2024 Washington DC area College commits

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Anonymous wrote:Results from DMV schools (public and private) are really good in the early admissions round. Congratulations to these kids!

Have to admit it; the whole Sidwell and GDS really are by far the best privates, using college matriculation as the gauge.

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Anonymous wrote:Across the board the DMV privates are soing very well!

Amazing that the top dmv publics are doing just as well if not better than most privates too!

They have 500 plus kids in their grades - there is no comparison with the percentage of the class that goes to top 20 schools.

I think more like 300 plus, still big but not sure about 500 plus at W schools.

Whitman's average class size is around 500. GDS senior class size is 130.

And Sidwell has ~125 students. If Whitman (or any other area public) sends 4x as many students to Ivies and top 25 colleges, then I’ll be impressed. Unless or until that happens, please hush.

This is stupid. Everyone knows that public schools have to take everyone; private schools can exclude the bottom 75% of any class that public schools are obliged to take. Rates of ivy/top schools really isn't a remotely relevant comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:Results from DMV schools (public and private) are really good in the early admissions round. Congratulations to these kids!

Have to admit it; the whole Sidwell and GDS really are by far the best privates, using college matriculation as the gauge.

*using this very small sample of early decisions from an anonymous web site as the gauge you mean 🤣

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Anonymous wrote:Results from DMV schools (public and private) are really good in the early admissions round. Congratulations to these kids!

Have to admit it; the whole Sidwell and GDS really are by far the best privates, using college matriculation as the gauge.

Best at selecting kids who have a shot at top colleges, perhaps. Kudos to their admissions departments. But are you suggesting those same kids would have gone to a different college had they chosen a different high school? Most would seriously doubt that.

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Anonymous wrote:Across the board the DMV privates are soing very well!

Amazing that the top dmv publics are doing just as well if not better than most privates too!

They have 500 plus kids in their grades - there is no comparison with the percentage of the class that goes to top 20 schools.

I think more like 300 plus, still big but not sure about 500 plus at W schools.

Whitman's average class size is around 500. GDS senior class size is 130.

And Sidwell has ~125 students. If Whitman (or any other area public) sends 4x as many students to Ivies and top 25 colleges, then I’ll be impressed. Unless or until that happens, please hush.

This is stupid. Everyone knows that public schools have to take everyone; private schools can exclude the bottom 75% of any class that public schools are obliged to take. Rates of ivy/top schools really isn't a remotely relevant comparison.

That’s my point. So, stop trying to compare “top” privates to “top” publics. Apples and oranges.

Compare “top” gen. pop. publics to public magnets, or “regular” publics, and get off this thread. I’m not concerned with public school business.

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Anonymous wrote:Results from DMV schools (public and private) are really good in the early admissions round. Congratulations to these kids!

Have to admit it; the whole Sidwell and GDS really are by far the best privates, using college matriculation as the gauge.

I think the best is actually STA. They have a class of about 75 and get in about 20 kids to the Ivies each year plus up to 10 to Chicago.
There are only about 5 kids each year who attend schools ranked above 50.

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Anonymous wrote:Results from DMV schools (public and private) are really good in the early admissions round. Congratulations to these kids!

Have to admit it; the whole Sidwell and GDS really are by far the best privates, using college matriculation as the gauge.

I think the best is actually STA. They have a class of about 75 and get in about 20 kids to the Ivies each year plus up to 10 to Chicago.
There are only about 5 kids each year who attend schools ranked above 50.

If it’s not on Instagram, or some other public platform that doesn’t aggregate results over a period of years, I don’t believe you. Put up or shut up.
What is STA hiding?!?

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Anonymous wrote:Results from DMV schools (public and private) are really good in the early admissions round. Congratulations to these kids!

Have to admit it; the whole Sidwell and GDS really are by far the best privates, using college matriculation as the gauge.

I think the best is actually STA. They have a class of about 75 and get in about 20 kids to the Ivies each year plus up to 10 to Chicago.
There are only about 5 kids each year who attend schools ranked above 50.

If it’s not on Instagram, or some other public platform that doesn’t aggregate results over a period of years, I don’t believe you. Put up or shut up.
What is STA hiding?!?

