Why the lack of VTech for Sidwell Seniors?

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Anonymous wrote:It's the usual troll who always refers to VT as "VTech." Very transparent.

NP. I will never understand why people from that school are soooo touchy about spelling. The folks from most other schools just aren't so twitchy about spelling.

+1. You don’t see CWM boosters get upset when people drop the College and just refer to it as W&M.

That's because no one ever says "CWM." Just as no one says "VTech."

A lot of people say VTech. And VaTech.

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Anonymous wrote:This is an obvious answer. The student body is not wealthy enough to be an appealing option for students from a prestigious private school. Parents don’t want their kids to marry down and the dating pool of students from families in the top 1% of the income distribution is too small at Tech. Why would you want your kid to go to school where only 3% of the students come from very affluent families. They will not marry well at a school like that.

NP. Interesting angle. What about Wisconsin? The kids there were overall very attractive. How many are top 1% at Wisconsin?

I can't wait to see what the PPP's "source" is for this nonsense.

This is a reputable source. An NYT interactive article about the income composition of colleges based on social mobility research data. Nope, Wisconsin is an even worse choice if you want to maintain your kids/future grandkids social status. Only 1.7% of the University of Wisconsin student body come from families in the top 1% of the income distribution.

Think about this logically people. A lot of these kids from very wealthy families. Their children don’t necessarily need to work (even though most kids do work). The biggest worry for these parents is maintaining what their family already has. Ensuring that your kid doesn’t marry down (too much) is more important that making sure that your kid attends the best engineering program. It’s better for your kid to study a useless degree at an (affluent) SLAC and marry into a similarly wealthy family than marry into a middle class family at a good engineering school. This is unspoken truth of American Society. Very rich people pretend to be egalitarian in public, but their actual behavior they encourage for their own children is reminiscent of Victorian England.

Bullshit

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Anonymous wrote:This is an obvious answer. The student body is not wealthy enough to be an appealing option for students from a prestigious private school. Parents don’t want their kids to marry down and the dating pool of students from families in the top 1% of the income distribution is too small at Tech. Why would you want your kid to go to school where only 3% of the students come from very affluent families. They will not marry well at a school like that.

NP. Interesting angle. What about Wisconsin? The kids there were overall very attractive. How many are top 1% at Wisconsin?

I can't wait to see what the PPP's "source" is for this nonsense.

This is a reputable source. An NYT interactive article about the income composition of colleges based on social mobility research data. Nope, Wisconsin is an even worse choice if you want to maintain your kids/future grandkids social status. Only 1.7% of the University of Wisconsin student body come from families in the top 1% of the income distribution.

So post the link. We don't need your narrative.

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Anonymous wrote:This is an obvious answer. The student body is not wealthy enough to be an appealing option for students from a prestigious private school. Parents don’t want their kids to marry down and the dating pool of students from families in the top 1% of the income distribution is too small at Tech. Why would you want your kid to go to school where only 3% of the students come from very affluent families. They will not marry well at a school like that.

NP. Interesting angle. What about Wisconsin? The kids there were overall very attractive. How many are top 1% at Wisconsin?

I can't wait to see what the PPP's "source" is for this nonsense.

This is a reputable source. An NYT interactive article about the income composition of colleges based on social mobility research data. Nope, Wisconsin is an even worse choice if you want to maintain your kids/future grandkids social status. Only 1.7% of the University of Wisconsin student body come from families in the top 1% of the income distribution.

Think about this logically people. A lot of these kids from very wealthy families. Their children don’t necessarily need to work (even though most kids do work). The biggest worry for these parents is maintaining what their family already has. Ensuring that your kid doesn’t marry down (too much) is more important that making sure that your kid attends the best engineering program. It’s better for your kid to study a useless degree at an (affluent) SLAC and marry into a similarly wealthy family than marry into a middle class family at a good engineering school. This is unspoken truth of American Society. Very rich people pretend to be egalitarian in public, but their actual behavior they encourage for their own children is reminiscent of Victorian England.

I get the impression that you are a public school parent? Your argument is ridiculous. No one thinks their kid is going to maintain their wealth by going to certain schools. Kids from private schools aren’t choosing VT simply because they don’t “have” to go there - unlink a lot of students that need in state tuition. They have the money to go out of state. I was LMC and no one wanted to go to our state school, everyone wanted to get the hell out of dodge. I think VT is great, but Blacksburg vs Pittsburgh or Madison? C’mon. No one wants that.

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Anonymous wrote:This is an obvious answer. The student body is not wealthy enough to be an appealing option for students from a prestigious private school. Parents don’t want their kids to marry down and the dating pool of students from families in the top 1% of the income distribution is too small at Tech. Why would you want your kid to go to school where only 3% of the students come from very affluent families. They will not marry well at a school like that.

NP. Interesting angle. What about Wisconsin? The kids there were overall very attractive. How many are top 1% at Wisconsin?

I can't wait to see what the PPP's "source" is for this nonsense.

This is a reputable source. An NYT interactive article about the income composition of colleges based on social mobility research data. Nope, Wisconsin is an even worse choice if you want to maintain your kids/future grandkids social status. Only 1.7% of the University of Wisconsin student body come from families in the top 1% of the income distribution.

