2009 Private School Admission Results - Share them as you get them!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD, Pre-K
Beauvoir - accept
St. Pats - accept
Cap Hill Day - accept
GDS - w/l
Lowell - still waiting

Thrilled!!! Got our top two choices.

I am surprised to see so many applying to Cap Hill Day school. I know the reality is that it is a safety school for many. But it sure shows CHDS is rising through the ranks. I just hope that most of you take a hard look at us before saying no to your safety school. We love the place and in retrospect feel lucky to have been waitlisted by the Big 3.

What safety issue?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Beavoir and Sidwell: Accepted
GDS: waitlisted
DD
Pre-K
WPPSI: 99.9%; no FA; slight diversity (part Asian-American); no connection; not wealthy; not from feeder school

Good for you! Seriously congratulations!!

Thanks, we feel very lucky and fortunate and are somewhat in shock. Most of all we're very torn as we like both schools.

Yes, I can see that. I applied to both but only got into one (won't say which one). Both are GREAT schools. Go with your gut feeling of where your child and your family would fit in best. I was afraid if I got into both I would struggle with the same decision. You'll make the right decision. Best of luck!

Beauvoir is vastl superior from Pre-K to 3. The question, though, is where do you want to be for 4th grade? Go visit and research NCS. Once you sign up for Beauvoir, your odds of being a Cathedral School lifer are pretty high, so you better be comfortable with the presumptive next step.

Thank you, that's a great suggestion. We were planning on re-visiting the schools and hopefully classes in sessions but also planned to visit the upper level grades in both, meaning NCS and Sidwell. I've heard great things about both. We're so happy to be accpeted to Beauvoir, we felt an instant connection there from the start. We couldn't really get a reading on Sdiwell. We like their philosphy and their dedication to developing a whole person not just elevating their academics but can see what people complain about in term sof the admin process and the "herding," which I can understand given the high number of applicants and trying to interview and give every child a voice to be heard. Now we're trying to find out what Sidwell is like without the admissions stress (thankfully) and more as a potential school for our DD.

If anyone has any input or advise, it would be greatly appreciated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beavoir and Sidwell: Accepted
GDS: waitlisted
DD
Pre-K
WPPSI: 99.9%; no FA; slight diversity (part Asian-American); no connection; not wealthy; not from feeder school

Good for you! Seriously congratulations!!

Thanks, we feel very lucky and fortunate and are somewhat in shock. Most of all we're very torn as we like both schools.

Yes, I can see that. I applied to both but only got into one (won't say which one). Both are GREAT schools. Go with your gut feeling of where your child and your family would fit in best. I was afraid if I got into both I would struggle with the same decision. You'll make the right decision. Best of luck!

Beauvoir is vastl superior from Pre-K to 3. The question, though, is where do you want to be for 4th grade? Go visit and research NCS. Once you sign up for Beauvoir, your odds of being a Cathedral School lifer are pretty high, so you better be comfortable with the presumptive next step.

Thank you, that's a great suggestion. We were planning on re-visiting the schools and hopefully classes in sessions but also planned to visit the upper level grades in both, meaning NCS and Sidwell. I've heard great things about both. We're so happy to be accpeted to Beauvoir, we felt an instant connection there from the start. We couldn't really get a reading on Sdiwell. We like their philosphy and their dedication to developing a whole person not just elevating their academics but can see what people complain about in term sof the admin process and the "herding," which I can understand given the high number of applicants and trying to interview and give every child a voice to be heard. Now we're trying to find out what Sidwell is like without the admissions stress (thankfully) and more as a potential school for our DD.

If anyone has any input or advise, it would be greatly appreciated.

If exmissions are at all a factor for you, STA/NCS have far more impressive overall college placements. For this reason alone, I've always thought Sidwell was way overrated.

[Anonymous]

remind us again -- where is the Sidwell-to-college list found?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:remind us again -- where is the Sidwell-to-college list found?

Peterson's. SFS website. Throughout DCUM. Autoadmit.

[Anonymous]

Can someone expand on the comment that Beauvoir doesn't issue an straight rejections and all those not accepted get waitlisted. Am I understanding this correctly?

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure it's true that they never reject anyone, but the proportion of applicants who are waitlisted seems to be very very high:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/8371.page

[Anonymous]

6th Grade
Accepted - Maret and The Potomac School
Rejected- Sidwell

[Anonymous]

Anyone applying to 6th grade at the BIG 3 and Potomac, please send info?? Specifically, how you were notified and race/ ethnicity, age, F/ A status and accept status? Scores on adm., tests?? Thanks a million...

[Anonymous]

You people need to prioritize - or get a life.

