Harvard, Yale "feeders"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of curiosity, I just searched the Harvard Crimson archives for both "Georgetown Day" and "Sidwell Friends." Odd that at a college that supposedly caters to GDS, there are a lot more mentions of Sidwell? Perhaps the GDS-Harvard connection is apocryphal?

Out of curiosity I just searched the Harvard Crimson archives and there are more than TWICE as many mentions of St. Albans than Sidwell Friends. What does this mean? Nothing.

You should look more closely at the results. Most are for "St. Albans," the town in Vermont. If you limit your search to "St. Albans School" you'll see a more accurate result: 3.

I'm certainly not trying to suggest that high schools should be judged based on how many times they get mentioned in a college newspaper. But I do think there is likely some correlation between the number of mentions and the number of students a high school sends there. If you search for one of the high schools specifically identified as Harvard feeders, I'm betting you'll see lots and lots of hits.

Y'all have way too much time on your hands. Before you embarked on being a SAHM, were you the champion proofreader and cite-checker in your class at Big Law?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y'all have way too much time on your hands. Before you embarked on being a SAHM, were you the champion proofreader and cite-checker in your class at Big Law?

Yeah, we don't want to waste any time when we could be discussing something really important, like whether it's ok to wear a black coat at nighttime or how early a housekeeper is allowed to leave. If you're not interested, just go somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of curiosity, I just searched the Harvard Crimson archives for both "Georgetown Day" and "Sidwell Friends." Odd that at a college that supposedly caters to GDS, there are a lot more mentions of Sidwell? Perhaps the GDS-Harvard connection is apocryphal?

Out of curiosity I just searched the Harvard Crimson archives and there are more than TWICE as many mentions of St. Albans than Sidwell Friends. What does this mean? Nothing.

You should look more closely at the results. Most are for "St. Albans," the town in Vermont. If you limit your search to "St. Albans School" you'll see a more accurate result: 3.

I'm certainly not trying to suggest that high schools should be judged based on how many times they get mentioned in a college newspaper. But I do think there is likely some correlation between the number of mentions and the number of students a high school sends there. If you search for one of the high schools specifically identified as Harvard feeders, I'm betting you'll see lots and lots of hits.

3 in one year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of curiosity, I just searched the Harvard Crimson archives for both "Georgetown Day" and "Sidwell Friends." Odd that at a college that supposedly caters to GDS, there are a lot more mentions of Sidwell? Perhaps the GDS-Harvard connection is apocryphal?

There is one poster who has been trolling this board for I believe YEARS now on the "GDS/Harvard" thing. (I doubt they're affiliated with GDS, as the statements elicit anger/scorn towards GDS.) Their statements always gets a rise out of people which, apparently, is why one becomes an internet troll in the first place. (Unless there's a Myers-Briggs category for it.)

+1. The macher/uber language is also used in the anti-GDS development thread.

[Anonymous]

So St. Alban's is the pre-eminent Ivy League feeder school in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3 in one year?

No, 3 mentions total in all years. But probably more if you parse through them to find all the instances where there is some more oblique reference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3 in one year?

No, 3 mentions total in all years. But probably more if you parse through them to find all the instances where there is some more oblique reference.

As a public service, I just wasted 5-10 minutes checking the articles. STA mentioned in 6 articles, Sidwell in 11, GDS in 4. And since someone always asks, TJ is mentioned in 4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3 in one year?

No, 3 mentions total in all years. But probably more if you parse through them to find all the instances where there is some more oblique reference.

As a public service, I just wasted 5-10 minutes checking the articles. STA mentioned in 6 articles, Sidwell in 11, GDS in 4. And since someone always asks, TJ is mentioned in 4.

This is useful, because I am sure this data correlates with... Oh. Never mind.

[Anonymous]

It will be interesting to see the admission results this year. I hear lots of Sidwell students have once again applied SCEA to Yale. I wonder if they'll have the same 90% admit rate they got last year.

[Anonymous]

According to Wikipedia, "the most frequently attended universities for GDS alumni include Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis, Wesleyan and Yale."

And here are two insightful PrepMatters overviews of GDS written by Harvard and Yale students. The Yale review rates the GDS English department as the best and concludes that "the math department offers the most advanced curriculum of any private school in the D.C. area." Both it and the Harvard review state that GDS students are so well prepared, that alumni usually find college easier than GDS.

[Anonymous]

Prep Review, not Prep Matters:

http://www.prepreview.com/school/georgetown-day-school-review-harvard-university-331

[Anonymous]

Sweet Jesus, did a parent really write that? A Wikipedia blurb populated by...let me guess here, a GDS cheerleader with a Wiki sign in name? Gosh, let me sign up and hurry over to the Wiki page of my kid's prep and pepper in some big college names. The reviews written by alums? That's cute and all, but also obtainable from a happy enough alum from any prep to any Ivy.

All of this matters one bit to me if it is my kid. Why do GDS parents give a hoot about the collective? Nice to feel good for ones friends, but the humble bragging over all things GDS and body counts at Harvard or else just leaves me blank. I care about exactly two outcomes: the one for each of my sons.

[Anonymous]

Demonstrates insecurity, if you ask me.

[Anonymous]

Please let your child chose their path in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sweet Jesus, did a parent really write that? A Wikipedia blurb populated by...let me guess here, a GDS cheerleader with a Wiki sign in name? Gosh, let me sign up and hurry over to the Wiki page of my kid's prep and pepper in some big college names. The reviews written by alums? That's cute and all, but also obtainable from a happy enough alum from any prep to any Ivy.

All of this matters one bit to me if it is my kid. Why do GDS parents give a hoot about the collective? Nice to feel good for ones friends, but the humble bragging over all things GDS and body counts at Harvard or else just leaves me blank. I care about exactly two outcomes: the one for each of my sons.

maybe it was a junior AD Assoc's job to write the Wki profile , PP.