Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?

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How about LAC destinations fron Westminster?

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised Emory isnt more...

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It’s too close to home. Most kids want to at least be in a different city.

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Don’t see any really liberal schools well represented. Westminster families lean conservative. 13 kids to BC and Wake says a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised Emory isnt more...

Ha! Atlanta kids don’t want to attend Emory. It’s mostly a graduate school, isn’t a traditional college environment and most importantly…

It’s called “Long Island University of Atlanta.”

Wealthy southerners have 0 interest in Emory.

They have about as much interest in Emory as wealthy DC private school kids have in Georgetown or wealthy Philadelphia private school kids have in Penn.

It has nothing to do really with the school, but rather if you are full-pay private, you want to experience a new place.

I would note Lovett also has I think 3 or 4 kids going to Emory.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t see any really liberal schools well represented. Westminster families lean conservative. 13 kids to BC and Wake says a lot.

It says middle-of-the-pack students can get into great schools too.

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised Emory isnt more...

Ha! Atlanta kids don’t want to attend Emory. It’s mostly a graduate school, isn’t a traditional college environment and most importantly…

It’s called “Long Island University of Atlanta.”

Wealthy southerners have 0 interest in Emory.

They have about as much interest in Emory as wealthy DC private school kids have in Georgetown or wealthy Philadelphia private school kids have in Penn.

It has nothing to do really with the school, but rather if you are full-pay private, you want to experience a new place.

I would note Lovett also has I think 3 or 4 kids going to Emory.

A lot of kids from Chicago privates go to Northwestern and UChicago.....why is that?

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised Emory isnt more...

I think it's an Emory thing. Already on their WL this year as well. It's tough there.

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As Not sure BC and Wake are great.

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Emory way too liberal

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Anonymous wrote:As Not sure BC and Wake are great.

For nonstem, yes.

BC? #37 (and if you take out all of the public schools that moved ahead of them, they would be much higher.)
For non-stem, do you really think University of California San Diego is better than BC? University of Florida?
University of California Davis or Irvine?

The classes are HUGE at these schools.…

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised Emory isnt more...

Ha! Atlanta kids don’t want to attend Emory. It’s mostly a graduate school, isn’t a traditional college environment and most importantly…

It’s called “Long Island University of Atlanta.”

Wealthy southerners have 0 interest in Emory.

They have about as much interest in Emory as wealthy DC private school kids have in Georgetown or wealthy Philadelphia private school kids have in Penn.

It has nothing to do really with the school, but rather if you are full-pay private, you want to experience a new place.

I would note Lovett also has I think 3 or 4 kids going to Emory.

A lot of kids from Chicago privates go to Northwestern and UChicago.....why is that?

These schools are ranked high.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised Emory isnt more...

Ha! Atlanta kids don’t want to attend Emory. It’s mostly a graduate school, isn’t a traditional college environment and most importantly…

It’s called “Long Island University of Atlanta.”

Wealthy southerners have 0 interest in Emory.

They have about as much interest in Emory as wealthy DC private school kids have in Georgetown or wealthy Philadelphia private school kids have in Penn.

It has nothing to do really with the school, but rather if you are full-pay private, you want to experience a new place.

I would note Lovett also has I think 3 or 4 kids going to Emory.

A lot of kids from Chicago privates go to Northwestern and UChicago.....why is that?

I doubt they do...I just looked at a school called Lake Forest Academy in Chicago and it shows 4 kids going to Northwestern and 0 going to Chicago.

Ranked #1 private school by Niche...though I have absolutely no idea what that means in the scheme of things.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised Emory isnt more...

Ha! Atlanta kids don’t want to attend Emory. It’s mostly a graduate school, isn’t a traditional college environment and most importantly…

It’s called “Long Island University of Atlanta.”

Wealthy southerners have 0 interest in Emory.

They have about as much interest in Emory as wealthy DC private school kids have in Georgetown or wealthy Philadelphia private school kids have in Penn.

It has nothing to do really with the school, but rather if you are full-pay private, you want to experience a new place.

I would note Lovett also has I think 3 or 4 kids going to Emory.

A lot of kids from Chicago privates go to Northwestern and UChicago.....why is that?

I doubt they do...I just looked at a school called Lake Forest Academy in Chicago and it shows 4 kids going to Northwestern and 0 going to Chicago.

Ranked #1 private school by Niche...though I have absolutely no idea what that means in the scheme of things.

That's in the burbs. Its ehhh.
The best Chicago private schools are actually in the city proper; they are the Latin School of Chicago, the University of Chicago Lab School, and Francis Parker. St. Ignatius is also rising.
In the suburbs, North Shore Country Day in Winnetka is good. I think Lake Forest Country Day is good. And Loyola Academy always sends a boatload of kids to ND and NU.

Chicagoan here. And my kids go to one of these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised Emory isnt more...

Ha! Atlanta kids don’t want to attend Emory. It’s mostly a graduate school, isn’t a traditional college environment and most importantly…

It’s called “Long Island University of Atlanta.”

Wealthy southerners have 0 interest in Emory.

They have about as much interest in Emory as wealthy DC private school kids have in Georgetown or wealthy Philadelphia private school kids have in Penn.

It has nothing to do really with the school, but rather if you are full-pay private, you want to experience a new place.

I would note Lovett also has I think 3 or 4 kids going to Emory.

A lot of kids from Chicago privates go to Northwestern and UChicago.....why is that?

I doubt they do...I just looked at a school called Lake Forest Academy in Chicago and it shows 4 kids going to Northwestern and 0 going to Chicago.

Ranked #1 private school by Niche...though I have absolutely no idea what that means in the scheme of things.

That's in the burbs. Its ehhh.
The best Chicago private schools are actually in the city proper; they are the Latin School of Chicago, the University of Chicago Lab School, and Francis Parker. St. Ignatius is also rising.
In the suburbs, North Shore Country Day in Winnetka is good. I think Lake Forest Country Day is good. And Loyola Academy always sends a boatload of kids to ND and NU.

Chicagoan here. And my kids go to one of these schools.

These schools don't provide hard numbers...it did say North Shore Country Day has 40% of kids staying in the Midwest.

I guess if kids are going to remain in the Midwest then there are only 3 top private colleges...Chicago, NU and ND.

Nearly 90% of college kids stay within 500 miles of home.

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Anonymous wrote:Being from Georgia is a hook at many of these schools.

No, it’s not. There are many affluent suburbs of Atlanta. It’s fairly similar to being from the DMV.

I disagree with this. Much less interest in Atlanta area schools to head to the Northeast for college.

People from the south in general like to stay in the south. But I think what PP was saying is that the affluence of the DMV vs Atlanta is similar. DC and bit moreso, but Atlanta is no slouch.