2024 Washington DC area College commits

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Results from DMV schools (public and private) are really good in the early admissions round. Congratulations to these kids!

Have to admit it; the whole Sidwell and GDS really are by far the best privates, using college matriculation as the gauge.

I think the best is actually STA. They have a class of about 75 and get in about 20 kids to the Ivies each year plus up to 10 to Chicago.
There are only about 5 kids each year who attend schools ranked above 50.

If it’s not on Instagram, or some other public platform that doesn’t aggregate results over a period of years, I don’t believe you. Put up or shut up.
What is STA hiding?!?

It’s for those who need to know but I will let you in on a bit of last year. 35 to top 10 schools, 33 to top 30 and 6 to the likes of the University of Oregon, JMU etc. You don’t deserve to know more so be happy with the glimpse you were given.

I have a kid who graduated from STA recently and I am really hoping this poster isn’t an STA parent, which is why I am taking the bait and responding (in hopes we all don’t seem so horrible). “Don’t deserve?” Ick.

The Bulletin lists the college matriculations and 35 boys from 2023 did not go to the USNWR top 10 schools. Georgetown and Chicago were the schools that drew the most kids, with 6 each. BC also got 5. Dartmouth and Princeton were Ivies with most kids at 3 each. JMU and Oregon are both on the list. As for insta, the boys don’t care about social media that much, which is why no insta feed (these are all student-run). I have one kid going through process now and all results are fairly similar, public and private. I can say my graduated son and his classmates were happy with their choices (and that I hope those who matriculate from other schools are happy too).

I am guessing it’s a kid but read the room, wise ass people are taking shots at STA so I think wise ass kids are responding accordingly.

More likely an insecure parent than an insecure kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Across the board the DMV privates are soing very well!

Amazing that the top dmv publics are doing just as well if not better than most privates too!

They have 500 plus kids in their grades - there is no comparison with the percentage of the class that goes to top 20 schools.

I think more like 300 plus, still big but not sure about 500 plus at W schools.

Whitman's average class size is around 500. GDS senior class size is 130.

And Sidwell has ~125 students. If Whitman (or any other area public) sends 4x as many students to Ivies and top 25 colleges, then I’ll be impressed. Unless or until that happens, please hush.

This is stupid. Everyone knows that public schools have to take everyone; private schools can exclude the bottom 75% of any class that public schools are obliged to take. Rates of ivy/top schools really isn't a remotely relevant comparison.

gds and Sidwell have large portions of their classes that entered in the lower school so it’s inaccurate to suggest that they’re curating the entire 9th grade class. And let’s not even start the lifer discussion.

What's the lifer discussion?

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Anonymous wrote:Across the board the DMV privates are soing very well!

Amazing that the top dmv publics are doing just as well if not better than most privates too!

They have 500 plus kids in their grades - there is no comparison with the percentage of the class that goes to top 20 schools.

I think more like 300 plus, still big but not sure about 500 plus at W schools.

Whitman's average class size is around 500. GDS senior class size is 130.

And Sidwell has ~125 students. If Whitman (or any other area public) sends 4x as many students to Ivies and top 25 colleges, then I’ll be impressed. Unless or until that happens, please hush.

This is stupid. Everyone knows that public schools have to take everyone; private schools can exclude the bottom 75% of any class that public schools are obliged to take. Rates of ivy/top schools really isn't a remotely relevant comparison.

gds and Sidwell have large portions of their classes that entered in the lower school so it’s inaccurate to suggest that they’re curating the entire 9th grade class. And let’s not even start the lifer discussion.

What's the lifer discussion?

That lifers wouldn’t have been admitted in 9th grade and it’s so unfair that they taking up spots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

“Cumulative numbers”? No, thanks!

What’s wrong with cumulative numbers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

Wow. That's impressive that Yale is the second most popular schools for graduates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

“Cumulative numbers”? No, thanks!

What’s wrong with cumulative numbers?

