Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.

I don't think they are going to be comparable to top privates.

Key word here is “top.” As in T20. Nova BC WF are much worse schools than Berkeley UCLA Michigan UVA.

Someone has a complex.

Posters here repeatedly say they'd never consider public, and that the educational quality at top publics like Berkeley and UCLA are significantly worse than some fourth-tier private schools, but someone who thinks Michigan is better than WF has the complex. Understood, please be more explicit next time.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.

I don't think they are going to be comparable to top privates.

Key word here is “top.” As in T20. Nova BC WF are much worse schools than Berkeley UCLA Michigan UVA.

Someone has a complex.

Posters here repeatedly say they'd never consider public, and that the educational quality at top publics like Berkeley and UCLA are significantly worse than some fourth-tier private schools, but someone who thinks Michigan is better than WF has the complex. Understood, please be more explicit next time.

Dude you have been posting about this for 48 hours now. Historically, meaning over the past three decades, Wake Forest has been ranked in the twenties in US news just like Berkeley and UCLA. Most of us don’t get super invested in defending Ufl.

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3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts

This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.

Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).

Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.

3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago

Looks like ~ 25% success rate . Means 75% headed to target/safety schools . So for majority of parents Sidwell was NOT a good deal?

STA did better and they have fewer kids.

No, they didn’t. However they did send students to such illustrious institutions as Eastern Arizona College, Ole Miss, and
Elizabeth City State University.

I can see why STA students don’t publicly post their college matriculations, and the school doesn’t highlight (bold) the most frequently attended schools. They don’t want you to know how popular Ole Miss is for these STA good ol’ boys: https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling

Those were all athletes or children of Ol Miss alums. The Mississippi alums probably employ you hence the anger but it’s ok.

Of course STA would have several Ole Miss alumni parents. That definitely tracks.
Btw, an Ole Miss alums employing me is a hilarious thought. I’m an attorney and I’ve never even met an attorney who graduated from that embarrassing excuse for a university (at least not that I’m aware of—thankfully!).

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.

I don't think they are going to be comparable to top privates.

Key word here is “top.” As in T20. Nova BC WF are much worse schools than Berkeley UCLA Michigan UVA.

Someone has a complex.

Posters here repeatedly say they'd never consider public, and that the educational quality at top publics like Berkeley and UCLA are significantly worse than some fourth-tier private schools, but someone who thinks Michigan is better than WF has the complex. Understood, please be more explicit next time.

Dude you have been posting about this for 48 hours now. Historically, meaning over the past three decades, Wake Forest has been ranked in the twenties in US news just like Berkeley and UCLA. Most of us don’t get super invested in defending Ufl.

My guy, Berkeley was once ranked #5 in the country. Berkeley and UCLA were often ranked in the teens depending on the time period and they are there again today. WF never approached that.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBU3VGK/
3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts

This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.

Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).

Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.

3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago

Looks like ~ 25% success rate . Means 75% headed to target/safety schools . So for majority of parents Sidwell was NOT a good deal?

STA did better and they have fewer kids.

No, they didn’t. However they did send students to such illustrious institutions as Eastern Arizona College, Ole Miss, and
Elizabeth City State University.

I can see why STA students don’t publicly post their college matriculations, and the school doesn’t highlight (bold) the most frequently attended schools. They don’t want you to know how popular Ole Miss is for these STA good ol’ boys: https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling

The Eliz City student was a Black football player who wanted to play in college. You go picking on an HBCU and a kid’s dreams.

STA lands 7 to Yale one year, 5 to Princeton the next with the full complement of top schools and always a couple Harvard, Dartmouth’s, MIT, and Stanfords, ever year. There are also almost always 5 or more to Chicago.

They don’t post bc they don’t want or need to.

As an STA parent, don’t insult my intelligence with your feeble attempt to pretend that you care about HBCUs. Elizabeth City State University is a mediocre university, at best. Period. Too bad that student wasn’t able to realize his sports dreams at a more reputable HBCU like Howard, Morehouse, Hampton, Tuskegee, etc.

