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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.

But you don't know why someone's going to MoCo. There could be incentives that you don't know about, or it could just make sense based on the individual situation.

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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.

-1 BIM is NOT in DC. But I agree that GDS is up there with Sidwell.

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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.

But you don't know why someone's going to MoCo. There could be incentives that you don't know about, or it could just make sense based on the individual situation.

No, there’s no reason that makes sense for STA/NCS/Sidwell graduates to attend MoCo. Coincidentally, there’s no record of Sidwell or NCS graduates attending MoCo following graduation (at least not for the past 4 years).

Don’t come to this forum to brag about STA’s “superior” matriculation results when the school is sending graduates to places like MoCo and Whitworth University (who? where?).

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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.

But you don't know why someone's going to MoCo. There could be incentives that you don't know about, or it could just make sense based on the individual situation.

No, there’s no reason that makes sense for STA/NCS/Sidwell graduates to attend MoCo. Coincidentally, there’s no record of Sidwell or NCS graduates attending MoCo following graduation (at least not for the past 4 years).

Don’t come to this forum to brag about STA’s “superior” matriculation results when the school is sending graduates to places like MoCo and Whitworth University (who? where?).

Stop deflecting.

STA 2023 had the best results in the area. 14 out of 76 kids went to Ivies. An additional large large percentage to top 20. I think 6-7 alone to Univ. of Chicago.

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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.

But you don't know why someone's going to MoCo. There could be incentives that you don't know about, or it could just make sense based on the individual situation.

No, there’s no reason that makes sense for STA/NCS/Sidwell graduates to attend MoCo. Coincidentally, there’s no record of Sidwell or NCS graduates attending MoCo following graduation (at least not for the past 4 years).

Don’t come to this forum to brag about STA’s “superior” matriculation results when the school is sending graduates to places like MoCo and Whitworth University (who? where?).

Stop deflecting.

STA 2023 had the best results in the area. 14 out of 76 kids went to Ivies. An additional large large percentage to top 20. I think 6-7 alone to Univ. of Chicago.

You’re the only one deflecting. There’s no proof that STA “had the best results in the area.” Your word does not constitute proof.
I provided a link to STA’s website. The school’s official list refutes what you’re saying.

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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.

But you don't know why someone's going to MoCo. There could be incentives that you don't know about, or it could just make sense based on the individual situation.

No, there’s no reason that makes sense for STA/NCS/Sidwell graduates to attend MoCo. Coincidentally, there’s no record of Sidwell or NCS graduates attending MoCo following graduation (at least not for the past 4 years).

Don’t come to this forum to brag about STA’s “superior” matriculation results when the school is sending graduates to places like MoCo and Whitworth University (who? where?).

Stop deflecting.

STA 2023 had the best results in the area. 14 out of 76 kids went to Ivies. An additional large large percentage to top 20. I think 6-7 alone to Univ. of Chicago.

You’re the only one deflecting. There’s no proof that STA “had the best results in the area.” Your word does not constitute proof.
I provided a link to STA’s website. The school’s official list refutes what you’re saying.

Whatever - covid was devastating financially to some. I don't judge their choices and neither should you. STA gives a lot of financial aid to families and maybe if they don't get that same aid in college it affects where they attend. Surely you understand that?

I stand by what I said about 2023 and don't need to prove to you. Ask your kids - they know kids in the grade and should know where they went to school. Almost 20 percent are at Ivies and another large percentage are at top 25 schools. Noone needs to prove anything.

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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.

But you don't know why someone's going to MoCo. There could be incentives that you don't know about, or it could just make sense based on the individual situation.

No, there’s no reason that makes sense for STA/NCS/Sidwell graduates to attend MoCo. Coincidentally, there’s no record of Sidwell or NCS graduates attending MoCo following graduation (at least not for the past 4 years).

Don’t come to this forum to brag about STA’s “superior” matriculation results when the school is sending graduates to places like MoCo and Whitworth University (who? where?).

With that logic, then there's no reason for people from GDS or Sidwell, institutions that supposedly values respect and common decency, to flaunt their superiority and denigrate kids from other schools who don't go to T20 colleges.

Again, you don't know the individual's situation. People have their reasons for choosing the colleges they do, and you're not entitled to that information.

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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.

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

So? GDS can send five to Harvard some years.

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Anonymous wrote:The Big 3 is Sidwell, GDS, and whatever school your kid goes to. So for a lot of moms on here that is STA.

Has Sidwell finally recovered from its post-Obama top college slump? It’s been quite a hangover there.

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Anonymous wrote:to answer OP once again and facts are facts the old establishment Big 3 (top 3) have always been:
1. STA
2. NCS
3. Sidwell

Regardless of others trying to get into the mix they can't change the historic facts which those have always been the top 3 schools.

If expanding to Big 6 - I would say Maret, GDS and Potomac should be added into the mix but then there are the Catholic schools which a few would be added into a Big 10 category.

Don't you have anything better to do during spring break? It is absurd to think that there is a "historic" Big-3. Please.

Old money (STA) versus today’s meritocracy (GDS).

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Anonymous wrote:But it just isn’t. It’s Sidwell, STA, NCS. End of

It isn’t. Get over yourself.

Sorry, but NCS seems to have dropped a bit. It's still a great school, but I would not put in in the same category as STA. GDS has developed a very strong reputation among the DC liberal movers-and-shakers in the last decade. I have no dog in this race, this is just what I am hearing among the neighborhood moms and dads in CCDC.

The Dem power people don’t live in CCDC so I’m not sure who you’re talking to or how trusted their information is.

Longtime CCDC resident

OMG such a "DC flex" You people crack me up - making statements like this that have you feeling so important/special - but not having your intended effect. At All. But I'm sure it works in the circles you mingle in.

? I'm telling you, I live in 20015 and I've lived here for 25 years and my neighbors are not "DC liberal movers-and-shakers." The "neighborhood moms and dads in CCDC" -- aka, my neighbors -- have no more intel on GDS' appeal to "movers and shakers" than I do. Since we are not the "movers and shakers." Just well-educated, occasionally well-compensated professionals who tend to have jobs in journalism, policy, law, lobbying, international affairs and regulation. Interesting, yes, but not power brokers for the most part.

Are you a GDS HS student? yes?

“movers and shakers”?

More like Machers and Quakers.

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Anonymous wrote:to answer OP once again and facts are facts the old establishment Big 3 (top 3) have always been:
1. STA
2. NCS
3. Sidwell

Regardless of others trying to get into the mix they can't change the historic facts which those have always been the top 3 schools.

If expanding to Big 6 - I would say Maret, GDS and Potomac should be added into the mix but then there are the Catholic schools which a few would be added into a Big 10 category.

Don't you have anything better to do during spring break? It is absurd to think that there is a "historic" Big-3. Please.

Old money (STA) versus today’s meritocracy (GDS).

Meritocracy is a myth at schools that charge $60k. Try again.

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Anonymous wrote:The Big 3 is Sidwell, GDS, and whatever school your kid goes to. So for a lot of moms on here that is STA.

Has Sidwell finally recovered from its post-Obama top college slump? It’s been quite a hangover there.

What are you talking about? These words make no sense.

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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.

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

So? GDS can send five to Harvard some years.

Of course—Harvard, like GDS, is a mess these days. Birds of a feather…

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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.

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

So? GDS can send five to Harvard some years.

Its graduating classes are also much larger.