How are Big 3s doing with ED?

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Anonymous wrote:Different poster but also an NCS parent and 40% sounds right based on what my student has reported.

DP. I hear about 25% - no way 40% you are wrong. I can think of 20 girls off of the top of my head that are not in anywhere yet.

It is the low GPAs of NCS compared to other schools that is hurting them (except for VIPs and donor kids).

My hooked kid doesn't have a lower GPA compared to kids from other high schools. There is a large contingent of girls (both hooked and unhooked) at NCS who have rather impressive GPAs. Yes, it is tough grading and these kids work hard. But not every hooked kid is getting in with a lower GPA.

How do you know the gpa's of all kids from other high schools? Generally curious.

Naviance. Public info.

You have access to Naviance from other schools? Have you hacked in?

2024-2025 info is not in naviance or scoir yet and each school has its own sign in private info?

There is a lot of naviance info on the internet from multiple college search sites -- albeit self-reported. But looking at this and CDS info from the last few years, it's easy to see what the average GPA is at most schools. This isn't rocket science.

This doesn’t make sense. Your kid is competing against kids from DC and MD privates - so averages across the country mean nothing in regards to comparing kids. There is nothing online that tells the GPAs of students for certain schools in the DMV accepted to certain colleges. It does not exist. You would only have that info for your school and not have it for other DC schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone from NCS on here? Are you worried? It seems like almost everyone who applied early was deferred except for a tiny handful, mostly hooked... I think I know of 50 deferred girls.

Worried about what? Over 30 girls are locked in through ED. HYP admits, along with 4 at Cornell. Lots of non-Ivy strong schools and all this before ED2.

This. It’s normal to get worried but some of these girls shoot for the moon with ED and then have outstanding RD outcomes. Also my very unhooked kid there had a very good outcome from ED so it’s not just hooked kids. Many of her friends were deferred, but they knew they had applied places that were long shots so they don’t seem worried at all.

What do you consider “very unhooked?” Just curious as these things still make one a hook: athletic recruit, board member/large donor (falls under vip hook), legacy, or diverse candidate is a hook.

DP. If your kid fits into one of above categories they are most certainly hooked.

And if they don't, they are "very unhooked".

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

NCS also had 4 admits to Cornell, several to UVA, at least one to Harvard, Yale, Duke, Georgetown,

Seems like something is definitely working.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone from NCS on here? Are you worried? It seems like almost everyone who applied early was deferred except for a tiny handful, mostly hooked... I think I know of 50 deferred girls.

Worried about what? Over 30 girls are locked in through ED. HYP admits, along with 4 at Cornell. Lots of non-Ivy strong schools and all this before ED2.

This. It’s normal to get worried but some of these girls shoot for the moon with ED and then have outstanding RD outcomes. Also my very unhooked kid there had a very good outcome from ED so it’s not just hooked kids. Many of her friends were deferred, but they knew they had applied places that were long shots so they don’t seem worried at all.

What do you consider “very unhooked?” Just curious as these things still make one a hook: athletic recruit, board member/large donor (falls under vip hook), legacy, or diverse candidate is a hook.

DP. If your kid fits into one of above categories they are most certainly hooked.

And if they don't, they are "very unhooked".

Only about 3 are “very unhooked” btw so this is quite identifying to that poster

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone from NCS on here? Are you worried? It seems like almost everyone who applied early was deferred except for a tiny handful, mostly hooked... I think I know of 50 deferred girls.

Worried about what? Over 30 girls are locked in through ED. HYP admits, along with 4 at Cornell. Lots of non-Ivy strong schools and all this before ED2.

This. It’s normal to get worried but some of these girls shoot for the moon with ED and then have outstanding RD outcomes. Also my very unhooked kid there had a very good outcome from ED so it’s not just hooked kids. Many of her friends were deferred, but they knew they had applied places that were long shots so they don’t seem worried at all.

What do you consider “very unhooked?” Just curious as these things still make one a hook: athletic recruit, board member/large donor (falls under vip hook), legacy, or diverse candidate is a hook.

DP. If your kid fits into one of above categories they are most certainly hooked.

And if they don't, they are "very unhooked".

