I should have kept my kid at Wilson; college admits are much better than the Big3

[Anonymous]

Your kids will end up in therapy, if they're not already, if you as a parent are constantly questioning the decision to send your kids to private. There's no cloning of kids so that you have a control - one kid in private and one to Wilson. It just doesn't work that way. Your kid might have done better or done worse at the alternative. You just don't know. Have some confidence in your kids and in yourself. You made the best decision at the time.

BTW, 100% of Big-3 kids end up at a 40-year college. That is not the case at Wilson. Period. They are very different environments, each with its plusses and minuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This perspective on this thread is so small. Do folks really think the Wilson kids who do well enough to get into top colleges are less prepared than the public school kids outside of DC? I can tell you there are many more advanced offerings at Wilson than my Midwest public.

The world is a lot wider than the DMV.

Where was that? Peoria?

NP. What is wrong with you? You really need to get out more. Only 50% of high schools nationally offer calculus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kids will end up in therapy, if they're not already, if you as a parent are constantly questioning the decision to send your kids to private. There's no cloning of kids so that you have a control - one kid in private and one to Wilson. It just doesn't work that way. Your kid might have done better or done worse at the alternative. You just don't know. Have some confidence in your kids and in yourself. You made the best decision at the time.

BTW, 100% of Big-3 kids end up at a 40-year college. That is not the case at Wilson. Period. They are very different environments, each with its plusses and minuses.

Damn. That must be really expensive, especially after paying the Big 3 tuition. Even for a wealthy family, that certainly adds up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go Tigers! #TigerPride

This parent of a sophomore loves everything you reported, OP! Hoping to keep the trend going.

Congratulations! Your child goes to school for free! And you get what you pay for at Wilson. Do they ask for add”’ funds for the metal detectors ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go Tigers! #TigerPride

This parent of a sophomore loves everything you reported, OP! Hoping to keep the trend going.

Congratulations! Your child goes to school for free! And you get what you pay for at Wilson. Do they ask for add”’ funds for the metal detectors ?

NP. Every school should have metal detectors in 2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love this thread as it’s a version of the same thread that appeared when my now senior was in 5th & 8th grades. I like to call it the “upper NW public school parents feel the need to calm their guilt for not investing in their kids,” and “private school parents like to justify their expense” thread.

When will you all just accept “different strokes for different folks?” I have one in private for whom the choice was about the benefits of a smaller, more connected community where each student is known and one at Wilson thriving because they need options, diversity of community, and - yes - a competitive edge.

Each child has different profile No one community meets all needs. And yes, some of us choose private for reasons other than false hopes for advantaged college matriculation.

Yeah you’re so unbiased.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go Tigers! #TigerPride

This parent of a sophomore loves everything you reported, OP! Hoping to keep the trend going.

Congratulations! Your child goes to school for free! And you get what you pay for at Wilson. Do they ask for add”’ funds for the metal detectors ?

No, they didn’t. But thanks for your interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved my kid from Deal to private for 9th. The workload is about 5 times that of DCPS. My kid is finally learning to write and study.
It's night and day over DCPS. I can't stress this enough. It's easily 5 times the workload and my kid is actually learning.. I have kids left in DCPS. This year is another shit-show.
English school english classes that don't read a single book or write a single paper. AP classes that DON'T HAVE A TEACHER so the school is giving every kid an A as a default.

College admits are out and the Wilson admits (of white, upper class kids) are better than those at the Big3. These kids are the siblings
of the my kid's friends. They are getting in (unconnected) to Brown, Yale, Northwestern, Penn, and on and on.
You know how a Big 3 was shut out of Brown? Well, not Wilson. They have several kids going and they're not URM. They're upper middle class white kids.
DCPS grossly inflated grades during the pandemic. 19-20 quarters 3 and 4 counted any assignment as extra-credit. So if you did anything (EVEN ONE ASSIGNMENT) quarters 3 and 4 you
got an A. They those quarters were added to 1 and 2 and rounded up. It was almost impossible to get a B. Like statistically impossible if you turned in a SINGLE assignment.
Then last year (20-21) they barely had school and the lowest grade anyone could get was a B. Anything lower than a B was a "P".
You could get As for breathing (and my kids did). I can't emphasize enough how easy it was and is. It was insanity. My kids (19-20 and 20-21) had 98%+ in all classes
with next to no work). It was really stressful for us (and a lot of parents) because we knew our kids weren't learning anything. As such, many of us pulled our kids out.
But now, the kids graduating with this DCPS education are getting the top acceptances out of DC. I'm happy for them but it just seems insane.

I'm sure I'll get crucified for this but it's wacky. These kids are in some giant loophole or elite college admissions. Colleges are not taking the suburban public kids either





Do you really want your kids to be in environment that Wilson is in? Where 45% of the students are on FARMS?

