How are Big 3s doing with ED?

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

I’m a new poster on this thread. Two different friends are telling me their daughter’s colleges were not sent the first semester grades and new better gpa in time and they missed the deadline for EA or ED 2 time frame.

Michigan comes out today and NCS sent transcripts today. Classes ended January 10th. NCS should have gotten report cards and transcripts out as soon as possible for those SENIORS not yet accepted anywhere.

Last year 4 girls at NCS matriculated to Michigan and more were accepted but did not attend. Second semester grades were available later than this year.

The lack of 1st semester grades wasn’t an issue.

This is the most unhelpful reply I have yet to see. Maybe those applicants were not having a significant increase in their GPA like many of the current seniors are.

No one can significantly increase their overall GPA in one semester. Basic math!

DP. You are really dense. Yes all of my kids’ GPA’s increased significantly. Get out your calculator and do some basic computations and you can see how that may be possible.

By the way I am sure the official school transcripts do not lie and they seem to show a significant increase for both of my students from fall to spring.

Really? Significant increase? What was cumulative GPA at end of Junior year vs. end of Senior fall semester? Please enlighten us.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

I’m a new poster on this thread. Two different friends are telling me their daughter’s colleges were not sent the first semester grades and new better gpa in time and they missed the deadline for EA or ED 2 time frame.

Michigan comes out today and NCS sent transcripts today. Classes ended January 10th. NCS should have gotten report cards and transcripts out as soon as possible for those SENIORS not yet accepted anywhere.

Last year 4 girls at NCS matriculated to Michigan and more were accepted but did not attend. Second semester grades were available later than this year.

The lack of 1st semester grades wasn’t an issue.

This is the most unhelpful reply I have yet to see. Maybe those applicants were not having a significant increase in their GPA like many of the current seniors are.

DP. A signifiant increase in one semester isn't even mathematically possible! Let's say you ended 11th grade with a 3.5 and get a 4.0 this first semester. Your GPA is now 3.57. Not exactly needle moving. And the impact of a 4.0 is even less if you started with higher than a 3.5.
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I am looking at the transcript and my kid’s GPA went up to another higher range from for example a C+ to a B. Complete grade change.

Well that isn’t getting anyone into Michigan.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop being a creep. When people comment in this stuff they are talking about real kids, and where they choose to go to school is NOYB.

Beyond creepy into outright dangerous. I hope you’re as interested in your own kid as you are in strangers. Weirdo.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

Do the rest of the Big3 schools have less grade deflation than NCS? Because they regularly send kids to Northwestern.

No, they overinflate grades. What percentage of students in your graduating class had a 3.7 or above?

Whether you call it overinflation at Sidwell/STA/Maret/GDS or deflation at NCS, the former appear to have kids accepted to Northwestern and the later does not, despite many applying. The same could be said for USC, Vanderbilt, Hopkins and probably more.

NCS is sending only girls; the others are co-ed or all boys. At many schools (especially with certain majors) definitely advantage to boys. Just tougher for girls in general.

What about the girls being admitted from other schools especially to Northwestern?

Why does only one school seem to matter to you? Four girls at NCS are going to Cornell next year, 2 to Chicago, 1 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 1 to Duke and many to SLACs among other competitive schools. 40% of the class is placed and it's only January 24th. These are strong results and lots more good news to come.

If no 4.0s, assuming all are submitting tests and they are high scores, are these girls with strong results in the 3.8 range? 3.6+ range?

Lol. No. You're not getting near those schools with a 3.6 from NCS. They Ivies this poster mentioned are all strongly hooked except for the Yale, 2 Cornells, and the Harvard. Those girls had top rigor and a 3.9 (basically the top of the class).
Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke). My daughter has been deferred and deferred. I don't know what is going on. There are like 40 girls who are just getting deferred to ANY school in the top35. Unless something changes drastically in RD this will be the year the sh$%t hit the fan with this school and their 3.5 average.

This poster needs some meds. Admissions at NCS are in no way horrendous this year. Emory, UVA, Chicago, Georgetown, Wake Forest, Boston College among others are great schools that girls are excited to attend.