Only about 3 are “very unhooked” btw so this is quite identifying to that poster

So? What’s your point?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone from NCS on here? Are you worried? It seems like almost everyone who applied early was deferred except for a tiny handful, mostly hooked... I think I know of 50 deferred girls.

Worried about what? Over 30 girls are locked in through ED. HYP admits, along with 4 at Cornell. Lots of non-Ivy strong schools and all this before ED2.

This. It’s normal to get worried but some of these girls shoot for the moon with ED and then have outstanding RD outcomes. Also my very unhooked kid there had a very good outcome from ED so it’s not just hooked kids. Many of her friends were deferred, but they knew they had applied places that were long shots so they don’t seem worried at all.

What do you consider “very unhooked?” Just curious as these things still make one a hook: athletic recruit, board member/large donor (falls under vip hook), legacy, or diverse candidate is a hook.

DP. If your kid fits into one of above categories they are most certainly hooked.

And if they don't, they are "very unhooked".

Only about 3 are “very unhooked” btw so this is quite identifying to that poster

So? What’s your point?

DP. Point is her post is sort of obnoxious - saying some girls “shot for the moon” when in fact several had the stats or were even above what should have been needed to get into certain schools and they did not. So for the poster to come on and gloat is insensitive and the fact that her kid got in ED does not give her the authority to judge others or tell them they should not be worried. They can determine for themselves how they feel.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone from NCS on here? Are you worried? It seems like almost everyone who applied early was deferred except for a tiny handful, mostly hooked... I think I know of 50 deferred girls.

Worried about what? Over 30 girls are locked in through ED. HYP admits, along with 4 at Cornell. Lots of non-Ivy strong schools and all this before ED2.

This. It’s normal to get worried but some of these girls shoot for the moon with ED and then have outstanding RD outcomes. Also my very unhooked kid there had a very good outcome from ED so it’s not just hooked kids. Many of her friends were deferred, but they knew they had applied places that were long shots so they don’t seem worried at all.

What do you consider “very unhooked?” Just curious as these things still make one a hook: athletic recruit, board member/large donor (falls under vip hook), legacy, or diverse candidate is a hook.

DP. If your kid fits into one of above categories they are most certainly hooked.

And if they don't, they are "very unhooked".

Only about 3 are “very unhooked” btw so this is quite identifying to that poster

So? What’s your point?

DP. Point is her post is sort of obnoxious - saying some girls “shot for the moon” when in fact several had the stats or were even above what should have been needed to get into certain schools and they did not. So for the poster to come on and gloat is insensitive and the fact that her kid got in ED does not give her the authority to judge others or tell them they should not be worried. They can determine for themselves how they feel.

You understand that the metrics change every year, right? That the stats that admitted a student one year can change the next year, depending on the pool of applicants. It's not like every applicant with a certain GPA and standardized test score is automatically admitted.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone from NCS on here? Are you worried? It seems like almost everyone who applied early was deferred except for a tiny handful, mostly hooked... I think I know of 50 deferred girls.

Worried about what? Over 30 girls are locked in through ED. HYP admits, along with 4 at Cornell. Lots of non-Ivy strong schools and all this before ED2.

This. It’s normal to get worried but some of these girls shoot for the moon with ED and then have outstanding RD outcomes. Also my very unhooked kid there had a very good outcome from ED so it’s not just hooked kids. Many of her friends were deferred, but they knew they had applied places that were long shots so they don’t seem worried at all.

What do you consider “very unhooked?” Just curious as these things still make one a hook: athletic recruit, board member/large donor (falls under vip hook), legacy, or diverse candidate is a hook.

DP. If your kid fits into one of above categories they are most certainly hooked.

And if they don't, they are "very unhooked".

Only about 3 are “very unhooked” btw so this is quite identifying to that poster

So? What’s your point?

DP. Point is her post is sort of obnoxious - saying some girls “shot for the moon” when in fact several had the stats or were even above what should have been needed to get into certain schools and they did not. So for the poster to come on and gloat is insensitive and the fact that her kid got in ED does not give her the authority to judge others or tell them they should not be worried. They can determine for themselves how they feel.

