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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, everyone knows SR just isnt in the big leagues with the other private girls' schools. Maybe cause this area was always predominantly WASP in the upper class and SR is catholic? Who knows, but no one even thinks of SR as being in the same realm at the NCS, Holton, Madeira, etc

It's a question of preference. My kid could easily have gotten into any of these schools, but we were 100% only applying to Catholic schools. I know it's hard for you to wrap you head around that.

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Anonymous wrote:There are always a significant number of girls at SR who apply to top tier Catholic schools. These are schools that of less popular with girls at Holton. Having followed this for years (and two students), it seems like the high achieving girls at SR tend to want something different for college (ie fewer applying to HYP). This isn’t a good or bad thing…

This 100%. Have a student at SR now and the bulk of schools she plans to apply to are Catholic. Her SAT is 1560 and a 4.3 GPA. She could apply to lots of other top schools, but she has no interest at all. My son, who attended Gonzaga, was the same way with even higher SAT score and he ended up at ND. So don't assume these kids are necessarily applying to these schools. In most cases, they are not.

Well, nobody (out of the 44 SR girls) is going to ND this year…One (out of 29 Holton girls) is heading there. So I am not sure that argument works either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, everyone knows SR just isnt in the big leagues with the other private girls' schools. Maybe cause this area was always predominantly WASP in the upper class and SR is catholic? Who knows, but no one even thinks of SR as being in the same realm at the NCS, Holton, Madeira, etc

There is a lot of anti-Catholic bias among the rest of the “elite” striver climbers in this area. The Catholic community — especially the more liberal Catholics (Jesuit, Sacred Heart, etc) was always tight knit. Ledecky brought a lot of scrutiny to a school that was traditionally an excellent school with less snobbery, terrible sports, and a lower profile than places like Holton or NCS. And while there is some overlap with Holton and SR in terms of the circles people run in, the NCS/St Albans/etc crowd was always dismissive of SR.

SR was values driven in a way that a lot of other schools were not and still remains strongly focused on its Sacred Heart, liberal/social justice Catholic identity. That isn’t something that a lot of the “HYP” and “big three” posters here care about but it has traditionally mattered deeply to the community.

If SR isn’t for you, that’s great. But the quality of the education that SR girls receive is undeniable and SR girls go on to do amazing things, often in ways that give back. (The DC Diaper Bank was founded by an alumna, for example.)

There’s a reason there are multiple generation Sacred Heart families, but it goes well beyond the sticker on your car.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, everyone knows SR just isnt in the big leagues with the other private girls' schools. Maybe cause this area was always predominantly WASP in the upper class and SR is catholic? Who knows, but no one even thinks of SR as being in the same realm at the NCS, Holton, Madeira, etc

There is a lot of anti-Catholic bias among the rest of the “elite” striver climbers in this area. The Catholic community — especially the more liberal Catholics (Jesuit, Sacred Heart, etc) was always tight knit. Ledecky brought a lot of scrutiny to a school that was traditionally an excellent school with less snobbery, terrible sports, and a lower profile than places like Holton or NCS. And while there is some overlap with Holton and SR in terms of the circles people run in, the NCS/St Albans/etc crowd was always dismissive of SR.

SR was values driven in a way that a lot of other schools were not and still remains strongly focused on its Sacred Heart, liberal/social justice Catholic identity. That isn’t something that a lot of the “HYP” and “big three” posters here care about but it has traditionally mattered deeply to the community.

If SR isn’t for you, that’s great. But the quality of the education that SR girls receive is undeniable and SR girls go on to do amazing things, often in ways that give back. (The DC Diaper Bank was founded by an alumna, for example.)

There’s a reason there are multiple generation Sacred Heart families, but it goes well beyond the sticker on your car.

