Feeder Schools into Ivy League

[Anonymous]

You're thinking about this the wrong way. Ivies admit students, not their high school.

If your goal is simply Ivy, then save your cash, send your kid to a regular high school where they can be the superstar of their class. Then, spend good money on a private admissions consultant to assemble their application and make them irresistible to admissions officers.

Spark Admissions has a 60% admit rate to Dartmouth, which is far better than any "feeder school" in the area.

https://www.sparkadmissions.com/college-admissions-rates/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're thinking about this the wrong way. Ivies admit students, not their high school.

If your goal is simply Ivy, then save your cash, send your kid to a regular high school where they can be the superstar of their class. Then, spend good money on a private admissions consultant to assemble their application and make them irresistible to admissions officers.

Spark Admissions has a 60% admit rate to Dartmouth, which is far better than any "feeder school" in the area.

https://www.sparkadmissions.com/college-admissions-rates/

That is 14 years of not having great facilities, small classes, and a community that is close all for a chance at ending up somewhere at 18? No thanks. Anyone that is thinking 14 years of their kids and families time is just for a single goal is missing out on so much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not NCS, unless you are 3.8+ and 1550+ w/ legacy

NCS has a great number of Ivy admits this year, including one Dartmouth. 2 Yale. 2 Princeton. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn. and one MIT. Not all are posted. That’s 10/71. Amazing numbers. And a very small minority of them are legacy.

If you’re counting Ivy admits, you have listed 9/71. MIT isn’t an Ivy.

How many of them are connected, first gen/urm? If you aren't at the absolute top of the class, it will be hard to get in from NCS. 2 might have gotten into Yale, but if 15 applied then i doesn't indicate your chances are better from NCS.

There are 10 Ivy admits. I believe 3 are legacies. The other 7 are basically the top 7 girls in the class and also took the most challenging math and science classes (most took physics C, I believe all took math beyond calculus--several 2 or 3 years beyond) plus a ton of extracurriculars. They are impressive kids.

15% to Ivies is fantastic for any school.
Yeah, that's my point. These classes at NCS are hard. The median NCS girl would've been a top 5% student at JRHS or SJCHS. Their college options may have been better if they attended a regular high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not NCS, unless you are 3.8+ and 1550+ w/ legacy

NCS has a great number of Ivy admits this year, including one Dartmouth. 2 Yale. 2 Princeton. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn. and one MIT. Not all are posted. That’s 10/71. Amazing numbers. And a very small minority of them are legacy.

If you’re counting Ivy admits, you have listed 9/71. MIT isn’t an Ivy.

How many of them are connected, first gen/urm? If you aren't at the absolute top of the class, it will be hard to get in from NCS. 2 might have gotten into Yale, but if 15 applied then i doesn't indicate your chances are better from NCS.

Why does it matter if they are urm? NCS Ivy admits are over half white. Zero are black. But URM do not get preference. It's hard to get in to an Ivy if you're not top of the class from any school.

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Anonymous wrote:Not NCS, unless you are 3.8+ and 1550+ w/ legacy

NCS has a great number of Ivy admits this year, including one Dartmouth. 2 Yale. 2 Princeton. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn. and one MIT. Not all are posted. That’s 10/71. Amazing numbers. And a very small minority of them are legacy.

If you’re counting Ivy admits, you have listed 9/71. MIT isn’t an Ivy.

How many of them are connected, first gen/urm? If you aren't at the absolute top of the class, it will be hard to get in from NCS. 2 might have gotten into Yale, but if 15 applied then i doesn't indicate your chances are better from NCS.

There are 10 Ivy admits. I believe 3 are legacies. The other 7 are basically the top 7 girls in the class and also took the most challenging math and science classes (most took physics C, I believe all took math beyond calculus--several 2 or 3 years beyond) plus a ton of extracurriculars. They are impressive kids.

15% to Ivies is fantastic for any school.
Yeah, that's my point. These classes at NCS are hard. The median NCS girl would've been a top 5% student at JRHS or SJCHS. Their college options may have been better if they attended a regular high school.

The percentage of kids who are top of their public school going to ivies is very low nationwide. This is a myth. Look at the college forum - tons of public school kids top of their class that did not get into lots of schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your goal is simply Ivy, then save your cash, send your kid to a regular high school where they can be the superstar of their class.

You are way underestimating how hard it is to be "the superstar" at a public high school, especially in the DC area.

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Anonymous wrote:Not NCS, unless you are 3.8+ and 1550+ w/ legacy

NCS has a great number of Ivy admits this year, including one Dartmouth. 2 Yale. 2 Princeton. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn. and one MIT. Not all are posted. That’s 10/71. Amazing numbers. And a very small minority of them are legacy.

If you’re counting Ivy admits, you have listed 9/71. MIT isn’t an Ivy.

How many of them are connected, first gen/urm? If you aren't at the absolute top of the class, it will be hard to get in from NCS. 2 might have gotten into Yale, but if 15 applied then i doesn't indicate your chances are better from NCS.

