sidwell college results--does everyone have top grades or are they getting in kids into strong schools imperfect grades?

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Anonymous wrote:why are they so much better than the NCS accepts?
NCS has about 8 Ivies and MIT/Duke (roughly the top 10 kids in the class). Then the results drop like a rock.
No-one in to schools like USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

There’s a difference between “no one in” and “no one going” or “no one posted”. There are 71 in the class. I know of at least one in to Berkeley (don’t know if they’ll choose to attend). About 5 going to Michigan. I see NYU, Wellesley, West Point, ND, Georgetown, WashU, Wesleyan - all posted. How is that a huge drop?

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.

Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

Did they apply? People seem to think all kids apply to all schools at the top of the list. They don't.

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.

Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

Did they apply? People seem to think all kids apply to all schools at the top of the list. They don't.

I’m not an NCS parent, so I obviously don’t know what’s going on over there. However, it’s surprising that it appears that no NCS students are going to Northwestern, USC, Vandy, Emory, etc. UChicgo I understand (known to be a joyless grind), but the aforementioned colleges seem universally appealing among DC private school students.

Is that correct, or have those admits just not posted on IG?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.



Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

I would need to understand are we talking weighted or in weighted?

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.

Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

Did they apply? People seem to think all kids apply to all schools at the top of the list. They don't.

I’m not an NCS parent, so I obviously don’t know what’s going on over there. However, it’s surprising that it appears that no NCS students are going to Northwestern, USC, Vandy, Emory, etc. UChicgo I understand (known to be a joyless grind), but the aforementioned colleges seem universally appealing among DC private school students.

Is that correct, or have those admits just not posted on IG?

I don’t know where everyone applied, of course. I am a parent. I never once heard my student (or her friends) mention Vandy. Many of the schools I see posted definitely seem on par with USC, Vandy and Emory to me. Michigan, for example, was wildly popular and there are a few more attending Michigan than posted. I don’t recall many NCS students going to USC even in previous years. And yes, there are several top school admits not posted (privacy) and some weighing several acceptances.

[Anonymous]

I must be looking at different IG pages. All of the area top privates seem comparable from what I see. About 10% to Ivy. Then many (half the class?) to T50 schools.

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.

Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

Did they apply? People seem to think all kids apply to all schools at the top of the list. They don't.

I’m not an NCS parent, so I obviously don’t know what’s going on over there. However, it’s surprising that it appears that no NCS students are going to Northwestern, USC, Vandy, Emory, etc. UChicgo I understand (known to be a joyless grind), but the aforementioned colleges seem universally appealing among DC private school students.

Is that correct, or have those admits just not posted on IG?

I don’t know where everyone applied, of course. I am a parent. I never once heard my student (or her friends) mention Vandy. Many of the schools I see posted definitely seem on par with USC, Vandy and Emory to me. Michigan, for example, was wildly popular and there are a few more attending Michigan than posted. I don’t recall many NCS students going to USC even in previous years. And yes, there are several top school admits not posted (privacy) and some weighing several acceptances.

What about Northwestern? Are any NCS students heading there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I must be looking at different IG pages. All of the area top privates seem comparable from what I see. About 10% to Ivy. Then many (half the class?) to T50 schools.

This year, it looks like Sidwell is sending about 16% to Ivies, and half the class to T30-T40 colleges (universities and liberal arts combined). So, they’re doing a little better than average for a DC private.

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.

Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

Did they apply? People seem to think all kids apply to all schools at the top of the list. They don't.

I’m not an NCS parent, so I obviously don’t know what’s going on over there. However, it’s surprising that it appears that no NCS students are going to Northwestern, USC, Vandy, Emory, etc. UChicgo I understand (known to be a joyless grind), but the aforementioned colleges seem universally appealing among DC private school students.

Is that correct, or have those admits just not posted on IG?

I don’t know where everyone applied, of course. I am a parent. I never once heard my student (or her friends) mention Vandy. Many of the schools I see posted definitely seem on par with USC, Vandy and Emory to me. Michigan, for example, was wildly popular and there are a few more attending Michigan than posted. I don’t recall many NCS students going to USC even in previous years. And yes, there are several top school admits not posted (privacy) and some weighing several acceptances.

What about Northwestern? Are any NCS students heading there?

No.

What i don't get is that it seems like you need a really high GPA (3.9+) from NCS to get into USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt which basically eliminates all but the top 10 girls...and yet Sidwell seems to get in kids with lower GPAs. What gives?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.



Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

I would need to understand are we talking weighted or in weighted?

Sidwell doesn't weight GPAs. I don't know about NCS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.



Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

I would need to understand are we talking weighted or in weighted?

Sidwell doesn't weight GPAs. I don't know about NCS.

NCS does not weight gpa’s.

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.

Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

Did they apply? People seem to think all kids apply to all schools at the top of the list. They don't.

I’m not an NCS parent, so I obviously don’t know what’s going on over there. However, it’s surprising that it appears that no NCS students are going to Northwestern, USC, Vandy, Emory, etc. UChicgo I understand (known to be a joyless grind), but the aforementioned colleges seem universally appealing among DC private school students.

Is that correct, or have those admits just not posted on IG?

I don’t know where everyone applied, of course. I am a parent. I never once heard my student (or her friends) mention Vandy. Many of the schools I see posted definitely seem on par with USC, Vandy and Emory to me. Michigan, for example, was wildly popular and there are a few more attending Michigan than posted. I don’t recall many NCS students going to USC even in previous years. And yes, there are several top school admits not posted (privacy) and some weighing several acceptances.

What about Northwestern? Are any NCS students heading there?

No.

What i don't get is that it seems like you need a really high GPA (3.9+) from NCS to get into USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt which basically eliminates all but the top 10 girls...and yet Sidwell seems to get in kids with lower GPAs. What gives?

I don’t have an answer. I know for a fact that a few of the USC and Northwestern admits do not have over a 3.8 cumulative GPA, nor are they sports recruits, or legacies (at least not based on their parents). I don’t know the stats for the Vanderbilt students.

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm puzzled by is how Sidwell is clearly getting kids into top 30 or 40 schools who have GPAs under 3.8 (as evidenced by the fact that they have and average GPA of 3.6 and 50% of the class going to the Ivies plus places like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Wash U etc) At NCS it's not the case. No girls at all to USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Boston College, UCLA, Berkeley, Tulane, Emory, etc. You have the Ivy level tier (top 10%) and then you drop down quite a bit. I wonder why.

Pls don't call me an NCS troll or jump on me. The two schools seem to have very different results for kids outside the top 10-15% of the class. What gives?

Did they apply? People seem to think all kids apply to all schools at the top of the list. They don't.

I’m not an NCS parent, so I obviously don’t know what’s going on over there. However, it’s surprising that it appears that no NCS students are going to Northwestern, USC, Vandy, Emory, etc. UChicgo I understand (known to be a joyless grind), but the aforementioned colleges seem universally appealing among DC private school students.

Is that correct, or have those admits just not posted on IG?

I don’t know where everyone applied, of course. I am a parent. I never once heard my student (or her friends) mention Vandy. Many of the schools I see posted definitely seem on par with USC, Vandy and Emory to me. Michigan, for example, was wildly popular and there are a few more attending Michigan than posted. I don’t recall many NCS students going to USC even in previous years. And yes, there are several top school admits not posted (privacy) and some weighing several acceptances.

What about Northwestern? Are any NCS students heading there?

No.

What i don't get is that it seems like you need a really high GPA (3.9+) from NCS to get into USC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt which basically eliminates all but the top 10 girls...and yet Sidwell seems to get in kids with lower GPAs. What gives?

Definitely some truth to this (although I don’t think it’s as high as 3.9) But I do know several Sidwell families in the 3.5-3.7 range who are very unhappy with their results. In this TO world it’s tough under a 3.8 from any school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college results are really good this year. Very, very few kids (out of over 80 posted) are attending schools outside of the top 30 or schools that are not highly competitive.

Does this mean that they're getting very competitive admits for kids with GPAs under 3.8?
(i.e with a few Bs?)
Or does this class all have 3.8+?

Asking because my kid's DC Big3 private seems to have a major drop off after about a 3.8.
The top kids---doing great!
Then the 3.7 and below are attending schools that are far less competitive.
I.e nothing really in the top 40.

Are Sidwell's GPAs all clustered above 3.8 or do they just have more pull with colleges so that their lower kids
still get strong admits?


Curious.

You have no idea what the gpas are of kids in the current senior class because they have not even posted on SCOIR or Naviance yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has done well this year.

I don’t know how to link IG accounts, but there’s a student run Sidwell account (sidwellsaas) that shows seniors wearing their college shirts today. Although there may have been a few students who didn’t participate, or weren’t filmed, the video shows a total of 18 seniors who are attending Ivies in the fall (1 each to Brown, Cornell, and Yale; 2 to Dartmouth; 3 to Columbia; 4 to Harvard; and 6 to Penn).

That’s fantastic! I’m cheering for all the kids. NCS is half the size (and not as many athletic recruits) and has about the same percentage going Ivy (and MIT).

NP. Not to quibble, but I really value accuracy. NCS’ graduating class is not “half the size” of Sidwell’s. NCS has 71 graduating seniors, and Sidwell has 125. NCS has 54 fewer students than Sidwell. Half the size would mean that NCS has 62 graduating seniors.

That’s all. Carry on.

NP. Almost half...