Sidwell College Admissions This Year

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Anonymous wrote:Inside goss easy that this has been a pretty rough year at Sidwell. Some of the "best" students don't have strong options.

Disagree.

What do you consider options that are not strong?

Ivy+MIT+Stanford+Caltech = strong

Throw in Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Hopkins and Hopkins if you like.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard they were excellent. A lot of the disappointed kids from ED got good news.

Really? Curious as I kind of heard the opposite. Happy to be corrected. Do you have any details?

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Anonymous wrote:I heard they were excellent. A lot of the disappointed kids from ED got good news.

What happened to all the kids rejected by Brown. Any one make it in RD?

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Yes, one did make it into Brown RD.

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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.

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.

David Hogg posted his completely mediocre SAT score and GPA on reddit before he became famous. He was rejected from a few degree mill universities, then he got famous, took a gap year, and got into Harvard. He was most certainly not prepared for the rigor of Harvard. But no idea if he's still there, he took it off his twitter bio?

I’ve always heard the hardest part is getting in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard they were excellent. A lot of the disappointed kids from ED got good news.

Really? Curious as I kind of heard the opposite. Happy to be corrected. Do you have any details?

No details- just rumors from my DD (a senior who does not go there but is friends with some kids who do go there). But I do know some kids with acceptances at high ranking SLACs, UVA, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard they were excellent. A lot of the disappointed kids from ED got good news.

Really? Curious as I kind of heard the opposite. Happy to be corrected. Do you have any details?

No details- just rumors from my DD (a senior who does not go there but is friends with some kids who do go there). But I do know some kids with acceptances at high ranking SLACs, UVA, etc.

Good grief.

Thanks, though, for making clear how unhelpful and uninformed your initial comment was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Inside goss easy that this has been a pretty rough year at Sidwell. Some of the "best" students don't have strong options.

Disagree.

What do you consider options that are not strong?

Ivy+MIT+Stanford+Caltech = strong

Throw in Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Hopkins and Hopkins if you like.

So to be clear, you don't think NESCAC schools, or UC schools or Georgetown are strong?

I am just trying get a handle on the negative hyperbole meter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Inside goss easy that this has been a pretty rough year at Sidwell. Some of the "best" students don't have strong options.

Disagree.

What do you consider options that are not strong?

Ivy+MIT+Stanford+Caltech = strong

Throw in Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Hopkins and Hopkins if you like.

Very few kids ever go to MIT or CalTech from Sidwell. So scratch those off the permanent list. They don't generally look for what Sidwell produces. That isn't a knock on Sidwell. The SFS kids who go on to CS or engineering generally do it at Ivies or places like Michigan.

[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.

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.

Actually it's not because most of the "URMs" gunning for elite colleges are literally white kids pretending to be "Hispanic".

Latinos getting affirmative action is a scam of the highest order

I would rather see black people get double the affirmative action rather than see Latinos sneakily abuse it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Inside goss easy that this has been a pretty rough year at Sidwell. Some of the "best" students don't have strong options.

Disagree.

What do you consider options that are not strong?

Ivy+MIT+Stanford+Caltech = strong

Throw in Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Hopkins and Hopkins if you like.

So to be clear, you don't think NESCAC schools, or UC schools or Georgetown are strong?

I am just trying get a handle on the negative hyperbole meter.

Georgetown is really underwhelming. Students and alums there don’t like it at all. It’s just…there

[Anonymous]

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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.

I wrote something similar on another thread and was told that I was basically rude and nasty.

Did you post your kid’s stats and something like “it’s a bloodbath out there unless you’re URM”?

The post you quoted refers to non URM kids with money and connections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard they were excellent. A lot of the disappointed kids from ED got good news.

Really? Curious as I kind of heard the opposite. Happy to be corrected. Do you have any details?

No details- just rumors from my DD (a senior who does not go there but is friends with some kids who do go there). But I do know some kids with acceptances at high ranking SLACs, UVA, etc.

Good grief.

Thanks, though, for making clear how unhelpful and uninformed your initial comment was.

Plenty of disappointment. Top students had impressive outcomes, but many more are committing to safeties. They'll all do well in the end, but it is tough.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

Actually it's not because most of the "URMs" gunning for elite colleges are literally white kids pretending to be "Hispanic".

Latinos getting affirmative action is a scam of the highest order

I would rather see black people get double the affirmative action rather than see Latinos sneakily abuse it

Latinos aren’t the ones abusing it. White people are.

As the actual beneficiaries are white, you should be happy that they’re getting it. More white kids is always the goal, right? This is just like athletes and legacy - white affirmative action.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Inside goss easy that this has been a pretty rough year at Sidwell. Some of the "best" students don't have strong options.

Disagree.

What do you consider options that are not strong?

Ivy+MIT+Stanford+Caltech = strong

Throw in Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Hopkins and Hopkins if you like.

So to be clear, you don't think NESCAC schools, or UC schools or Georgetown are strong?

I am just trying get a handle on the negative hyperbole meter.

Georgetown is really underwhelming. Students and alums there don’t like it at all. It’s just…there

My student at Georgetown and all his friends are loving Georgetown.