Big 3 College Placement 2018-19 Cycle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:6+ mos later?

Who sat on it before going to vanity fair or the New Yorker or the Atlantic? To merely rehash what happened in the fall.

Some nut job parent or the former counselor? All that’s there is the letter and a paraphrase of the letter.

And yet, it isn't untrue!

[Anonymous]

Your kids will get in to the schools they're qualified for and want to apply to. Reading through this thread has been an absolute nightmare and I feel awful for the school employees and honestly for your kids too. The tighter you grip, the more they'll shoot through the gaps in your fingers when they taste that first bit of freedom at school. The craziest parents' kids tend to be the first ones flaming out. Be kind and positive and helpful and let them guide their own process helped by the competent professionals who do this as a career. Jesus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kids will get in to the schools they're qualified for and want to apply to. Reading through this thread has been an absolute nightmare and I feel awful for the school employees and honestly for your kids too. The tighter you grip, the more they'll shoot through the gaps in your fingers when they taste that first bit of freedom at school. The craziest parents' kids tend to be the first ones flaming out. Be kind and positive and helpful and let them guide their own process helped by the competent professionals who do this as a career. Jesus.

As a follow up, if you're over the age of 18 and partake in any form of high school rivalry, or try to denigrate other schools to make your special shiny snowflake school seem better, you are pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And so we’re back where we started. Yes, GDS is the best school ever, and gets the most kids into the best tippy top schools ever. And they have the best colleg counseling office ever. Yeah GDS!

You forgot the part about how students and teachers are amazing, the expanded campus will be incredible and the social justice legacy is unique in DC.

GDS doesn't have exposes written about them in the Atlantic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And so we’re back where we started. Yes, GDS is the best school ever, and gets the most kids into the best tippy top schools ever. And they have the best colleg counseling office ever. Yeah GDS!

You forgot the part about how students and teachers are amazing, the expanded campus will be incredible and the social justice legacy is unique in DC.

GDS doesn't have exposes written about them in the Atlantic.

Yet...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And so we’re back where we started. Yes, GDS is the best school ever, and gets the most kids into the best tippy top schools ever. And they have the best colleg counseling office ever. Yeah GDS!

You forgot the part about how students and teachers are amazing, the expanded campus will be incredible and the social justice legacy is unique in DC.

GDS doesn't have exposes written about them in the Atlantic.

And I doubt they ever will since the editor of the Atlantic is a GDS parent.

[Anonymous]

Hmmm...sounds like lots of posts from entitled and dull rich white kids kvetching about admissions, rather than working hard and and being talented and sharp like their indian and chinese friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And so we’re back where we started. Yes, GDS is the best school ever, and gets the most kids into the best tippy top schools ever. And they have the best colleg counseling office ever. Yeah GDS!

You forgot the part about how students and teachers are amazing, the expanded campus will be incredible and the social justice legacy is unique in DC.

GDS doesn't have exposes written about them in the Atlantic.

And I doubt they ever will since the editor of the Atlantic is a GDS parent.

So this is a petty school rivalry playing out in the media?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And so we’re back where we started. Yes, GDS is the best school ever, and gets the most kids into the best tippy top schools ever. And they have the best colleg counseling office ever. Yeah GDS!

You forgot the part about how students and teachers are amazing, the expanded campus will be incredible and the social justice legacy is unique in DC.

GDS doesn't have exposes written about them in the Atlantic.

And I doubt they ever will since the editor of the Atlantic is a GDS parent.

Not to mention that when more than half the class goes to Harvard and other top Ivy universities, senior parents are rather chill and (self) satisfied, and not prone to vent their anxieties on the college counseling staff, which would result in articles in the press.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And so we’re back where we started. Yes, GDS is the best school ever, and gets the most kids into the best tippy top schools ever. And they have the best colleg counseling office ever. Yeah GDS!

You forgot the part about how students and teachers are amazing, the expanded campus will be incredible and the social justice legacy is unique in DC.

GDS doesn't have exposes written about them in the Atlantic.

And I doubt they ever will since the editor of the Atlantic is a GDS parent.

Not to mention that when more than half the class goes to Harvard and other top Ivy universities, senior parents are rather chill and (self) satisfied, and not prone to vent their anxieties on the college counseling staff, which would result in articles in the press.

LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:6+ mos later?

Who sat on it before going to vanity fair or the New Yorker or the Atlantic? To merely rehash what happened in the fall.

Some nut job parent or the former counselor? All that’s there is the letter and a paraphrase of the letter.

And yet, it isn't untrue!

Real scoop there pasting up about six month stale HoS announcement. Yeah.

