K-8 outplacement for the class of 2023

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:at WES, the most popular schools are Bullis, St. Andrews, and St. Johns

St. Andrews and St. John’s are popular at WES, but Bullis wouldn’t be third. I think only a total of 2-3 kids went to Bullis over the last three years for whatever reason (I have nothing against Bullis). The class tends to spread out with no school having more than a few kids in any given year. By raw numbers, it has been St. Andrews (8 total - 3,2,3), GDS (8 total - 3,4,1), and St. John’s (6 total - 1,2,3) with the “most” the last three years from memory, but even at those schools it’s just a couple of kids a year. The eighth grade class is typically is only around 28-30ish to start with, and quite a few return to public (mostly Whitman) or go to high schools outside the region (foreign service parents or boarding school) so there are only 20-22 going to local private high schools in a given year and the school choices year to year vary quite a lot depending on the strength of the specific students, siblings, politics and preferences of the parents, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No they didn't get where they wanted to go. They settled and got 3-4th choice. They all got in "somewhere" but plenty of top students got into their 3-4th choice with no hooks. Lame as can be this year and last.

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Anonymous wrote:What's good about 13 kids at Bullis?

13 kids aren't going to Bullis. 13 kids got in to Bullis, a subset of those are going.

Bullis is a good school and has a nice expansion year in 9th, making it a logical place for families from Norwood to apply to if they are committed to continuing their education at a private school. Norwood encourages its students to apply to a range of high schools to make sure they have an option they are happy with for high school. It's not a failure that many students applied and got in to Bullis, it's good leadership and ex-missions management.

Because I am a parent in the school who has relationships with the 8th grade class and really concerned for my kids options. Duh.

Right. The bold just means at least one kid is going. 13 kids got in. We don’t know how many are going.

I don't think that is correct. The numbers add up to the size of the graduating class. But Bullis is a great school, it was a very tight admissions year, and this is a great representation of what Norwood does best--gets to know a kid and they find the right fit. We know kids who wanted to go to Whitman, and we know kids who wanted to go to Sidwell. Most got to where they wanted to go and found the right fit.

And how the hell do you know where these kids wanted to go? You’ve got some nerve.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, Bullis and St Andrew’s seem like logical schools to go to from Norwood. Norwood is pretty far from NW Washington and some of the families will be commuting to Norwood from even farther out. Those families will be looking for schools near where they live and not ones a 45 minute to 1 hour commute away.

We liked Norwood when we looked at it, but the commute out from the city made it impossible. I imagine the reverse is also true.

Right. Most families live further out.

It’s FARTHER out. Not further out.

It's leviOsa, not levioSA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Six going to the Big 3. That’s it. A lot of tuition down the drain.

A lot of tuition down the drain if a kid doesn't go to a Big 3?? Just wow. Yeah, only the Big 3 can give a good education and give a kid a a happy high school experience. I suppose if the same kid doesn't go to Harvard or Yale that's more tuition down the drain too. And forget about his or her future. Unbelievable!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Six going to the Big 3. That’s it. A lot of tuition down the drain.

A lot of tuition down the drain if a kid doesn't go to a Big 3?? Just wow. Yeah, only the Big 3 can give a good education and give a kid a a happy high school experience. I suppose if the same kid doesn't go to Harvard or Yale that's more tuition down the drain too. And forget about his or her future. Unbelievable!

Seriously. I mean, if a kid goes to Norwood, Holton, and then, say, UNC-Chapel Hill or NYU, they might as well just give up. Absolutely no future there. Clear ceiling is manager at Waffle House.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Six going to the Big 3. That’s it. A lot of tuition down the drain.

A lot of tuition down the drain if a kid doesn't go to a Big 3?? Just wow. Yeah, only the Big 3 can give a good education and give a kid a a happy high school experience. I suppose if the same kid doesn't go to Harvard or Yale that's more tuition down the drain too. And forget about his or her future. Unbelievable!

Seriously. With the transactional approach many here seem to be taking, you'd think Basis would be much more popular.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is from St Patrick’s website for the past 5 years of students:

With about 22 students across the last five years attending boarding schools, other recent destinations have included Christ Church (VA), George (PA), Masters (NY), Salisbury (CT), Episcopal (VA), St. George’s (RI), St. Mark’s (MA), St. Paul’s (NH), and Woodberry Forest (VA).