This is a nice class and the girls are cheering each other on. Please stop degrading their accomplishments.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

Do the rest of the Big3 schools have less grade deflation than NCS? Because they regularly send kids to Northwestern.

No, they overinflate grades. What percentage of students in your graduating class had a 3.7 or above?

Whether you call it overinflation at Sidwell/STA/Maret/GDS or deflation at NCS, the former appear to have kids accepted to Northwestern and the later does not, despite many applying. The same could be said for USC, Vanderbilt, Hopkins and probably more.

NCS is sending only girls; the others are co-ed or all boys. At many schools (especially with certain majors) definitely advantage to boys. Just tougher for girls in general.

What about the girls being admitted from other schools especially to Northwestern?

Why does only one school seem to matter to you? Four girls at NCS are going to Cornell next year, 2 to Chicago, 1 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 1 to Duke and many to SLACs among other competitive schools. 40% of the class is placed and it's only January 24th. These are strong results and lots more good news to come.

If no 4.0s, assuming all are submitting tests and they are high scores, are these girls with strong results in the 3.8 range? 3.6+ range?

Lol. No. You're not getting near those schools with a 3.6 from NCS. They Ivies this poster mentioned are all strongly hooked except for the Yale, 2 Cornells, and the Harvard. Those girls had top rigor and a 3.9 (basically the top of the class).
Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke). My daughter has been deferred and deferred. I don't know what is going on. There are like 40 girls who are just getting deferred to ANY school in the top35. Unless something changes drastically in RD this will be the year the sh$%t hit the fan with this school and their 3.5 average.

This poster needs some meds. Admissions at NCS are in no way horrendous this year. Emory, UVA, Chicago, Georgetown, Wake Forest, Boston College among others are great schools that girls are excited to attend.

This is a nice class and the girls are cheering each other on. Please stop degrading their accomplishments.

No disrespect to anyone, but after the miserable wringer those kids have to go through for all those years at NCS, at least a couple of the colleges that you list understandably would be big letdowns. Kids are hoping there is some reward after years of stress and all the rest that comes with NCS.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

Do the rest of the Big3 schools have less grade deflation than NCS? Because they regularly send kids to Northwestern.

No, they overinflate grades. What percentage of students in your graduating class had a 3.7 or above?

Whether you call it overinflation at Sidwell/STA/Maret/GDS or deflation at NCS, the former appear to have kids accepted to Northwestern and the later does not, despite many applying. The same could be said for USC, Vanderbilt, Hopkins and probably more.

NCS is sending only girls; the others are co-ed or all boys. At many schools (especially with certain majors) definitely advantage to boys. Just tougher for girls in general.

What about the girls being admitted from other schools especially to Northwestern?

Why does only one school seem to matter to you? Four girls at NCS are going to Cornell next year, 2 to Chicago, 1 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 1 to Duke and many to SLACs among other competitive schools. 40% of the class is placed and it's only January 24th. These are strong results and lots more good news to come.

If no 4.0s, assuming all are submitting tests and they are high scores, are these girls with strong results in the 3.8 range? 3.6+ range?

Lol. No. You're not getting near those schools with a 3.6 from NCS. They Ivies this poster mentioned are all strongly hooked except for the Yale, 2 Cornells, and the Harvard. Those girls had top rigor and a 3.9 (basically the top of the class).
Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke). My daughter has been deferred and deferred. I don't know what is going on. There are like 40 girls who are just getting deferred to ANY school in the top35. Unless something changes drastically in RD this will be the year the sh$%t hit the fan with this school and their 3.5 average.

I was in your shoes last year at NCS. Don’t worry! Many of us were. It’s hard to hear and believe but it WILL work out. Many girls last year were deferred everywhere and many of them (mine included) ended up in GREAT schools. We had RD acceptances (from schools that don’t offer EA) at much more highly ranked schools than the EA deferrals. There was also a lot of waitlist movement last year.

I feel your frustration. I didn’t sleep for long and shed lots of tears from December through March. DD is now happily attending the school that was always her first choice.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

Do the rest of the Big3 schools have less grade deflation than NCS? Because they regularly send kids to Northwestern.

