Selective colleges are taking fewer from kids Private and Boarding every year and more from public

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

but what public high school in America does better? Specifics please. (This came up once before and there was indeed one school in the mid-west that did as well or better - one school).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

Newsflash: 99% of private schools look nothing like STA and Choate, their student bodies are nowhere near as likely to be legacies or major development cases, and their exmissions results are nowhere near as stellar.

Let's stop with the cherry-picking, shall we? This is rhetorical shenanigans.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

Kids at TJ prefer MIT, CalTech, Rensselaer, Lehigh, Carnegie Mellon and lots of other schools that are better in tech than HYP undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

but what public high school in America does better? Specifics please. (This came up once before and there was indeed one school in the mid-west that did as well or better - one school).

You laughed at, and ignored, the explanation about how many public school kids don't qualify for FA and the Ivies don't give financial aid. So they end up going to non-Ivies that give generous aid packages.

That's an awesome win for them, but apparently for you it doesn't count because their parents couldn't afford full-pay at an Ivy. At Blair just a few years ago, Columbia alone accepted 14 kids but only 6 went (including my full-pay kid). The rest took large or full scholarships at historically black colleges, Georgetown, and elsewhere.

Maybe you're not too dumb to understand that you shouldn't compare apples and oranges. Maybe you're just a snob living in a financial bubble and you have no clue that not everybody can afford $70k for an ivy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

but what public high school in America does better? Specifics please. (This came up once before and there was indeed one school in the mid-west that did as well or better - one school).

You first. How many kids from the Barrie School, St Andrews or Sandy Spring go to Ivies? Statistics, please.

Stop already with the ridiculous comparisons between STA and Choate vs. all publics. You picked the two most competitive privates, which is intellectually dishonest. The statistics OP cites are about college acceptances from ALL privates, so you need to look at results from ALL privates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

but what public high school in America does better? Specifics please. (This came up once before and there was indeed one school in the mid-west that did as well or better - one school).

You laughed at, and ignored, the explanation about how many public school kids don't qualify for FA and the Ivies don't give financial aid. So they end up going to non-Ivies that give generous aid packages.

That's an awesome win for them, but apparently for you it doesn't count because their parents couldn't afford full-pay at an Ivy. At Blair just a few years ago, Columbia alone accepted 14 kids but only 6 went (including my full-pay kid). The rest took large or full scholarships at historically black colleges, Georgetown, and elsewhere.

Maybe you're not too dumb to understand that you shouldn't compare apples and oranges. Maybe you're just a snob living in a financial bubble and you have no clue that not everybody can afford $70k for an ivy.

I'm going to answer both of these posts at the same time

First reply

The acceptance rate at elite schools is between 5-10% the acceptance rate at TJ is between 5-10%. Therefore there is no benefit for TJ

Even worst TJ supposedly takes the best of the best. You mean to tell me in Fairfax County and surrounding area(s) with over 1 million people. The best of the best are still only getting acceptance rates that are the average lol. PATHETIC

Second Reply

I don't know about the other elites but I know Harvard gives full financial aid to middle class incomes. So your argument fails. try again

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Anonymous wrote:That's OK - most of the people here have never cared about a high school football program

Oh, and the list of distinguished alumni includes not only NFL hall of famers, Major League ballplayers, Olympic gold medalists, Wimbledon tennis champions, but accomplished doctors, lawyers, Federal judges, Academy award nominated screenwriters, directors and actors, bestselling authors and a former Governor of Maryland. Most people in American couldn't care less about your "STA."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS. Sorry. Look at the college list for St. Albans or Choate.

And this would tell you what exactly about the subject at hand?

That they still have more than 30% of their class matriculating to Ivy+ schools.

That 30% is only 24 kids, which is in fact fewer than the number of Ivy+ matriculations in the same year from several of the local public schools.

You have to compare percentages, not numbers. Do the local publics have more than 30% of the class going to Ivy+, and close to 50% going to top 20 schools? I think not.

+1.000

I got reamed for laughing about TJ recently but if you look at the facts on the ground for TJ

It's less than 10% going to IVY plus

and less than 33% going to a school better than UVA aka Top 20 or above lolz

but what public high school in America does better? Specifics please. (This came up once before and there was indeed one school in the mid-west that did as well or better - one school).

You laughed at, and ignored, the explanation about how many public school kids don't qualify for FA and the Ivies don't give financial aid. So they end up going to non-Ivies that give generous aid packages.

That's an awesome win for them, but apparently for you it doesn't count because their parents couldn't afford full-pay at an Ivy. At Blair just a few years ago, Columbia alone accepted 14 kids but only 6 went (including my full-pay kid). The rest took large or full scholarships at historically black colleges, Georgetown, and elsewhere.

Maybe you're not too dumb to understand that you shouldn't compare apples and oranges. Maybe you're just a snob living in a financial bubble and you have no clue that not everybody can afford $70k for an ivy.

I'm going to answer both of these posts at the same time

First reply

The acceptance rate at elite schools is between 5-10% the acceptance rate at TJ is between 5-10%. Therefore there is no benefit for TJ

Even worst TJ supposedly takes the best of the best. You mean to tell me in Fairfax County and surrounding area(s) with over 1 million people. The best of the best are still only getting acceptance rates that are the average lol. PATHETIC

Second Reply

I don't know about the other elites but I know Harvard gives full financial aid to middle class incomes. So your argument fails. try again

OK, you're dumb as a brick (what didn't you understand about TJ kids preferring MIT and CalTech?) AND you're a snowflake who thinks every family should be able to afford $70k per year for each of their kids.

Now you're cherry-picking Harvard, which has the hugest endowment of all the Ivies. You really are a sleazebag: you know very well that Brown, Dartmouth, and the other Ivies don't give anywhere near Harvard's level of FA.

I'm not even a TJ parent (live in MoCo) but I think you're a dishonest idiot.

[Anonymous]

Why are the so-called "Episcopal" schools so expensive? Why can't they replicate the costs of diocesan Catholic schools that are affordable to many middle-class families or like Don Bosco Cristo Rey high school that is able to serve working class and poor families? Or do they exist just to perpetuate the hegemony of the WASP elite?

[Anonymous]

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You first. How many kids from the Barrie School, St Andrews or Sandy Spring go to Ivies? Statistics, please.

Stop already with the ridiculous comparisons between STA and Choate vs. all publics. You picked the two most competitive privates, which is intellectually dishonest. The statistics OP cites are about college acceptances from ALL privates, so you need to look at results from ALL privates.

I'm waiting for this. Lolz right back atcha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are the so-called "Episcopal" schools so expensive? Why can't they replicate the costs of diocesan Catholic schools that are affordable to many middle-class families or like Don Bosco Cristo Rey high school that is able to serve working class and poor families? Or do they exist just to perpetuate the hegemony of the WASP elite?

They don't get the same funding from their dioceses that Catholic schools get. Most Episcopal schools do give out generous financial aid, though. It comes from full-pay parents not the diocese.

[Anonymous]

Legacy admissions is affirmative action for white people.

http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/08/05/white-people-dont-talk-about-legacy-admissions-because-its-the-affirmative-action-that-helps-them/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Legacy admissions is affirmative action for white people.

http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/08/05/white-people-dont-talk-about-legacy-admissions-because-its-the-affirmative-action-that-helps-them/

Yup.

So is being full pay at a private school. So you can shell out $40k per year, even $80k or $120k for multiple kids? Lovely, welcome to our Ivy!

[Anonymous]

And you think this is just?