GDS - Wow!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want your kid to get into an Ivy, GDS is the way to go. The kids seem to get in without crazy ECs

The Harvard kids all have extraordinarily smart, connected, dynamic parents. Some are legacies, some are not. All are super successful, national leaders in their respective fields. I know two of them from work.
I assume their kids are similar to their parents: big picture, innovative thinkers who are also kind and very good with people. They (their parents) are the kind of people who are among the most impressive I have ever met. It makes a lot of sense that their kids would be exceptional.

I know a parent of one of the Harvard kids and that's the last thing I'd say about her. Had a downright negative experience, confirmed by someone else on our committee.

[Anonymous]

It seems the other DMV privates have done extremely well too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems the other DMV privates have done extremely well too!

Really? I’m not seeing Sidwell getting its own college thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the other DMV privates have done extremely well too!

Really? I’m not seeing Sidwell getting its own college thread.

Not having their own thread does not equal not having done well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the other DMV privates have done extremely well too!

Really? I’m not seeing Sidwell getting its own college thread.

Is that how we're defining "doing well" these days? You get talked about on DCUM?

So many MIL's are doing very well indeed by that standard!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want your kid to get into an Ivy, GDS is the way to go. The kids seem to get in without crazy ECs

The Harvard kids all have extraordinarily smart, connected, dynamic parents. Some are legacies, some are not. All are super successful, national leaders in their respective fields. I know two of them from work.
I assume their kids are similar to their parents: big picture, innovative thinkers who are also kind and very good with people. They (their parents) are the kind of people who are among the most impressive I have ever met. It makes a lot of sense that their kids would be exceptional.
The most moronic statement I’ve seen in a while. Parents are successful so the kids are automatically the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want your kid to get into an Ivy, GDS is the way to go. The kids seem to get in without crazy ECs

The Harvard kids all have extraordinarily smart, connected, dynamic parents. Some are legacies, some are not. All are super successful, national leaders in their respective fields. I know two of them from work.
I assume their kids are similar to their parents: big picture, innovative thinkers who are also kind and very good with people. They (their parents) are the kind of people who are among the most impressive I have ever met. It makes a lot of sense that their kids would be exceptional.

I know a parent of one of the Harvard kids and that's the last thing I'd say about her. Had a downright negative experience, confirmed by someone else on our committee.

She probably wrote the last post. Lol

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The modesty on this thread is astounding .

Tells you a lot about the school and the people in it.

Not all of us run to post on social media when our kid gets into an Ivy. Christ

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“Academic weapons”🤮

And they openly put down prior classes and classmates.

Toxic.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article in the NYT about Harvard’s declining applications.

Harvard's numbers are a bit interesting if you dig a bit.

They went from an overall total of 56,937 to 54,008, a change of -2929 applications.

In the early round, though, they went from 9553 to 7921, a change of -1632 applications.

So they lost 1,600 applications early (before most of the controversy took place) and 1,300 in the regular round after the controversy became more well-known.

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Anonymous wrote:The modesty on this thread is astounding .

Tells you a lot about the school and the people in it.

Not all of us run to post on social media when our kid gets into an Ivy. Christ

Umm others years when Sidwell had good college admits those "modest" kids were happy to crow about it on social media asap. Sooo. maybe this year Sidwell has nothing to report? Live by the sword die by the sword, people. Interesting that the parents who love to denigrate GDS on this forum simply cannot just say- "Wow good job." Seven (that we know of) Harvard admits in one class. Why is it so hard to just say the kids did great?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The modesty on this thread is astounding .

Tells you a lot about the school and the people in it.

Not all of us run to post on social media when our kid gets into an Ivy. Christ

Umm others years when Sidwell had good college admits those "modest" kids were happy to crow about it on social media asap. Sooo. maybe this year Sidwell has nothing to report? Live by the sword die by the sword, people. Interesting that the parents who love to denigrate GDS on this forum simply cannot just say- "Wow good job." Seven (that we know of) Harvard admits in one class. Why is it so hard to just say the kids did great?

Relax, GDS Mom. Sidwell has 10 Ivy admits posted on Instagram so far, compared to GDS’ 14. You and I both know that no matter what the numbers end up being this year, Sidwell was/is/will always be superior to GDS. But please enjoy those extra 4 admits for now…
Everyone deserves their time in the sun (especially after the results GDS’ c/o ‘23 endured).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the other DMV privates have done extremely well too!

Really? I’m not seeing Sidwell getting its own college thread.

Because we have class and don't need to spike the ball in the end zone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The modesty on this thread is astounding .

Tells you a lot about the school and the people in it.

Not all of us run to post on social media when our kid gets into an Ivy. Christ

Umm others years when Sidwell had good college admits those "modest" kids were happy to crow about it on social media asap. Sooo. maybe this year Sidwell has nothing to report? Live by the sword die by the sword, people. Interesting that the parents who love to denigrate GDS on this forum simply cannot just say- "Wow good job." Seven (that we know of) Harvard admits in one class. Why is it so hard to just say the kids did great?

Relax, GDS Mom. Sidwell has 10 Ivy admits posted on Instagram so far, compared to GDS’ 14. You and I both know that no matter what the numbers end up being this year, Sidwell was/is/will always be superior to GDS. But please enjoy those extra 4 admits for now…
Everyone deserves their time in the sun (especially after the results GDS’ c/o ‘23 endured).

Gee thanks. Condescend much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The modesty on this thread is astounding .

Tells you a lot about the school and the people in it.

Not all of us run to post on social media when our kid gets into an Ivy. Christ

Umm others years when Sidwell had good college admits those "modest" kids were happy to crow about it on social media asap. Sooo. maybe this year Sidwell has nothing to report? Live by the sword die by the sword, people. Interesting that the parents who love to denigrate GDS on this forum simply cannot just say- "Wow good job." Seven (that we know of) Harvard admits in one class. Why is it so hard to just say the kids did great?

Relax, GDS Mom. Sidwell has 10 Ivy admits posted on Instagram so far, compared to GDS’ 14. You and I both know that no matter what the numbers end up being this year, Sidwell was/is/will always be superior to GDS. But please enjoy those extra 4 admits for now…
Everyone deserves their time in the sun (especially after the results GDS’ c/o ‘23 endured).

Potomac has a little more than half the class up and strictly for Ivies they have 10 Ivies (did not count two admissions to Barnard as that is part of Columbia) posted out of 59. Had one at Oxford too. Typical class is about 108 or so. Broken down as follows: Dartmouth 4 Harvard 2 Yale 1 Brown 2 Princeton 1. Duke had 3. Lot of good SLACs e.g. Pomona, Wellesley, Barnard (as mentioned), Amherst, Middlebury, and Williams.

Again note, this is about half the class. My kids long gone to Ivies from there but the list does seem stronger than when my kids were there.

We only counting straight Ivies? or due other tops count e.g. Hopkins, Duke, Northwestern (there was at least one of these), MIT, Cal Tech, Chicago, Stanford, etc. You know which ones I mean--top of US News till about 15 or so.