Big 3 Nightmare

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another 30 secs to find these lies and exaggerations: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/330/1123015.page

Unless you've had a kid at GDS, NCS, etc, you can't say they're comparable. They're not. My kid is on a sports team with all MCPS kids who take the hardest classes, very high GPAs, etc, and they don't work even half as hard as their counterparts in top privates. Not saying they're not smart, but their high school experience is absolutely chill in comparison.“

Angry troll/private school parent clearly didn’t even try.

These colleges have been dealing with the same private and public high schools for a long time. They know how to evaluate applications and which students they want to pick out of these piles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's been a very tough year for top students at Big 3 schools in DC. Whew. RD has offered no real relief..

Disagree lots of kids at Cathedral schools received great news. Between the two schools I know of several on both sides going to Georgetown, Cornell, Duke, Vandy, Notre Dame, etc...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's been a very tough year for top students at Big 3 schools in DC. Whew. RD has offered no real relief..

Disagree lots of kids at Cathedral schools received great news. Between the two schools I know of several on both sides going to Georgetown, Cornell, Duke, Vandy, Notre Dame, etc...

UVA as well as several going to Ivies. These classes are small 76 at STA and 80 or so at NCS so percentage wise they have done quite well and have had great news for regular decision.

[Anonymous]

Cathedral schools also kept APs, didn’t they, in the end? At least for math, science, and languages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cathedral schools also kept APs, didn’t they, in the end? At least for math, science, and languages?

yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a 40 page thread full of implicit insults to the quality of the students that are getting in as compared to the students that are left out. Denying it is gaslighting.

My DD’s waitlist info for Wesleyan was instructive with regards to a LOCI, it noted the student te do not have to provide any additional accomplishments as she was fully qualified to be accepted. It is what it experienced parents have been saying for a year that current parents refused to believe applied to their child, no matter the stats, schools with acceptance rates under 20% are now a lottery or those that are qualified, even when in the top 25% of stats. TO has significantly enlarged the pool.

Your problem is, I think, with the structure of the education and how it is perceived by highly competitive colleges. You can say that without questioning the competence and achievements of the kids that are being accepted in this new world. And know that given the same privileges of your children in the private school the accepted kids might have outperformed your kid and the fact that they did not have this opportunity does not make your child more deserving than those other kids.

And if this is the case, GDS should drop the 10 school cap, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's been a very tough year for top students at Big 3 schools in DC. Whew. RD has offered no real relief..

Disagree lots of kids at Cathedral schools received great news. Between the two schools I know of several on both sides going to Georgetown, Cornell, Duke, Vandy, Notre Dame, etc...

UVA as well as several going to Ivies. These classes are small 76 at STA and 80 or so at NCS so percentage wise they have done quite well and have had great news for regular decision.

This year’s NCS class is smaller than usual I believe. Closer to 70 than 80.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is a 40 page thread full of implicit insults to the quality of the students that are getting in as compared to the students that are left out. Denying it is gaslighting.

My DD’s waitlist info for Wesleyan was instructive with regards to a LOCI, it noted the student te do not have to provide any additional accomplishments as she was fully qualified to be accepted. It is what it experienced parents have been saying for a year that current parents refused to believe applied to their child, no matter the stats, schools with acceptance rates under 20% are now a lottery or those that are qualified, even when in the top 25% of stats. TO has significantly enlarged the pool.

Your problem is, I think, with the structure of the education and how it is perceived by highly competitive colleges. You can say that without questioning the competence and achievements of the kids that are being accepted in this new world. And know that given the same privileges of your children in the private school the accepted kids might have outperformed your kid and the fact that they did not have this opportunity does not make your child more deserving than those other kids.

And if this is the case, GDS should drop the 10 school cap, right?

PP here and I would agree with this 100% but am not a GDS parent. My DD submitted 14 applications (but multiple schools on a single app in two cases). probably too reach heavy, but received acceptances to 3 likelies and 3 hard targets. Waitlisted at 2 hard targets, and the rest rejections from reaches. I would not have wanted DD to apply to fewer (okay, 2 of the reaches I knew were a waste of time and money). It would have added an unnecessary layer of stress to restrict the number of applications and I do not know that DD would have had the choices she now has and I think that is one of the best outcomes, that at this point she feels like she has good choices even though her ego was a bit bruised up by this whole process.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's been a very tough year for top students at Big 3 schools in DC. Whew. RD has offered no real relief..

