Is it true the Big 3 kids are getting hammered this year- and by that I mean bad admissions results?

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I don’t pay close attention, but I don’t have the sense that a disaster is unfolding. DC knows kids headed to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Chicago, Duke, Tufts, WashU, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I am following Instagram accounts for college admittance at Big 3 and they look pretty good to me. Which school is getting slaughtered?

Of course they are. The affluent will suffer less from this pandemic than everyone else. Why would that change?

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or do a whole lot of these posts read as "I paid a ton of money for my privileged kid to go to private high school with the expectation that they'd get into a fancy-ass college and I am big mad that they are being lapped by a bunch of public school kids I do not know who I assume are undeserving and not as worthy as my precious darling."

YIKES.

I feel that this is true, and SOME of these parents on DCUM do not even try to hide their disdain for public school kids and talk about them like they are totally unmotivated, undeserving morons.

And then, there are other Big 3 parents who are completely kind and normal and seem to get that you can be gifted and deserving from a public high school.

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Anonymous wrote:I have twins --one at DCPS and one who left for a Big3 school in 7th per the child's request (2 years ago). I'd estimate that the public school kid is learning 20% of what the Big3 kid is learning.
The was pre-pandemic and during the pandemic.
My public school kid is getting high As in all classes and is taking the hardest math the school offers (Algebra 2 in 8th grade). She/he does debate and Model UN and
every academic extracurricular I can make him/her do. However, she/he is skating through school with two 45 minutes classes per day and no school on Wednesdays.
Meanwhile, the Big3 kid is working his/her tail off as usual.

I'm a huge public school advocate (I attended them and my 3 kids have attended them for a total of 28 years of instruction). However, there the difference between
learning between private and our public is insane. I care nothing about prestige and we're not wealthy.
I recognize that the public school kid will probably have better college admissions (which is crazy, given that he/she can barely write) but she/he will likely graduate
with a perfect GPA (barely some sort of academic disaster) while the private school kid will end up with something well under 4.0 but with a far, far deeper and broader
understanding of history and literature and a well developed ability to write and reason.

Do you mean during the pandemic or from before. Not sure about private the public school rigor is taking a beating. I had one just finish HS before and one there now. Almost the same classes, teachers, everything....big difference. this pandemic is a disaster for so many.

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My kids all go to public and will likely go to state schoosl.

I will say that I went to a top private in HS and it was a better school than my college was (at least the first 2 years.)

That private hs education is really worth something intangible for the rest of their lives, regardless of their college.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or do a whole lot of these posts read as "I paid a ton of money for my privileged kid to go to private high school with the expectation that they'd get into a fancy-ass college and I am big mad that they are being lapped by a bunch of public school kids I do not know who I assume are undeserving and not as worthy as my precious darling."

YIKES.

I feel that this is true, and SOME of these parents on DCUM do not even try to hide their disdain for public school kids and talk about them like they are totally unmotivated, undeserving morons.

And then, there are other Big 3 parents who are completely kind and normal and seem to get that you can be gifted and deserving from a public high school.

That has to do with a person's character and not where they send their kids to school - even if it to a fancy school that is supposed to build such amazing character ironically.

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I lifted this from a thread in the independent school forum. I'm pretty sure it reflects St Albans School college choices so far and it is anticipated there will be movement once the wait lists start moving. I'd add one more for which I have direct knowledge. Princeton.



Agree, lots of deferrals. But the ship righted itself in the end with these deferrals flowering into acceptances. At my kid's school, the list is shaping up like most other years:

Bates
Bowdoin
Berkeley
Columbia
Harvard
Yale
Dartmouth
Cornell
Chicago
Indiana
SMU
Tulane
Wake Forest
Wash U
West Point
W&L
UNC
UVA
UT
Michigan
Wisconsin


The only real surprise, Duke!

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Anonymous wrote:I lifted this from a thread in the independent school forum. I'm pretty sure it reflects St Albans School college choices so far and it is anticipated there will be movement once the wait lists start moving. I'd add one more for which I have direct knowledge. Princeton.



Agree, lots of deferrals. But the ship righted itself in the end with these deferrals flowering into acceptances. At my kid's school, the list is shaping up like most other years:

Bates
Bowdoin
Berkeley
Columbia
Harvard
Yale
Dartmouth
Cornell
Chicago
Indiana
SMU
Tulane
Wake Forest
Wash U
West Point
W&L
UNC
UVA
UT
Michigan
Wisconsin


The only real surprise, Duke!

Gee. surprise surprise. Things are going to work out out fine for the affluent kids.

[Anonymous]

The idea that any child whose education cost between $200k and $600k is in any way disadvantaged is ridiculous. You have no sense of perspective and you ignore facts.

[Anonymous]

Maret is not Big 3. Come on, now.

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Anonymous wrote:The ones getting hammered this year are the parents. It's been that bad.

[Anonymous]

It truly does seem like an upside down year. My kids in public school got into many schools that I never imagined she would get into. No real explanation other than all the things people have put in here before. I honestly feel bad for the top three private school kids.

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Anonymous wrote:It truly does seem like an upside down year. My kids in public school got into many schools that I never imagined she would get into. No real explanation other than all the things people have put in here before. I honestly feel bad for the top three private school kids.

And I am sure they would feel so bad for your kid if the she has been rejected from somewhere and they accepted.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or do a whole lot of these posts read as "I paid a ton of money for my privileged kid to go to private high school with the expectation that they'd get into a fancy-ass college and I am big mad that they are being lapped by a bunch of public school kids I do not know who I assume are undeserving and not as worthy as my precious darling."

YIKES.

It is funny. Almost like "Excuse me, but I was led to believe that I could use my money to give my kid an advantage over poor kids...and it appears that I was snookered by the fancy brochure and manicured lawn."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lifted this from a thread in the independent school forum. I'm pretty sure it reflects St Albans School college choices so far and it is anticipated there will be movement once the wait lists start moving. I'd add one more for which I have direct knowledge. Princeton.



Agree, lots of deferrals. But the ship righted itself in the end with these deferrals flowering into acceptances. At my kid's school, the list is shaping up like most other years:

Bates
Bowdoin
Berkeley
Columbia
Harvard
Yale
Dartmouth
Cornell
Chicago
Indiana
SMU
Tulane
Wake Forest
Wash U
West Point
W&L
UNC
UVA
UT
Michigan
Wisconsin


The only real surprise, Duke!

Gee. surprise surprise. Things are going to work out out fine for the affluent kids.

Does that list reflect enrollment or just acceptances. In other words, if one kid got into Harvard, Yale and Princeton, does the list reflect all 3? Or is this the list of where kids are actually going to attend.