Big College Admissions Year at St. Albans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is an awful GPA anywhere.[/quote

Um, no. Do you know NCS? Her DD would likely have earned a 4.5 at any of the top local public high schools. NCS does not grade infate, nor does it give A's freely.

LOL. Yeah, right.

I had a DD who graduated from NCS and the first poster is correct. My children went to public schools then private and I retained contacts with parents and so did DC's with students. NCS has grade deflation. Lower 50th at NCS is quite a different group academically than found in public or some other privates. St Andrews has great college placement and easier academics.

[Anonymous]

Higher than yours since obviously you are in camp of prep for the test, take it, prep more, prep again, retest and retest to inflate the score and you are shocked that others do not do the same. How many times did your DC take the SCAT?
You are the one embarrassing your children with your nonsense.

Psst. You envious yellow fangs are showing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Higher than yours since obviously you are in camp of prep for the test, take it, prep more, prep again, retest and retest to inflate the score and you are shocked that others do not do the same. How many times did your DC take the SCAT?
You are the one embarrassing your children with your nonsense.

Psst. You envious yellow fangs are showing.

Ahhh... Playing the "envy" card. Very imaginative, what's next? "bitter?"

[Anonymous]

Ahhh... Playing the "envy" card. Very imaginative, what's next? "bitter?"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B1LlYh6iKqs/S6MK-JcO7QI/AAAAAAAABMA/les8J57jD94/s1600-h/rotten-teeth-2.jpg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So are they braniacs, athletes, artists, or just all arounders?

Alums of alums of alums....

[Anonymous]

"Lower 50th at NCS is quite a different group academically than found in public or some other privates."

What is your point, 6:59?

[Anonymous]

I thought this forum was supposed to be about STA.

By the way pp, I agree with your assertions...that the lower 50th at NCS is different. My DD went to Holton, and I think almost every kid could have done well at an Ivy...if only they could get in. I know a kid from a DC public who had little trouble getting into an Ivy...he might have been bottom of the class at STA. Maybe the key is to go to a dreg DC public and have a better shot at getting into a better college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Ahhh... Playing the "envy" card. Very imaginative, what's next? "bitter?"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B1LlYh6iKqs/S6MK-JcO7QI/AAAAAAAABMA/les8J57jD94/s1600-h/rotten-teeth-2.jpg

Why are you posting photos of yourself on here?

[Anonymous]

The boys who were admitted into Ivies or highly selective colleges/universities, any details regarding their profiles? GPA range, test scores, etc.

[Anonymous]

Extrapolating a LOT, thus a big FWIW -- my impression is that they are the top 25%-ish of the class; GPAs prob between 3.7 - 4.0 (STA doesn't use the 4.0 scale so it's another estimation, I'm not sure what number grade out of a 100 points scale translates to a 4.0, for example); very good test scores 2200+. Smattering of athletes and brilliant artists (some of the artists also the athletes). Basically, the same kids who get into Ivies from any of these good local schools, there were just more of them this year than usual from STA.

[Anonymous]

It is bizarre and creepy that there is a long post dedicated to dissecting who got in where at St. Albans and that information is being leaked on a public forum by apparent St. Alban groupies. Most of the posters don't even seem to have kids at the school! Not appropriate and if I was a parent at the school I'd be pissed that information including who is a legacy was being tossed out there. Again, bizarre and creepy.

[Anonymous]

As a St. Albans parent and college interviewer, I am gratified to see that no one at either of these two institutions with which I am affiliated has posted any insider information about the STA college results for this year's class. I have not posted on this thread until now, and anyone who reads this thread needs to know this: the information here is incomplete and potentially misleading. Most anyone who is on the inside is not going to be too discreet to divulge info about STA's individual students or STA's institutional college-admissions results on this forum.

[Anonymous]

Sorry -- I meant " . . . is going to be too discreet . . . ."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not the school that gets the kid in to college. It's the kid that gets the kid in to college.

It's the kid that gets the kid into TJ. Or into St. Albans and the ilk if we're talking about 9th grade - as opposed to K - entrance.

"A top 20 University President told me once, its not our cirriculum, faculty, or endowment that make us great. Its our admissions department"

Lot of truth in that, even at k-12

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not the school that gets the kid in to college. It's the kid that gets the kid in to college.

It's the kid that gets the kid into TJ. Or into St. Albans and the ilk if we're talking about 9th grade - as opposed to K - entrance.

"A top 20 University President told me once, its not our cirriculum, faculty, or endowment that make us great. Its our admissions department"

Lot of truth in that, even at k-12

And St. Albans wouldn't disagree at all. They still can be complimented for building a school that draws a strong cohort (even as other threads on this site bemoan the fact that their admissions office doesn't "do more" for the lacrosse program).