Which schools in area send most to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford? GDS

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Anonymous wrote: % ATTENDING 15 TOP COLLEGES

1 Thomas Jefferson Magnet 9.18%
2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 4.51%
3 Sidwell Friends School 14.40%
4 National Cathedral School (NCS) 15.79%
5 St. Albans School 14.21%
6 Maret School 10.42%
7 Georgetown Day School 9.54%
8 St. Anselm's School 5.22%
9 Holton-Arms School 7.09%
10 Potomac School 6.63%


https://www.lotusprep.com/best-high-schools-dc/

Wilson is being renovated again, to have two doors. They will be labeled "Yale" and "Jail".

What % do you think is Wilson? That's still the best DCPS high school, yes?

No, Wilson does not belong on this list. Go around that area at 3:00 and you will see why.

Is this list why Sidwell and the Cathedral schools are the "big 3"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GDS has the reputation for sending the highest proportion of seniors to Harvard and other top Ivies. It's their "secret sauce."

Bullshit

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Anonymous wrote: % ATTENDING 15 TOP COLLEGES

1 Thomas Jefferson Magnet 9.18%
2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 4.51%
3 Sidwell Friends School 14.40%
4 National Cathedral School (NCS) 15.79%
5 St. Albans School 14.21%
6 Maret School 10.42%
7 Georgetown Day School 9.54%
8 St. Anselm's School 5.22%
9 Holton-Arms School 7.09%
10 Potomac School 6.63%


https://www.lotusprep.com/best-high-schools-dc/

Wilson is being renovated again, to have two doors. They will be labeled "Yale" and "Jail".

What % do you think is Wilson? That's still the best DCPS high school, yes?

No, Wilson does not belong on this list. Go around that area at 3:00 and you will see why.

Is this list why Sidwell and the Cathedral schools are the "big 3"?

Yes and because Sidwell and NCS/STA are the only schools with a national reputation; colleges, ofcourse, are familiar with many area privates.

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^^^Agreed!

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Ivy admission is the new religion. Ugh!

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GDS. But of course.

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Anonymous wrote:GDS. But of course.

GDS eats dust...

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well, you do have to consider that GDS doesn't get a boost from Athletes. GDS sports program just isn't as competitive, so the kids that are admitted to the top schools is because of their academics.

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Anonymous wrote:well, you do have to consider that GDS doesn't get a boost from Athletes. GDS sports program just isn't as competitive, so the kids that are admitted to the top schools is because of their academics.

They benefit from legacy admissions...

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Some..... as do the others.

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Anonymous wrote:Some..... as do the others.

Yes, any creative person can always imagine some narrative that explains why the actual numbers should be skewed to favor one result. It's just like the TJ discussion from upthread where some TJ booster was trying to argue that dozens of TJ students applied for and were admitted to Harvard and Yale, but decided not to attend because they're actually unable to afford it. Anyone can spin a yarn by the campfire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:well, you do have to consider that GDS doesn't get a boost from Athletes. GDS sports program just isn't as competitive, so the kids that are admitted to the top schools is because of their academics.

+1. Considering this, the school's record at Harvard and the other Top Ivies is very enviable.

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Anonymous wrote:well, you do have to consider that GDS doesn't get a boost from Athletes. GDS sports program just isn't as competitive, so the kids that are admitted to the top schools is because of their academics.

+1. Considering this, the school's record at Harvard and the other Top Ivies is very enviable.

Get a grip please. I can count the number of athletic recruits from the Big 3 to the Ivy League on one hand. Yes they have better athletics than GDS - for that matter, who doesn't? The path for the best student athletes at NCS, STA and Sidwell runs through division III and not division I. These students get the joke that if it doesn't mean a scholarship then why waste 30 hours per week on a dead end pursuit.

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Anonymous wrote:PP, you seem to be reading a lot extra into OP's 10-word post.

You also clearly want to brag about TJ's students accepted to MIT, so maybe you should start a thread about that, because OP didn't say anything about MIT.

OP also didn't say anything about the "percentage" of students either. Op just said "most". According to your "only the facts" mantra, TJ appears to send the most students to Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Standard. In addition, if you want to use the last 5 years average number, you should use the last 5 years average numbers for TJ as well to be consistent. If not, only use the same "data" that you love to emphasize which would be the class of 2016 data.

This. And if you consider that a higher number of the private school kids are legacies than at TJ and that Asian kids need to score higher than their white counterparts to be accepted to the same schools (TJ being majority Asian unlike at privates), the TJ numbers are particularly impressive.

None of the privates beat TJ's numbers for top schools.

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Anonymous wrote:TJ sends the most number and percentage of students to the top 25 national/research schools in the country not just in the D.C. area.

Source? Proof please. Your credibility is shaky now.

TJ class of 2016 acceptances for ~ top 25 colleges:

University of Virginia 224
College of William and Mary 173
University of Michigan 61
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 53
Carnegie Mellon University 50
Georgia Institute of Technology 42
University of California, Berkeley 35
Cornell University 29
New York University 29
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 28
University of California, San Diego 20
University of Chicago 18
Duke University 17
Rice University 17
Washington University in St. Louis 17
University of California, Los Angeles 16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 15
University of Pennsylvania 13
Yale University 13
Georgetown University 13
Columbia University 12
Princeton University 12
Brown University 12
University of Southern California 11
The University of Texas, Austin 11
Harvard (6), Dartmouth (10), Stanford (10), Caltech (5), Harvey-Mudd (5), Wellesley/Williams (5)

Total of 982 acceptances for above schools which may be missing few schools that are arguably in the top 25. Discount that by 70% due to some students receiving multiple acceptances from top 25 schools and we have 295. 295/450 = 65%. That is about 65% attending top 25 schools with another 25% attending schools just outside of top 25 such as Case Western, Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, George Washington, Boston University, VaTech, UMCP, Penn State, Rensselaer, Rochester Institute of Technology, USC etc.

The 2016 TJ Senior destinations is not completely accurate since some students (not many but roughly 10 to 15) do not choose to or fail to participate in that survey. However, the TJ profile (applied/accepted) numbers come from the TJ student services office and they are reliable and accurate.

Impressive list!