GDS and Sidwell comparison?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a really funny discussion. It’s common knowledge that many of the top STEM kids at Sidwell are TJ rejects.

Are you an adult thinking it’s clever to ridicule kids?

Lots of condescension towards and demeaning of kids going the other direction in this hilarious discussion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

It’s only a numerical number of kids who attend (not accepted but enrolled) at those three schools: Harvard, Princeton and MIT.

What differentiates SFS from GDS is that GDS sent 13 kids to Harvard while SFS sent only 7. This seems like a weird comparison because GDS is pretty widely known for having a lot of Harvard legacies and I believe SFS sends more to Yale.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

But if the Sidwell STEM kids are so amazing, why don’t they have any chance at getting in to those schools?

There is at least 1 Sidwell senior who got in early do Princeton, don’t believe there was a hook.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3

The data is inaccurate. In Sidwell website, there is no MIT in the past 5 years. LOL
https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3

Princeton gives preference for legacies. Overall, DC privates were not impressive at all especially compared to NYC privates and New England boarding schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3

The data is inaccurate. In Sidwell website, there is no MIT in the past 5 years. LOL
https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

The data from the website comes from the colleges themselves, so more likely to be accurate than what Sidwell puts in their website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3

The data is inaccurate. In Sidwell website, there is no MIT in the past 5 years. LOL
https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Maybe someone who graduated before 2016 went? Or Sidwell and GDS sent 0 kids to MIT in the past 3 years. Lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3

The data is inaccurate. In Sidwell website, there is no MIT in the past 5 years. LOL
https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

The data from the website comes from the colleges themselves, so more likely to be accurate than what Sidwell puts in their website.

https://polarislist.com/methodology

How is the data collected?
We obtain our data by searching through a variety of online and offline sources that allow us to map high school attendance with college attendance.
There is no one source for this data, which means that the data is collected through rigorous exploration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3

The data is inaccurate. In Sidwell website, there is no MIT in the past 5 years. LOL
https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Maybe someone who graduated before 2016 went? Or Sidwell and GDS sent 0 kids to MIT in the past 3 years. Lol!

But the quoted data is from 2018-2020. The school website data is from 2016-2021. I just want to point out that the source may not be accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

It’s only a numerical number of kids who attend (not accepted but enrolled) at those three schools: Harvard, Princeton and MIT.

What differentiates SFS from GDS is that GDS sent 13 kids to Harvard while SFS sent only 7. This seems like a weird comparison because GDS is pretty widely known for having a lot of Harvard legacies and I believe SFS sends more to Yale.

It is only really MIT and Princeton that are issues because they weigh class rank pretty heavily and Sidwell hasn't done class ranks since the 1970's at the latest. As a result, college guidance through the years has dissuded applications though there are Princeton matriculations the last couple of years, and I *think* there may have been an MIT in the class of 2022. Sidwell will generally have more applicants and acceptances to places like Yale, Penn, Dartmouth, Chicago, Cornell etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3

The data is inaccurate. In Sidwell website, there is no MIT in the past 5 years. LOL
https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Maybe someone who graduated before 2016 went? Or Sidwell and GDS sent 0 kids to MIT in the past 3 years. Lol!

But the quoted data is from 2018-2020. The school website data is from 2016-2021. I just want to point out that the source may not be accurate.

Agree. High schools get matriculation data from their students so if the kid does not update, the school doesn’t know. Maybe someone got off the waitlist at MIT and did not tell Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.

And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3

The data is inaccurate. In Sidwell website, there is no MIT in the past 5 years. LOL
https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Maybe someone who graduated before 2016 went? Or Sidwell and GDS sent 0 kids to MIT in the past 3 years. Lol!

But the quoted data is from 2018-2020. The school website data is from 2016-2021. I just want to point out that the source may not be accurate.

Agree. High schools get matriculation data from their students so if the kid does not update, the school doesn’t know. Maybe someone got off the waitlist at MIT and did not tell Sidwell.

To be very honest, I don’t think it’s Sidwell’s biggest priority to ensure that this list is 100% accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.

It’s only a numerical number of kids who attend (not accepted but enrolled) at those three schools: Harvard, Princeton and MIT.

What differentiates SFS from GDS is that GDS sent 13 kids to Harvard while SFS sent only 7. This seems like a weird comparison because GDS is pretty widely known for having a lot of Harvard legacies and I believe SFS sends more to Yale.

It is only really MIT and Princeton that are issues because they weigh class rank pretty heavily and Sidwell hasn't done class ranks since the 1970's at the latest. As a result, college guidance through the years has dissuded applications though there are Princeton matriculations the last couple of years, and I *think* there may have been an MIT in the class of 2022. Sidwell will generally have more applicants and acceptances to places like Yale, Penn, Dartmouth, Chicago, Cornell etc.

The top 10% gets in to top schools not all that different from most good public high schools (not magnets).

Either way, 1 kid going to MIT from Sidwell and GDS in three years isn’t impressive.