No, they overinflate grades. What percentage of students in your graduating class had a 3.7 or above?

Whether you call it overinflation at Sidwell/STA/Maret/GDS or deflation at NCS, the former appear to have kids accepted to Northwestern and the later does not, despite many applying. The same could be said for USC, Vanderbilt, Hopkins and probably more.

NCS is sending only girls; the others are co-ed or all boys. At many schools (especially with certain majors) definitely advantage to boys. Just tougher for girls in general.

What about the girls being admitted from other schools especially to Northwestern?

Why does only one school seem to matter to you? Four girls at NCS are going to Cornell next year, 2 to Chicago, 1 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 1 to Duke and many to SLACs among other competitive schools. 40% of the class is placed and it's only January 24th. These are strong results and lots more good news to come.

If no 4.0s, assuming all are submitting tests and they are high scores, are these girls with strong results in the 3.8 range? 3.6+ range?

Lol. No. You're not getting near those schools with a 3.6 from NCS. They Ivies this poster mentioned are all strongly hooked except for the Yale, 2 Cornells, and the Harvard. Those girls had top rigor and a 3.9 (basically the top of the class).
Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke). My daughter has been deferred and deferred. I don't know what is going on. There are like 40 girls who are just getting deferred to ANY school in the top35. Unless something changes drastically in RD this will be the year the sh$%t hit the fan with this school and their 3.5 average.

I was in your shoes last year at NCS. Don’t worry! Many of us were. It’s hard to hear and believe but it WILL work out. Many girls last year were deferred everywhere and many of them (mine included) ended up in GREAT schools. We had RD acceptances (from schools that don’t offer EA) at much more highly ranked schools than the EA deferrals. There was also a lot of waitlist movement last year.

I feel your frustration. I didn’t sleep for long and shed lots of tears from December through March. DD is now happily attending the school that was always her first choice.

As a public service, NCS should create a sticky thread here for parents asking them not to freak out in December and January. I don’t have a student there, but I’ve been on this board long enough to know that the collective parent meltdown at NCS happens every year at around this time.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

I’m a new poster on this thread. Two different friends are telling me their daughter’s colleges were not sent the first semester grades and new better gpa in time and they missed the deadline for EA or ED 2 time frame.

Michigan comes out today and NCS sent transcripts today. Classes ended January 10th. NCS should have gotten report cards and transcripts out as soon as possible for those SENIORS not yet accepted anywhere.

Last year 4 girls at NCS matriculated to Michigan and more were accepted but did not attend. Second semester grades were available later than this year.

The lack of 1st semester grades wasn’t an issue.

This is the most unhelpful reply I have yet to see. Maybe those applicants were not having a significant increase in their GPA like many of the current seniors are.

DP. A signifiant increase in one semester isn't even mathematically possible! Let's say you ended 11th grade with a 3.5 and get a 4.0 this first semester. Your GPA is now 3.57. Not exactly needle moving. And the impact of a 4.0 is even less if you started with higher than a 3.5.
I don't mean to argue but I really
think you need to relax.

I am looking at the transcript and my kid’s GPA went up to another higher range from for example a C+ to a B. Complete grade change.

Well that isn’t getting anyone into Michigan.

Did not say I was applying to Michigan. I was giving an example of how much the GPA can move in one semester.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

Do the rest of the Big3 schools have less grade deflation than NCS? Because they regularly send kids to Northwestern.

No, they overinflate grades. What percentage of students in your graduating class had a 3.7 or above?

Whether you call it overinflation at Sidwell/STA/Maret/GDS or deflation at NCS, the former appear to have kids accepted to Northwestern and the later does not, despite many applying. The same could be said for USC, Vanderbilt, Hopkins and probably more.

NCS is sending only girls; the others are co-ed or all boys. At many schools (especially with certain majors) definitely advantage to boys. Just tougher for girls in general.

What about the girls being admitted from other schools especially to Northwestern?

Why does only one school seem to matter to you? Four girls at NCS are going to Cornell next year, 2 to Chicago, 1 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 1 to Duke and many to SLACs among other competitive schools. 40% of the class is placed and it's only January 24th. These are strong results and lots more good news to come.

