I agree that it’s unfair. Unfortunately, everyone who lives in this country participates in this system on some level…whether they want to or not. |
Yes, but unfortunately some people’s participation equates to be the victim. |
Please elaborate who the victims/perpetrators are and how each group is participating in this unfair game. |
I think that wealth or geographic location determine to a large degree where most children attend schools in almost every country. If you are aware of a country where those factors do not, please name them. |
Nowhere else in the world are college tuition fees so exhorbitantly high compared to the average person’s income. Please name those countries where the ability to pay, aka « ED », impacts your kid’s access to the best education. No other country has advertised themselves to the extent the Us of A have. « American Dream ». Truly that. A dream. Anyway the point of my post was really for all of us to stop the insanity with Big 3 and Whitman and Churchill and who got the best outcomes. Same people and same privileged bubbles really. |
I feel like it was Holton and Bullis. |
| Was looking at McLean Highlander issues where the students self-report matriculation each year... noticed for class of 2022 there was a big drop-off from historical trend at VT, JMU, VCU... but not so much at UVA, W&M, GMU. Wonder what that was, or if it's more to do with the self-reporting variance from one year to next rather than an actual delta. Will see whether that trend continues or reverts in the 2023 issue in May. |
Holton, definitely. They had an incredible year. Bullis, no way. NCS, Sidwell, GDS and probably ~5 others have better results. |
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Actually, Bullis had a great deal of success, too. And it’s (the info) not just from the Instagram page. Bullis been very transparent and they are releasing any and all available data regarding college matriculation. They’re releasing everything.
I’d love to see Georgetown preps information. |
| Don’t forget dishonest. Padded and inflated grades. Racist. And rude. |
| If you don’t know by now, you won’t understand when I try to tell you. |
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If you don’t know by now, you won’t understand when I try to tell you |
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Actually you do. What you also see is public school classes having a greater socioeconomic diversity and often cultural diversity so WHERE kids go to school and HOW MUCH the schools cost is a much bigger factor in selection.
Further, many private schools have class sizes less than 150, which means even if a college accepted every kid in that private HS top 10%, it would be 15 acceptances max. Meanwhile a public HS could have 300-600+ kids in a class. Which means if a college accepted every kid in its top 10% that would mean double to quadruple the number of acceptances. Further still, the top20-30 college ranking doesn’t factor into individual student fit or what schools are too for their major. |
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[quote=Anonymous]Don’t forget dishonest. Padded and inflated grades. Racist. And rude. [/quote]
At all privates? Just certain ones? |
| The Whitman school in Bethesda has incredible college outcomes. Totally on par with sidwell and gds. There is an article in the Tess magazine not that long ago and I so you can see from their Instagram. My neighbor also has a kid who’s there and said the kids did great with over 20 IVs. |