Cumulative numbers can hide important changes and trends—it doesn’t tell the current story. For example, all 4 Penn admits may have happened 4 years ago. There have been zero Penn admits for 3 years. If I’m a STA student (or prospective student) interested in Penn, I would like to know this information.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Across the board the DMV privates are soing very well!

Amazing that the top dmv publics are doing just as well if not better than most privates too!

They have 500 plus kids in their grades - there is no comparison with the percentage of the class that goes to top 20 schools.

I think more like 300 plus, still big but not sure about 500 plus at W schools.

Whitman's average class size is around 500. GDS senior class size is 130.

And Sidwell has ~125 students. If Whitman (or any other area public) sends 4x as many students to Ivies and top 25 colleges, then I’ll be impressed. Unless or until that happens, please hush.

This is stupid. Everyone knows that public schools have to take everyone; private schools can exclude the bottom 75% of any class that public schools are obliged to take. Rates of ivy/top schools really isn't a remotely relevant comparison.

gds and Sidwell have large portions of their classes that entered in the lower school so it’s inaccurate to suggest that they’re curating the entire 9th grade class. And let’s not even start the lifer discussion.

What's the lifer discussion?

That lifers wouldn’t have been admitted in 9th grade and it’s so unfair that they taking up spots.

That lifers get as five yr olds based on their potential, immutable hooks, and family money and connections, rather than merit. Because what merit has a five yr old shown or could show? But then boosters will claim that every student at an expensive private is extraordinary and deserves a spot at certain colleges.

If every eighth grader had to compete for a ninth grade spot, then you could make the argument but that isn’t how it works. It’s not how the world works.

But parents still like to think their lifer who isn’t admitted to their reach is somehow disadvantaged.

The lifer’s life!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

“Cumulative numbers”? No, thanks!

What’s wrong with cumulative numbers?

Cumulative numbers can hide important changes and trends—it doesn’t tell the current story. For example, all 4 Penn admits may have happened 4 years ago. There have been zero Penn admits for 3 years. If I’m a STA student (or prospective student) interested in Penn, I would like to know this information.

But it also evens out the reverse situation where all 4 Penn admits were the prior year does it not? You’d get the wrong impression from that as well

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Across the board the DMV privates are soing very well!

Amazing that the top dmv publics are doing just as well if not better than most privates too!

They have 500 plus kids in their grades - there is no comparison with the percentage of the class that goes to top 20 schools.

I think more like 300 plus, still big but not sure about 500 plus at W schools.

Whitman's average class size is around 500. GDS senior class size is 130.

And Sidwell has ~125 students. If Whitman (or any other area public) sends 4x as many students to Ivies and top 25 colleges, then I’ll be impressed. Unless or until that happens, please hush.

This is stupid. Everyone knows that public schools have to take everyone; private schools can exclude the bottom 75% of any class that public schools are obliged to take. Rates of ivy/top schools really isn't a remotely relevant comparison.

gds and Sidwell have large portions of their classes that entered in the lower school so it’s inaccurate to suggest that they’re curating the entire 9th grade class. And let’s not even start the lifer discussion.

What's the lifer discussion?

That lifers wouldn’t have been admitted in 9th grade and it’s so unfair that they taking up spots.

That lifers get as five yr olds based on their potential, immutable hooks, and family money and connections, rather than merit. Because what merit has a five yr old shown or could show? But then boosters will claim that every student at an expensive private is extraordinary and deserves a spot at certain colleges.

If every eighth grader had to compete for a ninth grade spot, then you could make the argument but that isn’t how it works. It’s not how the world works.

But parents still like to think their lifer who isn’t admitted to their reach is somehow disadvantaged.

The lifer’s life!

So private schools are filled with lifers who have no merit. But at the same time private school college results should also be discounted because they can select the cream of the crop while those poor public schools in Bethesda and Potomac have to take all those poor kids?

Ok

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

Wow. That's impressive that Yale is the second most popular schools for graduates.

That is legacy driven

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

“Cumulative numbers”? No, thanks!

