2024 Washington DC area College commits

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Graduating 1 or 2 at NCS, STA, GDS, Sidwell is a hook. Those kids get into an Ivy or Stanford 100% of the time, unhooked. They have their choice of schools. I'm most familiar with STA and NCS. NCS's valedictorians in 20, 21 and 22 all went to Stanford if I'm not mistaken. Last years' went to Penn. Kids were otherwise unhooked.

It's a big deal to accomplish this at these schools because it's pretty much an impossible feat to end up at the very top of these cohorts of kids--combination of crazy smarts, discipline and luck.

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Not true about Stanford admits from NCS for all of the class years mentioned. These top students had more than just having the highest gpa for junior & senior year (which is how one wins the flag)

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GDS does not rank its students so there is no way to know who had the highest GPA.

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Anonymous wrote:GDS does not rank its students so there is no way to know who had the highest GPA.

Does it really matter though, when 3.95+ GPAs aren't that common?

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Anonymous wrote:Not true about Stanford admits from NCS for all of the class years mentioned. These top students had more than just having the highest gpa for junior & senior year (which is how one wins the flag)

sure, they had impressive extracurriculars. But. not hooks.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS did really well this year! In a small class of 70ish, there are at least:

Harvard: 1
Princeton: 2
MIT: 1
Columbia: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Dartmouth: 1

There will be more to come I think. With the exception of the girl going to MIT, there isn't an athletic recruit in the bunch. Nice job Class of 2028!

Congrats to all those kids But this is why the NCS parent boosters who denigrate GDS and say NCS is a "better" school than GDS get to me. Maybe the Cathedral schools are great, but not in terms of college acceptances 2024. I think the old guard of DC doesn't like that what they see as a "super-liberal" school is having this kind of success.

In a class of 125 at GDS
These are committed students (Just posted so far and more to come)
6 Harvard
3 Princeton
2 Dartmouth
2 cornell
1 U Penn
1 Brown
1 Yale (unposted to IG)
1 Columbia

I'm the poster with the NCS information. Not sure why you turned this into a competition between the schools. Nowhere did I say that NCS was better than any other school, just that they had good results this year. It's a small graduating class and it's an all-girls school (and girls have a higher bar (even at top schools) because more of them are applying).

It would be wonderful if we could all just celebrate the college successes of all the students instead of trying to use one year of data to argue that a particular school is better than another. So much more goes into a high school experience than college results. I actually think my DD would have liked GDS better than NCS and I wish we would have sent her there, but not because of the class of 2024 college acceptances.

PP Here. I said congrats to the NCS kids whose acceptances you mentioned. And it's not a competition but you must be new to DCUM if you have not seen the many many virulent posts from Cathedral School parents insisting that GDS is not "Big 3" and that St Albans/NCS are the best schools in the region(only to be followed by Sidwell parents declaring their supremacy...) So yes, I think it's fair to say I actually don't think NCS had great results. You are free to disagree. I also think it's untrue that privileged mostly white girls have a "higher bar." I think that may be something you want to tell yourself when other equally privileged kids from a liberal co-ed school have better results. The colleges do not view private school kids from GDS differently from private school kids from NCS. Your girls were not disadvantaged. This year another school simply had better overall results. Now I fully expect someone to chime in that all the GDS kids were somehow "hooked" which is completely untrue, but seems to be what people want to hear when they see these stats.

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How to you know the overall results? Only about half of NCS class has posted. More Ivies and top T25s to come! I’m sure that’s true for GDS too!

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Anonymous wrote:sure, they had impressive extracurriculars. But. not hooks.

Sorry, impressive extracurriculars are totally a hook. You don't think that being a Regeneron finalist or nationally-ranked debater or performing solo at Carnegie Hall helps an applicant stand out to admissions offices?

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Anonymous wrote:sure, they had impressive extracurriculars. But. not hooks.

Sorry, impressive extracurriculars are totally a hook. You don't think that being a Regeneron finalist or nationally-ranked debater or performing solo at Carnegie Hall helps an applicant stand out to admissions offices?

A “Hook” is not a variable. It’s a built-in factor like….legacy, low-income, underrepresented geographic location, first-gen…..used to be URM (that’s not a hook anymore). Amazing accomplishments are not “hooks”, they are application criteria that any admit to a top University needs to have.

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^^recruited athlete.

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Anonymous wrote:Not true about Stanford admits from NCS for all of the class years mentioned. These top students had more than just having the highest gpa for junior & senior year (which is how one wins the flag)

sure, they had impressive extracurriculars. But. not hooks.

Please do not state something with certainty that you do not know, you already got one of the class years incorrect and you are also wrong about your other assumptions, not going to out people here although you never have a problem doing that with students you do not know

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Anonymous wrote:They are just really smart kids (basically 1&2 in the class).

These are dime a dozen. The kids you named clearly had something that Harvard and Stanford saw as distinct.

That’s not a hook.

Of course it is. There are thousands of similarly situated applicants who get rejected. Whatever made the admitted ones stand out is their hook.

You have a complete misunderstanding of the term “hook”.

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Anonymous wrote:https://basisindependent.com/schools/va/mclean/about/blog/class-of-2024-acceptances-to-date/

Class 2024 the acceptances to date.
Only 20ish students

Damn.

Almost half accepted to a T25???

For such a small class this is really impressive!!

Only 46% of this school getting into a T25 when UVA is an in-state option is not very impressive, the Big 3 all send similar percentages without that bump and without counseling out 30% of rising 8th graders.

https://basisindependent.com/schools/va/mclean/about/blog/class-of-2024-acceptances-to-date/

Source? Post the links, pal.

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Anonymous wrote:https://basisindependent.com/schools/va/mclean/about/blog/class-of-2024-acceptances-to-date/

Class 2024 the acceptances to date.
Only 20ish students

Damn.

Almost half accepted to a T25???

For such a small class this is really impressive!!

Only 46% of this school getting into a T25 when UVA is an in-state option is not very impressive, the Big 3 all send similar percentages without that bump and without counseling out 30% of rising 8th graders.

read it yourself:
https://basisindependent.com/schools/va/mclean/about/blog/class-of-2024-acceptances-to-date/
Source? Post the links, pal.

What is it with all the BIM boosting on so many threads? Very bizarre, considering this is a small school that is losing, not gaining enrollment. It reeks of a desperate attempt to market themselves. The website seems desperate too. https://basisindependent.com/achievements/college-admissions/?src=google&med=cpc&cmp=14134088585&adgroupid=124696148839&keyword=basis%20mclean&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw_e2wBhAEEiwAyFFFo_Ie-rfx2EpAmtuaSkSNBte7m3itqqrb08GG13SgwOuXqJl6kucxqBoCds0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

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Anonymous wrote:https://basisindependent.com/schools/va/mclean/about/blog/class-of-2024-acceptances-to-date/

Class 2024 the acceptances to date.
Only 20ish students

Damn.

Almost half accepted to a T25???

For such a small class this is really impressive!!

Only 46% of this school getting into a T25 when UVA is an in-state option is not very impressive, the Big 3 all send similar percentages without that bump and without counseling out 30% of rising 8th graders.

Source? Post the links, pal.

Here is the link:

https://basisindependent.com/schools/va/mclean/about/blog/class-of-2024-acceptances-to-date/