2025 Privates College Decisions

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Impressive list so far for Sidwell - Columbia, UPenn, MIT, Stanford, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Darthmouth, Princeton...

Athletes and legacies.

Yawn.

It sounds like your child is not athletic and his/her parents (YOU) didn’t graduate from college. Unless you did graduate from college, but it’s not a “good” college. In that case, your child is also a legacy. It sucks to suck, huh?

Hooks should be noted unless that makes you feel insecure.

You’re projecting your own insecurity.

When someone complains about “legacy admits,” they should include their alma mater so we can fully understand their level of bitterness (and judge their level of entitlement).

I don’t want to hear CUA graduates complaining about their snowflake being shut out of the Ivies. It’s your fault that you didn’t graduate from a better school. Your child is a legacy too—you just hoped they would do better than you did.

Wow. You are massively insecure.

Hooks matter. That’s why the privates ask where parents went to school when they apply for kindergarten. You can whine about it but that doesn’t change it.

If you’re on here whining about legacies, it’s important to know where you and your spouse graduated from. Are the schools not good enough for your children?

Why is it important? Regardless of where you or I went to college, knowing which accepted students are legacies is important for understanding the data. Don’t you agree?

I’m for full transparency across the board. Let’s release legacy admissions data for various schools AND the complainers should also post their alma maters. We should know if your children applied to your institution (and if not, why?) and if they were admitted as legacies. Otherwise, your posts are deeply hypocritical.

Great.

Post your kids’ schools, your alma maters, if you were legacies, and if your kids are applying to your alma maters.

We’ll wait.

My children are in middle and high school at a Big 3. However, they will apply to our universities because we’re happy with the experiences we had and the education we received.

Your sour grapes posts about legacy admits tell me that you can’t say the same thing. That’s your fault. You should have attended better schools.

You didn’t answer the questions.

You obviously don’t believe in full transparency.

Basically, you are full of sh*t.

[Anonymous]

Ok… the infighting here is tough, but as public school parents, we love seeing this momentum—so keep it going!

And don’t forget to check back at the end of the season; most public school Ivy admits from this area aren’t locked in early unless it’s through ED.

For context, the 60-70% figure for Ivy League admits coming from public high schools is absolutely correct. If you dig into the stats around here, you’ll see it’s closer to 70%. (Of course, many of us also invest in college counselors, so it’s not entirely free.)

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Impressive list so far for Sidwell - Columbia, UPenn, MIT, Stanford, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Darthmouth, Princeton...

Athletes and legacies.

Yawn.

It sounds like your child is not athletic and his/her parents (YOU) didn’t graduate from college. Unless you did graduate from college, but it’s not a “good” college. In that case, your child is also a legacy. It sucks to suck, huh?

Hooks should be noted unless that makes you feel insecure.

You’re projecting your own insecurity.

When someone complains about “legacy admits,” they should include their alma mater so we can fully understand their level of bitterness (and judge their level of entitlement).

I don’t want to hear CUA graduates complaining about their snowflake being shut out of the Ivies. It’s your fault that you didn’t graduate from a better school. Your child is a legacy too—you just hoped they would do better than you did.

Wow. You are massively insecure.

Hooks matter. That’s why the privates ask where parents went to school when they apply for kindergarten. You can whine about it but that doesn’t change it.

If you’re on here whining about legacies, it’s important to know where you and your spouse graduated from. Are the schools not good enough for your children?

Why is it important? Regardless of where you or I went to college, knowing which accepted students are legacies is important for understanding the data. Don’t you agree?

I’m for full transparency across the board. Let’s release legacy admissions data for various schools AND the complainers should also post their alma maters. We should know if your children applied to your institution (and if not, why?) and if they were admitted as legacies. Otherwise, your posts are deeply hypocritical.

Legacy is a hook.

Pointing this out is reasonable, regardless of where the person pointing it out went to school.

Where is the hypocrisy?

Unless your children are first generation, they are legacies somewhere. It’s hypocritical for you to complain about certain legacy admissions, but not acknowledge your own.

Legacy is an admissions hook and saying so is not hypocritical or complaining. It’s just a fact.

I don’t have a problem discussing the status of ALL legacy admits. However, I take issue with the selective criticism displayed by many DCUM posters whose children did not win the Ivy+ legacy lottery.

It is extremely hypocritical for you to criticize an Ivy+ legacy admit, but remain silent when your child is admitted to your (less prestigious) alma mater. Because let’s be honest, you wouldn’t bother with these sour grapes posts if your children benefited from legacy status at a top tier university.

Again, it’s not complaining to point this out. It’s reality and better for parents and students to know this when looking at the admissions data from any school, esp one where there are a lot of legacies from top-ranked schools. You seem esp attached to the idea that posters who point this out must have gone to what you would think are inferior schools. Or that only people who went to top-ranked schools are allowed to point this out but those who whose kids “did not win the Ivy+ legacy lottery” are not allowed to. Why is that?