What’s wrong with cumulative numbers?

Cumulative numbers can hide important changes and trends—it doesn’t tell the current story. For example, all 4 Penn admits may have happened 4 years ago. There have been zero Penn admits for 3 years. If I’m a STA student (or prospective student) interested in Penn, I would like to know this information.

That information doesn't tell you what you seem to be inferring from it. If you saw such a pattern, the most reasonable conclusion to draw would be that those three classes didn't have any Penn legacies. If your kid isn't a Penn legacy, then none of it matters anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

“Cumulative numbers”? No, thanks!

What’s wrong with cumulative numbers?

Cumulative numbers can hide important changes and trends—it doesn’t tell the current story. For example, all 4 Penn admits may have happened 4 years ago. There have been zero Penn admits for 3 years. If I’m a STA student (or prospective student) interested in Penn, I would like to know this information.

You are a shit stirrer and won’t get into STA so no worries there.

You are incorrect. There were 2 STA admits last year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

Wow. That's impressive that Yale is the second most popular schools for graduates.

That is legacy driven

So what they won’t be admitted if they don’t have the grades. Current freshman admit was top 5 of the class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

“Cumulative numbers”? No, thanks!

What’s wrong with cumulative numbers?

Cumulative numbers can hide important changes and trends—it doesn’t tell the current story. For example, all 4 Penn admits may have happened 4 years ago. There have been zero Penn admits for 3 years. If I’m a STA student (or prospective student) interested in Penn, I would like to know this information.

But it also evens out the reverse situation where all 4 Penn admits were the prior year does it not? You’d get the wrong impression from that as well

The reverse trend is important to show as well. If it’s a new trend/change, then you’re not getting the wrong impression. That may be the new normal for STA seniors who are interested in Penn.

Schools should show cumulative numbers, BUT they should also show the admissions results for the most recent graduating class. This isn’t difficult—Bullis already provides this information. Why don’t the other schools? Why doesn’t STA provide anything, besides cumulative numbers?

Btw, I don’t believe that STA students haven’t started an Instagram account due to their own independent decision. STA has made it clear that the school administration doesn’t want it and the students probably fear repercussions. Certainly, that’s STA’s choice, but it makes it look like they’re hiding something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:STA has last 4 years out with cumulative numbers:

Top schools by attendance:

Chicago - 37
Yale - 17
Dartmouth - 17
G’town - 13
BC - 11
Harvard - 10
Tulane - 10
Princeton - 9
Columbia - 9
UVA - 9
Davidson - 8
Bowdoin - 7
Wake Forest - 7
Cornell - 6
UNC (3 Moreheads) - 6
Duke - 6
St. Andrew’s - 6
Morehouse - 5
Northwestern - 5
Notre Dame - 5
Michigan - 4
Penn - 4

“Cumulative numbers”? No, thanks!

What’s wrong with cumulative numbers?

Cumulative numbers can hide important changes and trends—it doesn’t tell the current story. For example, all 4 Penn admits may have happened 4 years ago. There have been zero Penn admits for 3 years. If I’m a STA student (or prospective student) interested in Penn, I would like to know this information.

But it also evens out the reverse situation where all 4 Penn admits were the prior year does it not? You’d get the wrong impression from that as well

The reverse trend is important to show as well. If it’s a new trend/change, then you’re not getting the wrong impression. That may be the new normal for STA seniors who are interested in Penn.

Schools should show cumulative numbers, BUT they should also show the admissions results for the most recent graduating class. This isn’t difficult—Bullis already provides this information. Why don’t the other schools? Why doesn’t STA provide anything, besides cumulative numbers?

Btw, I don’t believe that STA students haven’t started an Instagram account due to their own independent decision. STA has made it clear that the school administration doesn’t want it and the students probably fear repercussions. Certainly, that’s STA’s choice, but it makes it look like they’re hiding something.

This isn't true at all. You don't have an STA kid and are just making things up. Please go away.