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01/02/2024 11:37

Subject: 2024 Washington DC area College commits

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

Not anymore...but you keep believing what you do.

The truth of the matter is you will most likely get an inferior education in a public school. It IS possible to get a decent education. But an excellent education? LOL...maybe at TJ but even that is suspect these days.

There are so many super smart well educated kids coming out of publics. But sure, their education is sub par. Only Richie Rich’s kids are getting an EXCELLENT education at Sidwell

Sure but trust me...I know. My friends whose kids just entered college in the past year are all complaining their kids never learned to really study for cumulative assessments. They never had them at their MCPS W school where they give you semester grade of A when you have a 79 and 89 for each quarter. These kids played games with the numbers and are sorely unprepared for college. These are kids who took multiple APs too.

Really? All of them? Every single one?
No exaggeration there, I’m sure. Unless you’re talking about 1 or 2 people.

Of course not every one...but a good portion.

But if you look at their college commits, they are spectacular. You would think that if a good portion of public school kids are sub par, these T25 schools would stop taking them.

A very very small percentage of kids from the top Bethesda area schools get into the top 20 (about 5%). I am talking about the remaining 95% of those students. Of the 8 schools that Bethesda Magazine featured in their report on matriculations, there were about 250 students of the total of 4600 seniors who ended u at top 20 schools. Of course of the remaining 4350 students, there were some who will be just fine, but many many struggle due to poor preparation for college. And I know you will say that is because of poor parenting, but that is not always the case. It is because of low expectations on the part of MCPS.

I cannot believe that you believe that 95% of these students will struggle in college and only 250 will be ok. You’re telling yourself stories.

I never said 95% would struggle. This is what I said verbatim: "Of course of the remaining 4350 students, there were some who will be just fine, but many many struggle due to poor preparation for college.

Quantify many many. What do mean by that?

Difficult to quantify, but based on what I have heard among my friend group in our Churchill district and what I have read on the MCPS forum, kids are struggling in college and have to learn how to study. If I had to throw a number out there, I would say probably 75%...maybe more. Most will get through it with hard work and tutors, but the independent school students who actually had to be accountable during HS will find college much easier.

75%… in the Churchill area… 😁😂. You really do tell yourself stories.

There are 8 schools in that analysis, which include the W schools, Blair, RM, BCC, and Einstein. So there is definitely a cohort that would struggle there...a large cohort. https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

When we were deciding on whether to enroll DS in private Catholic HS vs. Winston Churchill, we considered his very strong desire to attend University of Notre Dame. We had a sense that acceptance was more likely coming out of a Catholic school than public school. Until I looked at these numbers however, I wasn't entirely sure how much of a difference it made. It made a significant difference.

Looking at these MCPS numbers for Notre Dame, there was only a 6% acceptance rate among this cohort of MCPS students. Compare that to an overall acceptance rate at ND of 15%. That tells me ND doesn't particularly have a preference for students from this school system. Just for comparison, I looked at the numbers for other top Catholic schools. Those numbers were more in line with overall acceptance rates. Bottom line, enrolling our son in a Catholic HS paid off as he got into his top choice dream school and likely would not have if we kept him in MCPS.

Notre Dame Acceptance Rate - 15%
MCPS Admits:
79 Applied
5 Admitted - 6%
2 Enrolled

Georgetown Acceptance Rate - 13%
MCPS Admits:
204 Applied
40 Admitted - 19%
24 Enrolled

Boston College Acceptance Rate - 15%
MCPS Admits:
219 Applied
40 Admitted - 18%
12 Enrolled

Villanova Acceptance Rate - 21%
MCPS Admits:
137 Applied
26 Admitted- 19%
8 Enrolled

A Catholic university gives preference to Catholic HS students. Color us surprised 😮

What if you are Catholic but attend a public school (Like a "W")?

The point of this post was to show that ND does not seem to have much interest in W school students at all, considering their overall acceptance rate is much higher than the acceptance rate among MCPS schools. Very telling, especially considering MCPS students have better outcomes getting into other Catholic universities (similar acceptance rate to overall rate).