Think about this logically people. A lot of these kids from very wealthy families. Their children don’t necessarily need to work (even though most kids do work). The biggest worry for these parents is maintaining what their family already has. Ensuring that your kid doesn’t marry down (too much) is more important that making sure that your kid attends the best engineering program. It’s better for your kid to study a useless degree at an (affluent) SLAC and marry into a similarly wealthy family than marry into a middle class family at a good engineering school. This is unspoken truth of American Society. Very rich people pretend to be egalitarian in public, but their actual behavior they encourage for their own children is reminiscent of Victorian England.

I get the impression that you are a public school parent? Your argument is ridiculous. No one thinks their kid is going to maintain their wealth by going to certain schools. Kids from private schools aren’t choosing VT simply because they don’t “have” to go there - unlink a lot of students that need in state tuition. They have the money to go out of state. I was LMC and no one wanted to go to our state school, everyone wanted to get the hell out of dodge. I think VT is great, but Blacksburg vs Pittsburgh or Madison? C’mon. No one wants that.

Not a public school parent. Nothing is a guarantee, but your kid is much more likely to marry into family with similar financial status if they attend a university where 15-20% come from the top 1% of income distribution instead of a measly 2-3%

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Anonymous wrote:This is an obvious answer. The student body is not wealthy enough to be an appealing option for students from a prestigious private school. Parents don’t want their kids to marry down and the dating pool of students from families in the top 1% of the income distribution is too small at Tech. Why would you want your kid to go to school where only 3% of the students come from very affluent families. They will not marry well at a school like that.

NP. Interesting angle. What about Wisconsin? The kids there were overall very attractive. How many are top 1% at Wisconsin?

I can't wait to see what the PPP's "source" is for this nonsense.

This is a reputable source. An NYT interactive article about the income composition of colleges based on social mobility research data. Nope, Wisconsin is an even worse choice if you want to maintain your kids/future grandkids social status. Only 1.7% of the University of Wisconsin student body come from families in the top 1% of the income distribution.

So post the link. We don't need your narrative.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/university-of-wisconsin

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Anonymous wrote:This is an obvious answer. The student body is not wealthy enough to be an appealing option for students from a prestigious private school. Parents don’t want their kids to marry down and the dating pool of students from families in the top 1% of the income distribution is too small at Tech. Why would you want your kid to go to school where only 3% of the students come from very affluent families. They will not marry well at a school like that.

NP. Interesting angle. What about Wisconsin? The kids there were overall very attractive. How many are top 1% at Wisconsin?

I can't wait to see what the PPP's "source" is for this nonsense.

This is a reputable source. An NYT interactive article about the income composition of colleges based on social mobility research data. Nope, Wisconsin is an even worse choice if you want to maintain your kids/future grandkids social status. Only 1.7% of the University of Wisconsin student body come from families in the top 1% of the income distribution.

Think about this logically people. A lot of these kids from very wealthy families. Their children don’t necessarily need to work (even though most kids do work). The biggest worry for these parents is maintaining what their family already has. Ensuring that your kid doesn’t marry down (too much) is more important that making sure that your kid attends the best engineering program. It’s better for your kid to study a useless degree at an (affluent) SLAC and marry into a similarly wealthy family than marry into a middle class family at a good engineering school. This is unspoken truth of American Society. Very rich people pretend to be egalitarian in public, but their actual behavior they encourage for their own children is reminiscent of Victorian England.

Bullshit

Say more. Loving these insights. A true rebuttal for the ages.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is an obvious answer. The student body is not wealthy enough to be an appealing option for students from a prestigious private school. Parents don’t want their kids to marry down and the dating pool of students from families in the top 1% of the income distribution is too small at Tech. Why would you want your kid to go to school where only 3% of the students come from very affluent families. They will not marry well at a school like that.

NP. Interesting angle. What about Wisconsin? The kids there were overall very attractive. How many are top 1% at Wisconsin?

I can't wait to see what the PPP's "source" is for this nonsense.

This is a reputable source. An NYT interactive article about the income composition of colleges based on social mobility research data. Nope, Wisconsin is an even worse choice if you want to maintain your kids/future grandkids social status. Only 1.7% of the University of Wisconsin student body come from families in the top 1% of the income distribution.

Think about this logically people. A lot of these kids from very wealthy families. Their children don’t necessarily need to work (even though most kids do work). The biggest worry for these parents is maintaining what their family already has. Ensuring that your kid doesn’t marry down (too much) is more important that making sure that your kid attends the best engineering program. It’s better for your kid to study a useless degree at an (affluent) SLAC and marry into a similarly wealthy family than marry into a middle class family at a good engineering school. This is unspoken truth of American Society. Very rich people pretend to be egalitarian in public, but their actual behavior they encourage for their own children is reminiscent of Victorian England.

I get the impression that you are a public school parent? Your argument is ridiculous. No one thinks their kid is going to maintain their wealth by going to certain schools. Kids from private schools aren’t choosing VT simply because they don’t “have” to go there - unlink a lot of students that need in state tuition. They have the money to go out of state. I was LMC and no one wanted to go to our state school, everyone wanted to get the hell out of dodge. I think VT is great, but Blacksburg vs Pittsburgh or Madison? C’mon. No one wants that.

