2014 Admissions Results
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Anonymous
| St. Albans- 4th grade |
Anonymous
| Please please do not assume there is a one for one correlation between students giving up a slot and an opening for the waitlist. All the schools follow a formula that takes into account the likelihood of a certain number of students declining their offer. So a number of students can decline and they still won't go to the waitlist. Of course schools do go to the waitlist, but not always and generally for only one or two students. So it won't be helpful to count the number of students declining an offer. |
Anonymous
Congrats. Are you coming from a private or public? |
Anonymous
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Girl, 7
Potomac (accept) Holton (accept) NCS (accept) |
Anonymous
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Girl, 9
Potomac (accept) Holton (accept) NCS (accept) |
Anonymous
for second or third grade? and what do you think you will do? |
Anonymous
| apologies, meant Girl, 7th grade. Toss-up as between Holton and NCS. |
Anonymous
| Holton and NCS have two very different feels - like Colonial vs. Modern furniture; freestyle or the butterfly; skiing vs. snowboarding. Let your DD choose which feels best. |
Anonymous
| STA, 7th |
Anonymous
| Havent't heard from Potomac, GDS or CHDS for K?! Anyone else..... |
Anonymous
Public. |
Anonymous
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Girl, 6th grade
Field - accept Maret - WL GDS - WL Potomac - WL Holton - accept NCS - accept Some surprises here. SSAT was not that good (Math 55%). However, we tried very, very hard with the rest of the application. Submitted recommendations and other material (not required). i have renewed faith in the application process - they really do look at the whole picture! |
Anonymous
Anyone else find it funny that 63% of our kids are in the top 10% of test scores?
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Anonymous
I used to think that numbers were all inflated. But I've come to conclude that the sample of parents posting scores is skewed to the high end. Parents whose kids scored low probably aren't as inclined to publicize the numbers. And kids applying to the top private schools in DC are more likely to have scored high. In other words, parents whose kids scored low recognize the odds of admission are too low, and many of them opt-out of the hyper-competitive processes that typically underlies participation in this private/independent schools forum. |
Anonymous
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Girl, 7th
Maret- Accept (only school we applied to) |