sidwell college results--does everyone have top grades or are they getting in kids into strong schools imperfect grades?

[Anonymous]

Having legacy preferences and bold faced name parents also helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college results are really good this year. Very, very few kids (out of over 80 posted) are attending schools outside of the top 30 or schools that are not highly competitive.

Does this mean that they're getting very competitive admits for kids with GPAs under 3.8?
(i.e with a few Bs?)
Or does this class all have 3.8+?

Asking because my kid's DC Big3 private seems to have a major drop off after about a 3.8.
The top kids---doing great!
Then the 3.7 and below are attending schools that are far less competitive.
I.e nothing really in the top 40.

Are Sidwell's GPAs all clustered above 3.8 or do they just have more pull with colleges so that their lower kids
still get strong admits?


Curious.

there's heavy selection bias in the posts you're seeing. The kid that got into CU Boulder or American isn't sharing their results.

Nonsense! There’s an IG post from a 2024 Sidwell grad who is going to a school I’ve never heard of in Florida. I’m sure the school isn’t even ranked. I love that this kid is proudly posting their college, nevertheless.

That kid got into every school he applied to and he chose that one for a reason. He knows what he wants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

No princeton? Last year they had at least 3.

Last year's Princeton admits were not the strongest kids. They had other hooks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice try.

GDS has had much better college admissions this year than Sidwell.

Much better? How many GDS students are going to Ivies this year? IG says 17 for GDS. The PP says that a Sidwell IG account says they have 18.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

It’s in the post above: sidwellsaas


What’s the Insta handle again?

[Anonymous]

6 SFS are going to Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

What’s the Insta handle again?

It’s in the post above: sidwellsaas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:6 SFS are going to Harvard.

Ok, well there were only 4 Sidwell students wearing Harvard shirts in the video yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college results are really good this year. Very, very few kids (out of over 80 posted) are attending schools outside of the top 30 or schools that are not highly competitive.

Does this mean that they're getting very competitive admits for kids with GPAs under 3.8?
(i.e with a few Bs?)
Or does this class all have 3.8+?

Asking because my kid's DC Big3 private seems to have a major drop off after about a 3.8.
The top kids---doing great!
Then the 3.7 and below are attending schools that are far less competitive.
I.e nothing really in the top 40.

Are Sidwell's GPAs all clustered above 3.8 or do they just have more pull with colleges so that their lower kids
still get strong admits?


Curious.

there's heavy selection bias in the posts you're seeing. The kid that got into CU Boulder or American isn't sharing their results.

Nonsense! There’s an IG post from a 2024 Sidwell grad who is going to a school I’ve never heard of in Florida. I’m sure the school isn’t even ranked. I love that this kid is proudly posting their college, nevertheless.

That kid got into every school he applied to and he chose that one for a reason. He knows what he wants.

Protests and activism! Bring down the system!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:6 SFS are going to Harvard.

If true, that brings Sidwell’s Ivy count to 20 this year. Do you know of any others who haven’t been included in the total?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

What’s the Insta handle again?

It’s in the post above: sidwellsaas

On Instagram? Nothing came up with that search

[Anonymous]

https://www.instagram.com/sidwellsass/

[Anonymous]

BREAKING: Scientists have discovered that the children of wealthy Ivy League grads have a higher chance of being admitted to top 30 schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

What’s the Insta handle again?

It’s in the post above: sidwellsaas

On Instagram? Nothing came up with that search

That’s because the PP misspelled the IG handle: it’s sidwellsass

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

Some of these kids had multiple Ivy acceptances. Plus there is one to Stanford, one to Oxford, and many to top 10 or 12, because there are 3 in 10th place.