When did GDS become so well regarded?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The references to college placement on this and other threads is redicylous. More students place at the elite colleges from these schools because, as referenced above, the parents who choose these schools are graduates of the elite colleges themselves. Yes, efforts to diversify the colleges and universities are real, but the numbers are still relatively small. When you eliminate the legacies you find the college placements from the often referenced top placing local private schools to be much less compelling.

Redicylous, sorry.

My apologies for misspelling what you wrote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This issue isn't accessibility, it's the ability to easily secure the campus. GDS LS/MS has apartments about a 100 feet from the school building, with a direct line of sight. St. Andrews is a huge campus that's isolated from nearby private residences.

In addition, it's convenient given that Melania lives right around the corner.

Redicylous.

[Anonymous]

Back on topic... it's redicylous to assert that GDS has some amazing admissions record with Harvard, and I've yet to see any GDS parents assert this. While it may be that GDS students tend to excel more than others once they get there, the admissions departments don't want to overadmit from GDS given that it will put too many critical thinking alphas in their classrooms, which disturbs the balance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back on topic... it's redicylous to assert that GDS has some amazing admissions record with Harvard, and I've yet to see any GDS parents assert this. While it may be that GDS students tend to excel more than others once they get there, the admissions departments don't want to overadmit from GDS given that it will put too many critical thinking alphas in their classrooms, which disturbs the balance.

These GDS folks can't help themselves...it's like a cult!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back on topic... it's redicylous to assert that GDS has some amazing admissions record with Harvard, and I've yet to see any GDS parents assert this. While it may be that GDS students tend to excel more than others once they get there, the admissions departments don't want to overadmit from GDS given that it will put too many critical thinking alphas in their classrooms, which disturbs the balance.

These GDS folks can't help themselves...it's like a cult!

Or perhaps they have a sense of humor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This issue isn't accessibility, it's the ability to easily secure the campus. GDS LS/MS has apartments about a 100 feet from the school building, with a direct line of sight. St. Andrews is a huge campus that's isolated from nearby private residences.

In addition, it's convenient given that Melania lives right around the corner.

The White House’s dirty little not-so-secret.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This issue isn't accessibility, it's the ability to easily secure the campus. GDS LS/MS has apartments about a 100 feet from the school building, with a direct line of sight. St. Andrews is a huge campus that's isolated from nearby private residences.

In addition, it's convenient given that Melania lives right around the corner.

The White House’s dirty little not-so-secret.

Really?!

[Anonymous]

On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not.

Oh, and admittedly, part of the problem was that Brandeis had a complex about its purported lack of diversity while Georgetown, though in a frenzy at the time to seem less Catholic, as by taking down classroom crucifixes, did not. But that just means that Brandeis internalized the notion that a mostly Jewish school couldn't truly be "elite," while Georgetown was not subject to similar norms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not.

So, you get stats but you choose to ignore them.

That makes you, what, a willful moron?

[Anonymous]

Burke is the new GDS. As GDS gets snootier and more uptight, the kinds of families who once sent their kids to GDS (academics, journalists, NGO types, ex-pats) not send their kids to Burke. Which may mean that Burke is doomed to go the way of GDS. (progressive/alternative school becomes hyper competitive and uptight).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not.

So, you get stats but you choose to ignore them.

That makes you, what, a willful moron?

You don’t understand that 80 pc is greater than 66 pc, and I’m the moron? Lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not.

So, you get stats but you choose to ignore them.

That makes you, what, a willful moron?

You seem to either not understand that 80% is greater than 66%, or, in the alternative, what the word "diversity" means. And I'm the moron?