St. Albans acceptance rate = 25 to 30%?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:9th grade at STA has a very low acceptance rate, think single digits. Other grades however, have a much higher acceptance rate. It is FAR easier to get into STA in lower school or middle school. I know a lot of kids who were admitted those years who would never be accepted for 9th.

Not the last few years. Getting in for 6th or 7th recently has been very hard. Applications have been way up for these grades -- but so was the birth rate for kids in those classes in the mid 2000s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:9th grade at STA has a very low acceptance rate, think single digits. Other grades however, have a much higher acceptance rate. It is FAR easier to get into STA in lower school or middle school. I know a lot of kids who were admitted those years who would never be accepted for 9th.

Not the last few years. Getting in for 6th or 7th recently has been very hard. Applications have been way up for these grades -- but so was the birth rate for kids in those classes in the mid 2000s.

You do know that the wait list has been tapped, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia’s acceptance is around 7%. Cornell 12%. St Albans’s college acceptance isn’ t that great. A good student might get into Kenyon or UChicago.

40 out of 80 or so went so went to Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Princeton, Columbia and Penn last year. 7 alone went to Yale. Sorry, so wrong.

This is a bold face lie! Don't believe the hype.

Don’t know about 40/80, but the top 25% at STA get into Ivies, Stanford, MIT. The next 25% go to SLACs, UCB, UCLA, UVA. The bottom 59% go to strong schools - think Top 50 — but not necessarily the most competitive schools.

The last several years, the top 25% at STA and NCS have done better at college placement than the top 25% at Sidwell or GDS. some will argue that this is due to a legacy and wealth factor, but those are also present at GDS and Sidwell.

The number one school top STA boys feed into is University of Chicago, 38 in the past five years to be exact. That is about 7 students per year and is the number one school for STA grads by more than double of any other school.

The bottom 60% do not attend top 50 schools, sorry. They attend top 150 or less. Think University of Maryland, American University, Miami University, Elon, Wofford College, Indiana University, College of Wooster, Hillsdale College, Montgomery College, Penn State, St. John's College, College of Charleston, Catholic University, GW University, Auburn University, Drew University, University of Colorado Boulder, Sewanee: University of the South, Southern Methodist, University of Vermont, and St. Mary's College of Maryland just to name a few attended by STA grads. There is a big difference between the top students who attend great colleges and the remaining majority (60%) who attend very average colleges. STA may get to hand select their students, but they don't all end up at top universities.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia’s acceptance is around 7%. Cornell 12%. St Albans’s college acceptance isn’ t that great. A good student might get into Kenyon or UChicago.

40 out of 80 or so went so went to Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Princeton, Columbia and Penn last year. 7 alone went to Yale. Sorry, so wrong.

This is a bold face lie! Don't believe the hype.

Don’t know about 40/80, but the top 25% at STA get into Ivies, Stanford, MIT. The next 25% go to SLACs, UCB, UCLA, UVA. The bottom 59% go to strong schools - think Top 50 — but not necessarily the most competitive schools.

The last several years, the top 25% at STA and NCS have done better at college placement than the top 25% at Sidwell or GDS. some will argue that this is due to a legacy and wealth factor, but those are also present at GDS and Sidwell.

The number one school top STA boys feed into is University of Chicago, 38 in the past five years to be exact. That is about 7 students per year and is the number one school for STA grads by more than double of any other school.

The bottom 60% do not attend top 50 schools, sorry. They attend top 150 or less. Think University of Maryland, American University, Miami University, Elon, Wofford College, Indiana University, College of Wooster, Hillsdale College, Montgomery College, Penn State, St. John's College, College of Charleston, Catholic University, GW University, Auburn University, Drew University, University of Colorado Boulder, Sewanee: University of the South, Southern Methodist, University of Vermont, and St. Mary's College of Maryland just to name a few attended by STA grads. There is a big difference between the top students who attend great colleges and the remaining majority (60%) who attend very average colleges. STA may get to hand select their students, but they don't all end up at top universities.

Yikes. Is the same true at sidwell and gds?their numbers are virtually identical at the top, so wondering about the bottom half at those two as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia’s acceptance is around 7%. Cornell 12%. St Albans’s college acceptance isn’ t that great. A good student might get into Kenyon or UChicago.

40 out of 80 or so went so went to Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Princeton, Columbia and Penn last year. 7 alone went to Yale. Sorry, so wrong.

This is a bold face lie! Don't believe the hype.

Don’t know about 40/80, but the top 25% at STA get into Ivies, Stanford, MIT. The next 25% go to SLACs, UCB, UCLA, UVA. The bottom 59% go to strong schools - think Top 50 — but not necessarily the most competitive schools.

The last several years, the top 25% at STA and NCS have done better at college placement than the top 25% at Sidwell or GDS. some will argue that this is due to a legacy and wealth factor, but those are also present at GDS and Sidwell.

The number one school top STA boys feed into is University of Chicago, 38 in the past five years to be exact. That is about 7 students per year and is the number one school for STA grads by more than double of any other school.


The bottom 60% do not attend top 50 schools, sorry. They attend top 150 or less. Think University of Maryland, American University, Miami University, Elon, Wofford College, Indiana University, College of Wooster, Hillsdale College, Montgomery College, Penn State, St. John's College, College of Charleston, Catholic University, GW University, Auburn University, Drew University, University of Colorado Boulder, Sewanee: University of the South, Southern Methodist, University of Vermont, and St. Mary's College of Maryland just to name a few attended by STA grads. There is a big difference between the top students who attend great colleges and the remaining majority (60%) who attend very average colleges. STA may get to hand select their students, but they don't all end up at top universities.

I call troll. The schools listed above as the bottome 60% of STA are most definitely in the bottom 20% of the class. In fact, to be honest... the very bottom of the class.