[Anonymous]

Wow. I was directed here by the article I read today on The Atlantic. Hard to believe that you don't recognize how entitled and yet desperate so many of you sound. Do you realize that it's not always about the thousands of dollars that you spent on prep schools? Not to mention the pressure that you place upon your children and the school teachers and the counselors who help to navigate their college applications? I can't believe that you would put this kind of pressure upon your children. Think about the demands that you place upon your kids that likely make them feel like failures or fear failure at such an early and impressionable age. So what if they don't get into Harvard? We live in a small town in the North Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest. Farming country. My children grew up like real kids. They roamed farmland and played and ran quads and swam in lakes and rivers and fished and went crabbing and clamming and hiked and explored the great outdoors. They attended public schools. They all did well. Our youngest took a year and a half off from school after graduation. He didn't know what he wanted to BE. After that break, he attended a community college and graduated in the top 1% of the college. Phi Theta Kappa. He received offers from several Ivy League schools, without even having to put in an application. He was almost 22 when he graduated from a "mere" community college and was then accepted into a prestigious Engineering University in Colorado. Google the best Engineering School that you never heard of. Yes, it's that good. They don't have to advertise. He was one of 14 transfer students from WA State accepted into the Colorado School of Mines that year. It's the Ivy League Engineering University of the West. Our three older children all graduated from great Universities and are all well employed and happy in their lives. What is the goal? The goal is to give our children the best experience, the happiest childhoods. To encourage them in their interests and their endeavors, and to let them know that we, their parents, have faith in them and support them in what means the MOST to them. It's not all about you. Quit trying to curate your children's childhoods and let them go free. Take a deep breath and just let your children BE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I was directed here by the article I read today on The Atlantic. Hard to believe that you don't recognize how entitled and yet desperate so many of you sound. Do you realize that it's not always about the thousands of dollars that you spent on prep schools? Not to mention the pressure that you place upon your children and the school teachers and the counselors who help to navigate their college applications? I can't believe that you would put this kind of pressure upon your children. Think about the demands that you place upon your kids that likely make them feel like failures or fear failure at such an early and impressionable age. So what if they don't get into Harvard? We live in a small town in the North Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest. Farming country. My children grew up like real kids. They roamed farmland and played and ran quads and swam in lakes and rivers and fished and went crabbing and clamming and hiked and explored the great outdoors. They attended public schools. They all did well. Our youngest took a year and a half off from school after graduation. He didn't know what he wanted to BE. After that break, he attended a community college and graduated in the top 1% of the college. Phi Theta Kappa. He received offers from several Ivy League schools, without even having to put in an application. He was almost 22 when he graduated from a "mere" community college and was then accepted into a prestigious Engineering University in Colorado. Google the best Engineering School that you never heard of. Yes, it's that good. They don't have to advertise. He was one of 14 transfer students from WA State accepted into the Colorado School of Mines that year. It's the Ivy League Engineering University of the West. Our three older children all graduated from great Universities and are all well employed and happy in their lives. What is the goal? The goal is to give our children the best experience, the happiest childhoods. To encourage them in their interests and their endeavors, and to let them know that we, their parents, have faith in them and support them in what means the MOST to them. It's not all about you. Quit trying to curate your children's childhoods and let them go free. Take a deep breath and just let your children BE.

Bless you. The culture in DC is terrible for the kids, and terrible for the nation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I was directed here by the article I read today on The Atlantic. Hard to believe that you don't recognize how entitled and yet desperate so many of you sound. Do you realize that it's not always about the thousands of dollars that you spent on prep schools? Not to mention the pressure that you place upon your children and the school teachers and the counselors who help to navigate their college applications? I can't believe that you would put this kind of pressure upon your children. Think about the demands that you place upon your kids that likely make them feel like failures or fear failure at such an early and impressionable age. So what if they don't get into Harvard? We live in a small town in the North Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest. Farming country. My children grew up like real kids. They roamed farmland and played and ran quads and swam in lakes and rivers and fished and went crabbing and clamming and hiked and explored the great outdoors. They attended public schools. They all did well. Our youngest took a year and a half off from school after graduation. He didn't know what he wanted to BE. After that break, he attended a community college and graduated in the top 1% of the college. Phi Theta Kappa. He received offers from several Ivy League schools, without even having to put in an application. He was almost 22 when he graduated from a "mere" community college and was then accepted into a prestigious Engineering University in Colorado. Google the best Engineering School that you never heard of. Yes, it's that good. They don't have to advertise. He was one of 14 transfer students from WA State accepted into the Colorado School of Mines that year. It's the Ivy League Engineering University of the West. Our three older children all graduated from great Universities and are all well employed and happy in their lives. What is the goal? The goal is to give our children the best experience, the happiest childhoods. To encourage them in their interests and their endeavors, and to let them know that we, their parents, have faith in them and support them in what means the MOST to them. It's not all about you. Quit trying to curate your children's childhoods and let them go free. Take a deep breath and just let your children BE.

Yeah, and the school and college culture in Seattle/Redmond/Medina/Bellevue is so chill.

Bless you. The culture in DC is terrible for the kids, and terrible for the nation.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, and the school and college culture in Seattle/Redmond/Medina/Bellevue is so chill.