Btw, STA didn’t send that many students to Yale or Princeton, in a single year, in the modern era. Perhaps in a bygone era when the Bush boys and their ilk were making gentlemen's Cs, but certainly not now. UChicago I believe—they love full pay private school students who commit early.

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Take a look at Ransom Everglades' (Coconut Groove/Miami) Class of 2025 matriculation:

- from the HOS email: "Thirty-three RE students (more than 20 percent of the class) are heading to Ivy League schools, MIT or Stanford."

https://ransomeverglades.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/748/download/download_10894750.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at Ransom Everglades' (Coconut Groove/Miami) Class of 2025 matriculation:

- from the HOS email: "Thirty-three RE students (more than 20 percent of the class) are heading to Ivy League schools, MIT or Stanford."

https://ransomeverglades.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/748/download/download_10894750.pdf

It would be good to have a different thread with a bunch of other private schools (NYC, LA, Chi, Mia) posted. Does every school do a summary of the senior class matriculation like this?

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Why are we hearing about these random southern private schools? No one cares.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we hearing about these random southern private schools? No one cares.

RE is one of the most well-known private schools in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:Take a look at Ransom Everglades' (Coconut Groove/Miami) Class of 2025 matriculation:

- from the HOS email: "Thirty-three RE students (more than 20 percent of the class) are heading to Ivy League schools, MIT or Stanford."

https://ransomeverglades.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/748/download/download_10894750.pdf

Private schools in Miami-Dade have a big percentage of Latino students who pay full tuition. Unhooked applicants would be low single digits.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we hearing about these random southern private schools? No one cares.

RE is one of the most well-known private schools in the country.

That's a stretch. I guarantee that less than 1% of DCUM has ever heard of it...which is fine because I wouldn't expect someone in Miami to have heard of GDS as an example...or even Westminster school in Atlanta.

Other than some select NYC, LA and 200+ old boarding schools...it's safe to say very few people know about regional private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we hearing about these random southern private schools? No one cares.

RE is one of the most well-known private schools in the country.

That's a stretch. I guarantee that less than 1% of DCUM has ever heard of it...which is fine because I wouldn't expect someone in Miami to have heard of GDS as an example...or even Westminster school in Atlanta.

Other than some select NYC, LA and 200+ old boarding schools...it's safe to say very few people know about regional private schools.

With half of NYC moving to South Florida during and after COVID, its reputation has definitely become more mainstream. Wasn't there a whole article in Town & Country about the school with Ken Griffin's kids joined?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at Ransom Everglades' (Coconut Groove/Miami) Class of 2025 matriculation:

- from the HOS email: "Thirty-three RE students (more than 20 percent of the class) are heading to Ivy League schools, MIT or Stanford."

https://ransomeverglades.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/748/download/download_10894750.pdf

Sure but no Princeton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at Ransom Everglades' (Coconut Groove/Miami) Class of 2025 matriculation:

- from the HOS email: "Thirty-three RE students (more than 20 percent of the class) are heading to Ivy League schools, MIT or Stanford."

https://ransomeverglades.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/748/download/download_10894750.pdf

That’s nice, but 20% is still a lower percentage than a couple of DC privates that have students heading to Ivy+ universities.

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Anonymous wrote:Take a look at Ransom Everglades' (Coconut Groove/Miami) Class of 2025 matriculation:

- from the HOS email: "Thirty-three RE students (more than 20 percent of the class) are heading to Ivy League schools, MIT or Stanford."

https://ransomeverglades.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/748/download/download_10894750.pdf

That’s nice, but 20% is still a lower percentage than a couple of DC privates that have students heading to Ivy+ universities.

That doesn't include Ivy+. Just Ivy and MIT and Stanford.

35-40% (per my count) is Ivy +. Just a bit envious that's all.