sidwell's acceptances extremely impressive

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Anonymous wrote:So odd that a “public school parent” would post about SFS college acceptances. Troll.

Is it? Go look at the private school forum…plenty of public school parents posting (and vice versa). What’s odd is lecturing someone as to what colleges they should find impressive. Beyond odd. Pathological.

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OP, you can't waltz in here and use words like "extremely impressive" when you're talking about schools. It's just not done and makes you look stupid. People have strong feelings about certain schools and colleges, and if you wish point out praiseworthy achievements, you've got to be convincingly factual and more specific. What kind of academic are you that you can't make that effort to look objective? The words you use are way too subjective - you look like the moronic realtors on the Real Estate forum that post about their listings in first-degree, glowing terms, while pretending to be buyers.

Again, you need numbers and match-school comparisons in order to conclude what you did. Otherwise it's just hot air and people are going to tear you apart.

OP here. You're right. How DARE I congratulate a bunch of 18-year olds on getting into "great" schools after a bunch of people tried to tear down their achievements. As an academic, I should know that I am not allowed to be "impressed" or use any subjective qualifiers when describing anything. I'll make sure I don't tell my kids they did a "great job" making dinner unless I compare it to a Michelin star restaurant or without sampling other kids' cooking first. My daughter is in a play next week and I'll hold back on any comments about her performance until I go to other high schools to see how good she is relative to other teenagers...I wouldn't want my praise to look "stupid."

I'm not sure why you are triggered so easily but you might want to reread the things you write before you post.

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Nope. I've been here a long time, and I'm just giving you a friendly warning: don't look like a troll. People here are educated (don't advertise you're an "academic", poor naive one, most of us have terminal degrees and are very knowledgeable about education) and operate on a hair-trigger, so you're going to get blasted if you write posts like this one again.

Of course, if you're looking for the fight, go ahead

But if you want a reasoned discussion, I'm telling you there are better ways to get one.

to be fair, your posts just make you look like an asshole.

+1000 . A person who commends kids on getting into "impressive" colleges--however they define "impressive"--is not a troll. Someone who goes apeshit and demands metrics to justify said praise? That's a troll (and, to PP's point, an asshole).

Depends if you're fine with the ensuing arguments. Someone who will make a value judgment on DCUM will start a messy argument. Some people know this, and word their original posts carefully and add the relevant data, to avoid those useless distractions.

But you do you!

please speak with the forum manager, Karen.

The mod doesn’t appreciate the use of misogynistic terms.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm still waiting for someone to post the actual list of colleges/universities these rich, impressive kids were admitted into.
Without details, this is just another troll post.

It’s April. No list would be available yet.

Go to SidwellSeniors2022 on Instagram if your curious. Keep in mind, acceptances /= matriculation.

Kids on these sites post which college they are planning to go to, not acceptances. Which is why many haven't posted there yet, as they are still deciding + the ones who have decided but don't want to share the information yet (or perhaps ever - some people are more private by nature)

Basically no school posts acceptances. They have that info (if provided by students) and may share via CCO. But no one - Sidwell or otherwise - is posting info like "10 people got into Harvard [but only 5 matriculated]"

The best you can do assume that every student went to the best school they were admitted to (or at least their view of best).

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I don't know. I'm not particularly impressed by what I've seen.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm still waiting for someone to post the actual list of colleges/universities these rich, impressive kids were admitted into.
Without details, this is just another troll post.

It’s April. No list would be available yet.

Go to SidwellSeniors2022 on Instagram if your curious. Keep in mind, acceptances /= matriculation.

Kids on these sites post which college they are planning to go to, not acceptances. Which is why many haven't posted there yet, as they are still deciding + the ones who have decided but don't want to share the information yet (or perhaps ever - some people are more private by nature)

Basically no school posts acceptances. They have that info (if provided by students) and may share via CCO. But no one - Sidwell or otherwise - is posting info like "10 people got into Harvard [but only 5 matriculated]"

The best you can do assume that every student went to the best school they were admitted to (or at least their view of best).

That would be a poor assumption. I know many students who choose lower ranked schools for very good reasons, knowing rank means nothing.

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To your original point, OP, no, it's not impressive given the 60K total annual cost, when an intelligent student with attentive parents can be accepted to similar colleges from a public school.

Wow. You’re not cool.

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I just don’t get why you would start such a pointless post. Should I post one congratulating Holton kids on their acceptances because my kid goes there?

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Omg. Rich kids get into top universities and colleges? And water is wet."

THIS.

I mean, let's be real. I have friends, colleagues and neighbors who send their kids to these schools, and none of them are suffering. Without exception, ALL of them put a lot of money and effort into their kids college acceptances.

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What are development kids?

Wealthy parents who have been generous and could be big donors that the Development office wants to court.

Ah got it thanks for explaining.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know. I'm not particularly impressed by what I've seen.

Agree. Similar results at our local publics.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know. I'm not particularly impressed by what I've seen.

Agree. Similar results at our local publics.

Same reaction. I've looked at similar instagrams for a few MCPS HS (including several non-W ones) and Sidwell seems fine but not better by any measure. A few of the other privates are more eye-popping. Maybe the Sidwell kids are still deciding, maybe the high flyers are too cool to post (my MCPS kid is very happy about his enrollment plans but flat out refuses to post to his HS instagram site.) Or maybe despite the White House kids who go there, Sidwell is just a good private school with normal kids at a wide range of levels.

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Are we looking at the same Insta page? I think it is impressive.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know. I'm not particularly impressed by what I've seen.

Agree. Similar results at our local publics.

Name this public school! Don’t say “fcps” be specific

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know. I'm not particularly impressed by what I've seen.

Agree. Similar results at our local publics.

Same reaction. I've looked at similar instagrams for a few MCPS HS (including several non-W ones) and Sidwell seems fine but not better by any measure. A few of the other privates are more eye-popping. Maybe the Sidwell kids are still deciding, maybe the high flyers are too cool to post (my MCPS kid is very happy about his enrollment plans but flat out refuses to post to his HS instagram site.) Or maybe despite the White House kids who go there, Sidwell is just a good private school with normal kids at a wide range of levels.

The bethesda mag annual compilation of college destinations says you’re wrong, however. Plus that annual data dump is broken down by school, so you can’t even claim that thing that Moco parents do when 1/2 the school goes to UMD, sputtering that it’s about financial aid. Not in Potomac, it isn’t.

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Why is DUCUM so bat sh!t crazy over Sidwell these days?? Seriously. I don’t understand it.