Big 3 College Placement, Class of 2022

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Anonymous wrote:NCS has 10+ Ivy admits out of a class of 70

So what is that like 3 students.

More than 10 girls out of 70

Really fantastic! All of that money spent has finally paid off. You must be getting excited to pay for the big Ivy bill next.

Damn skippy. And your kids can work for the person who works for the person who works for my daughter!

That's really unnecessary. Be the better person.

+1. I heard that STA kids chant this when playing schools like Wilson. I didn't believe it until now. No class.

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Anonymous wrote:The other thread is talking about private, including the Big3 is waste of money and with no advantage to college admissions. Would be interesting to actually see the stats for the bottom 75% of class. I am sure to 25% are what people are touting here.

Nope. There are "bottom 75%" who applied to non-Ivy, first choice schools and are getting in ED. They may not be schools that some consider "elite" (I am referring to the long thread in the College forum here) but they are those students first choices. Schools like Carnegie, Case-Western, Pitzer, etc.

Okay, but was spending money at Big3 helping them get in at the low tier schools or would they still have gotten in coming from a public?

Carnegie is not a lower teir school anymore. Case Western is a good school too but not as hard to get into. Pitzer is much harder to get into than it used to be...

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Anonymous wrote:NCS has 10+ Ivy admits out of a class of 70

So what is that like 3 students.

More than 10 girls out of 70

Really fantastic! All of that money spent has finally paid off. You must be getting excited to pay for the big Ivy bill next.

Damn skippy. And your kids can work for the person who works for the person who works for my daughter!

That's really unnecessary. Be the better person.

+1. I heard that STA kids chant this when playing schools like Wilson. I didn't believe it until now. No class.

Utterly horrific, if true.
Talk about breeding complete Aholes.

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Anonymous wrote:ED results at Sidwell so far are great. Tons of kids waiting to hear today from Brown and other very top schools.

Shut out. Disappointing.

? I'm sure you will find an acceptance note to somewhere later on?

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Anonymous wrote:NCS has 10+ Ivy admits out of a class of 70

So what is that like 3 students.

More than 10 girls out of 70

Really fantastic! All of that money spent has finally paid off. You must be getting excited to pay for the big Ivy bill next.

Damn skippy. And your kids can work for the person who works for the person who works for my daughter!

That's really unnecessary. Be the better person.

+1. I heard that STA kids chant this when playing schools like Wilson. I didn't believe it until now. No class.

Utterly horrific, if true.
Talk about breeding complete Aholes.

This chant originated with kids from Washington International School, not STA.

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^^
Not a defense, but it’s been around for decades. WIS didn’t start it.

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+1. It is a silly chant that is done at sporting events and has been for years. Release the pearls.

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Anonymous wrote:ED results at Sidwell so far are great. Tons of kids waiting to hear today from Brown and other very top schools.

Shut out. Disappointing.

? I'm sure you will find an acceptance note to somewhere later on?

Not really focusing on my kid here. It’s disappointing for the class and school to have such a huge group apply ED to Brown and zero get accepted.

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Anonymous wrote:+1. It is a silly chant that is done at sporting events and has been for years. Release the pearls.

It's still tacky (and I tossed my pearls years ago).

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I am not a GDS booster...I have kids there and have multiple problems with the school...but I have heard of the following acceptances from my kids who are not yet seniors.

Harvard- boy
Yale -girl
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy
Tulane -Girl

I am always worried about grade deflation and how my younger HS age kids will do but this seems like so far so good...

Of course people are not crowing about deferrals or rejections...so who knows how the class will do

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a GDS booster...I have kids there and have multiple problems with the school...but I have heard of the following acceptances from my kids who are not yet seniors.

Harvard- boy
Yale -girl
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy
Tulane -Girl

I am always worried about grade deflation and how my younger HS age kids will do but this seems like so far so good...

Of course people are not crowing about deferrals or rejections...so who knows how the class will do

I love how people tout the top school acceptances. You are going to see top kids at any school get acceptances to great schools. What is far more interesting is how the bottom half the school performed on acceptances. That is the true measure of how well the private school prepares kids IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a GDS booster...I have kids there and have multiple problems with the school...but I have heard of the following acceptances from my kids who are not yet seniors.

