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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Magnet seem better than privates.

They are. Much rarer to find a legacy student at a magnet school. Magnet schools have to prove their academic rigor in a way that privates don’t.

Oh, the grapes are extra sour from these public school parents today! So you can’t afford private school tuition AND your public magnet student has to “prove their academic rigor in a way that private [school students] don’t”?

It sucks to suck.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

Does Sidwell have more legacies and athletic recruits than other top privates around here? Sidwell is doing noticeably better than the other schools right now! Its results rival Harvard-Westlake’s. Can anyone come up with other excuses for Sidwell’s admissions results?

[Anonymous]

Sidwell has more athletic recruits, yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest.

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM

ooops

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has more athletic recruits, yes.

More than Potomac, Bullis, SJC, Prep,, etc? That’s doubtful.

Btw, many Sidwell athletic recruits are not aiming for Ivy+/T15 schools (the topic of this discussion). They’re trying to play at top D1 schools for their sports, which often are not Ivy+/T15.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest.

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM

ooops

Fake news—lol! People are so envious of Sidwell’s success that they make up blatant lies. It’s tough being #1–you’re always a target.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest.

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM

ooops

Fake news—lol! People are so envious of Sidwell’s success that they make up blatant lies. It’s tough being #1–you’re always a target.

it isn't fake news. Every one of those are true (+/- the URM who is an URM but who knows if that counts in 2025).

[Anonymous]

And is this Sidwell admissions posting on a Saturday and denying that all these Instagram kids are hooked?

I'll give you that the Chicago kids are probably not hooked. They never are. But every single Sidwell Ivy kid that posted so far is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest.

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM

ooops

Fake news—lol! People are so envious of Sidwell’s success that they make up blatant lies. It’s tough being #1–you’re always a target.

it isn't fake news. Every one of those are true (+/- the URM who is an URM but who knows if that counts in 2025).

It absolutely is fake news, and you clearly don’t know how to count.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And is this Sidwell admissions posting on a Saturday and denying that all these Instagram kids are hooked?

I'll give you that the Chicago kids are probably not hooked. They never are. But every single Sidwell Ivy kid that posted so far is.

DP. What is a hook, really? Is it only a legacy or a recruited athlete? Can it also be a NMSF, or a theater or science nerd who won a competitive regional or national award? Can it be someone who has founded a club related to their intended major, or has extensive internship/work experience, or published research? By that definition, nearly every ED admit at T15 universities is “hooked,” so why are you upset that Sidwell’s students excel in this area?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And is this Sidwell admissions posting on a Saturday and denying that all these Instagram kids are hooked?

I'll give you that the Chicago kids are probably not hooked. They never are. But every single Sidwell Ivy kid that posted so far is.

DP. What is a hook, really? Is it only a legacy or a recruited athlete? Can it also be a NMSF, or a theater or science nerd who won a competitive regional or national award? Can it be someone who has founded a club related to their intended major, or has extensive internship/work experience, or published research? By that definition, nearly every ED admit at T15 universities is “hooked,” so why are you upset that Sidwell’s students excel in this area?

no, these are not hooks. those are strong ECs

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Day:

Yale, Princeton, Cornell, 2 Barnards, 2 Northwesterns, 3 Northeasterns, 3 Wesleyans, 2 BC's, 2 Skidmores, 2 Spellmans, Wellesley, Lafayette, Middlebury, Tulane, UVM, Carleton, WPI, Occidental

Id be livid to spend GDS money for a child destined for Wesleyan, skidmore, Spelman, Lafayette, Middlebury, especially Tulane (seriously wtf?), UVM, Carleton, and omg WPI? You could get into those schools going to an underfunded public school.

Who do you think you are, talking about real kids this way? These are kids who applied early and are happy about where they are going to college. I hope you get all the angst and misery you deserve when your kids go through this process.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

Does Sidwell have more legacies and athletic recruits than other top privates around here? Sidwell is doing noticeably better than the other schools right now! Its results rival Harvard-Westlake’s. Can anyone come up with other excuses for Sidwell’s admissions results?

Sidwell has the best athletic program of the top privates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And is this Sidwell admissions posting on a Saturday and denying that all these Instagram kids are hooked?

I'll give you that the Chicago kids are probably not hooked. They never are. But every single Sidwell Ivy kid that posted so far is.

DP. What is a hook, really? Is it only a legacy or a recruited athlete? Can it also be a NMSF, or a theater or science nerd who won a competitive regional or national award? Can it be someone who has founded a club related to their intended major, or has extensive internship/work experience, or published research? By that definition, nearly every ED admit at T15 universities is “hooked,” so why are you upset that Sidwell’s students excel in this area?

no, these are not hooks. those are strong ECs

No, it’s a hook depending on the school.

Being in the top 1% is also a hook. There are many public school students to which that applies.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/24/upshot/ivy-league-elite-college-admissions.html

“Elite colleges have long been filled with the children of the richest families: At Ivy League schools, one in six students has parents in the top 1 percent.

A large new study, released Monday, shows that it has not been because these children had more impressive grades on average or took harder classes. They tended to have higher SAT scores and finely honed résumés, and applied at a higher rate — but they were overrepresented even after accounting for those things. For applicants with the same SAT or ACT score, children from families in the top 1 percent were 34 percent more likely to be admitted than the average applicant, and those from the top 0.1 percent were more than twice as likely to get in.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest.

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM

URM doesn’t count for anything.