2025 rankings of best private schools in the DMV

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Anonymous wrote:Niche isn't measuring the "best" schools. It is tabulating data based on the opinions and unverified, self-reported data of its users.

And everyone proclaiming BIM the absolute best school in the universe based on that dubious method is just showing how much they really know about social science analysis of any kind.

It's GIGO when you use bad statistical inputs. Crowing about it is either willfully ignorant or just demented.

And everyone spending days - days! - responding to the BIM poster to refute the ranking and argue their school should actually be ranked higher. In these silly rankings?

Priceless.

If someone spending a minute to type something anonymously really gets you off like that, you have a weird sense of time and priorities. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this vitriol from parents with kids at other private schools is just amusing.

The fact is that BIM students are enjoying their rank as the #2 private school in the DMV, and laughing all the way to T20 admissions.

NP.

BIM was the #1 private school in the entire DMV for two years straight and was just edged by Sidwell this year.

Hopefully, BIM will regain the #1 title from Sidwell next year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Niche isn't measuring the "best" schools. It is tabulating data based on the opinions and unverified, self-reported data of its users.

And everyone proclaiming BIM the absolute best school in the universe based on that dubious method is just showing how much they really know about social science analysis of any kind.

It's GIGO when you use bad statistical inputs. Crowing about it is either willfully ignorant or just demented.

And everyone spending days - days! - responding to the BIM poster to refute the ranking and argue their school should actually be ranked higher. In these silly rankings?

Priceless.

And the SINGLE BIM poster spending days - days! to refute its tuition paying public school status and dubious for-profit roots. The MULTIPLE other posters can comment at their leisure because there are many to take up the slack. This is a full-time SOLO job for the BIM-BOT. 😂

Btw, there aren’t many people who are arguing/care that their school should be ranked higher. They just seem to think that BIM is, generally, an inferior school (rankings aside).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Niche isn't measuring the "best" schools. It is tabulating data based on the opinions and unverified, self-reported data of its users.

And everyone proclaiming BIM the absolute best school in the universe based on that dubious method is just showing how much they really know about social science analysis of any kind.

It's GIGO when you use bad statistical inputs. Crowing about it is either willfully ignorant or just demented.

And everyone spending days - days! - responding to the BIM poster to refute the ranking and argue their school should actually be ranked higher. In these silly rankings?

Priceless.

And the SINGLE BIM poster spending days - days! to refute its tuition paying public school status and dubious for-profit roots. The MULTIPLE other posters can comment at their leisure because there are many to take up the slack. This is a full-time SOLO job for the BIM-BOT. 😂

Btw, there aren’t many people who are arguing/care that their school should be ranked higher. They just seem to think that BIM is, generally, an inferior school (rankings aside).

Other BIM threads in the past were deleted when the Admin here found one or two IP addresses posing as multiple BIM parents. Curious to see if they take a look at them here.

It's a common game on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Question for you guys who think BIM is overrated. Do you think BIM is better than SAES, Flint Hill, SSSAS, Bullis, Burke or Field?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:argue their school should actually be ranked higher

No one has been arguing that their school should be higher ranked in Niche. All that I see is bickering about who the "Big 3" is, but that's a whole separate topic dating back to the beginning of this forum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:argue their school should actually be ranked higher

No one has been arguing that their school should be higher ranked in Niche. All that I see is bickering about who the "Big 3" is, but that's a whole separate topic dating back to the beginning of this forum.

True.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I'm stunned at BASIS continuing to rocket up the ratings.

Next year #1!!!!

We're coming for you Sidwell! You're next.

Yeah I think it’s because of all the notoriety their Robotics team has been getting, or maybe their Lacrosse teams success, how about the volleyball program, or how well their basketball team has been doing.

It has to be more than just the academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for you guys who think BIM is overrated. Do you think BIM is better than SAES, Flint Hill, SSSAS, Bullis, Burke or Field?

Those schools?

Yes, definitely.

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Anonymous wrote:I was curious about BIM, so I decided to dig a little deeper. I found out that they had one Regeneron/Intel scholar in 2024. This is a big deal right there. I don't remember the last a big 3 or big 5 private school had produced a Regeneron/Intel scholar.
I mean between that, their NMSFS ratio and college placements, I can see why Sidwell & Co feel threaten by BIM. They are disturbing the status quo and the pecking order of things.

It's a completely different model. A parent who would choose Sidwell wouldn't consider BIM.

Not true. Lots of kids get accepted to GDS, Sidwell, the Cathedral’s, Potomac, etc., but choose BIM instead.

The fact that someone would send their children to BIM in the first place shows poor decision making skills. If that person also selected BIM over GDS, Sidwell, the Cathedral’s, Potomac (unlikely), then I would call that borderline child abuse.

DP and have no kids there, but explain to me how sending your kids to BIM shows poor decision making skills?

[Anonymous]

Still waiting for someone to explain how BIM's selective admissions process created a waiting list issue for them last year or any year since they opened.

Just drumming my fingers and waiting......

This is how REAL ratings work. Where do the applications go? Where do parents fall all over themselves to pay $50K+ to get their kids in?

Not BIM.

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Anonymous wrote:These are ridiculous. In no world is NCS behind Holton or Madeira. Please.

Yes, all three are cliquey and toxic, but NCS might be the leader here.

"Cliquey and toxic?" Can we stop with this ridiculous and sexist trope for our girls?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These are ridiculous. In no world is NCS behind Holton or Madeira. Please.

Yes, all three are cliquey and toxic, but NCS might be the leader here.

"Cliquey and toxic?" Can we stop with this ridiculous and sexist trope for our girls?

No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still waiting for someone to explain how BIM's selective admissions process created a waiting list issue for them last year or any year since they opened.

Just drumming my fingers and waiting......

This is how REAL ratings work. Where do the applications go? Where do parents fall all over themselves to pay $50K+ to get their kids in?

Not BIM.

Someone explained it above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Still waiting for someone to explain how BIM's selective admissions process created a waiting list issue for them last year or any year since they opened.

Just drumming my fingers and waiting......

This is how REAL ratings work. Where do the applications go? Where do parents fall all over themselves to pay $50K+ to get their kids in?

Not BIM.

Someone explained it above.

Oh wow, so we are talking Bullis, St Andrew’s, GDS, Prep, Sidwell, Landon, Holton, Maret, Potomac, Field, Burke, SSSAS, Flint Hill,and the McLean school maybe.