Class of 2020 College Placement Results

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Anonymous wrote:Prep did well this year with Villanova, Elon, and USNA.

Well....

The director of college counseling from NCS will be Prep's new director of college counseling beginning this year. Prep has a great list of 2020 matriculations. Here is a list of the majority of colleges this years grads will attend.

Stanford
Duke
University of Pennsylvania
University of Chicago
Notre Dame
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
USC
Michigan
Carnegie Mellon
US Naval Academy
UVA
Georgetown
Washington University St. Louis
NYU
Boston College
Williams
UNC
Tufts
Amherst
University of Rochester
William and Mary
Villanova
Holy Cross
Bucknell
Tulane
Georgia Tech
Davidson
Colgate
UCSD
Kenyon
Gettysburg

Only two ivies?

Seriously? This is your mentality? This list is strong and many of these colleges have multiple Prep grads attending this year (not just one). You may be to narrow minded to understand that lots of grads have no desire to attend Ivies. I know plenty of top performing students who desire schools like USC, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Duke, Stanford, NYU, Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst, Washington U St. Louis, Davidson, Wake Forest, Michigan, Hopkins, UNC, UVA, Boston College, UCLA, and many more over Ivies.

Lots of other schools you didn’t mention that aren’t that great.

What are you babbling about? Of course, there are thousands of colleges in the world. The statement above is about schools that top students (not necessarily just Prep students) like to attend over Ivies. Point being, tons of students don't find Ivies attractive and have no desire to attend, even if they could or do get in.

No H, Y, or P? What a tragedy. Thanks heavens we sent Horatio and Alphonse to STA.

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Exactly. Ivies aren’t the end all be all. Some people are so narrow minded and only want their kids to go Ivy. Many of them get a reality check when either their kids don’t want to go or can’t get in. Big wake up call. Good news is there kid can be equally successful, if not more so, if they attend a college they want it a school that is a better fit.

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly. Ivies aren’t the end all be all. Some people are so narrow minded and only want their kids to go Ivy. Many of them get a reality check when either their kids don’t want to go or can’t get in. Big wake up call. Good news is there kid can be equally successful, if not more so, if they attend a college they want it a school that is a better fit.

So then that means that all these boys at Prep don’t want to go to an ivy? Because as PP said there were no H,Y, P.

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly. Ivies aren’t the end all be all. Some people are so narrow minded and only want their kids to go Ivy. Many of them get a reality check when either their kids don’t want to go or can’t get in. Big wake up call. Good news is there kid can be equally successful, if not more so, if they attend a college they want it a school that is a better fit.

So then that means that all these boys at Prep don’t want to go to an ivy? Because as PP said there were no H,Y, P.

So HYP are the only ivies?!? Really? Well, I guess according to you they are. Weird, because according to the rest of the world Ivies are HYP AND Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Brown, and Dartmouth. Additionally, many people consider Stanford, Duke, and University of Chicago higher than several ivies and Notre Dame is also considered higher than an ivy. Not to mention Williams, Amherst, Washington U St. Louis, Hopkins, Georgetown, USC, Michigan, Tufts, NYU, Davidson, Grinnell, etc can also be considered more attractive for various reasons to some top students than the Ivies.

Your obsession with Ivies is dated and skewed. Tons of kids at top privates would prefer lots of top schools over Ivies. Going to an Ivy is not the end all be all by any stretch of the imagination, especially for undergrad. Are there kids at top privates who want to go Ivy, yes. Are there parents at top privates who are Ivy obsessed, absolutely. Are there also parents at top privates who only want their kids to go to Ivies and force them to do so, absolutely. That is sad. I fear for the child whose parents say HYP or bust. Good luck with that.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys are so misinformed. Where do you get the information that 40 GDS seniors are going to Ivies??

I thought that this was an eye-popping number, but then a couple of GDS parents I know didn’t seem surprised.

I'm a GDS parent with younger kids and when I heard this I too was skeptical. Initially I thought its wasn't possible, but now I think it might be true after asking a senior parent. I heard it was a crazy year. I'll needy to see the actual list before I am convinced. And being a good DCUM-er I will post the list if I get it

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Anonymous wrote:You guys are so misinformed. Where do you get the information that 40 GDS seniors are going to Ivies??

