St. Albans acceptance rate = 25 to 30%?
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Yes, Montgomery College. Some kids may need a two year junior college to figure things out. |
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That’s what they tell the poor hardworking average son of anonymous surgeon or accountant. Even if that were true, that’s the problem with a place like STA. Harvard and Yale are only going to accept one or two each from the STA class. Whether through the bias of the college counseling or the college admissions office, that spot will probably go to the scion of the celebrity. |
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| The U Chicago pipeline no longer exists for STA. |
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This raises the ongoing question about where a smart, but not kid-of-the-famous should go to school, for college purposes.
And where do legacies fit in? There are kids at sta, ncs, and sidwell, for instance, who aren't kids of senators, but they're legacies nonetheless. Many of them are really bright, as you might expect. Do they get shoved aside too? Or so the schools help them because their legacy status helps the school get another admit? |
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| I think it’s an issue that seems to be getting worse and worse. Was Malia Obama the smartest person at Sidwell? |
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| Spend $50,000 and they’ll treat you like you’re something they found on the bottom of their shoe. |
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| STA's admissions book also reports Indiana University at Bloomington as a "college enrolling the most students in the past 5 years". Also listed is the University of Miami. Nothing wrong with these schools, just not top 25 or even top 50 and included in the group of attended by most STA students. Tulane, ranked 40th by USNWR, is the third most popular school attended by STA grads (13 grads went in the past 5 years). Again, nothing wrong with these schools but certainly not top 25 or even top 50 (besides Tulane). Just showing that going to STA does not guarantee top college admissions as some have tried to claim. Everyone focuses on the top schools and don't pay attention to the numbers of students who attend lesser schools, even though it is the majority. |
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Jeebus - Indiana University after paying $$600000 if you went from Beauvoir thru STA? You could easily do that from Wilson |
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There is a poster on here who jumps on every STA post and claims some ridiculously inflated STA college stats. They're like a bee to honey; they must have a STA college post alert on their phone.
Per STA's OWN website graduates from the past 5 years attended the following schools: (list below) There are plenty of good schools but AT LEAST 50% are schools under the top 50. I'm an NCS parent and know the STA crowd well. The kids I know going to Princeton and Harvard this year are 1)legacy 2)children of VIPs. If you think you are going to send your kid to STA (or NCS) and they're going to just march off to an Ivy league school or similar you are seriously deluded. Having seen this play out for a few years you are far better off sending your kid to a good public if you're not a VIP. American University Amherst College Auburn University Babson College Bates College Birmingham-Southern College Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College University of British Columbia Brown University Bucknell University University of California at Berkeley University of California at Los Angeles University of California at Santa Barbara Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Catholic University of America University of Chicago Claremont McKenna College Clemson University Colby College Colgate University College of Charleston University of Colorado at Boulder Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell University Dartmouth College Davidson College Denison University Drew University Duke University University of Edinburgh, UK Elon University Emory University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology Hamilton College Harvard University Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Hillsdale College Imperial College London, UK Indiana University Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lehigh University University of Maryland at College Park Massachusetts Institute of Technology Miami University, Ohio University of Miami University of Michigan Middlebury College Montgomery College Morehouse College Mount St. Mary's University The New School New York University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Northeastern University Northwestern University University of Notre Dame Oberlin College Occidental College University of Oxford, UK Pennsylvania State University University of Pennsylvania Pomona College Princeton University Providence College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rice University University of Richmond Rochester Institute of Technology Santa Clara University Sewanee: The University of the South Shepherd University University of Southern California Southern Methodist University University of St. Andrews, UK University of Stirling, UK St. John’s University St. Mary’s College of Maryland Stanford University Swarthmore College Syracuse University University of Texas at Austin University of Toronto Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy Vanderbilt University University of Vermont University of Virginia Wake Forest University Washington University in St. Louis Washington & Lee University Wesleyan University Whittier College Whitworth University College of William & Mary Williams College University of Wisconsin at Madison Wofford College College of Wooster Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yale University |
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Go to the handbook and you will see the number of students that went to each college from 2014 to 2018. That would give you much better statistics. |
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| My kids went to Beauvoir and the celebrity worship and favoritism starts from day one from the HOS to the snooty secretaries at the front desk. Going there if you are not a VIP or a committed social climber is an exercise in masochism. I’m sure it continues vigorously through NCS and STA. |
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I am an admissions officer in the close - we o my accept perfect children from perfect families. Period. Preferably children whose parents were both virgins when they got married (directly out of HYP), have family money so that they can pay full tuition and work at a low paying/ high prestige job, and whose children are “magical” or exhibit extreme Innocent childhood joy at least 80% of the time. We have a zero tolerance policy for non-joyful children. Hard line.
Our acceptance rate hovers somewhere between zero and one percent. If no perfect children apply, we generate members of the class from the special pod of “perfection” larva we have growing in the basement of the cathedral. Frankly, virtually none of you will ever be good enough for admission to our school. We don’t need any of you lesser mortals to sully our pool of genetically superior product. |
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Directly from the STA college handbook
2014-2018 College admissions American University Amherst College (9) Auburn University Babson College (3) Bates College (7) Birmingham-Southern College (2) Boston College (6) Boston University Bowdoin College (6) Brigham Young University University of British Columbia, Canada Brown University (9) University of California at Berkeley (7) University of California at Los Angeles Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University (3) Case Western Reserve University Catholic University of America College of Charleston University of Chicago (34) Claremont McKenna College (2) Clemson University Colby College Colgate University (3) University of Colorado Columbia University (12) Connecticut College Cornell University (4) Dartmouth College (11) Davidson College (9) Denison University Drew University Duke University (4) University of Edinburgh, UK (3) Elon University Emory University (5) Georgetown University (9) George Washington University (3) Hamilton College (3) Harvard University (10) Haverford College (4) Hillsdale College Imperial College London, UK Indiana University (7) Johns Hopkins University (2) Kenyon College (2) Lehigh University (2) London School of Economics, UK University of Maryland (2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Miami (7) Miami University (2) University of Michigan (6) Middlebury College (3) Montgomery College Morehouse College (3) Mount St. Mary's University New York University (5) University of North Carolina (4) Northeastern University (2) Northwestern University (3) University of Notre Dame (3) Oberlin College (3) Occidental College (5) University of Oxford, UK University of Pennsylvania (11) Pennsylvania State University (3) Pomona College Princeton University (9) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rice University University of Richmond Rochester Institute of Technology (2) Santa Clara University Sewanee: University of the South (2) University of Southern California (5) Southern Methodist University (2) University of St. Andrews, UK (4) St. John's University (2) St. Mary's College of Maryland Stanford University (5) University of Stirling, UK Swarthmore College (5) Syracuse University Temple University University of Texas (3) University of Toronto, Canada Trinity College (3) Tufts University (2) Tulane University (12) United States Military Academy (5) United States Naval Academy Vanderbilt University (3) University of Vermont University of Virginia (6) Wake Forest University (8) Washington University in St. Louis (4) Washington & Lee University Wesleyan University (3) College of William & Mary (6) Williams College University of Wisconsin (5) Wofford College College of Wooster (2) Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yale University (11) |
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So according to those stats "directly from the Handbook" STA is sending 2/85 kids a year to Harvard and 2/85 to Yale and about 1.5/85 to Princeton.
I know one of the Princeton admits this year and one of the Harvard. Both are legacy and their parents are mega-wealthy. So that leaves at best 1/85 spots at STA for HYP. Don't pay $50K a year because you think it will in any way raise your child's college admissions chances. |