Average GPA at SWW (DC "magnet") is 3.93 unweighted; this is what private kids are up against

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Anonymous wrote:How is getting 50% instead of 0 for not doing the assignment, or being guaranteed a 68 for turning in something with your name on not coddling?

The COVID grading was DCPS mandated and intended to help students who didn’t have the ability to seamlessly make the switch to home/online schooling. Laptops and portable Wi-Fi (if you could get it to work) and meals were made available at schools for pick-up.The unhooked students getting into Ivies at Walls and in private are prob in top 10% of their class - not students who are getting a 68 on an assignment. GW classes were not part of the DCPS Covid grading policy and approx 10% of each Walls class is in that program, taking all their classes at GW Jr/Sr. Year. Many students take GW courses outside of the GWECP as well.

With TO colleges are relying more on the HS transcript. Perhaps the GW coursework is the reason college admissions has been stronger than usual the past few years.

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Anonymous wrote:The narrative that private school kids are coddled is ridiculous.

My neighbor has a private school kid. That kid has had more tutors for sports and academics than anyone I know. He is on a travel team and gets trained outside of it 2-3x a week. They hired someone to help him with 9-grade admissions. They've poured thousands in him outside of school costs to get him where he is. That is coddling.

This. I can believe that in many private schools, the instruction and expectations are rigorous. But the amount of hand-holding is immense (especially if something goes wrong.) I know of two families whose boys were indeed coddled extensively to get them to graduate and into college.

We are in k-8 and the coddling is extensive. 1/2 class gets outside tutoring in some way throughout the year. This is not an exaggeration. I suspect it is the reason families chose the k-8 because kids needed something extra. Mine does not but it does affect the class & the learning. To comment on the comment about gender, our private is known for it's large lgbtqxyz and beyond. Another reason I believe parents send kids there. All this is to say, the publics may doing better overall with college admissions but the privates are here to serve kids in a different way perhaps public cannot. And college acceptance most likely does not have to do with it. With that said, it's also important to note, most of these kids couldn't hang in a public in a way that a mainstream kid could. And our k-8 is not a special needs school, it is a progressive & welcoming school that people who want some extra cushion or let's say coddling for their kid. And who can blame them. It's a harsh world out there.

“The publics may doing better overall with college admissions.”

Walls may be doing better than some privates, but it’s certainly not doing better than Sidwell, WIS, Holton, or GDS. Do your research before simply regurgitating what you’ve read here on DCUM.

Though this thread started by targeting SWW, this PP said “publics,” not SWW specifically. So insecure!

What other DCPS public’s have better college results than Walls (based on percentages)? Use your brain.

JR top 10% can certainly compete. And BCC and W's get stellar results for top 15%. And that's quite a few kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Solution: stop supporting the kid. I’ve done that with my kid. Transcript a little spotty, ECs what he wants to do. He owns his high school record.

Sure, maybe it’s not Ivy quality, but I’d rather he learn his lessons in high school than in college or later.

True, but very difficult to do for all these helicopter parents. Failure is a part of life and needed for growth.

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Anonymous wrote:The narrative that private school kids are coddled is ridiculous.

My neighbor has a private school kid. That kid has had more tutors for sports and academics than anyone I know. He is on a travel team and gets trained outside of it 2-3x a week. They hired someone to help him with 9-grade admissions. They've poured thousands in him outside of school costs to get him where he is. That is coddling.

This. I can believe that in many private schools, the instruction and expectations are rigorous. But the amount of hand-holding is immense (especially if something goes wrong.) I know of two families whose boys were indeed coddled extensively to get them to graduate and into college.

We are in k-8 and the coddling is extensive. 1/2 class gets outside tutoring in some way throughout the year. This is not an exaggeration. I suspect it is the reason families chose the k-8 because kids needed something extra. Mine does not but it does affect the class & the learning. To comment on the comment about gender, our private is known for it's large lgbtqxyz and beyond. Another reason I believe parents send kids there. All this is to say, the publics may doing better overall with college admissions but the privates are here to serve kids in a different way perhaps public cannot. And college acceptance most likely does not have to do with it. With that said, it's also important to note, most of these kids couldn't hang in a public in a way that a mainstream kid could. And our k-8 is not a special needs school, it is a progressive & welcoming school that people who want some extra cushion or let's say coddling for their kid. And who can blame them. It's a harsh world out there.

“The publics may doing better overall with college admissions.”