I thought that this was an eye-popping number, but then a couple of GDS parents I know didn’t seem surprised.

I'm a GDS parent with younger kids and when I heard this I too was skeptical. Initially I thought its wasn't possible, but now I think it might be true after asking a senior parent. I heard it was a crazy year. I'll needy to see the actual list before I am convinced. And being a good DCUM-er I will post the list if I get it

GDS has approximately 125 students per grade in high school. 30% of those students did not get admitted to Ivies. The pp is spreading fake news. Here is the list of colleges attended by the most GDS grads from 2016-2019 (4 years).

New York University (28)
Washington University in St. Louis (19)
Tufts University (15)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (14)
Georgetown University (13)
University of Michigan (13)
University of Southern California (13)
Brown University (12)
Harvard College (12)
Tulane University (12)
University of Pennsylvania (12)
Emory University (11)
Yale University (10)
Northwestern University (9)
Oberlin College (9)

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If you include "Ivy like" schools such as Amherst, Williams, Duke etc, most of the good private schools in the area can claim that 1/3 of their class go to elite schools. There's no difference between the private schools in college matriculation. Some years there may be more kids going to Dartmouth instead of Amherst. That doesn't mean they are any more successful because their number of Ivies is higher.

In short, don't try to judge or select a private school based on its college placement.

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There is a GDS college 2020 instagram but it is private unlike every other college-destination instagram in the DMV from publics/privates. My kid at another big3 has friends in this class and was denied access.

They are keeping college destination completely under wraps which seems incredibly odd if the results were so fantastic.

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Clearly GDS is a feeder to NYU not Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a GDS college 2020 instagram but it is private unlike every other college-destination instagram in the DMV from publics/privates. My kid at another big3 has friends in this class and was denied access.

They are keeping college destination completely under wraps which seems incredibly odd if the results were so fantastic.

The IG isn't private, and does not include the whole class. And, no, 40 GDS seniors are not going to Ivies, even if you count the kids who chose other schools over an Ivy. The colleges chosen seem comparable to other years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a GDS college 2020 instagram but it is private unlike every other college-destination instagram in the DMV from publics/privates. My kid at another big3 has friends in this class and was denied access.

They are keeping college destination completely under wraps which seems incredibly odd if the results were so fantastic.

Why was your kid (or was it actually you?) trying to access another school's private social media page? Creepy af.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a GDS college 2020 instagram but it is private unlike every other college-destination instagram in the DMV from publics/privates. My kid at another big3 has friends in this class and was denied access.

They are keeping college destination completely under wraps which seems incredibly odd if the results were so fantastic.

The IG isn't private, and does not include the whole class. And, no, 40 GDS seniors are not going to Ivies, even if you count the kids who chose other schools over an Ivy. The colleges chosen seem comparable to other years.

There are plenty of reasons other than hiding poor results to make such an instagram account private/limited access. #1 being keeping out trolls like DCUM denizens who want to dump on a given school's results because not every single student is going to Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a GDS college 2020 instagram but it is private unlike every other college-destination instagram in the DMV from publics/privates. My kid at another big3 has friends in this class and was denied access.

They are keeping college destination completely under wraps which seems incredibly odd if the results were so fantastic.

Why was your kid (or was it actually you?) trying to access another school's private social media page? Creepy af.

NP. Why make the pages public at all then? My kid definitely looked at other public pages of schools in the area. -NP

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I've never seen a school community so consistently obsessed with touting its college placement like the GDS community. It can't just be the same troll every year. So strange.

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly. Ivies aren’t the end all be all. Some people are so narrow minded and only want their kids to go Ivy. Many of them get a reality check when either their kids don’t want to go or can’t get in. Big wake up call. Good news is there kid can be equally successful, if not more so, if they attend a college they want it a school that is a better fit.

So then that means that all these boys at Prep don’t want to go to an ivy? Because as PP said there were no H,Y, P.

Well as PP says, it’s about fit. Some Catholic schools emphasize conformity and self-discipline. Whereas Ivy League admissions is more about singularity, leadership, and taking initiative. Not mutually exclusive, of course. But I don’t necessarily see many of the very bright young students at my DC’s Catholic K-8 aiming for an Ivy. The school really teaches them in an explicit way to be like everyone else, not to stand out. Nothing wrong with that at all.