Well said! This is why we chose SR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, everyone knows SR just isnt in the big leagues with the other private girls' schools. Maybe cause this area was always predominantly WASP in the upper class and SR is catholic? Who knows, but no one even thinks of SR as being in the same realm at the NCS, Holton, Madeira, etc

I wouldn’t go crazy here. Objectively speaking, sure Holton has done a bit better which is why it’s the top private in MD, but not NCS or Madeira (or any of the other girls schools for that matter). Now you’re just piling on in a way that’s not backed up by literally anything…Those other schools are not doing any better than SR. Also, Holton is having a lot of problems right now, so there’s that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are always a significant number of girls at SR who apply to top tier Catholic schools. These are schools that of less popular with girls at Holton. Having followed this for years (and two students), it seems like the high achieving girls at SR tend to want something different for college (ie fewer applying to HYP). This isn’t a good or bad thing…

This 100%. Have a student at SR now and the bulk of schools she plans to apply to are Catholic. Her SAT is 1560 and a 4.3 GPA. She could apply to lots of other top schools, but she has no interest at all. My son, who attended Gonzaga, was the same way with even higher SAT score and he ended up at ND. So don't assume these kids are necessarily applying to these schools. In most cases, they are not.

Well, nobody (out of the 44 SR girls) is going to ND this year…One (out of 29 Holton girls) is heading there. So I am not sure that argument works either.

Really? First of all, you are creepy looking at schools with which you have no affiliation just to rant on an anonymous forum. Second, there is at least one girl going to ND from SR. Maybe look more carefully next time.

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Anonymous wrote:There are always a significant number of girls at SR who apply to top tier Catholic schools. These are schools that of less popular with girls at Holton. Having followed this for years (and two students), it seems like the high achieving girls at SR tend to want something different for college (ie fewer applying to HYP). This isn’t a good or bad thing…

This 100%. Have a student at SR now and the bulk of schools she plans to apply to are Catholic. Her SAT is 1560 and a 4.3 GPA. She could apply to lots of other top schools, but she has no interest at all. My son, who attended Gonzaga, was the same way with even higher SAT score and he ended up at ND. So don't assume these kids are necessarily applying to these schools. In most cases, they are not.

Well, nobody (out of the 44 SR girls) is going to ND this year…One (out of 29 Holton girls) is heading there. So I am not sure that argument works either.

As the PP mentioned, there is one girl going to ND from SR. Easy to overlook when you don't want to find something lol.

At SR as of now, 27% of the class of '25 students are going to Catholic colleges and universities. Holton only has 10% (3 students going to BC and ND).

In the class of 2024, 18% of the SR class matriculated to Catholic schools vs. 10% of the Holton class.

So I think we can safely say that the PP's argument that SR graduates' have a clear preference for Catholic schools is a sound one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are always a significant number of girls at SR who apply to top tier Catholic schools. These are schools that of less popular with girls at Holton. Having followed this for years (and two students), it seems like the high achieving girls at SR tend to want something different for college (ie fewer applying to HYP). This isn’t a good or bad thing…

This 100%. Have a student at SR now and the bulk of schools she plans to apply to are Catholic. Her SAT is 1560 and a 4.3 GPA. She could apply to lots of other top schools, but she has no interest at all. My son, who attended Gonzaga, was the same way with even higher SAT score and he ended up at ND. So don't assume these kids are necessarily applying to these schools. In most cases, they are not.

Well, nobody (out of the 44 SR girls) is going to ND this year…One (out of 29 Holton girls) is heading there. So I am not sure that argument works either.

As the PP mentioned, there is one girl going to ND from SR. Easy to overlook when you don't want to find something lol.

At SR as of now, 27% of the class of '25 students are going to Catholic colleges and universities. Holton only has 10% (3 students going to BC and ND).

In the class of 2024, 18% of the SR class matriculated to Catholic schools vs. 10% of the Holton class.

So I think we can safely say that the PP's argument that SR graduates' have a clear preference for Catholic schools is a sound one.

I’m confident that the student run insta account that you are leaning on for data doesn’t also include a list of all the schools each senior applied to. For example, I know at least one student who was admitted to ND this cycle but isn’t going because she got a better aid offer elsewhere. People make different choices based on their needs and values.

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Anonymous wrote:There are always a significant number of girls at SR who apply to top tier Catholic schools. These are schools that of less popular with girls at Holton. Having followed this for years (and two students), it seems like the high achieving girls at SR tend to want something different for college (ie fewer applying to HYP). This isn’t a good or bad thing…

This 100%. Have a student at SR now and the bulk of schools she plans to apply to are Catholic. Her SAT is 1560 and a 4.3 GPA. She could apply to lots of other top schools, but she has no interest at all. My son, who attended Gonzaga, was the same way with even higher SAT score and he ended up at ND. So don't assume these kids are necessarily applying to these schools. In most cases, they are not.