Walls may be doing better than some privates, but it’s certainly not doing better than Sidwell, WIS, Holton, or GDS. Do your research before simply regurgitating what you’ve read here on DCUM.

Though this thread started by targeting SWW, this PP said “publics,” not SWW specifically. So insecure!

What other DCPS public’s have better college results than Walls (based on percentages)? Use your brain.

JR top 10% can certainly compete. And BCC and W's get stellar results for top 15%. And that's quite a few kids.

Based on percentages, JR is NOT sending more students to highly selective colleges than Walls. Stop making things up!
We’re also talking about DC publics, not the burbs.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how no one on this thread seems to have read the article.

Walls staff, teachers, and staff all realize that the massive grade inflation that occurred at DCPS and especially Walls during the pandemic is a bad thing. This is going to hurt the school going forward.

Also, note that the current Walls senior class was admitted when Walls had an entrance exam to identify the best candidates for admission. That entrance exam was scrapped during the pandemic and DCPS has refused to bring it back (in contrast to DC, magnet high schools in NYC, SF, and other cities have an entrance exam).

As a result, the quality of students admitted to Walls has decreased and is getting worse every year. Indeed, the current Walls admissions criteria (which focuses on identifying a pool of 500 with the highest GPA) just rewards students who have benefitted from the immense recent grade inflation in DCPS. So, over the next few years and beyond, you can expect to see Walls college admissions go downhill as well.

See here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1125565.page.

Most privates have also gotten rid of entrance exams with no indication of bringing them back. Just like SAT requirements in colleges. Your point? Test exams are not always indicative of learning ability? You haven’t learned that yet?

Maybe sit this one out since you clearly don't know how Walls admission works.

The entire admissions process at Walls is to pick a pool of the top 500 GPAs, looking at nothing but that number, and then do a short (often 5-10 minute interview). Obviously, private schools don't do that. At Walls, there is no information form to fill out, no teacher recommendations, no substantive interviews, and no looking at the rigor of the school you are coming from, the classes you took, the sports you do, or the extracurriculars in which you engage. In fact, for purposes of GPA, Walls doesn't even distinguish between courses kids take. An A in PE is treated the same as an A for 7th grade Algebra 2.

This year, the Walls GPA cut-off was 3.87.

Let's say that you were a private school 8th grader and, for whatever reason, you wanted to move to Walls. If your GPA was 3.85 you would be automatically rejected. However, a kid at a bad DC school with massive grade inflation with a 3.87 would be eligible and could get in. There are lots of kids at DCPS schools with below grade-level reading and math who are straight A students. Previously, with the exam, the private school kid would have been eligible.

No one disputes that grade inflation is out of control in DCPS. In fact, grade inflation has been made worse given the fact that DCPS ties teacher financial bonuses to student grades, giving teachers even more incentive to inflate grades.

As a result, DCPS kids are overrepresented in the pool of 500 kids considered for Walls, compared to kids from privates, DC charters, and non-DCPS schools. And, given grade inflation, less stellar DCPS kids are overrepresented in the pool as well.

The result is that Walls is bringing in weaker and weaker classes. And, ironically--as the Washington Post found--this doesn't even diversify the school; it just makes the selection process more random.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/school-without-walls-admissions-test-diversity/2021/08/27/6959cec2-0293-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html

Your biggest mistake is reading and believing the SWW threads. Most of that is merely an opinion. Those posters don't even have kids at Walls and never did. Truthfully, most high school parents don't even frequent these threads. No one will have any data until the 2025 class graduates.

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I don’t really understand this thread. Why do we care what is happening at SWW? Wish the SWW kids the best and move on.
I don’t believe they are taking spots away from private school kids. Colleges balance the ratio of private to public. Private school kids mostly compete against other private school kids

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Anonymous wrote:It is pretty shocking to see the SWW hate here. The school has crappy facilities, the students aren’t coddled, and the school still must contend with DCPS bureaucracy. And lots of their families there can’t afford to go to the schools you drool over, even though their kids get in. If kids can navigate all that and still end up at Cornell or Yale, good for them! Even more impressive are the kids who got full rides or massive amounts of merit aid to highly regarded schools. Walls is a rare DCPS success story. Anyone who pays taxes in the city should celebrate this.

That's the major difference and the story doesn't fit the narrative. I really wish SWW did some coddling. It's almost like Lord of the Flies They have been sending kids to top schools for years. So this is nothing new. Colleges know exactly what SWW produces so they must like the product.

