NCS going downhill?

[Anonymous]

Visitation is a wonderful school, but I would not put it in the same category as NCS. It just isn't known outside the DC area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:42, how have you been given access to all those college results? Post them here so we all can see for ourselves.

1. I am wicked connected.

2. Lol. I don't do the bidding of anonymous Internet posters, but see #3 below.

3. The less connected can get matriculation records (sometimes for one year, but inmost cases covering a 3- or 5-year span) by googling "matriculation list" or "matriculation record" plus the school name (try Landon, St. Albans, Amdover, Hotchkiss, Exeter, etc). You'll see plenty of less than top tier colleges listed as destinations.

[Anonymous]

I think you're fibbing. Some of those schools do post matriculation data for the public, but you claimed St Albans and Sidwell, which both keep the info restricted. Pictures or it didn't happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visitation is a wonderful school, but I would not put it in the same category as NCS. It just isn't known outside the DC area.

Well truthfully the only school really known outside of this region by many is Sidwell Friends and maybe St. Albans. People know of the National Cathedral so when you mention the National Cathedral School or St. albans they are familiar with the church and the boys school so they kind of feel they have heard of NCS. That is what I have known to be the case for many years.

[Anonymous]

It was a less impressive matriculation list than some other years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you're fibbing. Some of those schools do post matriculation data for the public, but you claimed St Albans and Sidwell, which both keep the info restricted. Pictures or it didn't happen.

Gee, bluff called, as I don't care if cranky anonymous posters think I am "fibbing.". (it will be tough, but i will live with the scorn.)

For the purposes of responding to the OP's original point, should that have been a genuine post, there are enough lists available online.

[Anonymous]

If anyone is interested in actual data, and not just bluffs, here is a good website ... http://matriculationstats.org/day-schools-outside-of-nyc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you're fibbing. Some of those schools do post matriculation data for the public, but you claimed St Albans and Sidwell, which both keep the info restricted. Pictures or it didn't happen.

STA is right on the website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you're fibbing. Some of those schools do post matriculation data for the public, but you claimed St Albans and Sidwell, which both keep the info restricted. Pictures or it didn't happen.

STA is right on the website.

Do you mean here ... http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=702 (a list covering less than half the class) and here ... http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=722 (a bare list of college names without any numbers) ? Unfortunately, those are not very helpful on assessing how the school does at college placement. NCS used to publish a complete list of college matriculations, but decided for some unknown reason to stop publishing about a year or two ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visitation is a wonderful school, but I would not put it in the same category as NCS. It just isn't known outside the DC area.

I have never understood why people care if their high school is nationally known. I went to Sidwell, which IS allegedly nationally known, and I can tell you that it simply doesn't come up in conversation and has not helped me in my career.

College admissions officers are very familiar with all the DC area public and private schools so from a college admissions perspective being "known" or not is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visitation is a wonderful school, but I would not put it in the same category as NCS. It just isn't known outside the DC area.

And NCS isn't known outside the metropolitan area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you're fibbing. Some of those schools do post matriculation data for the public, but you claimed St Albans and Sidwell, which both keep the info restricted. Pictures or it didn't happen.

STA is right on the website.

Do you mean here ... http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=702 (a list covering less than half the class) and here ... http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=722 (a bare list of college names without any numbers) ? Unfortunately, those are not very helpful on assessing how the school does at college placement. NCS used to publish a complete list of college matriculations, but decided for some unknown reason to stop publishing about a year or two ago.

Not pp, but doesn't the fact that they stopped publishing it tell you something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visitation is a wonderful school, but I would not put it in the same category as NCS. It just isn't known outside the DC area.

And NCS isn't known outside the metropolitan area.

I've lived here since college and didn't know of NCS before I met DCUM. And I have high schoolers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you're fibbing. Some of those schools do post matriculation data for the public, but you claimed St Albans and Sidwell, which both keep the info restricted. Pictures or it didn't happen.

STA is right on the website.

Do you mean here ... http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=702 (a list covering less than half the class) and here ... http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=722 (a bare list of college names without any numbers) ? Unfortunately, those are not very helpful on assessing how the school does at college placement. NCS used to publish a complete list of college matriculations, but decided for some unknown reason to stop publishing about a year or two ago.

Not pp, but doesn't the fact that they stopped publishing it tell you something?

They stopped publishing it to the public, and also stopped including students names in the matriculation list provided in the the school's mag/bulletin due to parents bickering that their child is more qualified and should have gotten into Harvard/Yale etc. over blankety, blank.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell is the ONLY school in the area that is nationally known and that's only thanks to Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls. And it's really not crucial to go to a nationally known school. Most of us didn't and we turned out a-ok.