sidwell college results--does everyone have top grades or are they getting in kids into strong schools imperfect grades?

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6 SFS are going to Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

What’s the Insta handle again?

It’s in the post above: sidwellsaas

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Anonymous wrote:6 SFS are going to Harvard.

Ok, well there were only 4 Sidwell students wearing Harvard shirts in the video yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college results are really good this year. Very, very few kids (out of over 80 posted) are attending schools outside of the top 30 or schools that are not highly competitive.

Does this mean that they're getting very competitive admits for kids with GPAs under 3.8?
(i.e with a few Bs?)
Or does this class all have 3.8+?

Asking because my kid's DC Big3 private seems to have a major drop off after about a 3.8.
The top kids---doing great!
Then the 3.7 and below are attending schools that are far less competitive.
I.e nothing really in the top 40.

Are Sidwell's GPAs all clustered above 3.8 or do they just have more pull with colleges so that their lower kids
still get strong admits?


Curious.

there's heavy selection bias in the posts you're seeing. The kid that got into CU Boulder or American isn't sharing their results.

Nonsense! There’s an IG post from a 2024 Sidwell grad who is going to a school I’ve never heard of in Florida. I’m sure the school isn’t even ranked. I love that this kid is proudly posting their college, nevertheless.

That kid got into every school he applied to and he chose that one for a reason. He knows what he wants.

Protests and activism! Bring down the system!

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Anonymous wrote:6 SFS are going to Harvard.

If true, that brings Sidwell’s Ivy count to 20 this year. Do you know of any others who haven’t been included in the total?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

What’s the Insta handle again?

It’s in the post above: sidwellsaas

On Instagram? Nothing came up with that search

[Anonymous]

https://www.instagram.com/sidwellsass/

[Anonymous]

BREAKING: Scientists have discovered that the children of wealthy Ivy League grads have a higher chance of being admitted to top 30 schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

What’s the Insta handle again?

It’s in the post above: sidwellsaas

On Instagram? Nothing came up with that search

That’s because the PP misspelled the IG handle: it’s sidwellsass

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

Some of these kids had multiple Ivy acceptances. Plus there is one to Stanford, one to Oxford, and many to top 10 or 12, because there are 3 in 10th place.

[Anonymous]

why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

How many NCS students are heading to U Chicago? Thats a T10 college that seems to love private school/full pay students.

There are at least 7-8 SFS students going to Chicago this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

How many NCS students are heading to U Chicago? Thats a T10 college that seems to love private school/full pay students.

There are at least 7-8 SFS students going to Chicago this year.

I think only one NCS to Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

How many NCS students are heading to U Chicago? Thats a T10 college that seems to love private school/full pay

There are at least 7-8 SFS students going to Chicago this year.

NCS girls were not very excited about UChicago this year. The buzz was that it isn’t “fun”. These things tend to be trendy. I know mine did not apply.

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What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.

Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?