Let’s see if colleges continue to like the grade-inflated Walls product. Seven admits to Ivy/Ivy equivalent colleges (out of 150-160 students) isn’t an impressive result—especially for an academic magnet school.

Tis..Tis...Ivy or no Ivy is not goal for the majority and that's a fact. Significant merit based aid is what a lot of families look hope for. The SWW kids are getting a lot of merit based aid. No one knows how many kids got admitted to which schools. People just know what's made public.

Yes, I understand that Walls’ student body, on average, is far less wealthy than the families of top DC private school students. I also know that (officially) Ivies only offer need-based aid. The statement still stands. Are graduates with grade-inflated transcripts (at Walls, JR, any public school) being set up for failure when they’re admitted to highly selective colleges? They will be competing with students who are much better prepared, and that can have a huge negative effect.

Yes I am sure the grads from the selective public magnet in a highly educated city are STRUGGLING in college. Come on. Your sour grapes are interfering with your thought process.

Sour grapes where? My oldest child has graduated from private school and is excelling at her Ivy. My youngest daughter is currently in high school and headed in the same direction (Ivy or another highly selective college).
I wish all of these students the best—in high school, college, and beyond.

Sour grapes that you paid $200k + for what other kids get fo free

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Anonymous wrote:It is pretty shocking to see the SWW hate here. The school has crappy facilities, the students aren’t coddled, and the school still must contend with DCPS bureaucracy. And lots of their families there can’t afford to go to the schools you drool over, even though their kids get in. If kids can navigate all that and still end up at Cornell or Yale, good for them! Even more impressive are the kids who got full rides or massive amounts of merit aid to highly regarded schools. Walls is a rare DCPS success story. Anyone who pays taxes in the city should celebrate this.

That's the major difference and the story doesn't fit the narrative. I really wish SWW did some coddling. It's almost like Lord of the Flies They have been sending kids to top schools for years. So this is nothing new. Colleges know exactly what SWW produces so they must like the product.

Let’s see if colleges continue to like the grade-inflated Walls product. Seven admits to Ivy/Ivy equivalent colleges (out of 150-160 students) isn’t an impressive result—especially for an academic magnet school.

Tis..Tis...Ivy or no Ivy is not goal for the majority and that's a fact. Significant merit based aid is what a lot of families look hope for. The SWW kids are getting a lot of merit based aid. No one knows how many kids got admitted to which schools. People just know what's made public.

Yes, I understand that Walls’ student body, on average, is far less wealthy than the families of top DC private school students. I also know that (officially) Ivies only offer need-based aid. The statement still stands. Are graduates with grade-inflated transcripts (at Walls, JR, any public school) being set up for failure when they’re admitted to highly selective colleges? They will be competing with students who are much better prepared, and that can have a huge negative effect.

Yes I am sure the grads from the selective public magnet in a highly educated city are STRUGGLING in college. Come on. Your sour grapes are interfering with your thought process.

Sour grapes where? My oldest child has graduated from private school and is excelling at her Ivy. My youngest daughter is currently in high school and headed in the same direction (Ivy or another highly selective college).
I wish all of these students the best—in high school, college, and beyond.

Sour grapes that you paid $200k + for what other kids get fo free

You’re definitely not getting what we’re getting at a public school—but your children’s education is certainly free. It helps that we can easily afford the tuition. My children’s experience in private school is very different from what my friends’ children experienced at Wilson and Walls. None of their children attend my daughter’s college (not even close). You usually get what you pay for.

Btw, my children attended DCPS schools through 8th grade (Deal). I have personal experience to compare the two. There is a world of difference between even the “best” DCPS and my children’s’ private school.

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Anonymous wrote:How is getting 50% instead of 0 for not doing the assignment, or being guaranteed a 68 for turning in something with your name on not coddling?

The COVID grading was DCPS mandated and intended to help students who didn’t have the ability to seamlessly make the switch to home/online schooling. Laptops and portable Wi-Fi (if you could get it to work) and meals were made available at schools for pick-up.The unhooked students getting into Ivies at Walls and in private are prob in top 10% of their class - not students who are getting a 68 on an assignment. GW classes were not part of the DCPS Covid grading policy and approx 10% of each Walls class is in that program, taking all their classes at GW Jr/Sr. Year. Many students take GW courses outside of the GWECP as well.

With TO colleges are relying more on the HS transcript. Perhaps the GW coursework is the reason college admissions has been stronger than usual the past few years.

This was the policy in FCPS long before Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how no one on this thread seems to have read the article.