Send them to Dunbar if all you care about is college as opposed to a great environment for them to make friends.
(with their 1600 SATs and 15 APs). Urban is where it's out--whether or not anything was learned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved my kid from Deal to private for 9th. The workload is about 5 times that of DCPS. My kid is finally learning to write and study.
It's night and day over DCPS. I can't stress this enough. It's easily 5 times the workload and my kid is actually learning.. I have kids left in DCPS. This year is another shit-show.
English school english classes that don't read a single book or write a single paper. AP classes that DON'T HAVE A TEACHER so the school is giving every kid an A as a default.

College admits are out and the Wilson admits (of white, upper class kids) are better than those at the Big3. These kids are the siblings
of the my kid's friends. They are getting in (unconnected) to Brown, Yale, Northwestern, Penn, and on and on.
You know how a Big 3 was shut out of Brown? Well, not Wilson. They have several kids going and they're not URM. They're upper middle class white kids.
DCPS grossly inflated grades during the pandemic. 19-20 quarters 3 and 4 counted any assignment as extra-credit. So if you did anything (EVEN ONE ASSIGNMENT) quarters 3 and 4 you
got an A. They those quarters were added to 1 and 2 and rounded up. It was almost impossible to get a B. Like statistically impossible if you turned in a SINGLE assignment.
Then last year (20-21) they barely had school and the lowest grade anyone could get was a B. Anything lower than a B was a "P".
You could get As for breathing (and my kids did). I can't emphasize enough how easy it was and is. It was insanity. My kids (19-20 and 20-21) had 98%+ in all classes
with next to no work). It was really stressful for us (and a lot of parents) because we knew our kids weren't learning anything. As such, many of us pulled our kids out.
But now, the kids graduating with this DCPS education are getting the top acceptances out of DC. I'm happy for them but it just seems insane.

I'm sure I'll get crucified for this but it's wacky. These kids are in some giant loophole or elite college admissions. Colleges are not taking the suburban public kids either







Do you really want your kids to be in environment that Wilson is in? Where 45% of the students are on FARMS?

Send them to Dunbar if all you care about is college as opposed to a great environment for them to make friends.





(with their 1600 SATs and 15 APs). Urban is where it's out--whether or not anything was learned.
(with their 1600 SATs and 15 APs). Urban is where it's out--whether or not anything was learned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved my kid from Deal to private for 9th. The workload is about 5 times that of DCPS. My kid is finally learning to write and study.
It's night and day over DCPS. I can't stress this enough. It's easily 5 times the workload and my kid is actually learning.. I have kids left in DCPS. This year is another shit-show.
English school english classes that don't read a single book or write a single paper. AP classes that DON'T HAVE A TEACHER so the school is giving every kid an A as a default.

College admits are out and the Wilson admits (of white, upper class kids) are better than those at the Big3. These kids are the siblings
of the my kid's friends. They are getting in (unconnected) to Brown, Yale, Northwestern, Penn, and on and on.
You know how a Big 3 was shut out of Brown? Well, not Wilson. They have several kids going and they're not URM. They're upper middle class white kids.
DCPS grossly inflated grades during the pandemic. 19-20 quarters 3 and 4 counted any assignment as extra-credit. So if you did anything (EVEN ONE ASSIGNMENT) quarters 3 and 4 you
got an A. They those quarters were added to 1 and 2 and rounded up. It was almost impossible to get a B. Like statistically impossible if you turned in a SINGLE assignment.
Then last year (20-21) they barely had school and the lowest grade anyone could get was a B. Anything lower than a B was a "P".
You could get As for breathing (and my kids did). I can't emphasize enough how easy it was and is. It was insanity. My kids (19-20 and 20-21) had 98%+ in all classes
with next to no work). It was really stressful for us (and a lot of parents) because we knew our kids weren't learning anything. As such, many of us pulled our kids out.
But now, the kids graduating with this DCPS education are getting the top acceptances out of DC. I'm happy for them but it just seems insane.

I'm sure I'll get crucified for this but it's wacky. These kids are in some giant loophole or elite college admissions. Colleges are not taking the suburban public kids either







Do you really want your kids to be in environment that Wilson is in? Where 45% of the students are on FARMS?

Send them to Dunbar if all you care about is college as opposed to a great environment for them to make friends.





(with their 1600 SATs and 15 APs). Urban is where it's out--whether or not anything was learned.
(with their 1600 SATs and 15 APs). Urban is where it's out--whether or not anything was learned.

Are you high? Do you think elite colleges are accepting students, any students, from a school like Dunbar?

FYI, your classism is in full force. My high school was, gasp, 80% FARMS. And here I am.

[Anonymous]

Who revived this nasty thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because elite private schoolers land at Michigan, UVa or Wake Forest, join a top tier frat or sorority, declare pre-med and binge drink their way through a 3.85 GPA. If a mediocre public school grad is lucky enough to land at a T20 college, they feel several years behind everyone else. Achievement gap is real and it is far broader than an SAT score.

