GDS college enrolmments

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I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, GDS had 2 Harvards at least 2 Yales (maybe 3?) and one MIT. Are you saying there were only 7 more Ivy/Stanford students who posted?

GDS has three going to Harvard. Zero are legacy, athletes, or any other “special” category. Not bad.

Very good indeed. PP alleges that GDS only had eleven total attending Ivies plus Stanford/MIT. That seems to be very incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has had remarkably strong college results last year and this year---but far the best of the Big3 school plus Maret. Last year they got almost 50% of the class into top25 schools (not even including liberal arts colleges). My own child was at one of the Cathedral schools and they had nowhere near this success. Clearly GDS is not having it this year.

I don't know if an exceptionally connected cohort at Sidwell, a strong reputation or grades that are slightly bumped up. My guess is that's a combo of all 3. On the last point, if you grade to a class average of a 3.7 you're going to have much better results across all kids than if you grade to a 3.5. Some of the other privates are still grading to something like a 3.5 (like it's still 1998). I imagine Sidwell has adjusted upwards as college results have become more difficult and this is why they're doing better across the board.

Hi! Can you please share your experience with NCS HS grading? My daughter is at NCS (not in HS yet), but we are already having other major concerns not related to grades about the school. Do you know where is NCS class average? Are the teachers fair / overly strict?

I'm sorry, but is this a serious question ? Your daughter is at NCS and you don't how ruthless the teachers are with grades ? My daughter is in 11th, been there since 4th. Trust me, the teachers do the girls no favors when it comes to grades, gpa, transcript.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

Is their acceptance rate higher for kids from top privates during RD? Cause it sounds like a winning safety school for the privates if so...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

Is their acceptance rate higher for kids from top privates during RD? Cause it sounds like a winning safety school for the privates if so...

Don't know. But being full pay helps and many private kids are exactly that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

Is their acceptance rate higher for kids from top privates during RD? Cause it sounds like a winning safety school for the privates if so...

Don't know. But being full pay helps and many private kids are exactly that.

I mean the odds are pretty good, if you paid 13-15 years of premium private school, you are expecting to fully pay for college out of pocket

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is their acceptance rate higher for kids from top privates during RD? Cause it sounds like a winning safety school for the privates if so...

I thought the UChicago route was for ED only.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

Is their acceptance rate higher for kids from top privates during RD? Cause it sounds like a winning safety school for the privates if so...

No. Most kids get waitlisted or rejected RD from our Big3. If it’s your first or second choice, ED1 or ED2. ED2, however, they reject a lot more. Or RD and pray for a waitlist conversion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.

Oh I think I read that article!