3.73 GPA Student at Lawrenceville. What Colleges Should He Consider?

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Princeton

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Of course. Rutgers is an in-state option in NJ.

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Anonymous wrote:We have no idea anything about whatever random school that is. Check your school's Naviance.

How dumb are you? Not a random school at all. Probably one of the top schools in the US. OP ask your college counselor.

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My kid went to Princeton and Lawrenceville was a sort of feeder school for Princeton. If your child has great ECs , essays, and recommendations it might be an option.

I cannot believe some of the people posting here are so ignorant. Lawrenceville is prestigious and a much better Ivy feeder than any DMV day schools.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Princeton and Lawrenceville was a sort of feeder school for Princeton. If your child has great ECs , essays, and recommendations it might be an option.

I cannot believe some of the people posting here are so ignorant. Lawrenceville is prestigious and a much better Ivy feeder than any DMV day schools.

Curious how someone hasn’t just looked at the numbers. Can’t someone do this and actually tell us? Most of these well-regarded private schools publish (brag) about their college results. It may not be exactly apples to apples (say 5-year matriculation rates or some such versus 1 year) but usually it’s very do-able. I’d be very surprised if Lawrenceville had matriculation that was meaningfully better than Sidwell/Cathedrals/GDS, but surprise me!

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Anonymous wrote:Sssh don’t tell the people in Dc that all of the DMV privates rank outside of the top 20 nationwide.

According to whom? Niche ranks Sidwell #11 nationally, and Sidwell has better name recognition than most of the schools ranked #1-10.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're not too bright.
Lawrenceville is a 9-12 grade school, not K-12. So if you want use Niche as your holy grace, this is the ranking you should have used: HS ranking. Sidwell didn't even make top 30.
https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/

Wrong. Try #29 nationally, and #1 in the DMV. You’re clearly in no position to question anyone’s intelligence.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/college-prep-private-high-schools/

Again, you're not too bright.
Your link is for "college-prep" private HS. The correct ranking to use is "best private HS". Still, Sidwell is way behind Lawrenceville in your linked ranking.
Clearly you've proven that you're not too bright.

Lawrenceville is ranked #14 and Sidwell is ranked #29 (out of tens of thousands of private schools). If you think there’s a qualitative difference in education between these two schools because of that small ranking difference, I’ll let you continue to wallow in ignorance (where you’re clearly the most comfortable based on time and experience).

Btw, your children clearly have no hope of attending either of these schools. That’s why you’re in no position to choose which ranking I post. You’re on the outside looking in.

Interesting!
Do you think there's a qualitative difference in education between Sidwell and BIM?

BIM is a for-profit charter school franchise. It’s not worthy of being included in a conversation about real educational institutions that have existed for well over a century.

Please take your BIM questions to the VA or charter school forums.

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Anonymous wrote:Sssh don’t tell the people in Dc that all of the DMV privates rank outside of the top 20 nationwide.

According to whom? Niche ranks Sidwell #11 nationally, and Sidwell has better name recognition than most of the schools ranked #1-10.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're not too bright.
Lawrenceville is a 9-12 grade school, not K-12. So if you want use Niche as your holy grace, this is the ranking you should have used: HS ranking. Sidwell didn't even make top 30.
https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/

Wrong. Try #29 nationally, and #1 in the DMV. You’re clearly in no position to question anyone’s intelligence.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/college-prep-private-high-schools/

Again, you're not too bright.
Your link is for "college-prep" private HS. The correct ranking to use is "best private HS". Still, Sidwell is way behind Lawrenceville in your linked ranking.
Clearly you've proven that you're not too bright.

Lawrenceville is ranked #14 and Sidwell is ranked #29 (out of tens of thousands of private schools). If you think there’s a qualitative difference in education between these two schools because of that small ranking difference, I’ll let you continue to wallow in ignorance (where you’re clearly the most comfortable based on time and experience).

Btw, your children clearly have no hope of attending either of these schools. That’s why you’re in no position to choose which ranking I post. You’re on the outside looking in.

Interesting!
Do you think there's a qualitative difference in education between Sidwell and BIM?

BIM is a for-profit charter school franchise. It’s not worthy of being included in a conversation about real educational institutions that have existed for well over a century.

Please take your BIM questions to the VA or charter school forums.