Walls staff, teachers, and staff all realize that the massive grade inflation that occurred at DCPS and especially Walls during the pandemic is a bad thing. This is going to hurt the school going forward.

Also, note that the current Walls senior class was admitted when Walls had an entrance exam to identify the best candidates for admission. That entrance exam was scrapped during the pandemic and DCPS has refused to bring it back (in contrast to DC, magnet high schools in NYC, SF, and other cities have an entrance exam).

As a result, the quality of students admitted to Walls has decreased and is getting worse every year. Indeed, the current Walls admissions criteria (which focuses on identifying a pool of 500 with the highest GPA) just rewards students who have benefitted from the immense recent grade inflation in DCPS. So, over the next few years and beyond, you can expect to see Walls college admissions go downhill as well.

See here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1125565.page.

Most privates have also gotten rid of entrance exams with no indication of bringing them back. Just like SAT requirements in colleges. Your point? Test exams are not always indicative of learning ability? You haven’t learned that yet?

Maybe sit this one out since you clearly don't know how Walls admission works.

The entire admissions process at Walls is to pick a pool of the top 500 GPAs, looking at nothing but that number, and then do a short (often 5-10 minute interview). Obviously, private schools don't do that. At Walls, there is no information form to fill out, no teacher recommendations, no substantive interviews, and no looking at the rigor of the school you are coming from, the classes you took, the sports you do, or the extracurriculars in which you engage. In fact, for purposes of GPA, Walls doesn't even distinguish between courses kids take. An A in PE is treated the same as an A for 7th grade Algebra 2.

This year, the Walls GPA cut-off was 3.87.

Let's say that you were a private school 8th grader and, for whatever reason, you wanted to move to Walls. If your GPA was 3.85 you would be automatically rejected. However, a kid at a bad DC school with massive grade inflation with a 3.87 would be eligible and could get in. There are lots of kids at DCPS schools with below grade-level reading and math who are straight A students. Previously, with the exam, the private school kid would have been eligible.

No one disputes that grade inflation is out of control in DCPS. In fact, grade inflation has been made worse given the fact that DCPS ties teacher financial bonuses to student grades, giving teachers even more incentive to inflate grades.

As a result, DCPS kids are overrepresented in the pool of 500 kids considered for Walls, compared to kids from privates, DC charters, and non-DCPS schools. And, given grade inflation, less stellar DCPS kids are overrepresented in the pool as well.

The result is that Walls is bringing in weaker and weaker classes. And, ironically--as the Washington Post found--this doesn't even diversify the school; it just makes the selection process more random.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/school-without-walls-admissions-test-diversity/2021/08/27/6959cec2-0293-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html

Your biggest mistake is reading and believing the SWW threads. Most of that is merely an opinion. Those posters don't even have kids at Walls and never did. Truthfully, most high school parents don't even frequent these threads. No one will have any data until the 2025 class graduates.

One of the dumbest takes I have read yet on DCUM.

Let's list all your mistakes:

1) Everyone has an opinion. Your post is just an opinion.

2) You have no idea who is writing these anonymous posts, and I am certain you haven't read all of them (you obviously haven't even read all the posts in this thread). You have no basis for assuming that they aren't by Walls parents. In fact, many are current and former Walls parents.

3) Lots of Walls parents frequent DCUM.

4) You didn't the read The Rookery article, where Walls staff, teachers, and students make the same point.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how no one on this thread seems to have read the article.

Walls staff, teachers, and staff all realize that the massive grade inflation that occurred at DCPS and especially Walls during the pandemic is a bad thing. This is going to hurt the school going forward.

Also, note that the current Walls senior class was admitted when Walls had an entrance exam to identify the best candidates for admission. That entrance exam was scrapped during the pandemic and DCPS has refused to bring it back (in contrast to DC, magnet high schools in NYC, SF, and other cities have an entrance exam).

As a result, the quality of students admitted to Walls has decreased and is getting worse every year. Indeed, the current Walls admissions criteria (which focuses on identifying a pool of 500 with the highest GPA) just rewards students who have benefitted from the immense recent grade inflation in DCPS. So, over the next few years and beyond, you can expect to see Walls college admissions go downhill as well.

See here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1125565.page.

Most privates have also gotten rid of entrance exams with no indication of bringing them back. Just like SAT requirements in colleges. Your point? Test exams are not always indicative of learning ability? You haven’t learned that yet?

Maybe sit this one out since you clearly don't know how Walls admission works.

