K-8 outplacement for the class of 2023

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's good about 13 kids at Bullis?

13 kids aren't going to Bullis. 13 kids got in to Bullis, a subset of those are going.

Bullis is a good school and has a nice expansion year in 9th, making it a logical place for families from Norwood to apply to if they are committed to continuing their education at a private school. Norwood encourages its students to apply to a range of high schools to make sure they have an option they are happy with for high school. It's not a failure that many students applied and got in to Bullis, it's good leadership and ex-missions management.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's good about 13 kids at Bullis?

13 kids aren't going to Bullis. 13 kids got in to Bullis, a subset of those are going.

Bullis is a good school and has a nice expansion year in 9th, making it a logical place for families from Norwood to apply to if they are committed to continuing their education at a private school. Norwood encourages its students to apply to a range of high schools to make sure they have an option they are happy with for high school. It's not a failure that many students applied and got in to Bullis, it's good leadership and ex-missions management.

Right. The bold just means at least one kid is going. 13 kids got in. We don’t know how many are going.

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Good list!

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Anonymous wrote:This is from St Patrick’s website for the past 5 years of students:

With about 22 students across the last five years attending boarding schools, other recent destinations have included Christ Church (VA), George (PA), Masters (NY), Salisbury (CT), Episcopal (VA), St. George’s (RI), St. Mark’s (MA), St. Paul’s (NH), and Woodberry Forest (VA).

With respect to day schools, the most frequent destinations across the past five years have been the paired single-sex Cathedral schools (17) of St. Albans (11) and NCS (6), Bullis (13), the paired single-sex schools of Holton and Landon (11), Maret (11), St. Andrew’s (11), Sidwell Friends (11), Madeira (9), and Stone Ridge (8). Other frequent destinations have included Georgetown Day (6), Potomac (6), Holy Child (5), Field (5), and Edmund Burke (4). Several students attended the Catholic high schools of Georgetown Visitation, Gonzaga, St. Anselm’s, and St. John’s during that five-year period, while two attended Georgetown Prep.

I really dislike when schools won’t give single-year matriculations.

Right. What are they hiding?

We know what they are hiding. It’s obvious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is from St Patrick’s website for the past 5 years of students:

With about 22 students across the last five years attending boarding schools, other recent destinations have included Christ Church (VA), George (PA), Masters (NY), Salisbury (CT), Episcopal (VA), St. George’s (RI), St. Mark’s (MA), St. Paul’s (NH), and Woodberry Forest (VA).

With respect to day schools, the most frequent destinations across the past five years have been the paired single-sex Cathedral schools (17) of St. Albans (11) and NCS (6), Bullis (13), the paired single-sex schools of Holton and Landon (11), Maret (11), St. Andrew’s (11), Sidwell Friends (11), Madeira (9), and Stone Ridge (8). Other frequent destinations have included Georgetown Day (6), Potomac (6), Holy Child (5), Field (5), and Edmund Burke (4). Several students attended the Catholic high schools of Georgetown Visitation, Gonzaga, St. Anselm’s, and St. John’s during that five-year period, while two attended Georgetown Prep.

Lost me at last five years. This is first year with new HOS. Many are looking to see how Cathedral placement went. Does anyone know about placement to STA/NCS for this year?

To do five years last year must have been awful.

[Anonymous]

I think people have some misinformed views. At our well regarded K8 maybe 20-30% even apply to Sidwell or either of the Cathedral schools. People are looking at all different schools for a variety of reasons so you can’t really tell much about how your kid would do from the raw numbers. If you are at the school and know the particular kids in the class above you can get a rough sense of which schools might be in play for you, but the overall numbers tell you almost nothing year to year.

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I don’t know if I agree with this. Are you saying some years smart kids? Come on most year to year kids are fine. The issue is can the school place them. Parents look for placement to certain schools if there is a relationship like Cathedral etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people have some misinformed views. At our well regarded K8 maybe 20-30% even apply to Sidwell or either of the Cathedral schools. People are looking at all different schools for a variety of reasons so you can’t really tell much about how your kid would do from the raw numbers. If you are at the school and know the particular kids in the class above you can get a rough sense of which schools might be in play for you, but the overall numbers tell you almost nothing year to year.

Right. People also make decisions for a lot of reasons. For us, having our kid go to Sidwell or NCS would be highly inconvenient, since we live in Gaithersburg. We didn’t have her apply to any schools in the District for K.

If she were dying to go to one of those schools and got in, we’d figure it out, but it would be a lot easier for her to go elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, Bullis and St Andrew’s seem like logical schools to go to from Norwood. Norwood is pretty far from NW Washington and some of the families will be commuting to Norwood from even farther out. Those families will be looking for schools near where they live and not ones a 45 minute to 1 hour commute away.

We liked Norwood when we looked at it, but the commute out from the city made it impossible. I imagine the reverse is also true.

Right. Most families live further out.

It’s FARTHER out. Not further out.

They’re typically interchangeable. This is not the clear distinction you think it is.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-further-or-farther-usage-how-to-use

Typically interchangeable does not equal correct

I think I’ll go with Merriam Webster rather than you.

They’re only interchangeable because people have been misusing the two words for so long.

And they aren’t completely interchangeable. .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's good about 13 kids at Bullis?