Harvard- boy
Yale -girl
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy
Tulane -Girl

I am always worried about grade deflation and how my younger HS age kids will do but this seems like so far so good...

Of course people are not crowing about deferrals or rejections...so who knows how the class will do

These are almost all legacy kids.

Harvard- boy -double legacy parents;
Yale -girl -legacy
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known
Tulane -Girl
Harvard -girl --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known

So basically the Ivys are all DOUBLE legacy with parents who are in the national press. The regular Joes are going to Tulane and NYU.
The Ivy kids are REALLY IMPRESSIVE but lets not kid ourselves that it's their GDS education that got them into these Ivys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a GDS booster...I have kids there and have multiple problems with the school...but I have heard of the following acceptances from my kids who are not yet seniors.

Harvard- boy
Yale -girl
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy
Tulane -Girl

I am always worried about grade deflation and how my younger HS age kids will do but this seems like so far so good...

Of course people are not crowing about deferrals or rejections...so who knows how the class will do

These are almost all legacy kids.

Harvard- boy -double legacy parents;
Yale -girl -legacy
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known
Tulane -Girl
Harvard -girl --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known

So basically the Ivys are all DOUBLE legacy with parents who are in the national press. The regular Joes are going to Tulane and NYU.
The Ivy kids are REALLY IMPRESSIVE but lets not kid ourselves that it's their GDS education that got them into these Ivys.

+1000

This is true at every Big 3 and other DC private - NCS/STA, Sidwell, Maret, Potomac, etc.

The legacy kids are getting into the legacy schools. Assuming the kids have the grades - no small feat in and of itself, of course - this is still the biggest factor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a GDS booster...I have kids there and have multiple problems with the school...but I have heard of the following acceptances from my kids who are not yet seniors.

Harvard- boy
Yale -girl
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy
Tulane -Girl

I am always worried about grade deflation and how my younger HS age kids will do but this seems like so far so good...

Of course people are not crowing about deferrals or rejections...so who knows how the class will do

These are almost all legacy kids.

Harvard- boy -double legacy parents;
Yale -girl -legacy
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known
Tulane -Girl
Harvard -girl --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known

So basically the Ivys are all DOUBLE legacy with parents who are in the national press. The regular Joes are going to Tulane and NYU.
The Ivy kids are REALLY IMPRESSIVE but lets not kid ourselves that it's their GDS education that got them into these Ivys.

From what I've heard, yes I think just over half of ED admits are legacy for Ivies (2 or 3 Harvard, 2 Yale, 2 Cornell, 2 Princeton, 1 Brown, 1 Dartmouth, 2 or 3 Penn). 1 Stanford, 2 Duke. There are at least 5 to the seven sisters - Barnard, Smith and Wellesley. 2 NYU, Tulane, one or more into Carleton, Bates, Hamilton, and at least 1 Wesleyan. There are others. What I see is that about 20% of the senior class is already in to quite competitive colleges, which is quite a contrast to what happened last year at this time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a GDS booster...I have kids there and have multiple problems with the school...but I have heard of the following acceptances from my kids who are not yet seniors.

Harvard- boy
Yale -girl
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy
Tulane -Girl

I am always worried about grade deflation and how my younger HS age kids will do but this seems like so far so good...

Of course people are not crowing about deferrals or rejections...so who knows how the class will do

These are almost all legacy kids.

Harvard- boy -double legacy parents;
Yale -girl -legacy
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known
Tulane -Girl
Harvard -girl --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known

So basically the Ivys are all DOUBLE legacy with parents who are in the national press. The regular Joes are going to Tulane and NYU.
The Ivy kids are REALLY IMPRESSIVE but lets not kid ourselves that it's their GDS education that got them into these Ivys.

+1000

This is true at every Big 3 and other DC private - NCS/STA, Sidwell, Maret, Potomac, etc.

The legacy kids are getting into the legacy schools. Assuming the kids have the grades - no small feat in and of itself, of course - this is still the biggest factor.

My kid is a legacy admit and I totally agree. That said, they were extremely driven, worked their a$$ off for four years, their teachers loved them, and they had a number of stellar, national-level qualifications. Our younger kid is the opposite and will not be applying because the legacy will mean zero.