2024 Washington DC area College commits

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Anonymous wrote:So recruited athletes don't deserve anything for the tangible value they bring to a school? Why do you hate free market capitalism?

I’m sure Harvard is making soooo much money off its squash team.

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Anonymous wrote:So recruited athletes don't deserve anything for the tangible value they bring to a school? Why do you hate free market capitalism?

These are schools first , right? Not the minor leagues. Not businesses. Or are they?

Yes, I get it. It won’t change. Just don’t insult people by saying it’s about value to the school community beyond the money.

Spoken like someone who's never served on the Board of Trustees of a school or the Board of Directors of a non-profit. Just because maximizing profits for shareholders isn't their goal, it doesn't mean they stop operating like businesses.

Even the most do-gooder organizations have to balance their books, and have finance departments devoted to making sure their colleagues stick with budget forecasts.

No kidding. That was the part about knowing this won’t change and what makes it a hook. The fact that schools want that money and how much they want it is the part that is unearned by the applicant. Like legacy. Which is also based on money.

At least first gen/URM/STARS are partly based on the goals of increasing diversity and recognizing the effort an applicant has to make when they start so far from opportunity.

[Anonymous]

By your logic, if a school values a 4.0 GPA or a 1600 SAT, then the admissions preference that applicants with these qualities receive is "unearned" too.

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Back to the point of the thread -

I’m really impressed with Bullis!

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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.

DP. You seem to have a strange obsession with the Cathedral schools when I can assure you parents at the Cathedral schools are not thinking about GDS. It is just not on the radar. Not many families have kids at both and most did not even tour or apply to GDS. You should just move on and focus on your school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By your logic, if a school values a 4.0 GPA or a 1600 SAT, then the admissions preference that applicants with these qualities receive is "unearned" too.

It’s a school, not a minor league team. Of course grades, courses and test scores are important. Have you really lost that much perspective?

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Anonymous wrote:By your logic, if a school values a 4.0 GPA or a 1600 SAT, then the admissions preference that applicants with these qualities receive is "unearned" too.

It’s a school, not a minor league team. Of course grades, courses and test scores are important. Have you really lost that much perspective?

The potential financial value that potential applicants bring are just as important as grades and test scores. Schools have to remain financially sustainable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:By your logic, if a school values a 4.0 GPA or a 1600 SAT, then the admissions preference that applicants with these qualities receive is "unearned" too.

It’s a school, not a minor league team. Of course grades, courses and test scores are important. Have you really lost that much perspective?

The potential financial value that potential applicants bring are just as important as grades and test scores. Schools have to remain financially sustainable.

How about those recruited girls’ lacrosse players? Big money there, right? Or squash? Track and field?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:By your logic, if a school values a 4.0 GPA or a 1600 SAT, then the admissions preference that applicants with these qualities receive is "unearned" too.

It’s a school, not a minor league team. Of course grades, courses and test scores are important. Have you really lost that much perspective?

The potential financial value that potential applicants bring are just as important as grades and test scores. Schools have to remain financially sustainable.

How about those recruited girls’ lacrosse players? Big money there, right? Or squash? Track and field?

Why is there so much angst for athletic recruits? These kids put in more than 20+ hours/week in their sport plus keeping up strong grades and other extracurriculars. They bring something unique to their college community which is apart of standard holistic admissions process. Also, it’s not like there are that many of them taking away so many spots.

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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.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By your logic, if a school values a 4.0 GPA or a 1600 SAT, then the admissions preference that applicants with these qualities receive is "unearned" too.

It’s a school, not a minor league team. Of course grades, courses and test scores are important. Have you really lost that much perspective?

The potential financial value that potential applicants bring are just as important as grades and test scores. Schools have to remain financially sustainable.

How about those recruited girls’ lacrosse players? Big money there, right? Or squash? Track and field?

https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-sports-top-donors-ranking-the-most-generous-athletics-boosters-214986422/amp/

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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.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I absolutely agree with you about the grading. However, the girls who have not posted on IG are not all the bottom half of the class. There are some very good admissions out there (Yale loading).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I am curious about the STA results.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I’d be very curious to see what metric leads to your opinion that NCS has not had great results. I mean math is math. NCS’s results are amazing. Over half the class with be in T25 or top SLACS. All the ivies aren’t even posted yet, but even if they were…..

I'm an NCS parent and I don't think the results are all that great. It's clear that the second half of the class is going to pretty non-competitive entry schools.
And the results (for kids in the bottom half of the class especially) are quite a bit less impressive than those at STA this year (I have a kid in this STA class).

The NCS grading is not working (and don't jump on me for being a troll-this is my first post on this).

I absolutely agree with you about the grading. However, the girls who have not posted on IG are not all the bottom half of the class. There are some very good admissions out there (Yale loading).

surprised to not see more NCS girls to u chicago. aren't those usually ED admits?