Bethesda Magazine - List of College Acceptances

[Anonymous]

why isn't this on the Montgomery Cty. public school forum? Wouldn't it be more applicable to public school parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why isn't this on the Montgomery Cty. public school forum? Wouldn't it be more applicable to public school parents?

OP is a private school parent who thought she was poking fun at public schools, erroneously because she didn't understand what the numbers really meant. That's why it's here.

Anyway, this link has already been posted in the MoCo forum in a Blair thread.

[Anonymous]

It should be in this forum as many Private School parents consider college acceptances as a factor.

Simple math says at least 3 at Sidwell and 1 at Whitman ... better odds to go to Harvard at Sidwell given size of class.

Seems at the top HYPMS -public options didnt have better than "market" luck.

Sorry public folks - the privates did better than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It should be in this forum as many Private School parents consider college acceptances as a factor.

Simple math says at least 3 at Sidwell and 1 at Whitman ... better odds to go to Harvard at Sidwell given size of class.

Seems at the top HYPMS -public options didnt have better than "market" luck.

Sorry public folks - the privates did better than that.

If you like Ann Arbor then private is definitely the way to go.

[Anonymous]

Why exactly is Blair on this list of Bethesda high schools? Yes, I know it has two magnet programs. But so do Richard Montgomery, Einstein, Wheaton, and Kennedy.

For the high school years I still think it makes more sense to "invest" in a private school than in an expensive house in one of the Bethesda clusters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It should be in this forum as many Private School parents consider college acceptances as a factor.

Simple math says at least 3 at Sidwell and 1 at Whitman ... better odds to go to Harvard at Sidwell given size of class.

Seems at the top HYPMS -public options didnt have better than "market" luck.

Sorry public folks - the privates did better than that.

Unfortunately simplistic math like this tells you nothing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It should be in this forum as many Private School parents consider college acceptances as a factor.

Simple math says at least 3 at Sidwell and 1 at Whitman ... better odds to go to Harvard at Sidwell given size of class.

Seems at the top HYPMS -public options didnt have better than "market" luck.

Sorry public folks - the privates did better than that.

Unfortunately simplistic math like this tells you nothing.

Especially if you misquote the numbers. Whitman had 2 accepted at Harvard. And this poster totally ignores the Yale, Princeton and Penn results, where arguably Whitman did better in pure numbers. (Although the smart comparison is by acceptance ratios, which the privates don't provide for some mysterious reason.)

[Anonymous]

Those public numbers look real good considering the $$ spent on tuition.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For Whitman - arguable one of the top 5 public schools in the country. Billed as the best public high school in the area.

Yale - 17 applied - 1 got in
Harvard - 25 applied - 2 got in
Princeton - 22 applied - 2 got in

That is about the same as the broader admissions pool.

Not impressive and not the same as the Big 3.

Public schools parents rant as rave - save your money -- in this case - it appears money was saved and the results were nowhere near the same.

You need to take a trip on over to the "Any Parents Disappointed With College Placement?" thread. There you can check out the lists from elite privates for non-HYP acceptances/matriculations, and while you're there you can ogle all the nasty posters calling, for example, certain STA results dismal and worse.

According to a recent Sidwell publication University of Michigan was the number one school in terms of both applicants (26 out of a class of about 120, or 22%) AND Sidwell students attending. At Whitman it's second to UMD in terms of number of applicants (100 applicants out of about 450 students, or 22%), and probably number attending as well. According to that same publication 2 or fewer Sidwell students went to Princeton and Yale, 3 to Harvard. Not too dissimilar. By contrast, Sidwell has one going to Penn while 7 were admitted from Whitman.

Sidwell and other elite privates don't publish precise matriculation lists because they benefit from the false impression that most graduates head off to top 25 schools. Michigan is a fine school, but it's not quit top 25 and certainly not top tier.

Easy there. I am a Michigan alum and I have a kid there now who graduated from a Big 3. Michigan is more than a "fine" school and depending on what ranking you look at it is within the top 25. You could do MUCH worse than a Michigan degree. Anyhow, what people on here fail to realize is that MOST of your kids are not going to get into HYP. So the obsession with those stats is misleading. But there are PLENTY of kids from prominent privates and publics at those "certainly not top tier" colleges like Michigan, UNC Chapel Hill, Tufts, Carnegie Mellon who are doing VERY well. In looking at these stats, people should not lose sight of that.

[Anonymous]

+100000

[Anonymous]

The private school students typically matriculate at private universities. Of course, much of that is blind money following blind money, i.e., many of the private colleges aren't deserving of their reputations, but mask that with high sticker prices wherein = high tuition = purportedly high reputation.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell families paying big bucks for their kids to end up at Michigan (no offense to the Maize and Blue). Wouldn't it be cheaper just to move to Michigan and matriculate as an in-state student vs. $390,000 ($30,000 x 13 years of private schooling).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It should be in this forum as many Private School parents consider college acceptances as a factor.

Simple math says at least 3 at Sidwell and 1 at Whitman ... better odds to go to Harvard at Sidwell given size of class.

Seems at the top HYPMS -public options didnt have better than "market" luck.

Sorry public folks - the privates did better than that.

Sidwell isn't exactly representative of all "the privates." You are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell families paying big bucks for their kids to end up at Michigan (no offense to the Maize and Blue). Wouldn't it be cheaper just to move to Michigan and matriculate as an in-state student vs. $390,000 ($30,000 x 13 years of private schooling).

Simpler to send them to public school in this area where 50% of the applicants are admitted. I know several kids who got merit aid from Michigan as well. I'm not knocking it - my public school kid will be applying there this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why exactly is Blair on this list of Bethesda high schools? Yes, I know it has two magnet programs. But so do Richard Montgomery, Einstein, Wheaton, and Kennedy.

For the high school years I still think it makes more sense to "invest" in a private school than in an expensive house in one of the Bethesda clusters.

Just FYI, Richard Montgomery is the only other MoCo school with a test-in magnet program, the IB program, besides the two test-in programs at Blair. Each test-in program has maybe 100 kids per class. Kids take a standardized test, get teacher recs, and submit transcripts and essays. Entrance to the others you mention - Einstein, Kennedy - is by lottery.