13 kids aren't going to Bullis. 13 kids got in to Bullis, a subset of those are going.

Bullis is a good school and has a nice expansion year in 9th, making it a logical place for families from Norwood to apply to if they are committed to continuing their education at a private school. Norwood encourages its students to apply to a range of high schools to make sure they have an option they are happy with for high school. It's not a failure that many students applied and got in to Bullis, it's good leadership and ex-missions management.

Right. The bold just means at least one kid is going. 13 kids got in. We don’t know how many are going.

I don't think that is correct. The numbers add up to the size of the graduating class. But Bullis is a great school, it was a very tight admissions year, and this is a great representation of what Norwood does best--gets to know a kid and they find the right fit. We know kids who wanted to go to Whitman, and we know kids who wanted to go to Sidwell. Most got to where they wanted to go and found the right fit.

[Anonymous]

at WES, the most popular schools are Bullis, St. Andrews, and St. Johns

[Anonymous]

No they didn't get where they wanted to go. They settled and got 3-4th choice. They all got in "somewhere" but plenty of top students got into their 3-4th choice with no hooks. Lame as can be this year and last.

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Anonymous wrote:What's good about 13 kids at Bullis?

13 kids aren't going to Bullis. 13 kids got in to Bullis, a subset of those are going.

Bullis is a good school and has a nice expansion year in 9th, making it a logical place for families from Norwood to apply to if they are committed to continuing their education at a private school. Norwood encourages its students to apply to a range of high schools to make sure they have an option they are happy with for high school. It's not a failure that many students applied and got in to Bullis, it's good leadership and ex-missions management.

Right. The bold just means at least one kid is going. 13 kids got in. We don’t know how many are going.

I don't think that is correct. The numbers add up to the size of the graduating class. But Bullis is a great school, it was a very tight admissions year, and this is a great representation of what Norwood does best--gets to know a kid and they find the right fit. We know kids who wanted to go to Whitman, and we know kids who wanted to go to Sidwell. Most got to where they wanted to go and found the right fit.

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Anonymous wrote:No they didn't get where they wanted to go. They settled and got 3-4th choice. They all got in "somewhere" but plenty of top students got into their 3-4th choice with no hooks. Lame as can be this year and last.

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Anonymous wrote:What's good about 13 kids at Bullis?

13 kids aren't going to Bullis. 13 kids got in to Bullis, a subset of those are going.

Bullis is a good school and has a nice expansion year in 9th, making it a logical place for families from Norwood to apply to if they are committed to continuing their education at a private school. Norwood encourages its students to apply to a range of high schools to make sure they have an option they are happy with for high school. It's not a failure that many students applied and got in to Bullis, it's good leadership and ex-missions management.

Right. The bold just means at least one kid is going. 13 kids got in. We don’t know how many are going.

I don't think that is correct. The numbers add up to the size of the graduating class. But Bullis is a great school, it was a very tight admissions year, and this is a great representation of what Norwood does best--gets to know a kid and they find the right fit. We know kids who wanted to go to Whitman, and we know kids who wanted to go to Sidwell. Most got to where they wanted to go and found the right fit.

And how the hell do you know where these kids wanted to go? You’ve got some nerve.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No they didn't get where they wanted to go. They settled and got 3-4th choice. They all got in "somewhere" but plenty of top students got into their 3-4th choice with no hooks. Lame as can be this year and last.

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Anonymous wrote:What's good about 13 kids at Bullis?

13 kids aren't going to Bullis. 13 kids got in to Bullis, a subset of those are going.

Bullis is a good school and has a nice expansion year in 9th, making it a logical place for families from Norwood to apply to if they are committed to continuing their education at a private school. Norwood encourages its students to apply to a range of high schools to make sure they have an option they are happy with for high school. It's not a failure that many students applied and got in to Bullis, it's good leadership and ex-missions management.

Right. The bold just means at least one kid is going. 13 kids got in. We don’t know how many are going.

I don't think that is correct. The numbers add up to the size of the graduating class. But Bullis is a great school, it was a very tight admissions year, and this is a great representation of what Norwood does best--gets to know a kid and they find the right fit. We know kids who wanted to go to Whitman, and we know kids who wanted to go to Sidwell. Most got to where they wanted to go and found the right fit.

And how the hell do you know where these kids wanted to go? You’ve got some nerve.

Let’s try to ignore the troll so it will go away 😆

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's good about 13 kids at Bullis?

13 kids aren't going to Bullis. 13 kids got in to Bullis, a subset of those are going.

Bullis is a good school and has a nice expansion year in 9th, making it a logical place for families from Norwood to apply to if they are committed to continuing their education at a private school. Norwood encourages its students to apply to a range of high schools to make sure they have an option they are happy with for high school. It's not a failure that many students applied and got in to Bullis, it's good leadership and ex-missions management.

Right. The bold just means at least one kid is going. 13 kids got in. We don’t know how many are going.

I don't think that is correct. The numbers add up to the size of the graduating class. But Bullis is a great school, it was a very tight admissions year, and this is a great representation of what Norwood does best--gets to know a kid and they find the right fit. We know kids who wanted to go to Whitman, and we know kids who wanted to go to Sidwell. Most got to where they wanted to go and found the right fit.

You're right. There are 13 kids going to Bullis - not just 13 that got in.