Any Parents Privately Disappointed with College Placement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you bring up a valid point though you'd be hard pressed to find people to open up and admit it.

Private schools, especially those like Flint Hill that seem to accommodate children with minor learning issues, are not merely for those who scored in the top 5% of testing. Privates are often times used by those parents who believe they will provide extra attention, extra nurturing, or extra sensitivity to their child's needs. For example I know of a parent who put her child at a private simply to accommodate his extreme sensitivity to loud noises. Public schools would never have done that. I know of many parents who brought their children to privates because their children had dyslexia or add or some kind of LD.

Potomac isn't generally known to accommodate children with these or any kind of learning issues, however. But I was told by one Ivy league graduate who went to Potomac that one third of her grad class went to Univ of Va. Univ of Va is a good school but not in the league of Duke, Yale, Georgetown, etc.. and it's reasonable to expect the kids from Potomac would have fared better.

I spoke to a few parents at another private, however, who said they'd be thrilled if their child went to Univ of Va though. So it all depends on the private.

I think U. Va. is in the same league as Georgetown and probably Duke, though not the Ivies. Just more people from VA, and fewer from NY/NJ/PA.

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Anonymous wrote:STA grad going to Indiana, is he going for music? If so, should not be a disappointment, IMO.

There's one or two STA grads going to Indiana as far as I know.

Some parents didn't come from a private school background and/or attended a large, public school themselves and hoped for a different outcome for their son. They may or may not have expected that as a STA graduate their son would attend a more prestigious college than they, perhaps in hindsight they're feeling right now that he could have had this college admission outcome after attending a public school.

Man, you people know nothing. One of the guys going to Indiana is attempting to walk on to the football team (and is thrilled for the chance). Why would you opine about things you know nothing about?

"One of the guys going to Indiana is attempting to walk on to the football team "
Oh great career plan!- I'm going to walk on to the football team at a basketball school - sounds like someone could have used a bit of guidance.

I don't know who is hung up on this. The young man playing on the football team at Indiana (he was a preferred walk on) won a big merit scholarship from the Washington Post worth six figures. Whomever keeps beating the drum on Indiana comes across as disturbed to me.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get it either. Indiana is far from the worst college that a STA graduate has attended. In the past five years, STA students have attended the following colleges
and universities (all of which are ranked below Indiana):


Auburn University
Colorado State University
Drexel University
Durham University
Elon University
Furman University
George Mason University
Jacksonville University
Morehouse College
Northeastern University
Rollins College
Sewanee: The University of the South
St. John's University - Queens Campus
University of Kentucky
University of Mary Washington
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Mississippi
University of South Carolina
University of Vermont

[Anonymous]

yikes. That is a far cry from the old days, except for Morehouse which is a solid school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yikes. That is a far cry from the old days, except for Morehouse which is a solid school.

Oh please! It is not. DH went to STA and those schools sound pretty similar to where friends of his went.

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How old is your son? I am talking about the 80's when my brothers went. Those schools weren't in the mix.

[Anonymous]

That list sucks.

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It's my Husband actually. Graduated in the late 80s. We're you a classmate? A parent? What are you basing your basing of that list on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That list sucks.

I agree. If my son's options dwindled down to one of those or do a gap year. It's gap year for him.

[Anonymous]

Maybe their parents exhausted all the education money on high school and the kids needed lower ranked colleges so they could get full rides? Is it that hard to imagine?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That list sucks.

I agree. If my son's options dwindled down to one of those or do a gap year. It's gap year for him.

good god.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That list sucks.

I agree. If my son's options dwindled down to one of those or do a gap year. It's gap year for him.

If you check the schools on the list against the Montgomery County public school list, you'll see that most of the schools are almost automatic admits from top MoCo public schools. How much is tuition at STA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it either. Indiana is far from the worst college that a STA graduate has attended. In the past five years, STA students have attended the following colleges
and universities (all of which are ranked below Indiana):


Auburn University
Colorado State University
Drexel University
Durham University
Elon University
Furman University
George Mason University
Jacksonville University
Morehouse College
Northeastern University
Rollins College
Sewanee: The University of the South
St. John's University - Queens Campus
University of Kentucky
University of Mary Washington
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Mississippi
University of South Carolina
University of Vermont

Can't speak for the others, but we visited Northeastern this summer and were really impressed. Northeastern's middle 50 SAT score totals are 300 points above Indiana's. The downtown Boston location is great and through it's coop program, it has the highest job placement number in the United States - and that includes the Ivies. Northeastern over a flyover-state U? Um, ya.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe their parents exhausted all the education money on high school and the kids needed lower ranked colleges so they could get full rides? Is it that hard to imagine?

Maybe or maybe the kids just weren't academically qualified enough to be accepted anywhere else. Most of these likely were the guidance counselor's suggestions in an effort to get them in some where. Come on Jacksonville U.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it either. Indiana is far from the worst college that a STA graduate has attended. In the past five years, STA students have attended the following colleges
and universities (all of which are ranked below Indiana):


Auburn University
Colorado State University
Drexel University
Durham University
Elon University
Furman University
George Mason University
Jacksonville University
Morehouse College
Northeastern University
Rollins College
Sewanee: The University of the South
St. John's University - Queens Campus
University of Kentucky
University of Mary Washington
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Mississippi
University of South Carolina
University of Vermont

Can't speak for the others, but we visited Northeastern this summer and were really impressed. Northeastern's middle 50 SAT score totals are 300 points above Indiana's. The downtown Boston location is great and through it's coop program, it has the highest job placement number in the United States - and that includes the Ivies. Northeastern over a flyover-state U? Um, ya.

Several years ago a student from a Big 3 was accepted and attended Northeastern. She applied with a 1.9 gpa, while there she really blossomed academically and today she's gainfully employed.