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[Anonymous]

It does if it’s questbridge

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Anonymous wrote:And is this Sidwell admissions posting on a Saturday and denying that all these Instagram kids are hooked?

I'll give you that the Chicago kids are probably not hooked. They never are. But every single Sidwell Ivy kid that posted so far is.

DP. What is a hook, really? Is it only a legacy or a recruited athlete? Can it also be a NMSF, or a theater or science nerd who won a competitive regional or national award? Can it be someone who has founded a club related to their intended major, or has extensive internship/work experience, or published research? By that definition, nearly every ED admit at T15 universities is “hooked,” so why are you upset that Sidwell’s students excel in this area?

no, these are not hooks. those are strong ECs

No, it’s a hook depending on the school.

Being in the top 1% is also a hook. There are many public school students to which that applies.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/24/upshot/ivy-league-elite-college-admissions.html

“Elite colleges have long been filled with the children of the richest families: At Ivy League schools, one in six students has parents in the top 1 percent.

A large new study, released Monday, shows that it has not been because these children had more impressive grades on average or took harder classes. They tended to have higher SAT scores and finely honed résumés, and applied at a higher rate — but they were overrepresented even after accounting for those things. For applicants with the same SAT or ACT score, children from families in the top 1 percent were 34 percent more likely to be admitted than the average applicant, and those from the top 0.1 percent were more than twice as likely to get in.”

ECs can get very expensive.

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest.

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM

URM doesn’t count for anything.

It absolutely still does.

Very easy to flag you are URM with essays and ECs

[Anonymous]

From a NYer, sidwell and GDS both look like a second tier school so far. Like a Poly Prep, which def not top tier.

https://www.instagram.com/polyprep25?igsh=MWp4aDNwa2NsdWF3MA==

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Day:

Yale, Princeton, Cornell, 2 Barnards, 2 Northwesterns, 3 Northeasterns, 3 Wesleyans, 2 BC's, 2 Skidmores, 2 Spellmans, Wellesley, Lafayette, Middlebury, Tulane, UVM, Carleton, WPI, Occidental

Id be livid to spend GDS money for a child destined for Wesleyan, skidmore, Spelman, Lafayette, Middlebury, especially Tulane (seriously wtf?), UVM, Carleton, and omg WPI? You could get into those schools going to an underfunded public school.

You are whack a doodle.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Day:

Yale, Princeton, Cornell, 2 Barnards, 2 Northwesterns, 3 Northeasterns, 3 Wesleyans, 2 BC's, 2 Skidmores, 2 Spellmans, Wellesley, Lafayette, Middlebury, Tulane, UVM, Carleton, WPI, Occidental

Id be livid to spend GDS money for a child destined for Wesleyan, skidmore, Spelman, Lafayette, Middlebury, especially Tulane (seriously wtf?), UVM, Carleton, and omg WPI? You could get into those schools going to an underfunded public school.

I paid “GDS money” for 2 kids. One of them goes to an Ivy and the other one goes to one of the colleges named above. Guess which one I believe got more value from our tuition dollars? Guess which one we have less anxiety about their future career path and prospects? (Hint: it’s not the one who goes to an Ivy). Rankings aren’t everything, and we didn’t pay private school tuition in order to access a very small selection of colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:It does if it’s questbridge

The student in question isn’t a Questbridge Scholar. 🙄

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest.

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM

URM doesn’t count for anything.

It absolutely still does.

Very easy to flag you are URM with essays and ECs

You don’t know what she wrote about in her essays, bigot.

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Anonymous wrote:From a NYer, sidwell and GDS both look like a second tier school so far. Like a Poly Prep, which def not top tier.

https://www.instagram.com/polyprep25?igsh=MWp4aDNwa2NsdWF3MA==

No one at Sidwell is concerned about what’s happening with NYC schools. If they did, they would move there and snatch many of those seats. However, I see you’re posting on DCUM, not NYUM.

Stay in your tiny, sad lane.

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I grew up in Old Town and went to St. Stephens- back before it merged with St. Agnes. I went to Colgate but I knew two kids in my neighborhood whose parents sent them to Sidwell. They both went to ivies, but they both also had severly autistic kids. Like, one of them may never live independently.

Not sure if there is a link.

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Anonymous wrote:From a NYer, sidwell and GDS both look like a second tier school so far. Like a Poly Prep, which def not top tier.

https://www.instagram.com/polyprep25?igsh=MWp4aDNwa2NsdWF3MA==

No one at Sidwell is concerned about what’s happening with NYC schools. If they did, they would move there and snatch many of those seats. However, I see you’re posting on DCUM, not NYUM.

Stay in your tiny, sad lane.

?? Dp but this is is bizarre. Why not just face reality that Sidwell isn’t dalton or Trinity and say that’s fine? There’s a lot of places with more competitive high schools than DC, doesn’t faze our families, cause not everything is about Wharton and Stanford.

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest.

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM

URM doesn’t count for anything.

It absolutely still does.

Very easy to flag you are URM with essays and ECs

Ever heard of the Supreme Court? These schools are not anxious to be sued.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It does if it’s questbridge

Being an URM does not qualify you for QB.

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Anonymous wrote:It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes. I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities.

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing. Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings. Come on. You need to be honest.

So by your own count, Sidwell legacies and sports recruits comprise 5 of the 15 Ivy+/T15 admits so far? That’s only a third of the admits, which isn’t close to a majority. Come back and post when that number reaches 75% or more.

It seems like you’re the one who needs to be honest.

Actually 100% are hooked outside of the one Stanford math guy.

Stanford rowing
MIT rowing
Dartmouth lacrosse
Princeton sibling
Cornell sibling
Cornell legacy
Brown legacy
Penn Legacy
Yale URM

URM doesn’t count for anything.

It absolutely still does.

Very easy to flag you are URM with essays and ECs

It counts now if you’re in the right CBOs. High achieving URMs are in the same programs so if you aren’t in those programs, you aren’t getting the boost since they want guaranteed URM applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:From a NYer, sidwell and GDS both look like a second tier school so far. Like a Poly Prep, which def not top tier.

https://www.instagram.com/polyprep25?igsh=MWp4aDNwa2NsdWF3MA==

That’s because the average GDS student is as wealthy and connected as the average Poly student. Schools like Dalton, Trinity, Spence, etc. are not any better for your average 500k earning family, they’re just stacked with serious $$$.