That’s exactly what my physician DH did- except he’s a public school graduate who went to Brown!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved my kid from Deal to private for 9th. The workload is about 5 times that of DCPS. My kid is finally learning to write and study.
It's night and day over DCPS. I can't stress this enough. It's easily 5 times the workload and my kid is actually learning.. I have kids left in DCPS. This year is another shit-show.
English school english classes that don't read a single book or write a single paper. AP classes that DON'T HAVE A TEACHER so the school is giving every kid an A as a default.

College admits are out and the Wilson admits (of white, upper class kids) are better than those at the Big3. These kids are the siblings
of the my kid's friends. They are getting in (unconnected) to Brown, Yale, Northwestern, Penn, and on and on.
You know how a Big 3 was shut out of Brown? Well, not Wilson. They have several kids going and they're not URM. They're upper middle class white kids.
DCPS grossly inflated grades during the pandemic. 19-20 quarters 3 and 4 counted any assignment as extra-credit. So if you did anything (EVEN ONE ASSIGNMENT) quarters 3 and 4 you
got an A. They those quarters were added to 1 and 2 and rounded up. It was almost impossible to get a B. Like statistically impossible if you turned in a SINGLE assignment.
Then last year (20-21) they barely had school and the lowest grade anyone could get was a B. Anything lower than a B was a "P".
You could get As for breathing (and my kids did). I can't emphasize enough how easy it was and is. It was insanity. My kids (19-20 and 20-21) had 98%+ in all classes
with next to no work). It was really stressful for us (and a lot of parents) because we knew our kids weren't learning anything. As such, many of us pulled our kids out.
But now, the kids graduating with this DCPS education are getting the top acceptances out of DC. I'm happy for them but it just seems insane.

I'm sure I'll get crucified for this but it's wacky. These kids are in some giant loophole or elite college admissions. Colleges are not taking the suburban public kids either







Do you really want your kids to be in environment that Wilson is in? Where 45% of the students are on FARMS?

Send them to Dunbar if all you care about is college as opposed to a great environment for them to make friends.





(with their 1600 SATs and 15 APs). Urban is where it's out--whether or not anything was learned.
(with their 1600 SATs and 15 APs). Urban is where it's out--whether or not anything was learned.

Are you high? Do you think elite colleges are accepting students, any students, from a school like Dunbar?

FYI, your classism is in full force. My high school was, gasp, 80% FARMS. And here I am.

Sure. If the kids are URM, elite schools will admit them. At least until the Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions.

[Anonymous]

…and affirmative action for whites, also known as legacy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved my kid from Deal to private for 9th. The workload is about 5 times that of DCPS. My kid is finally learning to write and study.
It's night and day over DCPS. I can't stress this enough. It's easily 5 times the workload and my kid is actually learning.. I have kids left in DCPS. This year is another shit-show.
English school english classes that don't read a single book or write a single paper. AP classes that DON'T HAVE A TEACHER so the school is giving every kid an A as a default.

College admits are out and the Wilson admits (of white, upper class kids) are better than those at the Big3. These kids are the siblings
of the my kid's friends. They are getting in (unconnected) to Brown, Yale, Northwestern, Penn, and on and on.
You know how a Big 3 was shut out of Brown? Well, not Wilson. They have several kids going and they're not URM. They're upper middle class white kids.
DCPS grossly inflated grades during the pandemic. 19-20 quarters 3 and 4 counted any assignment as extra-credit. So if you did anything (EVEN ONE ASSIGNMENT) quarters 3 and 4 you
got an A. They those quarters were added to 1 and 2 and rounded up. It was almost impossible to get a B. Like statistically impossible if you turned in a SINGLE assignment.
Then last year (20-21) they barely had school and the lowest grade anyone could get was a B. Anything lower than a B was a "P".
You could get As for breathing (and my kids did). I can't emphasize enough how easy it was and is. It was insanity. My kids (19-20 and 20-21) had 98%+ in all classes
with next to no work). It was really stressful for us (and a lot of parents) because we knew our kids weren't learning anything. As such, many of us pulled our kids out.
But now, the kids graduating with this DCPS education are getting the top acceptances out of DC. I'm happy for them but it just seems insane.

I'm sure I'll get crucified for this but it's wacky. These kids are in some giant loophole or elite college admissions. Colleges are not taking the suburban public kids either







Do you really want your kids to be in environment that Wilson is in? Where 45% of the students are on FARMS?

Send them to Dunbar if all you care about is college as opposed to a great environment for them to make friends.





(with their 1600 SATs and 15 APs). Urban is where it's out--whether or not anything was learned.
(with their 1600 SATs and 15 APs). Urban is where it's out--whether or not anything was learned.

Are you high? Do you think elite colleges are accepting students, any students, from a school like Dunbar?

FYI, your classism is in full force. My high school was, gasp, 80% FARMS. And here I am.

Sure. If the kids are URM, elite schools will admit them. At least until the Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions.

Boy are you ignorant. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.