If no 4.0s, assuming all are submitting tests and they are high scores, are these girls with strong results in the 3.8 range? 3.6+ range?

Lol. No. You're not getting near those schools with a 3.6 from NCS. They Ivies this poster mentioned are all strongly hooked except for the Yale, 2 Cornells, and the Harvard. Those girls had top rigor and a 3.9 (basically the top of the class).
Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke). My daughter has been deferred and deferred. I don't know what is going on. There are like 40 girls who are just getting deferred to ANY school in the top35. Unless something changes drastically in RD this will be the year the sh$%t hit the fan with this school and their 3.5 average.

This poster needs some meds. Admissions at NCS are in no way horrendous this year. Emory, UVA, Chicago, Georgetown, Wake Forest, Boston College among others are great schools that girls are excited to attend.

This is a nice class and the girls are cheering each other on. Please stop degrading their accomplishments.

No disrespect to anyone, but after the miserable wringer those kids have to go through for all those years at NCS, at least a couple of the colleges that you list understandably would be big letdowns. Kids are hoping there is some reward after years of stress and all the rest that comes with NCS.

You are a gem. Stating “no disrespect” and then throwing shade is in fact, quite disrespectful.

By the way, my daughter and her friends would never describe their educational experience at NCS as a “miserable wringer”. Tough at times? Sure, but not all the time. And yes, these girls have been in the higher rigor courses, with mostly great teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

Do the rest of the Big3 schools have less grade deflation than NCS? Because they regularly send kids to Northwestern.

No, they overinflate grades. What percentage of students in your graduating class had a 3.7 or above?

Whether you call it overinflation at Sidwell/STA/Maret/GDS or deflation at NCS, the former appear to have kids accepted to Northwestern and the later does not, despite many applying. The same could be said for USC, Vanderbilt, Hopkins and probably more.

NCS is sending only girls; the others are co-ed or all boys. At many schools (especially with certain majors) definitely advantage to boys. Just tougher for girls in general.

What about the girls being admitted from other schools especially to Northwestern?

Why does only one school seem to matter to you? Four girls at NCS are going to Cornell next year, 2 to Chicago, 1 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 1 to Duke and many to SLACs among other competitive schools. 40% of the class is placed and it's only January 24th. These are strong results and lots more good news to come.

If no 4.0s, assuming all are submitting tests and they are high scores, are these girls with strong results in the 3.8 range? 3.6+ range?

Lol. No. You're not getting near those schools with a 3.6 from NCS. They Ivies this poster mentioned are all strongly hooked except for the Yale, 2 Cornells, and the Harvard. Those girls had top rigor and a 3.9 (basically the top of the class).
Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke). My daughter has been deferred and deferred. I don't know what is going on. There are like 40 girls who are just getting deferred to ANY school in the top35. Unless something changes drastically in RD this will be the year the sh$%t hit the fan with this school and their 3.5 average.

[b]This poster needs some meds. Admissions at NCS are in no way horrendous this year. Emory, UVA, Chicago, Georgetown, Wake Forest, Boston College among others are great schools that girls are excited to attend.

This is a nice class and the girls are cheering each other on. Please stop degrading their accomplishments.

DP. .I am not the poster above but your comments are really uncalled for. I hope you are not teaching your daughter to speak this way. The poster above is saying her daughter has been deferred everywhere. She said admissions for the 40 plus girls she knows is horrendous. She did not say all others.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

Do the rest of the Big3 schools have less grade deflation than NCS? Because they regularly send kids to Northwestern.

No, they overinflate grades. What percentage of students in your graduating class had a 3.7 or above?

Whether you call it overinflation at Sidwell/STA/Maret/GDS or deflation at NCS, the former appear to have kids accepted to Northwestern and the later does not, despite many applying. The same could be said for USC, Vanderbilt, Hopkins and probably more.

NCS is sending only girls; the others are co-ed or all boys. At many schools (especially with certain majors) definitely advantage to boys. Just tougher for girls in general.

What about the girls being admitted from other schools especially to Northwestern?

