Sidwell College Admissions This Year

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Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

+1000
these are excellent schools...and these are not the only admits, of course...it's Instagram so it's just the kids who have decided to share (probably disproportionately ED or the ones who have already decided...those who have several top school choices may not have decided yet). But to your point, Wake/Dickenson are fine schools. And the other schools are also excellent (Hamilton, Colgate, UVA, Chicago, Vandy)...really fantastic, actually.

All true. But at Ivies it has mostly been URM

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

+1000
these are excellent schools...and these are not the only admits, of course...it's Instagram so it's just the kids who have decided to share (probably disproportionately ED or the ones who have already decided...those who have several top school choices may not have decided yet). But to your point, Wake/Dickenson are fine schools. And the other schools are also excellent (Hamilton, Colgate, UVA, Chicago, Vandy)...really fantastic, actually.

All true. But at Ivies it has mostly been URM

Yea. Same at GDS. Something like 9/10 ivies are URM. It's just the nature of admissions in 2022. The sooner you get over this, the happier you'll be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

You'll feel different when your kid is a senior. It's great that colleges are seeking more diversity. But it's the underqualified non URM kids who buy their way into Ivies or are otherwise connected that is so frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

You'll feel different when your kid is a senior. It's great that colleges are seeking more diversity. But it's the underqualified non URM kids who buy their way into Ivies or are otherwise connected that is so frustrating.

There are very few underqualified kids at Ivys. There are equally qualified that get ahead for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

You'll feel different when your kid is a senior. It's great that colleges are seeking more diversity. But it's the underqualified non URM kids who buy their way into Ivies or are otherwise connected that is so frustrating.

Your racism is showing.

[Anonymous]

it’s metaphorical it’s metaphorical
The fields are too wide,
the horses too wild
the monsters too red
the people too dead
and as her fingers fall
the house is too small

So I sit on the porch and drink chamomile tea
as the pearly evening bursts into flame
and as he hoists the moon upon his shoulders
the breeze brushes past my cheek,
phantom fingers placing rose petals
on my tongue
the sound never stops but still i weep
the ghosts, the strawberry seeds in my skin
don’t seem like a curse anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

+1000
these are excellent schools...and these are not the only admits, of course...it's Instagram so it's just the kids who have decided to share (probably disproportionately ED or the ones who have already decided...those who have several top school choices may not have decided yet). But to your point, Wake/Dickenson are fine schools. And the other schools are also excellent (Hamilton, Colgate, UVA, Chicago, Vandy)...really fantastic, actually.

All true. But at Ivies it has mostly been URM

Yea. Same at GDS. Something like 9/10 ivies are URM. It's just the nature of admissions in 2022. The sooner you get over this, the happier you'll be.

Um, not exactly true. 8 ivies up on the instagram and 3 are URM. So not everyone, but yes, overrepresented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

+1000
these are excellent schools...and these are not the only admits, of course...it's Instagram so it's just the kids who have decided to share (probably disproportionately ED or the ones who have already decided...those who have several top school choices may not have decided yet). But to your point, Wake/Dickenson are fine schools. And the other schools are also excellent (Hamilton, Colgate, UVA, Chicago, Vandy)...really fantastic, actually.

All true. But at Ivies it has mostly been URM

Yea. Same at GDS. Something like 9/10 ivies are URM. It's just the nature of admissions in 2022. The sooner you get over this, the happier you'll be.

Not at all true. I personally know two white kids at GDS going to Ivies (HYP- both got in ED) and unless you consider Asians "underrepresented", I'm pretty sure a couple going to Ivies from GDS too...

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Jesus, why the hangup on the Ivies. THERE IS NOTHING MAGICAL ABOUT THE IVIES! Look, I'm thrilled the Ivies (and other "elite" schools are trying to diversify but people act as if unhooked high stats white kids are doomed to podunk U....Look at the schools these kids are going to!!! They are fanatastic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

+1000
these are excellent schools...and these are not the only admits, of course...it's Instagram so it's just the kids who have decided to share (probably disproportionately ED or the ones who have already decided...those who have several top school choices may not have decided yet). But to your point, Wake/Dickenson are fine schools. And the other schools are also excellent (Hamilton, Colgate, UVA, Chicago, Vandy)...really fantastic, actually.

All true. But at Ivies it has mostly been URM

Yea. Same at GDS. Something like 9/10 ivies are URM. It's just the nature of admissions in 2022. The sooner you get over this, the happier you'll be.