[Anonymous]

And you people need to stick to your somewhere-on-the-west-coast-mountain/midwest forums, ok?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If exmissions are at all a factor for you, STA/NCS have far more impressive overall college placements. For this reason alone, I've always thought Sidwell was way overrated.

remind us again -- where is the Sidwell-to-college list found?

Peterson's. SFS website. Throughout DCUM. Autoadmit.

I am not PP, and I'm not trying to argue, but I can't sleep and was curious about your claim. I checked some of the sites you mentioned and found no such list.

Peterson's. No list there. Just a sampling of a 5-6 colleges that graduates attended.
SFS website. Did not see any list there.
Autoadmit. Too much of a mess to search effectively.
Throughout DCUM. I found some info here, but no clean lists.
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/43718.page#295204 (refers to 2002 study that claims STA is #13 in nation in Ivy League college placement and Sidwell is #28) (refers to 2007 WSJ study that estimates Sidwell's placement to top colleges is 8.5% & NCS placement is 7.9%, but STA gets no mention)
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/120/14768.page (some stats about 2008 Sidwell college exmissions, and a list of STA colleges at page 7 of thread)

I also found this one list on DCUM that supposedly cites the certain schools Sidwell grads attended, but no idea if it is accurate. If it's true more Sidwell grads attend Yale than any other college, I guess I'm kind of impressed.

Some post on DCUM wrote:Top Ten Schools Most Attended By Sidwell Graduates Over the Last Ten Years
1. Yale
2. University of Michigan
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. Brown University
5. Harvard
6. Columbia
7. Princeton
8. Washington University in St. Louis
9. Kenyon College
10. Tufts University

At any rate, I found nothing to suggest to me at least that "STA/NCS have far more impressive overall college placements." By the way, after doing this research, I feel fairly inadequate about my own limited education. Nevertheless, I suppose I managed to carve out a decent life (if you ignore the fact I am up at 1am on a Saturday researching where a bunch of 19-year-old kids I don't know went to college). Going to sleep now. Goodnight. Sorry to litter the "admissions results" thread. Good luck to all -- may all your waitlist letters become acceptances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If exmissions are at all a factor for you, STA/NCS have far more impressive overall college placements. For this reason alone, I've always thought Sidwell was way overrated.

remind us again -- where is the Sidwell-to-college list found?

Peterson's. SFS website. Throughout DCUM. Autoadmit.

I am not PP, and I'm not trying to argue, but I can't sleep and was curious about your claim. I checked some of the sites you mentioned and found no such list.

Peterson's. No list there. Just a sampling of a 5-6 colleges that graduates attended.
SFS website. Did not see any list there.
Autoadmit. Too much of a mess to search effectively.
Throughout DCUM. I found some info here, but no clean lists.
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/43718.page#295204 (refers to 2002 study that claims STA is #13 in nation in Ivy League college placement and Sidwell is #28) (refers to 2007 WSJ study that estimates Sidwell's placement to top colleges is 8.5% & NCS placement is 7.9%, but STA gets no mention)
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/120/14768.page (some stats about 2008 Sidwell college exmissions, and a list of STA colleges at page 7 of thread)

I also found this one list on DCUM that supposedly cites the certain schools Sidwell grads attended, but no idea if it is accurate. If it's true more Sidwell grads attend Yale than any other college, I guess I'm kind of impressed.

Some post on DCUM wrote:Top Ten Schools Most Attended By Sidwell Graduates Over the Last Ten Years
1. Yale
2. University of Michigan
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. Brown University
5. Harvard
6. Columbia
7. Princeton
8. Washington University in St. Louis
9. Kenyon College
10. Tufts University

At any rate, I found nothing to suggest to me at least that "STA/NCS have far more impressive overall college placements." By the way, after doing this research, I feel fairly inadequate about my own limited education. Nevertheless, I suppose I managed to carve out a decent life (if you ignore the fact I am up at 1am on a Saturday researching where a bunch of 19-year-old kids I don't know went to college). Going to sleep now. Goodnight. Sorry to litter the "admissions results" thread. Good luck to all -- may all your waitlist letters become acceptances.

You seem very nice and suprisingly humble to be lurking/posting on this type of DCUM thread, though the fact that you are researching and posting until the wee hours of the morning suggest you have many of the maniacal tendencies of the regulars around here (including me).

There was also a WSJ article that was posted on another related thread recently. But for me, I don't quibble with the fact that SFS places at some top schools. Their "problem" is that placement doesn't run that deep. After you get through the star students and athletes, most are stuck at places like, well, Kenyon. STA places most of their class well "above" there, at least if you'r considering the USNWR annual rankings.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell gives out the matriculation list with their brochures.

[Anonymous]

How does GDS do with college exmissions? Does it run "deep" or "shallow"?