sidwell's acceptances extremely impressive
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Anonymous
| Washington internation school is far more impressive. |
Anonymous
| Just looked at the Instagram list, where 29 kids had posted their college destinations. A very nice list of schools. That said, it’s not much different than the corresponding pages for other schools… |
Anonymous
DP. If you are going to say something is impressive and provide no proof, someone is going to ask for how you define impressive. |
Anonymous
| Not a Sidwell parent. Amazed at the posts’ bitter jealousy leaking all over these pages. Why can’t you applaud the kids or just move on and say nothing. |
Anonymous
Exactly. |
Anonymous
PP here. You're absolutely right that tons of MCPS kids go to UMD (a great and competitive school) as well as other local publics like Towson & St. Marys. But at least some of those publics currently show more admits to very very top schools than Sidwell. Obviously that's drawing from a much bigger class size, but my point is that there's nothing particularly impressive about the Sidwell list. Which btw is completely fine! There are tons of great schools beyond the T-whatever and like I said above, maybe some kids aren't into the boast post. But the list posted doesn't live up to the OP's hype. |
Anonymous
Do you even know what FARMS means? Guessing not, because then you would not use this term in the same sentence as Sidwell. Swing and a miss, PP |
Anonymous
Yes, that part is obvious |
Anonymous
Free and Reduced Meals. You proved my point. There are zero kids at Sidwell who would qualify for FARMS if they were in public. |
Anonymous
It’s the wrong kind of diversity for Sidwell and comparable privates. |
Anonymous
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This thread was troll-y from the start because it was posted defensively. The OP went out of their way to frame this as a rebuttal to an argument (that no one made) that Sidwell somehow did not have impressive college acceptances. Of course it does, for all of the many reasons people have outlined on the thread. Sidwell is a rigorous school that turns out students very prepared for elite colleges, so of course many of their students have been accepted at such colleges. And yes, Sidwell students are largely very privileged, with well connected and wealthy parents, which everyone understands is very beneficial in terms of getting into college. Does anyone dispute either of these things?
Is there actually anyone saying Sidwell students aren't good enough to attend excellent universities? That's laughable -- every Sidwell grad I've ever met is exceptional. And is there anyone actually arguing that wealth and privilege play a major role in where Sidwell students go to college and where they end up in life? That too is laughable. Sidwell students tend to be smart and hardworking, but there are smart and hardworking students everywhere and Sidwell students will likely still succeed at much higher rates because of their privilege. Is there anything new in this thread? Congratulations all high school seniors who are excited about where they are going next year. Y'all are arguing about whether or not water is wet and it's tiresome. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Actually I personally know multiple families at Sidwell who would qualify for FARMs, or whose families received FARM (or siblings still do) in public school. And as for this false public/private divide, do you really think there aren’t a huge number of families with kids at local publications whose kids are legacies at top colleges, whose families are current or potential large donors, etc.? Wealthy families, parents with degrees from top ranked schools, and families who are major donors to charitable and educational institutions make a wide range of educational choices for their kids. Our kids are currently at Sidwell, Which we decided based on their individual interests and needs. Had they had different academic areas of interest, and for one child a different extracurricular interest, we definitely would’ve gone public. Among my pretty large group of friends through our jobs, about half of our kids are in public and private. Sometimes split with an a family based on the kids needs and interests. We are generally socioeconomically about the same, with some differences, tend to take similar approaches to philanthropy, And went to similarly competitive colleges and professional schools. Not identical, of course. We are not public school families or private school families, we are parents making the best decisions for our individual kids, open to changes along the way. And in this group there are just as many Kids who will have a top-ranked school legacy connection in public as on private. All to say this great divide does not seem to exist as described or assumed. |
Anonymous
I thought all DCPS students receive free meals now anyway, so isn't this a moot point? |
Anonymous
False. Period. |