Not at all true. I personally know two white kids at GDS going to Ivies (HYP- both got in ED) and unless you consider Asians "underrepresented", I'm pretty sure a couple going to Ivies from GDS too...

Ok, so 8/10. I know those white kids too. One is double legacy. The other I don't think so. The rest are overwhelmingly URM. But I'm not here to argue exact specifics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

+1000
these are excellent schools...and these are not the only admits, of course...it's Instagram so it's just the kids who have decided to share (probably disproportionately ED or the ones who have already decided...those who have several top school choices may not have decided yet). But to your point, Wake/Dickenson are fine schools. And the other schools are also excellent (Hamilton, Colgate, UVA, Chicago, Vandy)...really fantastic, actually.

All true. But at Ivies it has mostly been URM

Yea. Same at GDS. Something like 9/10 ivies are URM. It's just the nature of admissions in 2022. The sooner you get over this, the happier you'll be.

Not at all true. I personally know two white kids at GDS going to Ivies (HYP- both got in ED) and unless you consider Asians "underrepresented", I'm pretty sure a couple going to Ivies from GDS too...

Ok, so 8/10. I know those white kids too. One is double legacy. The other I don't think so. The rest are overwhelmingly URM. But I'm not here to argue exact specifics.

“I’m not here to argue exact specifics”

Translated: “I’m going to make up sh*t and you can’t stop me”

[Anonymous]

This thread made me curious: so I looked at the various private school insta accounts that I could find. seems like some great schools to me. Lots of top 30 schools on all the lists. Doesn’t look that different to me than previous years.

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Anonymous wrote:TJ has a very strong humanities programs. For example, they win the most scholastic writing awards in most years and win national awards for their annual year book.

Sidwell - recall this is a thread about Sidwell- doesn’t even enter the kids in those writing competitions. Which are clearly about getting the NATIONAL AWARD to bulk up the ECs and be able to say NATIONAL AWARD 🥇

I always kind of wonder when private schools opt out of things that would actually put them in more comparison with public schools--APs, national competitions. I've heard their reasoning, but it does make you wonder. (FWIW I went to a top private in Chicago that did the same and wondered back then too).

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Anonymous wrote:This thread made me curious: so I looked at the various private school insta accounts that I could find. seems like some great schools to me. Lots of top 30 schools on all the lists. Doesn’t look that different to me than previous years.

Seriously, that's what I thought. Dickinson is the second to least prestigious school for Sidwell so far. If your child is ranked 14th out of 15 and going to a school with a 29 ACT, the school is doing something right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Don't listen to these posters. the instagram shows about 10 colleges and they weakest are places like Dickenson (a soccer commit no less) and wake forest. If those schools are the end of the world to some of you then i give up.

If there are 10 admits, and among them are Dickinson and Wake Forest, then yes Sidwell is in trouble. Especially if only one kid got into an Ivy.

See I don't get this at all. I have kids at sta/ncs who are strong students and I'd be fine with wake and Dickinson. Totally, completely happy.

Also, for all we knew the sidwell kids (and others like them) got substantial aid at those schools. I can completely see sending my kids to a 2nd/third tier liberal arts college if it offers a merit scholarship. We don't all have $80k a year saved for college and even if we do, it might very well be better off saved for graduate school. At sidwell, something like 33% of kids are on aid and many more are just over the cut-off. I can imagine their college destinations are very dependent on finances.

+1000
these are excellent schools...and these are not the only admits, of course...it's Instagram so it's just the kids who have decided to share (probably disproportionately ED or the ones who have already decided...those who have several top school choices may not have decided yet). But to your point, Wake/Dickenson are fine schools. And the other schools are also excellent (Hamilton, Colgate, UVA, Chicago, Vandy)...really fantastic, actually.

All true. But at Ivies it has mostly been URM

Yea. Same at GDS. Something like 9/10 ivies are URM. It's just the nature of admissions in 2022. The sooner you get over this, the happier you'll be.

Not at all true. I personally know two white kids at GDS going to Ivies (HYP- both got in ED) and unless you consider Asians "underrepresented", I'm pretty sure a couple going to Ivies from GDS too...

Ok, so 8/10. I know those white kids too. One is double legacy. The other I don't think so. The rest are overwhelmingly URM. But I'm not here to argue exact specifics.

“I’m not here to argue exact specifics”

Translated: “I’m going to make up sh*t and you can’t stop me”

Hilarious...apparently he's still considering Asian URM too because he's still going with 8/10....Also, GDS is about 50% URM so you'd expect about 50% of the ivies from their to be URM...