Why does only one school seem to matter to you? Four girls at NCS are going to Cornell next year, 2 to Chicago, 1 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 1 to Duke and many to SLACs among other competitive schools. 40% of the class is placed and it's only January 24th. These are strong results and lots more good news to come.

If no 4.0s, assuming all are submitting tests and they are high scores, are these girls with strong results in the 3.8 range? 3.6+ range?

Lol. No. You're not getting near those schools with a 3.6 from NCS. They Ivies this poster mentioned are all strongly hooked except for the Yale, 2 Cornells, and the Harvard. Those girls had top rigor and a 3.9 (basically the top of the class).
Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke). My daughter has been deferred and deferred. I don't know what is going on. There are like 40 girls who are just getting deferred to ANY school in the top35. Unless something changes drastically in RD this will be the year the sh$%t hit the fan with this school and their 3.5 average.

I was in your shoes last year at NCS. Don’t worry! Many of us were. It’s hard to hear and believe but it WILL work out. Many girls last year were deferred everywhere and many of them (mine included) ended up in GREAT schools. We had RD acceptances (from schools that don’t offer EA) at much more highly ranked schools than the EA deferrals. There was also a lot of waitlist movement last year.

I feel your frustration. I didn’t sleep for long and shed lots of tears from December through March. DD is now happily attending the school that was always her first choice.

As a public service, NCS should create a sticky thread here for parents asking them not to freak out in December and January. I don’t have a student there, but I’ve been on this board long enough to know that the collective parent meltdown at NCS happens every year at around this time.

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Anonymous wrote:Mentioned on another post, but have big 3 schools (specifically cathedral schools) been doing well in the early round? Hear many got into Cornell.

Why do you even care? I wish parents would not comment at all. This poster is not a parent at the Cathedral schools and is just being nosy. It is none of their business.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

Do the rest of the Big3 schools have less grade deflation than NCS? Because they regularly send kids to Northwestern.

No, they overinflate grades. What percentage of students in your graduating class had a 3.7 or above?

Whether you call it overinflation at Sidwell/STA/Maret/GDS or deflation at NCS, the former appear to have kids accepted to Northwestern and the later does not, despite many applying. The same could be said for USC, Vanderbilt, Hopkins and probably more.

NCS is sending only girls; the others are co-ed or all boys. At many schools (especially with certain majors) definitely advantage to boys. Just tougher for girls in general.

What about the girls being admitted from other schools especially to Northwestern?

Why does only one school seem to matter to you? Four girls at NCS are going to Cornell next year, 2 to Chicago, 1 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 1 to Duke and many to SLACs among other competitive schools. 40% of the class is placed and it's only January 24th. These are strong results and lots more good news to come.

If no 4.0s, assuming all are submitting tests and they are high scores, are these girls with strong results in the 3.8 range? 3.6+ range?

Lol. No. You're not getting near those schools with a 3.6 from NCS. They Ivies this poster mentioned are all strongly hooked except for the Yale, 2 Cornells, and the Harvard. Those girls had top rigor and a 3.9 (basically the top of the class).
Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke). My daughter has been deferred and deferred. I don't know what is going on. There are like 40 girls who are just getting deferred to ANY school in the top35. Unless something changes drastically in RD this will be the year the sh$%t hit the fan with this school and their 3.5 average.

I was in your shoes last year at NCS. Don’t worry! Many of us were. It’s hard to hear and believe but it WILL work out. Many girls last year were deferred everywhere and many of them (mine included) ended up in GREAT schools. We had RD acceptances (from schools that don’t offer EA) at much more highly ranked schools than the EA deferrals. There was also a lot of waitlist movement last year.

I feel your frustration. I didn’t sleep for long and shed lots of tears from December through March. DD is now happily attending the school that was always her first choice.

As a public service, NCS should create a sticky thread here for parents asking them not to freak out in December and January. I don’t have a student there, but I’ve been on this board long enough to know that the collective parent meltdown at NCS happens every year at around this time.