Not a public school parent. Nothing is a guarantee, but your kid is much more likely to marry into family with similar financial status if they attend a university where 15-20% come from the top 1% of income distribution instead of a measly 2-3%

Umm...okay? So you are a weird private school striver parent that thinks this way? Good luck with your social engineering. I send my kid to a $55K+ private school and think you are insane.

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Anonymous wrote:There are graduates of Sidwell to VT from class of 2022 and 2023 for sure because I knew them.

Me too

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Anonymous wrote:This is an obvious answer. The student body is not wealthy enough to be an appealing option for students from a prestigious private school. Parents don’t want their kids to marry down and the dating pool of students from families in the top 1% of the income distribution is too small at Tech. Why would you want your kid to go to school where only 3% of the students come from very affluent families. They will not marry well at a school like that.

NP. Interesting angle. What about Wisconsin? The kids there were overall very attractive. How many are top 1% at Wisconsin?

I can't wait to see what the PPP's "source" is for this nonsense.

This is a reputable source. An NYT interactive article about the income composition of colleges based on social mobility research data. Nope, Wisconsin is an even worse choice if you want to maintain your kids/future grandkids social status. Only 1.7% of the University of Wisconsin student body come from families in the top 1% of the income distribution.

Think about this logically people. A lot of these kids from very wealthy families. Their children don’t necessarily need to work (even though most kids do work). The biggest worry for these parents is maintaining what their family already has. Ensuring that your kid doesn’t marry down (too much) is more important that making sure that your kid attends the best engineering program. It’s better for your kid to study a useless degree at an (affluent) SLAC and marry into a similarly wealthy family than marry into a middle class family at a good engineering school. This is unspoken truth of American Society. Very rich people pretend to be egalitarian in public, but their actual behavior they encourage for their own children is reminiscent of Victorian England.

OMG what a delusional post. I met no one in our time at Sidwell whose primary goal was marrying their kid off to the right stock. They were all gunning for top schools and their kids had high academic and career aspirations.

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The actual data shows as many as 3 kids to VT over four years and as few as 4 to Pitt. And we’ve now gone four pages attempting to theorize what amounts to random variation.

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It’s a trade school.

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Anonymous wrote:This is an obvious answer. The student body is not wealthy enough to be an appealing option for students from a prestigious private school. Parents don’t want their kids to marry down and the dating pool of students from families in the top 1% of the income distribution is too small at Tech. Why would you want your kid to go to school where only 3% of the students come from very affluent families. They will not marry well at a school like that.

NP. Interesting angle. What about Wisconsin? The kids there were overall very attractive. How many are top 1% at Wisconsin?

I can't wait to see what the PPP's "source" is for this nonsense.

This is a reputable source. An NYT interactive article about the income composition of colleges based on social mobility research data. Nope, Wisconsin is an even worse choice if you want to maintain your kids/future grandkids social status. Only 1.7% of the University of Wisconsin student body come from families in the top 1% of the income distribution.

Think about this logically people. A lot of these kids from very wealthy families. Their children don’t necessarily need to work (even though most kids do work). The biggest worry for these parents is maintaining what their family already has. Ensuring that your kid doesn’t marry down (too much) is more important that making sure that your kid attends the best engineering program. It’s better for your kid to study a useless degree at an (affluent) SLAC and marry into a similarly wealthy family than marry into a middle class family at a good engineering school. This is unspoken truth of American Society. Very rich people pretend to be egalitarian in public, but their actual behavior they encourage for their own children is reminiscent of Victorian England.

I get the impression that you are a public school parent? Your argument is ridiculous. No one thinks their kid is going to maintain their wealth by going to certain schools. Kids from private schools aren’t choosing VT simply because they don’t “have” to go there - unlink a lot of students that need in state tuition. They have the money to go out of state. I was LMC and no one wanted to go to our state school, everyone wanted to get the hell out of dodge. I think VT is great, but Blacksburg vs Pittsburgh or Madison? C’mon. No one wants that.

Not a public school parent. Nothing is a guarantee, but your kid is much more likely to marry into family with similar financial status if they attend a university where 15-20% come from the top 1% of income distribution instead of a measly 2-3%

Umm...okay? So you are a weird private school striver parent that thinks this way? Good luck with your social engineering. I send my kid to a $55K+ private school and think you are insane.

Like so many on this board, you are a snob.

DP

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Anonymous wrote:In viewing where Sidwell Friends graduates are well-represented, they seem to like LACs, particularly those in Maine (Bowdoin, Colby, Bates), New York (Hamilton, Colgate, Skidmore) and Pennsylvania (Haverford, Lafayette), along with Wesleyan (CT) and Pitzer (CA).

Yes, you did type out every LAC where 4 or more Sidwell Friends grads got in, but it's utterly idiotic. They hardly get into the top WASP schools and seem to like alternative/worse LACs, quite concerning.

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Sidwell parents are remarkably insecure.