BIM is a private school, it belongs in this forum.
Answer the question

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Anonymous wrote:Curious how someone hasn’t just looked at the numbers. Can’t someone do this and actually tell us? Most of these well-regarded private schools publish (brag) about their college results. It may not be exactly apples to apples (say 5-year matriculation rates or some such versus 1 year) but usually it’s very do-able. I’d be very surprised if Lawrenceville had matriculation that was meaningfully better than Sidwell/Cathedrals/GDS, but surprise me!

In other words, someone else should be doing your work?

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You've already paid for some of the best college counseling in the country by sending your kid there, but you want random people on the internet to give advice? That's just no logical.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m really surprised he hasn’t had more guidance from their college counseling staff. He’s a rising senior?

I'm guessing they didn't like what they were told and decided to find strangers with no verifiable expertise to give them less informed, but more comforting, advice.

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Anonymous wrote:Sssh don’t tell the people in Dc that all of the DMV privates rank outside of the top 20 nationwide.

According to whom? Niche ranks Sidwell #11 nationally, and Sidwell has better name recognition than most of the schools ranked #1-10.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're not too bright.
Lawrenceville is a 9-12 grade school, not K-12. So if you want use Niche as your holy grace, this is the ranking you should have used: HS ranking. Sidwell didn't even make top 30.
https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/

Wrong. Try #29 nationally, and #1 in the DMV. You’re clearly in no position to question anyone’s intelligence.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/college-prep-private-high-schools/

Again, you're not too bright.
Your link is for "college-prep" private HS. The correct ranking to use is "best private HS". Still, Sidwell is way behind Lawrenceville in your linked ranking.
Clearly you've proven that you're not too bright.

Lawrenceville is ranked #14 and Sidwell is ranked #29 (out of tens of thousands of private schools). If you think there’s a qualitative difference in education between these two schools because of that small ranking difference, I’ll let you continue to wallow in ignorance (where you’re clearly the most comfortable based on time and experience).

Btw, your children clearly have no hope of attending either of these schools. That’s why you’re in no position to choose which ranking I post. You’re on the outside looking in.

Interesting!
Do you think there's a qualitative difference in education between Sidwell and BIM?

BIM is a for-profit charter school franchise. It’s not worthy of being included in a conversation about real educational institutions that have existed for well over a century.

Please take your BIM questions to the VA or charter school forums.

BIM is a private school, it belongs in this forum.
Answer the question

No. There’s no question worth answering here.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Princeton and Lawrenceville was a sort of feeder school for Princeton. If your child has great ECs , essays, and recommendations it might be an option.

I cannot believe some of the people posting here are so ignorant. Lawrenceville is prestigious and a much better Ivy feeder than any DMV day schools.

Curious how someone hasn’t just looked at the numbers. Can’t someone do this and actually tell us? Most of these well-regarded private schools publish (brag) about their college results. It may not be exactly apples to apples (say 5-year matriculation rates or some such versus 1 year) but usually it’s very do-able. I’d be very surprised if Lawrenceville had matriculation that was meaningfully better than Sidwell/Cathedrals/GDS, but surprise me!

I don’t have a dog in this fight, so I don’t know why I’m spending time on this, but Lawrenceville is in a different league than any of those schools. L has 2x as many students than NCS, but:

In the past five years, it has had 157 kids go to ivies other than Cornell, or about 31 a year. NCS over a four-year period had a max of 43, or 10 a year.

In five years, L had 9 go to MIT (1 for NCS), 20 to Duke (2-4 for NCS), 13 for Hopkins (vs. 1), 14 to WASP (vs. 3-5), 17 to Mich. (vs. 0). The only schools where the numbers are arguably comparable are Georgetown and Stanford.

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Anonymous wrote:We have no idea anything about whatever random school that is. Check your school's Naviance.

NP. Lawrenceville is not "whatever random school." Lol

Seriously. Any of the so-called Big 3 schools in DC are at best on par with Lawrenceville, prestige-wise.

lol. No. Lawrenceville is much more prestigious.

Not considered that by people I know in NJ…

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Anonymous wrote:We have no idea anything about whatever random school that is. Check your school's Naviance.

NP. Lawrenceville is not "whatever random school." Lol

Seriously. Any of the so-called Big 3 schools in DC are at best on par with Lawrenceville, prestige-wise.

lol. No. Lawrenceville is much more prestigious.

Not considered that by people I know in NJ…

You don't know anyone in NJ