St. John's matriculation?
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Anonymous
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Any recent stats or data on St. John's college acceptances?
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
| I'm sorry. I am new to this. What does "bump" mean? |
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| Someone says "bump" to make the thread appear at the top of the list of threads in the forum (since they are arranged in descending chronological order of posts), with the hope of generating answers or comments from others. Just way of making sure the thread doesn't get lost forever. |
Anonymous
I know of one going off to UCLA. |
Anonymous
| It's on their website. |
Anonymous
Not really- it's just a partial list of college matriculations seemingly since the school was founded. There is no timeframe or indication of the number of students who were admitted. Compare it to Landon's list that only covers the last five years, only lists schools where 5 or more students have attended and lists the # of students who have attended: http://www.landon.net/page.cfm?p=2167 http://www.stjohnschs.org/admissions/college_acceptances My guess is that the school the majority of StJ's grads attends isn't even listed: U of MD. |
Anonymous
The Landon School - the land of insecure males. |
Anonymous
I'm the poster who posted the links to the college matriculation stats. I don't have any connection to Landon, but I simply used it as an example of a school that is upfront and transparent about its matriculation stats. The fact that the mere mention of Landon causes you to throw out an insult leads me to believe that you may be the insecure one. Regardless of what you think of the school, I think it's at least commendable that Landon is willing to publicly publish this info. StJ's stats seem very vague, which makes me to wonder if it's because their not proud of the matriculation stats??? The school has been around a long time, so for it to state that their students have gone to x schools provides no indication of which colleges have accepted their graduates in recent years or how many of their graduates have gone to x schools. |
Anonymous
DD goes to SJC and would love for her to attend UMCP. I will save a lot of $$$  
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Anonymous
There's nothing wrong with UMCP- I certainly wouldn't mind sending my kids there. However, the St. John's College Acceptance page only lists UM Honors College when far more graduates attend UMCP. |
Anonymous
| I'm sorry. What is UM Honors College vs. UMCP? |
Anonymous
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It is University of Maryland Honors College at College Park Or UMCP.
If you're the same poster who is questioning what St. John's posts regarding college matriculation please note that St. John's provides the same information that St. Albans and many other prep schools post. Landon is probably the outlier and provides the most specific information of any school I am aware of. For more information about Landon, however, check out several of the threads in the private school forum. |
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I am going to assume that the OP is actually looking for information and not trying to stir the pot.
If you value "matriculation" above all other things in a HS experience I would say that St. John's as well as all the other WCAC schools are not a good fit. St. John's and many other WCAC schools are more about the whole development of many different children. If you only want you kids in a school that are HPY focused this is not a good school for you. St. John's is the type of school that a HPY child can go to school with their learning disabled sibling. They have a program called Binilde that is for children with learning disabilities. They also have an honor program and everything inbetween. I think St. John's and their community would be more apt to brag about the amount of alumni that go into the world and serve others than went on to HPY. The St. John's community would never look down on an acceptance list with multiple children getting into the University of Maryland, and it is insane that UMCP is not listed on the college acceptance list on their website. That is crazy! Why? Because the alum that just built the stadium at St. Johns went to the University of Maryland College Park (you would know him as the guy that started Under Armour). If you are looking for a academic boot camp, St. Johns is not your school. That being said I know a St. Johns student who went to Yale, plays soccer and is Jewish. So it is really close to impossible to say "what type of student does well at St. Johns". I can say that a family that would be ashamed of a University of Maryland acceptance would not do well at St. Johns. |
Anonymous
St. Alban's and most other prep schools list matriculations over the last 5 years. Their list seems all-inclusive and lists colleges such as HPY along with less selective schools like UM Baltimore and University of Mississippi. St. John's list has no timeframe, meaning, the acceptances could have been 20 years ago. It seems the school cherry picked the best matriculations of the bunch, leaving out the most popular. I don't understand why StJ's would only list the Honor College of UMCP and not UMCP itself. Their failure to do so makes it seem like they're trying to make their college matriculation list seem more prestigious than it is. It also makes it seem like they're not proud of sending kids to schools like UMCP. I don't think that is, or should be, the case, however, the list leaves this impression. |