Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?

[Anonymous]

Double Princeton legacy: my advice to you is to start doing work for Princeton now -- interview prospective students and assist in other ways if possible. Donate money every year (even if you can't afford that much). I wish I'd done these things, as DC is now a junior and is interested in Princeton. Yes, DC will be a legacy and has top grades and scores, but I'm afraid that my lack of participation as an alum may hurt DC's chances.

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Anonymous wrote:You sound really mean and self-satisfied pp

No I just think it's ridiculous that you guys are trying to plan out your children's lives. They are not necessarily going to go the way that you want them to.

Ah, finally a poster who is not out of their fu**ing mind....refreshing.

Well, no, it's not all that refreshing to read a post from a self-satisfied public-school graduate who says that parents who are paying for private schools are ridiculous for trying to give their children what thye think is the best shot they can give them for admission to an Ivy. The issue really has nothing to do with public-versus-private, and the poster is no living proof that public school is all anyone needs. Simply inflammatory is her contribution to the forum.[/quote

As your child gets older and decides who they want to be in life you may be sorely disappointed by their choices. Do yourself a favor and decide now to be happy with them regardless of whether they fall in line with your plan for themselves or not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You sound really mean and self-satisfied pp

No I just think it's ridiculous that you guys are trying to plan out your children's lives. They are not necessarily going to go the way that you want them to.

Ah, finally a poster who is not out of their fu**ing mind....refreshing.

Well, no, it's not all that refreshing to read a post from a self-satisfied public-school graduate who says that parents who are paying for private schools are ridiculous for trying to give their children what thye think is the best shot they can give them for admission to an Ivy. The issue really has nothing to do with public-versus-private, and the poster is no living proof that public school is all anyone needs. Simply inflammatory is her contribution to the forum.[/quote

As your child gets older and decides who they want to be in life you may be sorely disappointed by their choices. Do yourself a favor and decide now to be happy with them regardless of whether they fall in line with your plan for themselves or not.

bump

[Anonymous]

I've been an interviewer for Harvard for a while and have a lot of data on numbers of admittances, but only a little info on numbers of applicants. STA, Sidwell, NCS are probably the top privates for raw #'sof kids admitted. The admitted kids include legacies that any college would kill to have, unconnected smart kids and , yes, legacies for whom the legacy thing made a difference.

In raw numbers, TJ in VA is always the top, but they also send huge #'s of applicants and have a large student body. In raw #'s, Whitman in Montgomery County and Blair Magnet also do as well as the privates, but I don't know how many apply vs the privates.

The previous posters are correct when they say you have to be at the top of the class no matter where you are. Harvard just reaches a bit deeper into the class at really competitive schools. Harvard is 2/3 kids from publics. Also, it's not for everyone. Great educations can be had in less fraught atmospheres. Harvard does have lots of resources that a really driven kid can find useful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been an interviewer for Harvard for a while and have a lot of data on numbers of admittances, but only a little info on numbers of applicants. STA, Sidwell, NCS are probably the top privates for raw #'sof kids admitted. The admitted kids include legacies that any college would kill to have, unconnected smart kids and , yes, legacies for whom the legacy thing made a difference.

In raw numbers, TJ in VA is always the top, but they also send huge #'s of applicants and have a large student body. In raw #'s, Whitman in Montgomery County and Blair Magnet also do as well as the privates, but I don't know how many apply vs the privates.

The previous posters are correct when they say you have to be at the top of the class no matter where you are. Harvard just reaches a bit deeper into the class at really competitive schools. Harvard is 2/3 kids from publics. Also, it's not for everyone. Great educations can be had in less fraught atmospheres. Harvard does have lots of resources that a really driven kid can find useful.

Excellent and common sense post. Thank you for the balanced analysis.

[Anonymous]

http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/30/pf/college/acceptance_rates_ivy_league/index.htm?iid=HP_LN

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I presume its the largest. The question you should be asking is which school has the highest percentage in proportion to those that apply who are not legacies.

The best site for this but does exactly answer your question is below. You will note that the ones with the highest % that get into HYPMS (Harvard, Yale Princeton, MIT, STanford) in the DC area are
national cathedral, st albans and then Maret in that order.

http://matriculationstats.org/day-schools-outside-of-nyc

It appears that you've been duped. The so-called matricualationstats.org is a website run by one person who claims to have compiled stats by himself. The site doesn't detail HOW this person acquired the confidential data that few schools share. At least with respect to the DC area schools there is no way an individual can get all the information needed for the "stats" presented.

[Anonymous]

GDS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I presume its the largest. The question you should be asking is which school has the highest percentage in proportion to those that apply who are not legacies.

The best site for this but does exactly answer your question is below. You will note that the ones with the highest % that get into HYPMS (Harvard, Yale Princeton, MIT, STanford) in the DC area are
national cathedral, st albans and then Maret in that order.

http://matriculationstats.org/day-schools-outside-of-nyc

It appears that you've been duped. The so-called matricualationstats.org is a website run by one person who claims to have compiled stats by himself. The site doesn't detail HOW this person acquired the confidential data that few schools share. At least with respect to the DC area schools there is no way an individual can get all the information needed for the "stats" presented.

Huh? All the DMV-area schools PUBLISH their stats, with the exception of Sidwell. I don't see Sidwell on his list, so that fits the picture.

All he needs is an Excel spreadsheet, knowledge of how to construct indices, and lots of time. I could do this myself, including building the indices, except that I don't have the time.

Also... you bumped this 2-year-old thread to say this? Why?

[Anonymous]

Keep harvard weird!

[Anonymous]

Holton does NOT sent the most kids to Ivies, but nice try.

[Anonymous]

Whichever school has the most Harvard alums sends the most kids to Harvard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:14:49, the poster you quote doesn't indicate that they are a public school graduate, nor do they bring up any public-vs-private debate. The only inflammatory post is yours.

The self-satisfied pp to whom the earlier posts refer and about whom I was posting is 15:16, who does say with smugness that she is a public-high-school graduate. Please follow the thread before you post.

NP here and I thought 15:16 made some good points. Maybe she was a little blunt, but here's what I took away:
(1) you don't have to go to a top private school to get into an Ivy
(2) you don't have to get into an Ivy to have successful career/life
(3) even if your DC goes to (a) a top private school and/or (b) an Ivy, whether your DC will be successful depends on his/her ambition and drive, not on the credential per se.

Makes sense to me. I can't understand why it seems to have rubbed a lot of you the wrong way, though!

I agree, people are so touchy here on DCUM. she did make some very good points. Maybe common sense does not work here though.

[Anonymous]

St. Albans does - the grandparents went to Harvard so....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I presume its the largest. The question you should be asking is which school has the highest percentage in proportion to those that apply who are not legacies.

The best site for this but does exactly answer your question is below. You will note that the ones with the highest % that get into HYPMS (Harvard, Yale Princeton, MIT, STanford) in the DC area are
national cathedral, st albans and then Maret in that order.

http://matriculationstats.org/day-schools-outside-of-nyc

It appears that you've been duped. The so-called matricualationstats.org is a website run by one person who claims to have compiled stats by himself. The site doesn't detail HOW this person acquired the confidential data that few schools share. At least with respect to the DC area schools there is no way an individual can get all the information needed for the "stats" presented.

He is quite open about his methodology and several years ago when I looked at some of the source material it was all scrupulously accurate. If someone is patient and willing to extrapolate from the sometimes very significant amount of information that schools make public, they can aggregate quite a lot of useful data. It reminds me of how during the Cold War foreign countries would do quite a lot of open source intelligence collection and at the United States, because there is so much material openly available.