds?

Np. Sidwell asks about parents’ educations and work profiles on applications (standard for private schools) and I frequently Google search the parents of the kids who I go to school with…Why not? If someone mentions that all their siblings went to Georgetown or something like that I’ll Google to see if their family donated a building (this actually happened and their family did donate a building).

My rising 9th grader applied/was accepted to Sidwell this past March. There are exactly zero questions on Sidwell’s application that ask where the applicant’s parents attended school. ZERO

Private schools run applicants' families through development software.

So do you work in Sidwell’s development office? Are you comparing that information to the Instagram page and posting here?
If so, you should be fired.

Most Seniors/Juniors know who the legacies etc are. No big mystery. One does not need to work in the development office. There is a PP who has been going on about how secretive all the information is about where the parents went to school etc. It really isn't such a big secret among the DCs. Everyone knows everything.

And, yes there is LinkedIn..and social media more generally.

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Not at our "Big 5." 2 of the 3 Harvard admits were merit only. One was major donor's grandkid. The other kid are the top two in the class with very ECs. And not URM either. This is 100% truth.

Not true at my kid's Big 3. The kids at the top of the class who people assumed would have their pick did not, but plenty of hooked kids did (and a couple of those hooked kids are also very strong students).

Sounds like Sidwell. Did the top GPA kids not have too many options in RD?

My guess is this is true at just about every school. And for the people who are saying that the kids who got into topped schools aren't hooked, how do you know? Do you think people talk about their hooks? Sure legacy is obvious, URM is sometimes obvious (but not always). You don't know who these kids' rich relatives might be. You don't know whether they have a relative who works at the college. You don't know. Might there be some smart totally unhooked kids getting into Ivies, etc? Sure, but it's rare. I think those kids you think don't have hooks, have hooks. I learned this back in high school when I'd would be totally impressed by a classmate getting into HYPS, and then finding out they were actually URM but nobody knew it. Or they have a totally rich uncle who is a huge donor to Stanford or whatever. Most admits are hooked w/ very few exceptions.

How are you URM without anyone knowing? Like a Hilaria Baldwin type Hispanic or Elizabeth Warren Native American?

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Not at our "Big 5." 2 of the 3 Harvard admits were merit only. One was major donor's grandkid. The other kid are the top two in the class with very ECs. And not URM either. This is 100% truth.

Not true at my kid's Big 3. The kids at the top of the class who people assumed would have their pick did not, but plenty of hooked kids did (and a couple of those hooked kids are also very strong students).

Sounds like Sidwell. Did the top GPA kids not have too many options in RD?

My guess is this is true at just about every school. And for the people who are saying that the kids who got into topped schools aren't hooked, how do you know? Do you think people talk about their hooks? Sure legacy is obvious, URM is sometimes obvious (but not always). You don't know who these kids' rich relatives might be. You don't know whether they have a relative who works at the college. You don't know. Might there be some smart totally unhooked kids getting into Ivies, etc? Sure, but it's rare. I think those kids you think don't have hooks, have hooks. I learned this back in high school when I'd would be totally impressed by a classmate getting into HYPS, and then finding out they were actually URM but nobody knew it. Or they have a totally rich uncle who is a huge donor to Stanford or whatever. Most admits are hooked w/ very few exceptions.

keep telling yourself that to explain away why some other kid got into a college that rejected your kid. people have gotten so pathetic.

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Not at our "Big 5." 2 of the 3 Harvard admits were merit only. One was major donor's grandkid. The other kid are the top two in the class with very ECs. And not URM either. This is 100% truth.

Not true at my kid's Big 3. The kids at the top of the class who people assumed would have their pick did not, but plenty of hooked kids did (and a couple of those hooked kids are also very strong students).

Sounds like Sidwell. Did the top GPA kids not have too many options in RD?

My guess is this is true at just about every school. And for the people who are saying that the kids who got into topped schools aren't hooked, how do you know? Do you think people talk about their hooks? Sure legacy is obvious, URM is sometimes obvious (but not always). You don't know who these kids' rich relatives might be. You don't know whether they have a relative who works at the college. You don't know. Might there be some smart totally unhooked kids getting into Ivies, etc? Sure, but it's rare. I think those kids you think don't have hooks, have hooks. I learned this back in high school when I'd would be totally impressed by a classmate getting into HYPS, and then finding out they were actually URM but nobody knew it. Or they have a totally rich uncle who is a huge donor to Stanford or whatever. Most admits are hooked w/ very few exceptions.

keep telling yourself that to explain away why some other kid got into a college that rejected your kid. people have gotten so pathetic.