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STA mom with a daughter at Sidwell. I have a lot of NCS mom friends and see them go through a lot of angst this time of year. The school seriously needs to consider its deflationary grade policies. It’s not helping the girls or the school’s reputation. Sidwell is horrible in its way too but their kids seem to get a better payoff at the end.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

Do the rest of the Big3 schools have less grade deflation than NCS? Because they regularly send kids to Northwestern.

No, they overinflate grades. What percentage of students in your graduating class had a 3.7 or above?

Whether you call it overinflation at Sidwell/STA/Maret/GDS or deflation at NCS, the former appear to have kids accepted to Northwestern and the later does not, despite many applying. The same could be said for USC, Vanderbilt, Hopkins and probably more.

NCS is sending only girls; the others are co-ed or all boys. At many schools (especially with certain majors) definitely advantage to boys. Just tougher for girls in general.

What about the girls being admitted from other schools especially to Northwestern?

Why does only one school seem to matter to you? Four girls at NCS are going to Cornell next year, 2 to Chicago, 1 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Yale, 1 to Duke and many to SLACs among other competitive schools. 40% of the class is placed and it's only January 24th. These are strong results and lots more good news to come.

If no 4.0s, assuming all are submitting tests and they are high scores, are these girls with strong results in the 3.8 range? 3.6+ range?

Lol. No. You're not getting near those schools with a 3.6 from NCS. They Ivies this poster mentioned are all strongly hooked except for the Yale, 2 Cornells, and the Harvard. Those girls had top rigor and a 3.9 (basically the top of the class).
Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke). My daughter has been deferred and deferred. I don't know what is going on. There are like 40 girls who are just getting deferred to ANY school in the top35. Unless something changes drastically in RD this will be the year the sh$%t hit the fan with this school and their 3.5 average.

I was in your shoes last year at NCS. Don’t worry! Many of us were. It’s hard to hear and believe but it WILL work out. Many girls last year were deferred everywhere and many of them (mine included) ended up in GREAT schools. We had RD acceptances (from schools that don’t offer EA) at much more highly ranked schools than the EA deferrals. There was also a lot of waitlist movement last year.

I feel your frustration. I didn’t sleep for long and shed lots of tears from December through March. DD is now happily attending the school that was always her first choice.

As a public service, NCS should create a sticky thread here for parents asking them not to freak out in December and January. I don’t have a student there, but I’ve been on this board long enough to know that the collective parent meltdown at NCS happens every year at around this time.

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STA mom with a daughter at Sidwell. I have a lot of NCS mom friends and see them go through a lot of angst this time of year. The school seriously needs to consider its deflationary grade policies. It’s not helping the girls or the school’s reputation. Sidwell is horrible in its way too but their kids seem to get a better payoff at the end.

Many kids at Sidwell feeling the same way this year too....

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Anonymous wrote:NCS went 0/8 at Northwestern. Maret had 6 Northwestern admissions. Something is not working.

Northwestern is a tough one for NCS. They’re big on gpa. They admit a lot of TO students with high gpa’s. NCS students tend to be the opposite.

I’m a new poster on this thread. Two different friends are telling me their daughter’s colleges were not sent the first semester grades and new better gpa in time and they missed the deadline for EA or ED 2 time frame.

Michigan comes out today and NCS sent transcripts today. Classes ended January 10th. NCS should have gotten report cards and transcripts out as soon as possible for those SENIORS not yet accepted anywhere.

Last year 4 girls at NCS matriculated to Michigan and more were accepted but did not attend. Second semester grades were available later than this year.

The lack of 1st semester grades wasn’t an issue.

This is the most unhelpful reply I have yet to see. Maybe those applicants were not having a significant increase in their GPA like many of the current seniors are.

No one can significantly increase their overall GPA in one semester. Basic math!

DP. You are really dense. Yes all of my kids’ GPA’s increased significantly. Get out your calculator and do some basic computations and you can see how that may be possible.

By the way I am sure the official school transcripts do not lie and they seem to show a significant increase for both of my students from fall to spring.

Really? Significant increase? What was cumulative GPA at end of Junior year vs. end of Senior fall semester? Please enlighten us.

For those using a number system like STA one semester can actually raise the grade average a lot! Went from a B+ to above a 90. It makes a difference.