The NCS part of this thread had a poster specifically ask “are you worried?” So, logic says that some of us can answer that with a “no”.

You make a list of schools for a reason. Not everyone gets into their ED pick as there are many qualified kids for few spots. I don’t judge any kid for submitting an application to their dream school. Stop projecting.

Hysteria will get you nowhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we arguing about this?
I think it's GDS, Sidwell, NCS, STA simply because they all teach and grade similarly. We could call them "Big3" or anything you wish but the purpose for lumping them together into a cohort is simply to indicate that their academics and the student experience is similar.

Maret is a far easier/more relaxed school. Holton is known to be easier too (by parents who have had kids at both).

You can decide which high schools your child is competing with for the colleges you desperately want for your child however your like, but these colleges have their own list of what defines a school groups out of this area.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we arguing about this?
I think it's GDS, Sidwell, NCS, STA simply because they all teach and grade similarly. We could call them "Big3" or anything you wish but the purpose for lumping them together into a cohort is simply to indicate that their academics and the student experience is similar.

Maret is a far easier/more relaxed school. Holton is known to be easier too (by parents who have had kids at both).

You can decide which high schools your child is competing with for the colleges you desperately want for your child however your like, but these colleges have their own list of what defines a school groups out of this area.

The colleges / unversities do not just consider the name of the high school. They also look at the school profile and determine the level of rigor the admissions candidate has taken. A kid taking the highest rigor with great grades from Maret is definitely going to be more likely to get in to a competitive school than a kid at Sidwell with same GPA but much lower rigor.

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Anonymous wrote:Different poster but also an NCS parent and 40% sounds right based on what my student has reported.

DP. I hear about 25% - no way 40% you are wrong. I can think of 20 girls off of the top of my head that are not in anywhere yet.

It is the low GPAs of NCS compared to other schools that is hurting them (except for VIPs and donor kids).

I think you mean it's the absurdly high gpas in publics that are to blame. It's difficult to criticize schools such as NCS for maintaining standards instead of letting kids retake tests, etc., like many public schools do.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I love how PP is trying to goad NCS and STA into posting Instagram results.

You don’t need to wear designer clothing and flashy diamond jewelry to be wealthy.

IYKYK

DP.

Lol—what are you talking about? There’s only one indisputable member of the Big 3. No one ever questions that particular school’s status.
NCS and STA’s Big 3 status is debatable.

The only debate has ever been whether they take up one slot or two in the rankings since a student is only eligible to attend one or the other.

Those are two separate and distinct schools, so GDS disagrees with you. Maret would also like to have a word.

Academic big3 is: SFS, STA and NCS
Socially and sports wise is: SFS, GDS and Maret most of those kids know each other and have huge overlap

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Anonymous wrote:literally no one outside of this anonymous forum gives a single crap about Big 3 but the SFS booster(s) always comes out swinging their proverbial d**k around (we are the only “indisputable” member of this self-proclaimed Big 3) it is gross and sorry if that hurts your sweet Quaker feelings.

You’d be surprise how many bulldog moms care as well

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Anonymous wrote:Different poster but also an NCS parent and 40% sounds right based on what my student has reported.

DP. I hear about 25% - no way 40% you are wrong. I can think of 20 girls off of the top of my head that are not in anywhere yet.

It is the low GPAs of NCS compared to other schools that is hurting them (except for VIPs and donor kids).

Not wrong at all. IYKYK.

+100. Very interesting few cases

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we arguing about this?
I think it's GDS, Sidwell, NCS, STA simply because they all teach and grade similarly. We could call them "Big3" or anything you wish but the purpose for lumping them together into a cohort is simply to indicate that their academics and the student experience is similar.

Maret is a far easier/more relaxed school. Holton is known to be easier too (by parents who have had kids at both).

You can decide which high schools your child is competing with for the colleges you desperately want for your child however your like, but these colleges have their own list of what defines a school groups out of this area.

The colleges / unversities do not just consider the name of the high school. They also look at the school profile and determine the level of rigor the admissions candidate has taken. A kid taking the highest rigor with great grades from Maret is definitely going to be more likely to get in to a competitive school than a kid at Sidwell with same GPA but much lower rigor.

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