Well, nobody (out of the 44 SR girls) is going to ND this year…One (out of 29 Holton girls) is heading there. So I am not sure that argument works either.

As the PP mentioned, there is one girl going to ND from SR. Easy to overlook when you don't want to find something lol.

At SR as of now, 27% of the class of '25 students are going to Catholic colleges and universities. Holton only has 10% (3 students going to BC and ND).

In the class of 2024, 18% of the SR class matriculated to Catholic schools vs. 10% of the Holton class.

So I think we can safely say that the PP's argument that SR graduates' have a clear preference for Catholic schools is a sound one.

I’m confident that the student run insta account that you are leaning on for data doesn’t also include a list of all the schools each senior applied to. For example, I know at least one student who was admitted to ND this cycle but isn’t going because she got a better aid offer elsewhere. People make different choices based on their needs and values.

The data is sufficient to prove that SR grads are more drawn to Catholic schools. Your one off example doesn’t do enough to dispute this.

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Anonymous wrote:There are always a significant number of girls at SR who apply to top tier Catholic schools. These are schools that of less popular with girls at Holton. Having followed this for years (and two students), it seems like the high achieving girls at SR tend to want something different for college (ie fewer applying to HYP). This isn’t a good or bad thing…

This 100%. Have a student at SR now and the bulk of schools she plans to apply to are Catholic. Her SAT is 1560 and a 4.3 GPA. She could apply to lots of other top schools, but she has no interest at all. My son, who attended Gonzaga, was the same way with even higher SAT score and he ended up at ND. So don't assume these kids are necessarily applying to these schools. In most cases, they are not.

Well, nobody (out of the 44 SR girls) is going to ND this year…One (out of 29 Holton girls) is heading there. So I am not sure that argument works either.

As the PP mentioned, there is one girl going to ND from SR. Easy to overlook when you don't want to find something lol.

At SR as of now, 27% of the class of '25 students are going to Catholic colleges and universities. Holton only has 10% (3 students going to BC and ND).

In the class of 2024, 18% of the SR class matriculated to Catholic schools vs. 10% of the Holton class.

So I think we can safely say that the PP's argument that SR graduates' have a clear preference for Catholic schools is a sound one.

I’m confident that the student run insta account that you are leaning on for data doesn’t also include a list of all the schools each senior applied to. For example, I know at least one student who was admitted to ND this cycle but isn’t going because she got a better aid offer elsewhere. People make different choices based on their needs and values.

The data is sufficient to prove that SR grads are more drawn to Catholic schools. Your one off example doesn’t do enough to dispute this.

I wasn’t trying to dispute that SR students tend to gravitate to Catholic schools. They absolutely do! I was responding to the poster who was citing the Instagram posts as evidence of anything. The kid who is choosing not to go to ND is going elsewhere (non Catholic) for financial reasons. Who knows how many others are in a similar boat. The point I was trying to make is using the instagram postings to support an argument is just silly.

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Anonymous wrote:There are always a significant number of girls at SR who apply to top tier Catholic schools. These are schools that of less popular with girls at Holton. Having followed this for years (and two students), it seems like the high achieving girls at SR tend to want something different for college (ie fewer applying to HYP). This isn’t a good or bad thing…

This 100%. Have a student at SR now and the bulk of schools she plans to apply to are Catholic. Her SAT is 1560 and a 4.3 GPA. She could apply to lots of other top schools, but she has no interest at all. My son, who attended Gonzaga, was the same way with even higher SAT score and he ended up at ND. So don't assume these kids are necessarily applying to these schools. In most cases, they are not.

Well, nobody (out of the 44 SR girls) is going to ND this year…One (out of 29 Holton girls) is heading there. So I am not sure that argument works either.

As the PP mentioned, there is one girl going to ND from SR. Easy to overlook when you don't want to find something lol.

At SR as of now, 27% of the class of '25 students are going to Catholic colleges and universities. Holton only has 10% (3 students going to BC and ND).

In the class of 2024, 18% of the SR class matriculated to Catholic schools vs. 10% of the Holton class.

So I think we can safely say that the PP's argument that SR graduates' have a clear preference for Catholic schools is a sound one.