You’re mistaken. I have no issue with anyone pointing out legacy admissions. However, I guarantee 99.9% of the parents “pointing out” legacy admits didn’t bestow Ivy+ legacy status on their own children. Even though their children are legacies somewhere. They’re not motivated by altruism or some greater good—they’re just bitter.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Impressive list so far for Sidwell - Columbia, UPenn, MIT, Stanford, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Darthmouth, Princeton...

Athletes and legacies.

Yawn.

It sounds like your child is not athletic and his/her parents (YOU) didn’t graduate from college. Unless you did graduate from college, but it’s not a “good” college. In that case, your child is also a legacy. It sucks to suck, huh?

Hooks should be noted unless that makes you feel insecure.

You’re projecting your own insecurity.

When someone complains about “legacy admits,” they should include their alma mater so we can fully understand their level of bitterness (and judge their level of entitlement).

I don’t want to hear CUA graduates complaining about their snowflake being shut out of the Ivies. It’s your fault that you didn’t graduate from a better school. Your child is a legacy too—you just hoped they would do better than you did.

Wow. You are massively insecure.

Hooks matter. That’s why the privates ask where parents went to school when they apply for kindergarten. You can whine about it but that doesn’t change it.

If you’re on here whining about legacies, it’s important to know where you and your spouse graduated from. Are the schools not good enough for your children?

Why is it important? Regardless of where you or I went to college, knowing which accepted students are legacies is important for understanding the data. Don’t you agree?

I’m for full transparency across the board. Let’s release legacy admissions data for various schools AND the complainers should also post their alma maters. We should know if your children applied to your institution (and if not, why?) and if they were admitted as legacies. Otherwise, your posts are deeply hypocritical.

Great.

Post your kids’ schools, your alma maters, if you were legacies, and if your kids are applying to your alma maters.

We’ll wait.

My children are in middle and high school at a Big 3. However, they will apply to our universities because we’re happy with the experiences we had and the education we received.

Your sour grapes posts about legacy admits tell me that you can’t say the same thing. That’s your fault. You should have attended better schools.

You didn’t answer the questions.

You obviously don’t believe in full transparency.

Basically, you are full of sh*t.

You definitely know about being “full of sh*t.” I believe in full transparency for people who are always crying in these threads about hooks and legacy. What and where are your hooks? I don’t have to concern troll about legacy admissions on every DCUM post. Too bad you don’t have that luxury.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Impressive list so far for Sidwell - Columbia, UPenn, MIT, Stanford, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Darthmouth, Princeton...

Athletes and legacies.

Yawn.

It sounds like your child is not athletic and his/her parents (YOU) didn’t graduate from college. Unless you did graduate from college, but it’s not a “good” college. In that case, your child is also a legacy. It sucks to suck, huh?

Hooks should be noted unless that makes you feel insecure.

You’re projecting your own insecurity.

When someone complains about “legacy admits,” they should include their alma mater so we can fully understand their level of bitterness (and judge their level of entitlement).

I don’t want to hear CUA graduates complaining about their snowflake being shut out of the Ivies. It’s your fault that you didn’t graduate from a better school. Your child is a legacy too—you just hoped they would do better than you did.

Wow. You are massively insecure.

Hooks matter. That’s why the privates ask where parents went to school when they apply for kindergarten. You can whine about it but that doesn’t change it.

If you’re on here whining about legacies, it’s important to know where you and your spouse graduated from. Are the schools not good enough for your children?

Why is it important? Regardless of where you or I went to college, knowing which accepted students are legacies is important for understanding the data. Don’t you agree?

I’m for full transparency across the board. Let’s release legacy admissions data for various schools AND the complainers should also post their alma maters. We should know if your children applied to your institution (and if not, why?) and if they were admitted as legacies. Otherwise, your posts are deeply hypocritical.

Legacy is a hook.

Pointing this out is reasonable, regardless of where the person pointing it out went to school.

Where is the hypocrisy?

Unless your children are first generation, they are legacies somewhere. It’s hypocritical for you to complain about certain legacy admissions, but not acknowledge your own.

Legacy is an admissions hook and saying so is not hypocritical or complaining. It’s just a fact.

I don’t have a problem discussing the status of ALL legacy admits. However, I take issue with the selective criticism displayed by many DCUM posters whose children did not win the Ivy+ legacy lottery.

It is extremely hypocritical for you to criticize an Ivy+ legacy admit, but remain silent when your child is admitted to your (less prestigious) alma mater. Because let’s be honest, you wouldn’t bother with these sour grapes posts if your children benefited from legacy status at a top tier university.

Again, it’s not complaining to point this out. It’s reality and better for parents and students to know this when looking at the admissions data from any school, esp one where there are a lot of legacies from top-ranked schools. You seem esp attached to the idea that posters who point this out must have gone to what you would think are inferior schools. Or that only people who went to top-ranked schools are allowed to point this out but those who whose kids “did not win the Ivy+ legacy lottery” are not allowed to. Why is that?

You’re mistaken. I have no issue with anyone pointing out legacy admissions. However, I guarantee 99.9% of the parents “pointing out” legacy admits didn’t bestow Ivy+ legacy status on their own children. Even though their children are legacies somewhere. They’re not motivated by altruism or some greater good—they’re just bitter.