Disagree lots of kids at Cathedral schools received great news. Between the two schools I know of several on both sides going to Georgetown, Cornell, Duke, Vandy, Notre Dame, etc...

UVA as well as several going to Ivies. These classes are small 76 at STA and 80 or so at NCS so percentage wise they have done quite well and have had great news for regular decision.

This year’s NCS class is smaller than usual I believe. Closer to 70 than 80.

70 girls in the senior class? That is very small for a HS. I would not want that for my kid. Talk about putting the kids under a microscope. No wonder there is such intense pressure at NCS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been a very tough year for top students at Big 3 schools in DC. Whew. RD has offered no real relief..

Disagree lots of kids at Cathedral schools received great news. Between the two schools I know of several on both sides going to Georgetown, Cornell, Duke, Vandy, Notre Dame, etc...

UVA as well as several going to Ivies. These classes are small 76 at STA and 80 or so at NCS so percentage wise they have done quite well and have had great news for regular decision.

This year’s NCS class is smaller than usual I believe. Closer to 70 than 80.

70 girls in the senior class? That is very small for a HS. I would not want that for my kid. Talk about putting the kids under a microscope. No wonder there is such intense pressure at NCS.

Then don’t send your kid there. Usually its closer to 80.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cathedral schools also kept APs, didn’t they, in the end? At least for math, science, and languages?

yep.

Really? I wonder if the others will follow suit. They should.

[Anonymous]

So this thread devolved into people who dislike private school kids bashing on private school parents.

Typical DCUM drivel. I bet with our anonymity that Jeff provides here, half of you would STFU and be too chicken chicken s**t to look me or my kid in the eyes with their 1500, near perfect GPA and tell them to buck up because their privilege is ending

Sorry (ok not sorry) I can afford private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So this thread devolved into people who dislike private school kids bashing on private school parents.

Typical DCUM drivel. I bet with our anonymity that Jeff provides here, half of you would STFU and be too chicken chicken s**t to look me or my kid in the eyes with their 1500, near perfect GPA and tell them to buck up because their privilege is ending

Sorry (ok not sorry) I can afford private school.

Public school parents saying “stop bashing public school kids” is equally to bashing private school parents? Pointing out that the problem is within the private schools and it will not be solved by putting down public school kids is not the attack you are making it out to be.

The truth is that the world of college applications is changing and your student is applying at a challenging time for all traditionally high performing kids, whether from private or public. This is hard to watch our kids go through.

At worst, people on this thread are mocking the inability of many to recognize (1) how their kids accomplishments, while impressive, reflect incredible privilege, and (2) the kids that are getting these slots are also highly accomplished.

Be better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So this thread devolved into people who dislike private school kids bashing on private school parents.

Typical DCUM drivel. I bet with our anonymity that Jeff provides here, half of you would STFU and be too chicken chicken s**t to look me or my kid in the eyes with their 1500, near perfect GPA and tell them to buck up because their privilege is ending

Sorry (ok not sorry) I can afford private school.

I’m trying to decide whether or not to switch my kids to private. Private school families are the ones who look down at public and feel superior to them, not the other way around. That attitude turns me off. I’m also convinced that going to a private school will not help my smart athletic kid get into a better college. I have kids who will do well in any environment. It is your exact attitude that you have just shown in a public forum that makes others want to stick up for their public school kids.

I will likely send my daughter to private. Real reason? I will only admit this on an anonymous forum is so she can marry well. She is very pretty and I know she will be popular with the boys. Would rather she not mingle with riffraff of public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So this thread devolved into people who dislike private school kids bashing on private school parents.

Typical DCUM drivel. I bet with our anonymity that Jeff provides here, half of you would STFU and be too chicken chicken s**t to look me or my kid in the eyes with their 1500, near perfect GPA and tell them to buck up because their privilege is ending

Sorry (ok not sorry) I can afford private school.

eh.. my public school magnet kid 1580 SAT also got shut out. 4.77 WPA, and 5 on 10 AP exams. Clearly your privilege isn't working for you.