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Anonymous
The wait-list will get a lot shorter as the economy continues to crater. |
Anonymous
Public school parents have to justify their choice or lament what they cannot buy. |
Anonymous
I didn’t say that none of the Sidwell students wanted Tulane as their first choice. Two things can be true at the same time. I have two children in the US, and the students who tend to go to Tulane are widely known to not be high academic performers (the same with Syracuse and BC…yes, BC). I’m not saying there aren’t exceptions, but those exceptions are rare. |
Anonymous
I just checked SCOIR. Tulane’s published admissions rate is 15% (for the general population). It’s 44% for Sidwell students (last 4 years). |
Anonymous
Wishful thinking, huh? 😊 |
Anonymous
Yeah, I will pay 60k a year to increase my chances in Tulane. Makes sense. |
Anonymous
HYP grad and I would gladly send my child to Tulane. Several EA and EDs at DC’s private too. Unlike others, I don’t make my child’s college choice about myself or made up lists. Now, if DC’s intended major wasn’t strong there then it would be a no but it is |
Anonymous
Yeah, of course you’re jumping on Tulane and ignoring what has actually been posted about private schools and college admissions chances. |
Anonymous
You have provided zero evidence other than the *correlation* between Ivy attendance and private school attendance. Not causation. |
Anonymous
Well the discussion here is about Holton not Exeter. |
Anonymous
I never claimed causation. Although the Forbes article makes a pretty good case as to the reasons. You claimed that public school kids do as well or better than private school kids and did not even provide correlation. |
Anonymous
The 40% of Harvard’s class that comes from private schools is much more than Andover and Exeter. |
Anonymous
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Our DD is at private. It's not for college placement. I don't think she's the type that would thrive (or get into) a top-10 school. She'll find one in the top 50 that suits her well. We don't view private as a path to an elite college -- most people have a "hook" like they are an alum of the college, which has nothing to do with going to private. If you really want to focus on an elite college, move to a rough part of town and send your kid to a rough school where they can write about their experiences encountering drug dealers at school and the like - admissions officers like those kinds of stories.
Instead, we have ours at private because class sizes are small; her teachers all know her; and they are all easy to reach. She came to school a few weeks ago nervous about an upcoming test, and one of her counselors noticed, took her aside and talked to her, then checked in with her throughout the day.. and also emailed us to let us know. We like that she's required to do sports and a foreign language. She'd probably not be so motivated otherwise. We like that the school has nice facilities, like a swimming pool, modern libary, and performance theater. Oh, and much better food in the cafeteria than she got when she was at MCPS. We like that it's a lot less likely that one of her classmates will be arrested for a violent crime; come to shoot up the school; or drug dealing, as these are less likely to happen at an all girls school. The public school she would have gone to has had numerous incidents in the past year, including hateful graffiti and kids who commandeered a vacant house across the street from school and used it to have a party with drugs.. during school hours. For us, the cost is affordable, and what would we spend it on otherwise? We already take nice vacations, and have enough material possesions. Spending on your child's education is pretty high up there priority-wise for our family. There's no one right or wrong choice for everyone. Visit schools and see what works best for your child. |
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Holton sends, on average, 12% of its class to the Ivy League.
That’s actually not that much lower than Andover’s 15% last year. So yeah, I’d say top DC area privates perform very close to the NE boarding schools. Source: the class profiles from each school |
Anonymous
For many of these people it is based on the many, many posts on here that say that. But DC is a place with industries that place a high value on credentials. And that’s what the Ivies are for these people, a credential. In the rest of the US, credentials don’t have anywhere as a great a value. I worked for one of the largest , most successful US companies and where one went to college made little difference. |