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.

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.

Sidwell posters are posting the same about Sidwell. Lots of deferrals there too this year as well. All parents are going through angst when their kids get multiple deferrals. This is NOT an NCS thing. NCS just has parents that are more open about it I suppose.

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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....

I know that misery loves company, but as a Sidwell parent (1 alum and 1 current US student), Sidwell students/parents don’t have anywhere near the same level of angst I see expressed by NCS families on DCUM.

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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.

Sidwell posters are posting the same about Sidwell. Lots of deferrals there too this year as well. All parents are going through angst when their kids get multiple deferrals. This is NOT an NCS thing. NCS just has parents that are more open about it I suppose.

It’s not the same at Sidwell, NCS mom—it’s just not. While Sidwell is an academically challenging school, it doesn’t appear to have the level of grade inflation that NCS does.

Btw, I know of at least a dozen Sidwell students (c/o ‘24) who were deferred by all T25 schools during the ED/EA round who were later admitted to Ivy/Ivy+/T10 schools during RD. Breathe…

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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.

+100

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....

I know that misery loves company, but as a Sidwell parent (1 alum and 1 current US student), Sidwell students/parents don’t have anywhere near the same level of angst I see expressed by NCS families on DCUM.

Trying to protect the image publicly but yes all of the Sidwell parents I know currently and in recent years were very unhappy with their college results. They are very open about it.

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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.

+100

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.

Sidwell posters are posting the same about Sidwell. Lots of deferrals there too this year as well. All parents are going through angst when their kids get multiple deferrals. This is NOT an NCS thing. NCS just has parents that are more open about it I suppose.

It’s not the same at Sidwell, NCS mom—it’s just not. While Sidwell is an academically challenging school, it doesn’t appear to have the level of grade inflation that NCS does.

Btw, I know of at least a dozen Sidwell students (c/o ‘24) who were deferred by all T25 schools during the ED/EA round who were later admitted to Ivy/Ivy+/T10 schools during RD. Breathe…

DP. Typical Sidwell parent trying to claim some sort of specialness for Sidwell when in fact they did about the same last year as GDS, STA, and NCS. Chill.

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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.

+100

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.

Sidwell posters are posting the same about Sidwell. Lots of deferrals there too this year as well. All parents are going through angst when their kids get multiple deferrals. This is NOT an NCS thing. NCS just has parents that are more open about it I suppose.

It’s not the same at Sidwell, NCS mom—it’s just not. While Sidwell is an academically challenging school, it doesn’t appear to have the level of grade inflation that NCS does.

Btw, I know of at least a dozen Sidwell students (c/o ‘24) who were deferred by all T25 schools during the ED/EA round who were later admitted to Ivy/Ivy+/T10 schools during RD. Breathe…

It is mainly one NCS mom posting who has never had a kid go through the college process before so this is an anxious experience for her. It is her oldest kid so give her a break!

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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.

+100

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....

I know that misery loves company, but as a Sidwell parent (1 alum and 1 current US student), Sidwell students/parents don’t have anywhere near the same level of angst I see expressed by NCS families on DCUM.

Trying to protect the image publicly but yes all of the Sidwell parents I know currently and in recent years were very unhappy with their college results. They are very open about it.

Yeah. I too appreciate the Sidwell boosters helping to keep up appearances. But it's another bad year. And once again, parents are taking aim at cc staff, as if they're supposed to be miracle workers.

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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.

Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke)

She said outside of the 7 ives and Duke.

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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.

Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke)

She said outside of the 7 ives and Duke.

TBH, same at Sidwell. Some kids with great results. Bad, or at least worrisome, for everyone else. Definitely not what we expected when DC started here, that's for sure. But not a complete surprise after a string of bad years and a college counseling ofice that seems to churn through staff.
BBH,

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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.

Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke)

She said outside of the 7 ives and Duke.

TBH, same at Sidwell. Some kids with great results. Bad, or at least worrisome, for everyone else. Definitely not what we expected when DC started here, that's for sure. But not a complete surprise after a string of bad years and a college counseling ofice that seems to churn through staff.
BBH,

Yup.

Tulane? Seriously?

Can’t believe we are paying $58k/year for this!

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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.

+100

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....

I know that misery loves company, but as a Sidwell parent (1 alum and 1 current US student), Sidwell students/parents don’t have anywhere near the same level of angst I see expressed by NCS families on DCUM.

Trying to protect the image publicly but yes all of the Sidwell parents I know currently and in recent years were very unhappy with their college results. They are very open about it.

I’m not trying to protect Sidwell’s image at all. My oldest child (Sidwell alum) did very well during RD (admitted to an Ivy and a couple of T15 schools), but she only got into ONE safety (that she really didn’t want to attend) during ED/EA. She was upset initially, but things worked out for her, and in the end, I think it will work out for most of your children.

This isn’t my first time at this rodeo so it seems that I simply have a different perspective than most of you.

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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.

Admissions are horrendous outside of the ones this poster keeps posting (the 7 Ivies and Duke)

She said outside of the 7 ives and Duke.

TBH, same at Sidwell. Some kids with great results. Bad, or at least worrisome, for everyone else. Definitely not what we expected when DC started here, that's for sure. But not a complete surprise after a string of bad years and a college counseling ofice that seems to churn through staff.
BBH,

Yup.

Tulane? Seriously?

Can’t believe we are paying $58k/year for this!

Maybe have a little class and stop making kids feel horrible about a school they are excited to attend. BTW Tulane is a wonderful school.
- Big 3 parent with a kid attending Tulane.

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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.

+100

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.

Sidwell posters are posting the same about Sidwell. Lots of deferrals there too this year as well. All parents are going through angst when their kids get multiple deferrals. This is NOT an NCS thing. NCS just has parents that are more open about it I suppose.

It’s not the same at Sidwell, NCS mom—it’s just not. While Sidwell is an academically challenging school, it doesn’t appear to have the level of grade inflation that NCS does.

Btw, I know of at least a dozen Sidwell students (c/o ‘24) who were deferred by all T25 schools during the ED/EA round who were later admitted to Ivy/Ivy+/T10 schools during RD. Breathe…

It is mainly one NCS mom posting who has never had a kid go through the college process before so this is an anxious experience for her. It is her oldest kid so give her a break!

Yes, all the parents are not freaking out like this.

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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.

No, she wrote that outside of the 7 Ivies and the 1 Duke the admissions results were horrendous -- go back and read the post. This is just not true and mean. I certainly hope she isn't teaching her daughter to look down on the fine schools that other girls chose to ED to and were admitted.

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DP. Anxiety is up. I was twice with fellow NCS parents this week and there was a lot of college chatter. There are worried parents. The EA results sound tough, especially after mostly challenging ED results.

I think the college counseling team is doing a great job. It’s hard to get girls into college. It’s tough to convince schools that a 3.5 GPA is good. I hope it changes for future classes.

I also talked with a Sidwell friend this week and it sounds similar there. Their grading is similar so that makes sense.

The girls are happy for their classmates who are into college. They can be stressed about their own results and very happy for their friends.