2024 Master List of acceptances, waitlists, rejections

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the 3.5 state school student will likely get a 3.9/4.0 while the 4.5 Ivy student flounders. College grades usually matter much more for life trajectory.

Most of the Ivies don't even give grades lower than a B. They make it impossible to not succeed once you get in.

+1. The mean GPA at Yale last year was a 3.7. And for accuracy’s sake, you can’t graduate from Field with a 4.5. The highest theoretical GPA would be a 4.25, since an A+ earns 4.25 and the GPAs aren’t weighted otherwise.

Correction…an A+ at Field is a 4.3, so 4.3 would be the highest theoretical GPA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the 3.5 state school student will likely get a 3.9/4.0 while the 4.5 Ivy student flounders. College grades usually matter much more for life trajectory.

Most of the Ivies don't even give grades lower than a B. They make it impossible to not succeed once you get in.

+1. The mean GPA at Yale last year was a 3.7. And for accuracy’s sake, you can’t graduate from Field with a 4.5. The highest theoretical GPA would be a 4.25, since an A+ earns 4.25 and the GPAs aren’t weighted otherwise.

More often than not, the NCS grad with a 4.0 state school GPA is going to end up with better life outcomes than a Field grad with a 3.7 Yale GPA.

[Anonymous]

Guys, you’re ruining this thread. Can you please start a new one for the Field discussion? This one is supposed to be a list of results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys, you’re ruining this thread. Can you please start a new one for the Field discussion? This one is supposed to be a list of results.

I came here to say this. Common folks, get to together.

Back to the topic at hand.

Waitpool at Lowell for 1st

Accepted at other school (will not mention the name because it is small enough to out us)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:only applied to 2 - in at one (NCS), WL at other (Sidwell). Staying in public because it's about 80% of what you'd get anywhere, and it builds skills you cannot get at private. And TBH, college admissions aren't an advantage of private anymore.

Yeah, your kid can learn how to hold their pee all day, and how not to piss off the maladapted kids who may “go off.” There are serious social issues in our local public schools, post-Covid. Too much isolation did not help anyone.

[Anonymous]

WL:
Holton
Maret
Burke
GDS

In at Field.

6th Grade. I'm completely okay with the blue buses.

[Anonymous]

WL:
Holton Arms
SAES

In:
Field
Burke
Barrie

Awaiting local boarding decisions.
9th grade

[Anonymous]

In at GDS 9th grade WL Maret

[Anonymous]

How did people do for K?

DC is in at SSSAS, Congressional, and ACDS.

WL for St Mary's and Potomac.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The girls at NCS who kill themselves for a 3.5 are not learning any more than the kid who gets a 4.5 at Field.

Keep telling yourself that.

What does it matter when the 4.5 ends up at an Ivy and the 3.5 ends up at a state school?

yes. There are many of us at NCS asking this question.

Well then request a meeting with the HOS and ask about it. Nothing will get changed on here. Bring in your facts and reasons for the changes and show her what other schools are doing and show their college admissions results and discuss it with her. She is reasonable. Maybe she will change things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the 3.5 state school student will likely get a 3.9/4.0 while the 4.5 Ivy student flounders. College grades usually matter much more for life trajectory.

Most of the Ivies don't even give grades lower than a B. They make it impossible to not succeed once you get in.

+1. The mean GPA at Yale last year was a 3.7. And for accuracy’s sake, you can’t graduate from Field with a 4.5. The highest theoretical GPA would be a 4.25, since an A+ earns 4.25 and the GPAs aren’t weighted otherwise.

Correction…an A+ at Field is a 4.3, so 4.3 would be the highest theoretical GPA.

Are you serious??? Are they weighting the GPA's????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yep, Field is a seriously good situation in the current college environment.

The kids don't work that hard but get super high GPAs and do very well with college admissions.

Grade deflation is not a necessary part of learning. The girls at NCS who kill themselves for a 3.5 are not learning any more than the kid who gets a 4.5 at Field.

Wow Field is a nice school but is well known to be for students that struggle or have learning disabilities and you are saying they sent 10 percent of last year's grads to the Ivies? Are colleges not aware of the massive grade inflation? Shocking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yep, Field is a seriously good situation in the current college environment.

The kids don't work that hard but get super high GPAs and do very well with college admissions.

Grade deflation is not a necessary part of learning. The girls at NCS who kill themselves for a 3.5 are not learning any more than the kid who gets a 4.5 at Field.

Wow Field is a nice school but is well known to be for students that struggle or have learning disabilities and you are saying they sent 10 percent of last year's grads to the Ivies? Are colleges not aware of the massive grade inflation? Shocking.

I don't know but the college results are just as good if not better than the results for the Big3. Plus the kids have had no stress in high school!!

I really think we WAY over estimate how much colleges care about prestige.

They want high GPAs. Period.

[Anonymous]

Please take your side tangents elsewhere and stick to the topic at hand:

6th grade

IN:
NCS
Holton
SSSAS

WL:
GDS

Currently torn between all 3 "In" schools for different reasons.

GDS made next to zero effort to get to know our child or our family so will not pursuing WL there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yep, Field is a seriously good situation in the current college environment.

The kids don't work that hard but get super high GPAs and do very well with college admissions.

Grade deflation is not a necessary part of learning. The girls at NCS who kill themselves for a 3.5 are not learning any more than the kid who gets a 4.5 at Field.

Wow Field is a nice school but is well known to be for students that struggle or have learning disabilities and you are saying they sent 10 percent of last year's grads to the Ivies? Are colleges not aware of the massive grade inflation? Shocking.

I don't know but the college results are just as good if not better than the results for the Big3. Plus the kids have had no stress in high school!!

I really think we WAY over estimate how much colleges care about prestige.

They want high GPAs. Period.

clearly what is average gpa for field?