With respect to day schools, the most frequent destinations across the past five years have been the paired single-sex Cathedral schools (17) of St. Albans (11) and NCS (6), Bullis (13), the paired single-sex schools of Holton and Landon (11), Maret (11), St. Andrew’s (11), Sidwell Friends (11), Madeira (9), and Stone Ridge (8). Other frequent destinations have included Georgetown Day (6), Potomac (6), Holy Child (5), Field (5), and Edmund Burke (4). Several students attended the Catholic high schools of Georgetown Visitation, Gonzaga, St. Anselm’s, and St. John’s during that five-year period, while two attended Georgetown Prep.

I really dislike when schools won’t give single-year matriculations.

Right. What are they hiding?

It’s on the website. I thought people would be more interested in seeing 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Got into but NOT attending GDS, Potomac, and NCS. I feel like this proves thw point that not everyone pick’s a school with the “best” name.

From St Patrick’s website:
This year, the single largest number of our class of 38 students will attend Sidwell Friends (four students), with three students each at Landon, Stone Ridge, Bullis, and Edmund Burke. Two students will attend both St. Andrew’s and Holy Child, and one each will attend Georgetown Visitation, Holton, Madeira, Maret, McLean, Sandy Spring Friends, St. Albans, St. Anselm’s, and St. John’s. Additionally, one student will attend Banneker High School, one Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, and one is relocating and will attend Tampa Preparatory School.

In addition to the day schools our students will be attending, they also received acceptances from Bishop McNamara, Field, Georgetown Day, National Cathedral, Potomac, and St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes.

Eight students applied to at least one boarding school, and six students total will attend a total of five boarding programs: Avon Old Farms (CT), Berkshire (MA), Choate Rosemary Hall (CT), Lawrenceville (NJ), and Millbrook (NY). Students were also accepted at Episcopal (VA), Foxcroft (VA), Kent (CT), Mercersburg (PA), Pomfret (CT), Proctor (NH), Rectory (CT), and Salisbury (CT).

[Anonymous]

1 at STA and 0 at NCS? Wow.

[Anonymous]

Multiple got INTO NCS, but choose not to attend…

[Anonymous]

Having been through the outplacement process at Norwood a couple of years ago it’s true that very few kids want the “top 3”….
Those who applied to “Top 3” got in…. No one was shut out of what DCUM would consider “top privates” if that’s what they wanted. And those who went to public school wanted to!
Bullis is on the rise—- look at their college matriculation. And no my DC isn’t at Bullis, but is at a “top 3” HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having been through the outplacement process at Norwood a couple of years ago it’s true that very few kids want the “top 3”….
Those who applied to “Top 3” got in…. No one was shut out of what DCUM would consider “top privates” if that’s what they wanted. And those who went to public school wanted to!
Bullis is on the rise—- look at their college matriculation. And no my DC isn’t at Bullis, but is at a “top 3” HS.

All lies.

[Anonymous]

Nope- not lies. Norwood Class of 2022.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Having been through the outplacement process at Norwood a couple of years ago it’s true that very few kids want the “top 3”….
Those who applied to “Top 3” got in…. No one was shut out of what DCUM would consider “top privates” if that’s what they wanted. And those who went to public school wanted to!
Bullis is on the rise—- look at their college matriculation. And no my DC isn’t at Bullis, but is at a “top 3” HS.

All lies.

Do you get some sort of sick pleasure in putting down a K-8 school?

[Anonymous]

Wow our K-8 never publishes this info

Anonymous wrote:Got into but NOT attending GDS, Potomac, and NCS. I feel like this proves thw point that not everyone pick’s a school with the “best” name.

From St Patrick’s website:
This year, the single largest number of our class of 38 students will attend Sidwell Friends (four students), with three students each at Landon, Stone Ridge, Bullis, and Edmund Burke. Two students will attend both St. Andrew’s and Holy Child, and one each will attend Georgetown Visitation, Holton, Madeira, Maret, McLean, Sandy Spring Friends, St. Albans, St. Anselm’s, and St. John’s. Additionally, one student will attend Banneker High School, one Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, and one is relocating and will attend Tampa Preparatory School.

In addition to the day schools our students will be attending, they also received acceptances from Bishop McNamara, Field, Georgetown Day, National Cathedral, Potomac, and St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes.

Eight students applied to at least one boarding school, and six students total will attend a total of five boarding programs: Avon Old Farms (CT), Berkshire (MA), Choate Rosemary Hall (CT), Lawrenceville (NJ), and Millbrook (NY). Students were also accepted at Episcopal (VA), Foxcroft (VA), Kent (CT), Mercersburg (PA), Pomfret (CT), Proctor (NH), Rectory (CT), and Salisbury (CT).