The entire admissions process at Walls is to pick a pool of the top 500 GPAs, looking at nothing but that number, and then do a short (often 5-10 minute interview). Obviously, private schools don't do that. At Walls, there is no information form to fill out, no teacher recommendations, no substantive interviews, and no looking at the rigor of the school you are coming from, the classes you took, the sports you do, or the extracurriculars in which you engage. In fact, for purposes of GPA, Walls doesn't even distinguish between courses kids take. An A in PE is treated the same as an A for 7th grade Algebra 2.

This year, the Walls GPA cut-off was 3.87.

Let's say that you were a private school 8th grader and, for whatever reason, you wanted to move to Walls. If your GPA was 3.85 you would be automatically rejected. However, a kid at a bad DC school with massive grade inflation with a 3.87 would be eligible and could get in. There are lots of kids at DCPS schools with below grade-level reading and math who are straight A students. Previously, with the exam, the private school kid would have been eligible.

No one disputes that grade inflation is out of control in DCPS. In fact, grade inflation has been made worse given the fact that DCPS ties teacher financial bonuses to student grades, giving teachers even more incentive to inflate grades.

As a result, DCPS kids are overrepresented in the pool of 500 kids considered for Walls, compared to kids from privates, DC charters, and non-DCPS schools. And, given grade inflation, less stellar DCPS kids are overrepresented in the pool as well.

The result is that Walls is bringing in weaker and weaker classes. And, ironically--as the Washington Post found--this doesn't even diversify the school; it just makes the selection process more random.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/school-without-walls-admissions-test-diversity/2021/08/27/6959cec2-0293-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html

Your biggest mistake is reading and believing the SWW threads. Most of that is merely an opinion. Those posters don't even have kids at Walls and never did. Truthfully, most high school parents don't even frequent these threads. No one will have any data until the 2025 class graduates.

One of the dumbest takes I have read yet on DCUM.

Let's list all your mistakes:

1) Everyone has an opinion. Your post is just an opinion.

2) You have no idea who is writing these anonymous posts, and I am certain you haven't read all of them (you obviously haven't even read all the posts in this thread). You have no basis for assuming that they aren't by Walls parents. In fact, many are current and former Walls parents.

3) Lots of Walls parents frequent DCUM.

4) You didn't the read The Rookery article, where Walls staff, teachers, and students make the same point.

Let's see two kids at SWW-1 done and 1 now. Attend majority of leadership and HSA sessions so I have a pretty good idea of what's really happening and what's BS. Just like your assertions. I posted the original link to the newspaper.....you don't know who or what you don't know....But carry on..

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t really understand this thread. Why do we care what is happening at SWW? Wish the SWW kids the best and move on.
I don’t believe they are taking spots away from private school kids. Colleges balance the ratio of private to public. Private school kids mostly compete against other private school kids

Because they don’t think as you do. They think that their children are being disadvantaged and penalized and are “up against” public school kids - from this one public! - who just are not as deserving as their kids to get into the very tippy top (ick) schools. It’s insecurity, desperation and fear. Makes people do and say strange things.

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Anonymous wrote:Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private. This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their
3.4's for working their a$$es off. 🙁

SWW weights grades: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0f425c4f3ed4b48c52995/t/5f35f984ead1ce6d7d275ad1/1597372804296/GradeBumpDoc_rev011016.pdf

3.3 unweighted seemed to be the midpoint at my kids’ private. 3.93 at SWW seems comparable.

No, we can only compare apples to apples. What is SWW’s average unweighted GPA?

ThAT would be interesting to know. Would also be helpful to know what the midpoint is at an area private.In lieu of these details I ran a completely unscientific test:

I PUt my DCs 3.75 unweighted GPA through the SWW weighting system and got 4.3 (.55 higher)
If I take .55 off of 3.93, then half the SWW junior class has above 3.38 unweighted

Based on my 1 data point sample test, it would seem SWW kids are getting a .08 advantage (3.3 vs 3.38) from grade inflation. This aligns with the article quoting students and teachers saying there is grade inflation at SWW.

HOWEVER, using my same single data point, DCs 3.75 at their Big 3 didn’t break top 20%. So the 3.3 unweighted GPA midpoint at their school is probably higher than 3.3.

My conclusion: SWW students and teachers have observed grade inflation and are alarmed about it. Private schools may also have it but we won’t know until a student writes an article about it.

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Anonymous wrote:The narrative that private school kids are coddled is ridiculous.