Why does it matter if they are urm? NCS Ivy admits are over half white. Zero are black. But URM do not get preference. It's hard to get in to an Ivy if you're not top of the class from any school.

The 2 NCS Yale admits are legacies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your goal is simply Ivy, then save your cash, send your kid to a regular high school where they can be the superstar of their class.

You are way underestimating how hard it is to be "the superstar" at a public high school, especially in the DC area.

Enroll in Jackson-Reed. It's not hard at all to get a 4.5 GPA and carve a nice extracurricular niche in time for college admissions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You're thinking about this the wrong way. Ivies admit students, not their high school.

If your goal is simply Ivy, then save your cash, send your kid to a regular high school where they can be the superstar of their class. Then, spend good money on a private admissions consultant to assemble their application and make them irresistible to admissions officers.

Spark Admissions has a 60% admit rate to Dartmouth, which is far better than any "feeder school" in the area.

https://www.sparkadmissions.com/college-admissions-rates/

That is 14 years of not having great facilities, small classes, and a community that is close all for a chance at ending up somewhere at 18? No thanks. Anyone that is thinking 14 years of their kids and families time is just for a single goal is missing out on so much.

OP's question was about "feeder schools" into the Ivy League. I was simply telling her that those no longer exist, and she should focus on maximizing her kid's application, regardless of their high school. I'm just saying that going to a historical feeder school would not help her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not NCS, unless you are 3.8+ and 1550+ w/ legacy

NCS has a great number of Ivy admits this year, including one Dartmouth. 2 Yale. 2 Princeton. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn. and one MIT. Not all are posted. That’s 10/71. Amazing numbers. And a very small minority of them are legacy.

If you’re counting Ivy admits, you have listed 9/71. MIT isn’t an Ivy.

How many of them are connected, first gen/urm? If you aren't at the absolute top of the class, it will be hard to get in from NCS. 2 might have gotten into Yale, but if 15 applied then i doesn't indicate your chances are better from NCS.

Why does it matter if they are urm? NCS Ivy admits are over half white. Zero are black. But URM do not get preference. It's hard to get in to an Ivy if you're not top of the class from any school.

The 2 NCS Yale admits are legacies.

Absolutely. That’s legal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your goal is simply Ivy, then save your cash, send your kid to a regular high school where they can be the superstar of their class.

You are way underestimating how hard it is to be "the superstar" at a public high school, especially in the DC area.

Enroll in Jackson-Reed. It's not hard at all to get a 4.5 GPA and carve a nice extracurricular niche in time for college admissions.

Then why are there only about 8 or 9 students going to Ivies from JR this year? Out of a class of over 500.

Grades must not be the most important factor…especially at a high school with rampant grade inflation and assignment retakes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your goal is simply Ivy, then save your cash, send your kid to a regular high school where they can be the superstar of their class.

You are way underestimating how hard it is to be "the superstar" at a public high school, especially in the DC area.

Enroll in Jackson-Reed. It's not hard at all to get a 4.5 GPA and carve a nice extracurricular niche in time for college admissions.

Then why are there only about 8 or 9 students going to Ivies from JR this year? Out of a class of over 500.

Grades must not be the most important factor…especially at a high school with rampant grade inflation and assignment retakes.

yeah, the JR results are not that great this year---not just the Ivies but other top 50 schools as well. Maybe colleges are catching on to the insane grade inflation and/or performance of the kids once they get to college. I've had kids there and in private. The JR kids learn a tiny fraction of what kids learn at the DC privates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not NCS, unless you are 3.8+ and 1550+ w/ legacy

NCS has a great number of Ivy admits this year, including one Dartmouth. 2 Yale. 2 Princeton. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn. and one MIT. Not all are posted. That’s 10/71. Amazing numbers. And a very small minority of them are legacy.

Not that impressed. My DD's class at Visi had same number going to Ivies. Plus 12 more to Georgetown and Notre Dame.

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Anonymous wrote:Not NCS, unless you are 3.8+ and 1550+ w/ legacy

NCS has a great number of Ivy admits this year, including one Dartmouth. 2 Yale. 2 Princeton. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn. and one MIT. Not all are posted. That’s 10/71. Amazing numbers. And a very small minority of them are legacy.

Not that impressed. My DD's class at Visi had same number going to Ivies. Plus 12 more to Georgetown and Notre Dame.

Not that impressive, when there's like 50% more students than NCS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not NCS, unless you are 3.8+ and 1550+ w/ legacy

NCS has a great number of Ivy admits this year, including one Dartmouth. 2 Yale. 2 Princeton. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Penn. and one MIT. Not all are posted. That’s 10/71. Amazing numbers. And a very small minority of them are legacy.

Not that impressed. My DD's class at Visi had same number going to Ivies. Plus 12 more to Georgetown and Notre Dame.

Not that impressive, when there's like 50% more students than NCS.

how many kids are in a Visitation class?

NCS is 71 this year, I believe. Is Visi really 142+?