2024 Washington DC area College commits

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Anonymous wrote:It’s in the list, between Potomac and Madeira. The school’s full name is Georgetown Visitation.

having a good year!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opinion/college-admissions-applications.html

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No St Albans? Don't they eventually release them all around now?

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Anonymous wrote:No St Albans? Don't they eventually release them all around now?

This has been answered multiple times. They do not have a public instagram page. They have posts that their friends and family can see but not a public page.

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Gosh, who’s winning? The tension is unbearable!

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, who’s winning? The tension is unbearable!

STA is. The results are really good.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, who’s winning? The tension is unbearable!

STA is. The results are really good.

Winning at what? Obnoxiousness?

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Anonymous wrote:These things aren’t NCS specific.

GDS and Sidwell don’t have a 10 out of 12 season sport requirement. STA and NCS do. It makes a difference.

My son went to STA and I concur. The academics are rigorous, but the day is far from done when classes are over. That said, STA was an amazing school for him – both in helping shape the person he is and preparing him academically. Further, and as many STA (and likely NCS) graduates will attest, college was an easier experience – and he’s graduating with honors from a top school.

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Anonymous wrote:No St Albans? Don't they eventually release them all around now?

This has been answered multiple times. They do not have a public instagram page. They have posts that their friends and family can see but not a public page.

To be fair, no one is reading 136 pages of posts so they are likely to miss some details.

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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 am curious about the STA results.

STA results are very good. I would say 60% into top 25 schools. Less than 5 boys into what one might think are non-competitive entry schools.
They're definitely better than the NCS admits. Some of this is due to the fact that boys are easier to place then girls in 2024. Some is the NCS grading.

Hmmm, my daughter has excellent grades, she is not an anomaly. STA has not announced a list, so you must be going off of anecdotal info that is incomplete.

I have a kid in the class. He knows where 90% of the class is going. In my experience of parenting both, the STA boys talk about this far more than the girls do. They are super open about things in general--grades on tests, grades in courses, college matriculations. The girls keep it all quiet. My son will sit down for lunch at school and know how everyone did on a test that was just handed back or go to sports practice and know where everyone in that senior year's class applied to college and where they got in. My daughter's group of very close friends doesn't even share this stuff with each other.

It's easily 60%+ to top 25 schools.

Is that SLACs as well in regards to top 25? Pretty amazing results.

Was wondering this as well. I see a few schools that have 50% in top 25 as well if you're including SLACs. For example, Maret has slightly more than half of posts that are top 25 including SLACs.

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If you’re comparing Universities to SLACS how far do you go? Like T20 Uni to T10 SLAC?

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Sidwell has 15 going to ivies. It appears 1 of those 15 is white. Discuss.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has 15 going to ivies. It appears 1 of those 15 is white. Discuss.

They aren't as smart? IDK

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has 15 going to ivies. It appears 1 of those 15 is white. Discuss.

Only 2 black...and they're super hooked (not because of race). It tis what it tis.