Actually, I'm the PP, and my kid is one of the hooked kids who got into an Ivy, so this is not sour grapes. You don't know what's going on with other people's families or what sort of relationships they might have with particular universities. Of course, there are some super smart unhooked kids who get into top schools, but it's rare. Just don't assume a kid is unhooked because they're not an athlete, not first gen, not a legacy, not an obvious URM, and not an obvious big donor.

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Anonymous wrote:I know nobody refers to Maret as Top 3 but about all but 1-2 of their posts are either Top 50 National (Miami #55) or T50 LAC (Spelman #55).

Maret only has about 30 posts. Please circle back when (at least) 50% of the class has posted.

Not sure how many will post individually but coming back to report more after college spirit day today posted on site.

Maret grads (class ~75) (could be missing a few)
2 Harvard
3 Yale
6 Penn
1 Brown
1 Cornell

2 Michigan
1 Chicago
1 Hopkins
2 Pomona
1 Wilkins
1 Berkeley
1 Middlebury
1 Haverford
1 Bowdoin
1 Vassar
1 Carnegie Mellon
3 Wesleyan
2 Tufts
Plus many others T50.

But to echo what many have said, colleges are largely based on luck, circumstances, inherited privilege just as much skill IMO. The prevailing point at these schools (compared to public) is that nearly 100% of the students are college minded and large majority attending top colleges. Good or bad, it’s a fact.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is at NCS.
From what I can tell:
20% Ivies
10% U of Chicago
10% other top 20 universities
10% top 10 liberal arts colleges
Etc.
That is 50% of the class into TOP20 colleges/universities. Minimum.

Even with the deflated GPAs (well under 4.0), almost no APs, etc.

STA is similar.
Sidwell has pretty much gotten the entire class in top50 schools.
GDS is a bit uneven.

impressive!
Basis Independent McLean also good:
25% to T10
60% to T25

I see one Cornell admit.

You probably saw it from Instagram. There are only part of them posted.
Cornell is not T10

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Anonymous wrote:Op seems to be exaggerating a bit as Sidwell list looks good but definitely has schools outside T50.

Much of the impressive Sidwell list is hooked.

You have no firsthand knowledge to back up this claim. There’s no way in the world you know where all of their parents attended college. None…so stop it.

LinkedIn & the internet in general exist. You search the last name & “DC” and, say, Dartmouth alumni dinner attendance lists come up.

Complete BS. At least half of Sidwell’s posted Ivy admits have common surnames, are not URMs, and do not mention sports in the future college plans. There’s zero chance that you can be certain that Sidwell student, “John Robinson,” (fictional name) is a Brown University legacy. There are simply too many Robinsons in DC. Further, John Robinson’s parents may actually live and work in Maryland or Virginia.

As a Sidwell insider, you can be quite certain, however.

You’re a Sidwell insider who has to use LinkedIn and internet searches to find parental information? Mmmkay.

Once again, complete and utter BS. Sidwell doesn’t ask about parents’ education background on admissions applications. The only way that administrators, teachers, other students, and you would know the parents’ colleges is if they ask the students. You DID not ask all of the aforementioned students for that information.

Now, get off Al Gore’s internet and go do something productive with your Sunday.

What?? You do realize that parents talk to each other, right? And aren't necessarily secretive about their backgrounds?

Np. Sidwell asks about parents’ educations and work profiles on applications (standard for private schools) and I frequently Google search the parents of the kids who I go to school with…Why not? If someone mentions that all their siblings went to Georgetown or something like that I’ll Google to see if their family donated a building (this actually happened and their family did donate a building).

My rising 9th grader applied/was accepted to Sidwell this past March. There are exactly zero questions on Sidwell’s application that ask where the applicant’s parents attended school. ZERO

Private schools run applicants' families through development software.

So do you work in Sidwell’s development office? Are you comparing that information to the Instagram page and posting here?
If so, you should be fired.

Most Seniors/Juniors know who the legacies etc are. No big mystery. One does not need to work in the development office. There is a PP who has been going on about how secretive all the information is about where the parents went to school etc. It really isn't such a big secret among the DCs. Everyone knows everything.

