No GDS students going to Harvard this year?

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Anonymous wrote:But we were talking about raw numbers of matriculants. Why do DC area public schools, with lots of legacies and upper class families, not have more students attending Harvard?

What are you talking about?

“Of all schools that have sent students to Harvard, one in 11 students has come from just 21 high schools across the United States."

From the DMV area, only the Thomas Jefferson magnet is among the 21 top schools. Sorry Sidwell, GDS and Cathedral schools.

Sometimes merit beats out money.

Doesn’t TJ have like 500 students per grade? Of course a top magnet with that many students will send more kids to elite colleges than schools with 80-150 students.

Or you could say, of course a private school with a high share of highly resourced and legacy parents willing to pay 50k a year just for high school and with no obligation to accept low-income kids or kids with special needs will send more kids to elite colleges than an overcrowded under resourced public school.

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Anonymous wrote:But we were talking about raw numbers of matriculants. Why do DC area public schools, with lots of legacies and upper class families, not have more students attending Harvard?

What are you talking about?

“Of all schools that have sent students to Harvard, one in 11 students has come from just 21 high schools across the United States."

From the DMV area, only the Thomas Jefferson magnet is among the 21 top schools. Sorry Sidwell, GDS and Cathedral schools.

Sometimes merit beats out money.

Doesn’t TJ have like 500 students per grade? Of course a top magnet with that many students will send more kids to elite colleges than schools with 80-150 students.

Or you could say, of course a private school with a high share of highly resourced and legacy parents willing to pay 50k a year just for high school and with no obligation to accept low-income kids or kids with special needs will send more kids to elite colleges than an overcrowded under resourced public school.

Sure, but we’re comparing to TJ. It’s not an overcrowded under resourced public school.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess GDS did nit have the right parent in this class. Harvard is about connections.

Exactly. No hooked applicants this year. Shockingly, Ketanji Brown Jackson's kids were both admitted in recent years.

Only one of KTJ's children went to GDS (and Harvard).

Isn’t her husband the descendent of multiple Mayflower passengers? Talk about a leg up.

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That’s who they admit to GDS. It costs $60k/yr. Every kid there has a leg up

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GDS tuition is not $60,000.

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$56,217.

Every kid there has a leg up. It’s not surprising that many go to good colleges, especially all the legacies and full pay students.

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Anonymous wrote:That is what our kids at another big three are saying. Shocking if true

NCS sending 1, Sidwell sending 3

What happened?

OMG the earth is shattering for the out-of-touch DC area private school parents.

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Anonymous wrote:$56,217.

Every kid there has a leg up. It’s not surprising that many go to good colleges, especially all the legacies and full pay students.

This may be a novel concept to your simplistic mind, but the vast majority of legacies don’t end up matriculating at schools where their parents attended.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard's prestige is down. Haven't you heard?

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Anonymous wrote:$56,217.

Every kid there has a leg up. It’s not surprising that many go to good colleges, especially all the legacies and full pay students.

This may be a novel concept to your simplistic mind, but the vast majority of legacies don’t end up matriculating at schools where their parents attended.

It should patently obvious even to you that students at GDS come from well-resourced families and that is the biggest advantage in college admissions. It is not surprising that these kids get into good schools, even if they aren’t legacies at that school. Why do you think schools like GDS and colleges ask where parents attended?

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If simply being well-resourced were enough, why don’t all private schools in major US cities have the same college admissions outcomes?

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Omg. Even Bullis has someone going to Harvard in 2025. And 3 to Stanford. Oh dear what is going on at gds!?!

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Anonymous wrote:Omg. Even Bullis has someone going to Harvard in 2025. And 3 to Stanford. Oh dear what is going on at gds!?!

Don't be obnoxious. GDS has had kids admitted to Harvard every year since 2009. Bullis has not.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually none of these results is even slightly impressive.

There are over 2000 private high schools and over 20000 public high schools in the US, plus who knows how many internationally.

How many matriculants at Harvard would you expect any top U.S. private school to have when the incoming class size is around 1600 students?

More than this. These schools are supposed to be the best in the DMV.

Give us a number. What should it be? It's like you don't know that there are also dozens of highly regarded privates in NYC, LA, Boston, and other top cities plus boarding schools.

No, I know it all right. And those schools largely do better than the top schools here and often MUCH better.

One example: Dalton in NYC. 75 grads matriculated at either Harvard, Yale or Princeton in the last 5 years. 37 at Harvard alone.

The Big 3 are little fish in the Big World of USA privates.

25 from Brearley going to Harvard from ‘21 to ‘25.

There’s just no comparison. Let get real.

Hmm, I see TJ but nobody else in the DMV and certainly no Big 3

https://interactives.thecrimson.com/2024/news/feeders

What are you talking about? In the image you share, Georgetown Day is right there under Deerfield Academy.

+1 Georgetown Day is also in the following image where they show schools that have sent at least 1 student to Harvard since 2009. It's not in the last image where it shows that "of all schools that have sent students to Harvard, one in 11 students has come from just 21 high schools across the United States." From the DMV area, only Thomas Jefferson magnet is there.

I see Blair, Whitman

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard's prestige is down. Haven't you heard?

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American exceptionalism is also over. No more immigrants or internationals.