St. Albans acceptance rate = 25 to 30%?

[Anonymous]

About 14 boys go to a top school a year. Nothing to write about. I’d rather give my kid the $1 million I saved in tuition with a decent ror.

[Anonymous]

14 out of 75 is roughly 20% which isn't bad.

Also what do you define as top?

How many go to UVA or W&M?

[Anonymous]

By “top” I mean decent. HYPMS admission rate not great.

[Anonymous]

This about the same as the no name small day school I went to in Massachusetts. And we did not have any celebrities or VIP. So the admissions results are pretty mediocre.

[Anonymous]

Do you really want to pay that much money to go to W&M?

[Anonymous]

It’s not even the top state school. I guess that’s how schools like STA stay in business

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:14 out of 75 is roughly 20% which isn't bad.

Also what do you define as top?

How many go to UVA or W&M?

Those admissions number are the TOTAL for 5 YEARS!

They're not per year. And there are 85 kids per year.

[Anonymous]

Exactly!!! Not great

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia’s acceptance is around 7%. Cornell 12%. St Albans’s college acceptance isn’ t that great. A good student might get into Kenyon or UChicago.

40 out of 80 or so went so went to Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Princeton, Columbia and Penn last year. 7 alone went to Yale. Sorry, so wrong.

This is a bold face lie! Don't believe the hype.

Don’t know about 40/80, but the top 25% at STA get into Ivies, Stanford, MIT. The next 25% go to SLACs, UCB, UCLA, UVA. The bottom 59% go to strong schools - think Top 50 — but not necessarily the most competitive schools.

The last several years, the top 25% at STA and NCS have done better at college placement than the top 25% at Sidwell or GDS. some will argue that this is due to a legacy and wealth factor, but those are also present at GDS and Sidwell.

The number one school top STA boys feed into is University of Chicago, 38 in the past five years to be exact. That is about 7 students per year and is the number one school for STA grads by more than double of any other school.

The bottom 60% do not attend top 50 schools, sorry. They attend top 150 or less. Think University of Maryland, American University, Miami University, Elon, Wofford College, Indiana University, College of Wooster, Hillsdale College, Montgomery College, Penn State, St. John's College, College of Charleston, Catholic University, GW University, Auburn University, Drew University, University of Colorado Boulder, Sewanee: University of the South, Southern Methodist, University of Vermont, and St. Mary's College of Maryland just to name a few attended by STA grads. There is a big difference between the top students who attend great colleges and the remaining majority (60%) who attend very average colleges. STA may get to hand select their students, but they don't all end up at top universities.

Montgomery College???

Yes, Montgomery College. Some kids may need a two year junior college to figure things out.

Not coming out of St Albans, they shouldn’t. If so, the school has failed that kid.

[Anonymous]

About 9% going to HYPMS - a lot of it going to VIPs and legacies. It doesn’t look good for the regular folk

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Anonymous wrote:About 9% going to HYPMS - a lot of it going to VIPs and legacies. It doesn’t look good for the regular folk

Plus you have to figure in athletic recruits (quite a few of these from STA that I'm thinking of in that 9% over the past5 years to Stanford and Princeton especially).

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Anonymous wrote:14 out of 75 is roughly 20% which isn't bad.

Also what do you define as top?

How many go to UVA or W&M?

Those admissions number are the TOTAL for 5 YEARS!

They're not per year. And there are 85 kids per year.

This is ignorant! Or, are you nuts?

[Anonymous]

People, google STA matriculation and then open the handbook. You will see the number of students that went to each college from 2014 to 2018. Set up an Excel file to compute the statistics you want.

[Anonymous]

STA had long been the school for Washington's political elite. Some of their offspring have what it takes to go IVY. Many don't. I don't think it is a fair comparison to TJ or Blair which are truly meritocratic admissions. Also top schools are moving away from giving breaks to prep schools unless kid is truly special.

Sidwell and GDS have become the more preferred schools for the DC political elite in the last decade. They are more "woke" and have a more progressive history.

[Anonymous]

19 out of the class went to Yale and Chicago alone. Sorry haters, you are wrong. I have the Bulletin and the class list and the numbers right in front of me. 40 is right on. Amazing when Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame and UVA are your mid-tier.