Any Parents Privately Disappointed with College Placement?

[Anonymous]

Furman is a nice LAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That list sucks.

First, that "list" is cherrypicking the lower-rated colleges in the five-year matriculations -- and many of those are still very good institutions. (Sewanee and Furman are both well-regarded SLACs in the college world, for example.)

Second, just taking last year, St. Albans had 7 members of the class of 2013 matriculating at Harvard and 5 at Yale -- throw in the one Princeton student, and that is almost 20% of the class at HYP alone. So the idea that St. Albans somehow has poor college admissions is just silly.

Third, anyone who is referencing the 1980s and college admissions really needs to do some reading. The playing field has changed immensely. For example, Yale in the mid-1980s had about 10-20 international students at most in any graduating class. Now they get hundreds of applications from China alone, many with perfect board scores. The admissions rate at HYP and similar schools now is in the single-digits -- far lower than a generation ago.

There does not seem to be an educated or reasoned discussion of college admissions on this thread.

[Anonymous]

STA has only 65 in its 2013 class? I thought it was typically closer to 75.

[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

As PP noted this list is cherry picked from the 5 year matriculation list that STA publishes. The point of the thread is disappointment with the result of 4+ years of private school. Indiana was being thrown around as the archetypical disappointment school and OP is addressing that point.

[Anonymous]

So much for STA's academic superiority compared to area schools, at least with respect to college placement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STA has only 65 in its 2013 class? I thought it was typically closer to 75.

I had no idea the St. A's graduating classes are that small. Really?

All this ink spilled over a school that benefits such a small number of students? Ridiculous and all the more reason to ignore the place.

[Anonymous]

I think it was 78 seniors in STA's Class of 2013.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, let's ignore all the families applying to the school each year. It's simply ridiculous the number families interested in sending their son to STA.

[Anonymous]

defensive much?
it's useful people for some who think that STA might be the ticket for their kid.

[Anonymous]

typo:
it's useful info for some who think that STA might be the ticket for their kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it was 78 seniors in STA's Class of 2013.

The 65 was based on the statement that 13 grads to Ivy League constituted "about" 20% of the class - I suppose 16% is "about 20%"

[Anonymous]

Both STA and Sidwell need to do better at hiding/obscuring their matriculation data. The facts discussed in recent threads are pretty EMBARASSING

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both STA and Sidwell need to do better at hiding/obscuring their matriculation data. The facts discussed in recent threads are pretty EMBARASSING

Well, I would feel more than disappointed if my son was attending Jacksonville University (http://www.ju.edu/Pages/default.aspx) after being educated at STA for several years. In our DS's case nine years.

[Anonymous]

What is wrong with all of you people? Why would you attack where a specific child is going to college on the internet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with all of you people? Why would you attack where a specific child is going to college on the internet?

This is the Private School forum, that's why. Does that answer your question?