You do have issue with “anyone” pointing this out. You just said you do. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t care where posters went to school. But you really, really do.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Impressive list so far for Sidwell - Columbia, UPenn, MIT, Stanford, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Darthmouth, Princeton...

Athletes and legacies.

Yawn.

It sounds like your child is not athletic and his/her parents (YOU) didn’t graduate from college. Unless you did graduate from college, but it’s not a “good” college. In that case, your child is also a legacy. It sucks to suck, huh?

Hooks should be noted unless that makes you feel insecure.

You’re projecting your own insecurity.

When someone complains about “legacy admits,” they should include their alma mater so we can fully understand their level of bitterness (and judge their level of entitlement).

I don’t want to hear CUA graduates complaining about their snowflake being shut out of the Ivies. It’s your fault that you didn’t graduate from a better school. Your child is a legacy too—you just hoped they would do better than you did.

Wow. You are massively insecure.

Hooks matter. That’s why the privates ask where parents went to school when they apply for kindergarten. You can whine about it but that doesn’t change it.

If you’re on here whining about legacies, it’s important to know where you and your spouse graduated from. Are the schools not good enough for your children?

Why is it important? Regardless of where you or I went to college, knowing which accepted students are legacies is important for understanding the data. Don’t you agree?

I’m for full transparency across the board. Let’s release legacy admissions data for various schools AND the complainers should also post their alma maters. We should know if your children applied to your institution (and if not, why?) and if they were admitted as legacies. Otherwise, your posts are deeply hypocritical.

Legacy is a hook.

Pointing this out is reasonable, regardless of where the person pointing it out went to school.

Where is the hypocrisy?

Unless your children are first generation, they are legacies somewhere. It’s hypocritical for you to complain about certain legacy admissions, but not acknowledge your own.

Legacy is an admissions hook and saying so is not hypocritical or complaining. It’s just a fact.

I don’t have a problem discussing the status of ALL legacy admits. However, I take issue with the selective criticism displayed by many DCUM posters whose children did not win the Ivy+ legacy lottery.

It is extremely hypocritical for you to criticize an Ivy+ legacy admit, but remain silent when your child is admitted to your (less prestigious) alma mater. Because let’s be honest, you wouldn’t bother with these sour grapes posts if your children benefited from legacy status at a top tier university.

Again, it’s not complaining to point this out. It’s reality and better for parents and students to know this when looking at the admissions data from any school, esp one where there are a lot of legacies from top-ranked schools. You seem esp attached to the idea that posters who point this out must have gone to what you would think are inferior schools. Or that only people who went to top-ranked schools are allowed to point this out but those who whose kids “did not win the Ivy+ legacy lottery” are not allowed to. Why is that?

You’re mistaken. I have no issue with anyone pointing out legacy admissions. However, I guarantee 99.9% of the parents “pointing out” legacy admits didn’t bestow Ivy+ legacy status on their own children. Even though their children are legacies somewhere. They’re not motivated by altruism or some greater good—they’re just bitter.

You do have issue with “anyone” pointing this out. You just said you do. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t care where posters went to school. But you really, really do.
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Take it however you want.

[Anonymous]

The Sidwell list is just heavily athletes and legacies. It seems unhooked kids have better chances at less competitive schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That isn't Episcopal in Alexandria.

That is Episcopal High School of Houston, TX

lol I couldn’t figure out why so many were attending Texas Christian!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That isn't Episcopal in Alexandria.

That is Episcopal High School of Houston, TX

I was very confused by all the Texas bound students!

[Anonymous]

Does your school allow a very, very top kid who got into a SCEA to apply to all the other Ivies, etc? Wondering how other schools handle this.

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Anonymous wrote:The Sidwell list is just heavily athletes and legacies. It seems unhooked kids have better chances at less competitive schools.

Untrue. I’m a Sidwell US parent, and at least 1/2 of unhooked Sidwell students were admitted to T25 schools during the RD round last year.

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody has info about NCS/STA?

Sta has a ton of Boston college, UVA and Uchicago

[Anonymous]

I love that each time college is mentioned, this devolves into a Sidwell fight. LOL.

For the rest of us, its interesting to see the spread across the DMV. We have some awesome kids in this area!

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Anonymous wrote:Ok… the infighting here is tough, but as public school parents, we love seeing this momentum—so keep it going!

And don’t forget to check back at the end of the season; most public school Ivy admits from this area aren’t locked in early unless it’s through ED.

For context, the 60-70% figure for Ivy League admits coming from public high schools is absolutely correct. If you dig into the stats around here, you’ll see it’s closer to 70%. (Of course, many of us also invest in college counselors, so it’s not entirely free.)

There are more public high school students than private school students in general. This isn’t surprising. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I don’t think any of us will be “checking back” on public school results as this is the private school forum

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Anonymous wrote:The Sidwell list is just heavily athletes and legacies. It seems unhooked kids have better chances at less competitive schools.

Maybe they didn't want to go to them. Maybe they applied to schools they liked better? You folks are obsessed with lists.

Please remember that you are talking about real kids.