My neighbor has a private school kid. That kid has had more tutors for sports and academics than anyone I know. He is on a travel team and gets trained outside of it 2-3x a week. They hired someone to help him with 9-grade admissions. They've poured thousands in him outside of school costs to get him where he is. That is coddling.

This. I can believe that in many private schools, the instruction and expectations are rigorous. But the amount of hand-holding is immense (especially if something goes wrong.) I know of two families whose boys were indeed coddled extensively to get them to graduate and into college.

We are in k-8 and the coddling is extensive. 1/2 class gets outside tutoring in some way throughout the year. This is not an exaggeration. I suspect it is the reason families chose the k-8 because kids needed something extra. Mine does not but it does affect the class & the learning. To comment on the comment about gender, our private is known for it's large lgbtqxyz and beyond. Another reason I believe parents send kids there. All this is to say, the publics may doing better overall with college admissions but the privates are here to serve kids in a different way perhaps public cannot. And college acceptance most likely does not have to do with it. With that said, it's also important to note, most of these kids couldn't hang in a public in a way that a mainstream kid could. And our k-8 is not a special needs school, it is a progressive & welcoming school that people who want some extra cushion or let's say coddling for their kid. And who can blame them. It's a harsh world out there.

“The publics may doing better overall with college admissions.”

Walls may be doing better than some privates, but it’s certainly not doing better than Sidwell, WIS, Holton, or GDS. Do your research before simply regurgitating what you’ve read here on DCUM.

Though this thread started by targeting SWW, this PP said “publics,” not SWW specifically. So insecure!

What other DCPS public’s have better college results than Walls (based on percentages)? Use your brain.

JR top 10% can certainly compete. And BCC and W's get stellar results for top 15%. And that's quite a few kids.

Based on percentages, JR is NOT sending more students to highly selective colleges than Walls. Stop making things up!
We’re also talking about DC publics, not the burbs.

Um your wrong. Not all kids post. Mine included. Think about how many kids are there. And how many posted on instagram. Do the math. And then please congratulate my son and his 2 buddies. 1 HYP 1 Columbia and one U PENN. THANKS!

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Anonymous wrote:The narrative that private school kids are coddled is ridiculous.

My neighbor has a private school kid. That kid has had more tutors for sports and academics than anyone I know. He is on a travel team and gets trained outside of it 2-3x a week. They hired someone to help him with 9-grade admissions. They've poured thousands in him outside of school costs to get him where he is. That is coddling.

This. I can believe that in many private schools, the instruction and expectations are rigorous. But the amount of hand-holding is immense (especially if something goes wrong.) I know of two families whose boys were indeed coddled extensively to get them to graduate and into college.

We are in k-8 and the coddling is extensive. 1/2 class gets outside tutoring in some way throughout the year. This is not an exaggeration. I suspect it is the reason families chose the k-8 because kids needed something extra. Mine does not but it does affect the class & the learning. To comment on the comment about gender, our private is known for it's large lgbtqxyz and beyond. Another reason I believe parents send kids there. All this is to say, the publics may doing better overall with college admissions but the privates are here to serve kids in a different way perhaps public cannot. And college acceptance most likely does not have to do with it. With that said, it's also important to note, most of these kids couldn't hang in a public in a way that a mainstream kid could. And our k-8 is not a special needs school, it is a progressive & welcoming school that people who want some extra cushion or let's say coddling for their kid. And who can blame them. It's a harsh world out there.

“The publics may doing better overall with college admissions.”

Walls may be doing better than some privates, but it’s certainly not doing better than Sidwell, WIS, Holton, or GDS. Do your research before simply regurgitating what you’ve read here on DCUM.

Though this thread started by targeting SWW, this PP said “publics,” not SWW specifically. So insecure!

What other DCPS public’s have better college results than Walls (based on percentages)? Use your brain.

JR top 10% can certainly compete. And BCC and W's get stellar results for top 15%. And that's quite a few kids.

Based on percentages, JR is NOT sending more students to highly selective colleges than Walls. Stop making things up!
We’re also talking about DC publics, not the burbs.

Um your wrong. Not all kids post. Mine included. Think about how many kids are there. And how many posted on instagram. Do the math. And then please congratulate my son and his 2 buddies. 1 HYP 1 Columbia and one U PENN. THANKS!

Umm, you’re wrong. You also don’t understand percentages compared to just the numbers of JR students heading to these colleges. For instance, JR is not sending 7% (42) of its graduates to Ivies. Just Staaaap!