I’m confident that the student run insta account that you are leaning on for data doesn’t also include a list of all the schools each senior applied to. For example, I know at least one student who was admitted to ND this cycle but isn’t going because she got a better aid offer elsewhere. People make different choices based on their needs and values.

The data is sufficient to prove that SR grads are more drawn to Catholic schools. Your one off example doesn’t do enough to dispute this.

I wasn’t trying to dispute that SR students tend to gravitate to Catholic schools. They absolutely do! I was responding to the poster who was citing the Instagram posts as evidence of anything. The kid who is choosing not to go to ND is going elsewhere (non Catholic) for financial reasons. Who knows how many others are in a similar boat. The point I was trying to make is using the instagram postings to support an argument is just silly.

Using matriculation data on schools’ students’ tendencies to attend Catholic universities is absolutely the most accurate way to compare because it uses an apples to apples approach. And as you point out, there could very well be students in the same situation. The difference in percentage is significant and it makes absolute sense that students coming out of a Catholic school would be more likely to choose Catholic universities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Come on people. Mean girls exist in public, private, all-girls, and coed. They aren’t only at Stone Ridge. Some change with self-work and some turn into mean women.

I’m PP who asked for details bc it’s easy to throw the mean girl comment out there to smear a school. The interactions we’ve had with actual SR families have been very pleasant and have not heard about mean girl experiences. Obviously I’m sure there’s some of that, but the DCUM mom narrative would have you believe it’s rampant.

DP. I think SR has gotten a bad reputation more so in recent years because what used to be mostly teenage behavior now seems to have expanded to bad adult behavior. Friends have had some really brutal interactions with a few of the parents in the upperschool. Same thing with one of these families at one of the all boys schools. Same behavior - same stories so I believe it.

[Anonymous]

LS is lovely. Cannot speak to US, though the girls on the bus seem cool and smart to my DD!

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Anonymous wrote:There are always a significant number of girls at SR who apply to top tier Catholic schools. These are schools that of less popular with girls at Holton. Having followed this for years (and two students), it seems like the high achieving girls at SR tend to want something different for college (ie fewer applying to HYP). This isn’t a good or bad thing…

This 100%. Have a student at SR now and the bulk of schools she plans to apply to are Catholic. Her SAT is 1560 and a 4.3 GPA. She could apply to lots of other top schools, but she has no interest at all. My son, who attended Gonzaga, was the same way with even higher SAT score and he ended up at ND. So don't assume these kids are necessarily applying to these schools. In most cases, they are not.

Well, nobody (out of the 44 SR girls) is going to ND this year…One (out of 29 Holton girls) is heading there. So I am not sure that argument works either.

As the PP mentioned, there is one girl going to ND from SR. Easy to overlook when you don't want to find something lol.

At SR as of now, 27% of the class of '25 students are going to Catholic colleges and universities. Holton only has 10% (3 students going to BC and ND).

In the class of 2024, 18% of the SR class matriculated to Catholic schools vs. 10% of the Holton class.

So I think we can safely say that the PP's argument that SR graduates' have a clear preference for Catholic schools is a sound one.

I’m confident that the student run insta account that you are leaning on for data doesn’t also include a list of all the schools each senior applied to. For example, I know at least one student who was admitted to ND this cycle but isn’t going because she got a better aid offer elsewhere. People make different choices based on their needs and values.

The data is sufficient to prove that SR grads are more drawn to Catholic schools. Your one off example doesn’t do enough to dispute this.

I wasn’t trying to dispute that SR students tend to gravitate to Catholic schools. They absolutely do! I was responding to the poster who was citing the Instagram posts as evidence of anything. The kid who is choosing not to go to ND is going elsewhere (non Catholic) for financial reasons. Who knows how many others are in a similar boat. The point I was trying to make is using the instagram postings to support an argument is just silly.

Using matriculation data on schools’ students’ tendencies to attend Catholic universities is absolutely the most accurate way to compare because it uses an apples to apples approach. And as you point out, there could very well be students in the same situation. The difference in percentage is significant and it makes absolute sense that students coming out of a Catholic school would be more likely to choose Catholic universities.

Insta is incomplete data. I know kids who never posted where they applied or where they were accepted. They can’t be the only ones. Using Insta to compare schools is a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

SR is a very good academic school, with a strong emphasis on supporting athletes. The reality is every all girls school is a vipers nest. Co-Ed balances a lot of things out.