The difference in 2023 is that the hooks are generally quite serious (2 hooks rather than just 1). Double legacy parents, for example.

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Not at our "Big 5." 2 of the 3 Harvard admits were merit only. One was major donor's grandkid. The other kid are the top two in the class with very ECs. And not URM either. This is 100% truth.

Not true at my kid's Big 3. The kids at the top of the class who people assumed would have their pick did not, but plenty of hooked kids did (and a couple of those hooked kids are also very strong students).

Sounds like Sidwell. Did the top GPA kids not have too many options in RD?

My guess is this is true at just about every school. And for the people who are saying that the kids who got into topped schools aren't hooked, how do you know? Do you think people talk about their hooks? Sure legacy is obvious, URM is sometimes obvious (but not always). You don't know who these kids' rich relatives might be. You don't know whether they have a relative who works at the college. You don't know. Might there be some smart totally unhooked kids getting into Ivies, etc? Sure, but it's rare. I think those kids you think don't have hooks, have hooks. I learned this back in high school when I'd would be totally impressed by a classmate getting into HYPS, and then finding out they were actually URM but nobody knew it. Or they have a totally rich uncle who is a huge donor to Stanford or whatever. Most admits are hooked w/ very few exceptions.

keep telling yourself that to explain away why some other kid got into a college that rejected your kid. people have gotten so pathetic.

I'm not PP but indicating that all HYPSM had a hook has nothing to do with where my kid got in. It's relevant information when people are posting about how great admissions were. Fact is, it's VERY rare to get into that set of schools without a hook.

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Anonymous wrote:Op seems to be exaggerating a bit as Sidwell list looks good but definitely has schools outside T50.

Much of the impressive Sidwell list is hooked.

You have no firsthand knowledge to back up this claim. There’s no way in the world you know where all of their parents attended college. None…so stop it.

LinkedIn & the internet in general exist. You search the last name & “DC” and, say, Dartmouth alumni dinner attendance lists come up.

Complete BS. At least half of Sidwell’s posted Ivy admits have common surnames, are not URMs, and do not mention sports in the future college plans. There’s zero chance that you can be certain that Sidwell student, “John Robinson,” (fictional name) is a Brown University legacy. There are simply too many Robinsons in DC. Further, John Robinson’s parents may actually live and work in Maryland or Virginia.

As a Sidwell insider, you can be quite certain, however.

You’re a Sidwell insider who has to use LinkedIn and internet searches to find parental information? Mmmkay.

Once again, complete and utter BS. Sidwell doesn’t ask about parents’ education background on admissions applications. The only way that administrators, teachers, other students, and you would know the parents’ colleges is if they ask the students. You DID not ask all of the aforementioned students for that information.

Now, get off Al Gore’s internet and go do something productive with your Sunday.

What?? You do realize that parents talk to each other, right? And aren't necessarily secretive about their backgrounds?

Np. Sidwell asks about parents’ educations and work profiles on applications (standard for private schools) and I frequently Google search the parents of the kids who I go to school with…Why not? If someone mentions that all their siblings went to Georgetown or something like that I’ll Google to see if their family donated a building (this actually happened and their family did donate a building).

My rising 9th grader applied/was accepted to Sidwell this past March. There are exactly zero questions on Sidwell’s application that ask where the applicant’s parents attended school. ZERO

Private schools run applicants' families through development software.

So do you work in Sidwell’s development office? Are you comparing that information to the Instagram page and posting here?
If so, you should be fired.

Haha, no. Just pointing out that schools don't have to ask for your creds anymore because they can find out themselves on the interwebs and with software.

If no one posting here works in the development office (and has personal acces to that information), then no one posting here really knows all of the legacies at a particular school. That’s my point.

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Anonymous wrote:Op seems to be exaggerating a bit as Sidwell list looks good but definitely has schools outside T50.

Much of the impressive Sidwell list is hooked.

You have no firsthand knowledge to back up this claim. There’s no way in the world you know where all of their parents attended college. None…so stop it.

LinkedIn & the internet in general exist. You search the last name & “DC” and, say, Dartmouth alumni dinner attendance lists come up.

Complete BS. At least half of Sidwell’s posted Ivy admits have common surnames, are not URMs, and do not mention sports in the future college plans. There’s zero chance that you can be certain that Sidwell student, “John Robinson,” (fictional name) is a Brown University legacy. There are simply too many Robinsons in DC. Further, John Robinson’s parents may actually live and work in Maryland or Virginia.