[Anonymous]

Over 45% of last year’s class went to USNWR top 25 schools. If you think the remaining 55% ended up at that list well, nice try.

[Anonymous]

STA matriculation statistics from 2014 to 2018:

Ivy or equivalents (ranked higher than Cornell, excluding ND and Vanderbilt): 29%

Top 25: 43%
Top 26-30: 5%
Top 10 liberal arts: 7%

This is a lot better than TJ.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia’s acceptance is around 7%. Cornell 12%. St Albans’s college acceptance isn’ t that great. A good student might get into Kenyon or UChicago.

40 out of 80 or so went so went to Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Princeton, Columbia and Penn last year. 7 alone went to Yale. Sorry, so wrong.

This is a bold face lie! Don't believe the hype.

Don’t know about 40/80, but the top 25% at STA get into Ivies, Stanford, MIT. The next 25% go to SLACs, UCB, UCLA, UVA. The bottom 59% go to strong schools - think Top 50 — but not necessarily the most competitive schools.

The last several years, the top 25% at STA and NCS have done better at college placement than the top 25% at Sidwell or GDS. some will argue that this is due to a legacy and wealth factor, but those are also present at GDS and Sidwell.

The number one school top STA boys feed into is University of Chicago, 38 in the past five years to be exact. That is about 7 students per year and is the number one school for STA grads by more than double of any other school.

The bottom 60% do not attend top 50 schools, sorry. They attend top 150 or less. Think University of Maryland, American University, Miami University, Elon, Wofford College, Indiana University, College of Wooster, Hillsdale College, Montgomery College, Penn State, St. John's College, College of Charleston, Catholic University, GW University, Auburn University, Drew University, University of Colorado Boulder, Sewanee: University of the South, Southern Methodist, University of Vermont, and St. Mary's College of Maryland just to name a few attended by STA grads. There is a big difference between the top students who attend great colleges and the remaining majority (60%) who attend very average colleges. STA may get to hand select their students, but they don't all end up at top universities.
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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia’s acceptance is around 7%. Cornell 12%. St Albans’s college acceptance isn’ t that great. A good student might get into Kenyon or UChicago.

40 out of 80 or so went so went to Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Princeton, Columbia and Penn last year. 7 alone went to Yale. Sorry, so wrong.

This is a bold face lie! Don't believe the hype.

Don’t know about 40/80, but the top 25% at STA get into Ivies, Stanford, MIT. The next 25% go to SLACs, UCB, UCLA, UVA. The bottom 59% go to strong schools - think Top 50 — but not necessarily the most competitive schools.

The last several years, the top 25% at STA and NCS have done better at college placement than the top 25% at Sidwell or GDS. some will argue that this is due to a legacy and wealth factor, but those are also present at GDS and Sidwell.

The number one school top STA boys feed into is University of Chicago, 38 in the past five years to be exact. That is about 7 students per year and is the number one school for STA grads by more than double of any other school.

The bottom 60% do not attend top 50 schools, sorry. They attend top 150 or less. Think University of Maryland, American University, Miami University, Elon, Wofford College, Indiana University, College of Wooster, Hillsdale College, Montgomery College, Penn State, St. John's College, College of Charleston, Catholic University, GW University, Auburn University, Drew University, University of Colorado Boulder, Sewanee: University of the South, Southern Methodist, University of Vermont, and St. Mary's College of Maryland just to name a few attended by STA grads. There is a big difference between the top students who attend great colleges and the remaining majority (60%) who attend very average colleges. STA may get to hand select their students, but they don't all end up at top universities.

Montgomery College???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over 45% of last year’s class went to USNWR top 25 schools. If you think the remaining 55% ended up at that list well, nice try.

Really? Cite real data that they did not.

[Anonymous]

I don’t school can really change the basic qualities of a boy - his intelligence, resilience, drive. Remember a lot of the STA kids get a significant leg up because they are the grandson of senator so and so. And still the college placement is not stellar. If you’re UMC, you’ll do just as well at a good public school. You won’t be competing for the Harvard spot with someone like Al Gore VII

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You have to be naive if you think college counseling is going to advocate as strongly for the hard working, high achieving son of Mr Nobody as it does for the son of a Senator, Senior White House staff or any other bold face name even of the kid is mediocre or has discipline problems. A lot of antisocial behavior is tolerated there - look at the terrible behavior reported in the press a few years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Over 45% of last year’s class went to USNWR top 25 schools. If you think the remaining 55% ended up at that list well, nice try.

Really? Cite real data that they did not.

It’s published annually in St Albans magazine sent to parents and on demand from the admissions office for those who ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t school can really change the basic qualities of a boy - his intelligence, resilience, drive. Remember a lot of the STA kids get a significant leg up because they are the grandson of senator so and so. And still the college placement is not stellar. If you’re UMC, you’ll do just as well at a good public school. You won’t be competing for the Harvard spot with someone like Al Gore VII

Actually, in our experience, the reverse is true.

That is, the people in the college counselling office are generally appalled when someone "jumps the line" whether that's because of "connections", the college being interested in the celebrity son or grandson, or even Athletics. The counselors know this happens every year, but they have little power to prevent it.

They are the ones that have to try and explain to the parents of the smart, hard-working kid, who didn't get into his or her school of choice, how weaker students were accepted.

College counselors would much prefer a more orderly, predictable college admissions process in which applicants are judged on a more objective basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over 45% of last year’s class went to USNWR top 25 schools. If you think the remaining 55% ended up at that list well, nice try.

This info came directly from STA's list of schools grads matriculated to from 2014-2018. Some of these schools were attended by one student while others were attended by multiple. This is, of course, only a partial list of schools not in the Top 25 that grads have attended.