Yeah, it's not real if it's not on insta.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm looking at this from the K-8 perspective too. There are often debates about whether it is better to go to a k-12 or k-8. I don't have the answer to that. What I do see so far is that DC's K-8 alum have committed to: Northwestern (2), Stanford (1), Villanova (D1 athlete), Elon (1).

Wow. That’s taking it to a whole new level.

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Strong all boys schools likely would have better results because of the ratio of male applicants:female applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:Across the board the DMV privates are soing very well!

Amazing that the top dmv publics are doing just as well if not better than most privates too!

They have 500 plus kids in their grades - there is no comparison with the percentage of the class that goes to top 20 schools.

I think more like 300 plus, still big but not sure about 500 plus at W schools.

Whitman's average class size is around 500. GDS senior class size is 130.

And Sidwell has ~125 students. If Whitman (or any other area public) sends 4x as many students to Ivies and top 25 colleges, then I’ll be impressed. Unless or until that happens, please hush.

This is stupid. Everyone knows that public schools have to take everyone; private schools can exclude the bottom 75% of any class that public schools are obliged to take. Rates of ivy/top schools really isn't a remotely relevant comparison.

That’s my point. So, stop trying to compare “top” privates to “top” publics. Apples and oranges.

Compare “top” gen. pop. publics to public magnets, or “regular” publics, and get off this thread. I’m not concerned with public school business.

It is too bad the mod can’t make this forum, you know, exclusive. Perhaps if you paid him $50k?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/wheelerdecisions2024/

Any DC area MIT admits?

Churchill (public school)

St. John's College

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Anonymous wrote:Results from DMV schools (public and private) are really good in the early admissions round. Congratulations to these kids!

Have to admit it; the whole Sidwell and GDS really are by far the best privates, using college matriculation as the gauge.

I think the best is actually STA. They have a class of about 75 and get in about 20 kids to the Ivies each year plus up to 10 to Chicago.
There are only about 5 kids each year who attend schools ranked above 50.

If it’s not on Instagram, or some other public platform that doesn’t aggregate results over a period of years, I don’t believe you. Put up or shut up.
What is STA hiding?!?

It’s for those who need to know but I will let you in on a bit of last year. 35 to top 10 schools, 33 to top 30 and 6 to the likes of the University of Oregon, JMU etc. You don’t deserve to know more so be happy with the glimpse you were given.

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Anonymous wrote:Results from DMV schools (public and private) are really good in the early admissions round. Congratulations to these kids!

Have to admit it; the whole Sidwell and GDS really are by far the best privates, using college matriculation as the gauge.

I think the best is actually STA. They have a class of about 75 and get in about 20 kids to the Ivies each year plus up to 10 to Chicago.
There are only about 5 kids each year who attend schools ranked above 50.

If it’s not on Instagram, or some other public platform that doesn’t aggregate results over a period of years, I don’t believe you. Put up or shut up.
What is STA hiding?!?

Yeah, it's not real if it's not on insta.

“…or some other public platform that doesn’t aggregate results over a period of years…”
Next time, try to read for understanding.

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Anonymous wrote:Across the board the DMV privates are soing very well!

Amazing that the top dmv publics are doing just as well if not better than most privates too!

They have 500 plus kids in their grades - there is no comparison with the percentage of the class that goes to top 20 schools.

I think more like 300 plus, still big but not sure about 500 plus at W schools.

Whitman's average class size is around 500. GDS senior class size is 130.

And Sidwell has ~125 students. If Whitman (or any other area public) sends 4x as many students to Ivies and top 25 colleges, then I’ll be impressed. Unless or until that happens, please hush.

This is stupid. Everyone knows that public schools have to take everyone; private schools can exclude the bottom 75% of any class that public schools are obliged to take. Rates of ivy/top schools really isn't a remotely relevant comparison.

That’s my point. So, stop trying to compare “top” privates to “top” publics. Apples and oranges.

Compare “top” gen. pop. publics to public magnets, or “regular” publics, and get off this thread. I’m not concerned with public school business.

It is too bad the mod can’t make this forum, you know, exclusive. Perhaps if you paid him $50k?

+1. The unwashed public school masses seem to be flocking to the private school forums, lately. Ugh!