Big 3, Big 5??

[Anonymous]

Come on, STA! Are you gonna put up with that!?!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

That’s nice. How many went to Bama and MoCo last year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

Not to mention STA has below 10 percent admit rate. They are a classy and don’t brag about this but it is true.

It’s not bragging if it’s true. Post the proof of STA’s allegedly amazing matriculation list, or shut up. Otherwise, it’s definitely not bragging…it’s lying.

STA does not post a public list or Instagram page for college matriculations. Boys post privately for friends and family but don’t boast publicly and there is a list mailed to parents. 1 in 7 at Ivies from 2023.

Based on the link above, STA boys don’t have much to boast about (especially compared to Sidwell, GDS, Maret, and maybe even Field).

People and institutions that don’t have anything to hide…don’t hide anything.
It’s pretty clear now why STA doesn’t have a public Instagram page.

It’s called being humble.

STA Class of 2023 did phenomenal

1 out of 6 grads out of 76 are at Ivies now
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

That’s nice. How many went to Bama and MoCo last year?

So now you are making fun of people making college choices based on their income or family situation? Isn’t that against your ideology?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

That’s nice. How many went to Bama and MoCo last year?

So now you are making fun of people making college choices based on their income or family situation? Isn’t that against your ideology?

Well, GDS??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

That’s nice. How many went to Bama and MoCo last year?

ROFL

[Anonymous]

Big 3 is BIM, Sidwell, and GDS.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

That’s nice. How many went to Bama and MoCo last year?

So now you are making fun of people making college choices based on their income or family situation? Isn’t that against your ideology?

Lol—now your excuse is that MoCo is a choice STA students make “based on their income or family situation.” Things must have changed dramatically to go from STA to MoCo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Big 3 is BIM, Sidwell, and GDS.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/

+1. Yet a lot of DCUM parent remain mired in the past. This is 2024, people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

That’s nice. How many went to Bama and MoCo last year?

So now you are making fun of people making college choices based on their income or family situation? Isn’t that against your ideology?

Lol—now your excuse is that MoCo is a choice STA students make “based on their income or family situation.” Things must have changed dramatically to go from STA to MoCo.

People have their reasons! One of the smartest STA students I ever met — who was in a year of exceptional boys referred to as a "Golden Class" — went to the honors college at a UMD campus that offered him a full-ride and an additional stipend.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

That’s nice. How many went to Bama and MoCo last year?

So now you are making fun of people making college choices based on their income or family situation? Isn’t that against your ideology?

There are hundreds of options between an Ivy and MoCo. Btw, there’s nothing inherently wrong with MoCo. It’s the right/best option for many students. However, STA to MoCo is surprising (and not in a good way).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

That’s nice. How many went to Bama and MoCo last year?

So now you are making fun of people making college choices based on their income or family situation? Isn’t that against your ideology?

Well, GDS??

It's almost like private institutions are inherently elitist!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

It’s actually 1 out of 6 to ivies!
Out of 76:
3 to Princeton
3 Dartmouth
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale
1 Cornell
2 Columbia

That’s nice. How many went to Bama and MoCo last year?

So now you are making fun of people making college choices based on their income or family situation? Isn’t that against your ideology?

Lol—now your excuse is that MoCo is a choice STA students make “based on their income or family situation.” Things must have changed dramatically to go from STA to MoCo.

People have their reasons! One of the smartest STA students I ever met — who was in a year of exceptional boys referred to as a "Golden Class" — went to the honors college at a UMD campus that offered him a full-ride and an additional stipend.

Stop playing dumb. There is a world of difference between an STA grade attending an honors college at UMD (with a full-ride plus stipend), and an STA attending MoCo. They are not the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People....look at the the college admits.
GDS is #1 this year-with the most imprssoev results in a very difficult year. So if you are basing your "Big Three" on when you went to school in the 80's, I guess you can discount it, but for those of us living in 2024- GDS is the hardest school in the DMV to be accepted to and has the best admits this year. So for a current Big three list:
GDS
Sidwell
St Albans

The Big 3 is dead. Long live the Big 2. Sidwell and GDS are top of the heap. St. Alban's was #1 in the 80s, but no longer attracts same volume of top applicants and is easier to get into now. There are a number of area schools - boys, girls, and co-ed - that have tougher acceptance rates nowadays and stronger college placements. Washingtonian latest rankings reflect that (included St. Albans at #5). St. Alban's is still a terrific school, just not as sought after as it once was. Everyone agrees HYP are the Big 3 Ivies. Nobody tries to say the P stands for Penn or that Yale should be replaced by Cornell. DC area private schools has a Big 2 and lots of outstanding schools that are close.

St. Albans had the best 2023 college placement in the DMV. 1/7 to Ivies and most of the rest to top 25.

1. My experience has been that high schools that post their 5 year college matriculation list (STA, Madeira, etc) tend to not do as well as high schools that post a 4 year matriculation list or lists for each recent graduating class (Sidwell, GDS, Maret); and

2. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Bama, Arizona State University, the University of Dayton, Elizabeth City State University, Fisk University, JMU, LSU, Montgomery College (!!!), Mount St. Mary's University, Sewanee, Shepherd University, Temple, VCU, Whittier College, Whitworth University, etc are “top 25”?!?

Please stop!

https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculations#

I am actually looking at the list from 2023 that was sent out in the mail to families in the community and 1 in 7 students went to Ivies and many many others went to top 25 schools. Several to Georgetown and Univ Chicago. Small class only 76.

Within the last 5 years, a STA student went to Montgomery College! No words.

You have no idea of that person's circumstances, so maybe don't judge. I'd hope your goal was to find the best fit for each kid, not to maximize Ivies.