As a Sidwell insider, you can be quite certain, however.

You’re a Sidwell insider who has to use LinkedIn and internet searches to find parental information? Mmmkay.

Once again, complete and utter BS. Sidwell doesn’t ask about parents’ education background on admissions applications. The only way that administrators, teachers, other students, and you would know the parents’ colleges is if they ask the students. You DID not ask all of the aforementioned students for that information.

Now, get off Al Gore’s internet and go do something productive with your Sunday.

What?? You do realize that parents talk to each other, right? And aren't necessarily secretive about their backgrounds?

Np. Sidwell asks about parents’ educations and work profiles on applications (standard for private schools) and I frequently Google search the parents of the kids who I go to school with…Why not? If someone mentions that all their siblings went to Georgetown or something like that I’ll Google to see if their family donated a building (this actually happened and their family did donate a building).

My rising 9th grader applied/was accepted to Sidwell this past March. There are exactly zero questions on Sidwell’s application that ask where the applicant’s parents attended school. ZERO

Private schools run applicants' families through development software.

So do you work in Sidwell’s development office? Are you comparing that information to the Instagram page and posting here?
If so, you should be fired.

Most Seniors/Juniors know who the legacies etc are. No big mystery. One does not need to work in the development office. There is a PP who has been going on about how secretive all the information is about where the parents went to school etc. It really isn't such a big secret among the DCs. Everyone knows everything.

No they do NOT. My daughter has attended a Big 3 private since 9th grade. She is quite sociable and has several close friends and lots of acquaintances. She knows where her close friends’ parents attended college (about 5-6 students). However, she doesn’t know where most of her acquaintances’ parents attended college (especially both parents) because “it doesn’t really come up” (her words).

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Anonymous wrote:I know nobody refers to Maret as Top 3 but about all but 1-2 of their posts are either Top 50 National (Miami #55) or T50 LAC (Spelman #55).

Maret only has about 30 posts. Please circle back when (at least) 50% of the class has posted.

Not sure how many will post individually but coming back to report more after college spirit day today posted on site.

Maret grads (class ~75) (could be missing a few)
2 Harvard
3 Yale
6 Penn
1 Brown
1 Cornell

2 Michigan
1 Chicago
1 Hopkins
2 Pomona
1 Wilkins
1 Berkeley
1 Middlebury
1 Haverford
1 Bowdoin
1 Vassar
1 Carnegie Mellon
3 Wesleyan
2 Tufts
Plus many others T50.

But to echo what many have said, colleges are largely based on luck, circumstances, inherited privilege just as much skill IMO. The prevailing point at these schools (compared to public) is that nearly 100% of the students are college minded and large majority attending top colleges. Good or bad, it’s a fact.

Great outcomes from Maret.
Here is where GDS is at today (97 posts):
Ivies: Cornell:3, Penn:2, Columbia:2, Harvard:2, Yale:1, Princeton:1, Brown:1.
Other T20: Chicago:2, Northwestern:2, Berkeley:1, UCLA:1, Hopkins:1, WashU:2
T20-30: Emory:2, Georgetown:2, Michigan:2, NYU:2, USC:2,
T30-50: Tufts:7, Northeastern:3, William & Mary:1, Tulane:1, Wisconsin-Madison:1, Case Western:1
Others: Toronto (#18 globally in USNWR):2, Franklin Olin (highly ranked for engineering):1
T20 Liberal Arts colleges: Wesleyan:4, Haverford:3, Barnard:2, Bowdoin:2, Smith:1, Wellesley:1, Colgate:1
All others at colleges, regardless of their USNWR ranking, that would provide a great education and/or be great fit for certain kids. At least 1 Ivy and few other offers we know of haven't been posted yet (or never will as some kids do not like to share).

Disclaimer: Providing this info just as a data point for parents of high schoolers, esp those at GDS, for what it's worth. No judgment (public vs private, comparison with other privates, etc.) is intended. Also, not to be compared with numbers of "acceptances" provided by some schools. This is a list of where people intend to go (same kid, if not applying ED, could have been accepted to multiple colleges).

Fair to say the overall picture is pretty good, but not as impressive as it was for the 2022 class. Most likely just year-to-year variation and 2 years do not make a trend. Interesting that Tufts aside, there is very little "clustering". Bit odd that Duke has gone from 4 last year to 0 this year (so far).