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Anonymous
No, no, no. Unless you want to go to Penn. It doesn't matter where you train in nursing. I went to Case Western and Hopkins. Nursing is really the one field where it doesn't matter one iota where you train. AND there is a serious salary cap unless you leave anything clinical (even work as a sub specialty NP) and go into some sort of business venture or become the one administrator per hospital that makes big $$. Or something similar. And really you don't even need the nursing degree for most of those pursuits. So paying for an Ivy degree for nursing makes no sense if you are looking at money invested and have any sort of clinical interests. It's only worth it if you simply have the cash and want the prestige of going to Penn and potentially marrying a Wharton guy. Or similar. Lol. |
Anonymous
You think like this when you have a plan and understand the present school and career landscape. Totally different convo that most don't want to have. Nursing has been in demand for a very long time and traveling nurses do very well. MC and NVCC have nursing programs. |
Anonymous
No, my private school children have very limited social interactions with public school kids. What would be the point? |
Anonymous
Perhaps she/he/they are going via full ride? |
Anonymous
NP. I didn’t want my children to attend a public high school (they attended public schools from K-8th). The only thing that’s hard to see, from your posts, is the relevance to the private school forum. You’re trying to compare apples to oranges. For example, Churchill has ~550 students/grade, while Sidwell has 125/grade. Currently, both schools have 18 c/o ‘24 Instagram posts. According to Instagram, Sidwell is sending 8 students to a wide variety of Ivies + Stanford. Churchill is sending 5 students to Ivies (almost all Penn and Cornell) + MIT. Unless Churchill sends 4x as many students to Ivy+ colleges, as compared to Sidwell, these results are very unimpressive for a “top public school,” in an affluent neighborhood. In other words, what exactly are you trying to brag about?!? |
Anonymous
SMH....If you have to ask, it's too late for you..just sad |
Anonymous
What does excluding "the bottom 75% of any class" mean in the context of private school admissions for kids applying in the early elementary school years, including PK? |
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote: No, my private school children have very limited social interactions with public school kids. What would be the point? Pro tip: Maybe don't have your kids say that they didn't see any point in ever interacting with public school kids when writing essays or interviewing at colleges. Not exactly the open-mindedness and diversity of experience that universities are looking for these days. |
Anonymous
Seriously. Everyone knows that the Sidwell and GDS’s of the world take whatever kids walk in the door during the Pre-K and K years. It’s not like they hand select those kids based on their siblings’ academic achievements. It’s it’s just a coincidence that the parents of these kids happen to be Ivy League alums, accomplished academics or professionals, etc. it’s a miracle that any of these so called lifers manage to have half a brain! |
Anonymous
Nevermind that 90% of kids go to Public Schools. The whole college thing with the "commoners" will be an eye opener for someone 😀 |
Anonymous
No, the miracle is that the lifers, after 13 yrs of private, overcome all the adversity and disadvantages like hard teachers, no APs/on-site AP testing and all the kids with hooks in their class, and manage to get into college at all. |
Anonymous
From a private school? Doubtful. |
Anonymous
Oh, honey. Bless you. |
Anonymous
| LOL, what percentage of lifers at these schools do you all think are actually academically gifted or close to it? |
Anonymous
| Many of the PK and K admits leave before graduation. Our school (a "big3") counsels out a decent number of kids along the way or the kids voluntarily leave. In some class years there are only a handful of kids who graduate as lifers. These schools are not the best fit for many kids. |