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).

You’ve come to this conclusion based on information that the schools themselves acknowledge may not be complete or accurate. Also without any knowledge of who the students were that applied or their application profile.

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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")?

It’s not going to have the same preference as someone who has shown commitment to Catholic education.

That makes no sense. What if the Catholic attended church weekly?

What does that have to do with commitment to Catholic schooling??

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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).

You’ve come to this conclusion based on information that the schools themselves acknowledge may not be complete or accurate. Also without any knowledge of who the students were that applied or their application profile.

It's a large enough sample size and the difference in percentages is significant enough to come to this conclusion, especially considering this has been consistent over the past several years. This is how statistics work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if we shifted this conversation away from politics or the merits of public vs private school and we talked about 2024 Washington DC area college commits for private and independent schools? Just a thought.

I would say that the two big three privates that are linked are doing amazing. And I would say Churchill and Whitman are doing amazing as well.

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Anonymous wrote:What if we shifted this conversation away from politics or the merits of public vs private school and we talked about 2024 Washington DC area college commits for private and independent schools? Just a thought.

I would say that the two big three privates that are linked are doing amazing. And I would say Churchill and Whitman are doing amazing as well.

*This. And I would also add Potomac.

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Anonymous wrote:What if we shifted this conversation away from politics or the merits of public vs private school and we talked about 2024 Washington DC area college commits for private and independent schools? Just a thought.

I would say that the two big three privates that are linked are doing amazing. And I would say Churchill and Whitman are doing amazing as well.

Only 8% of Churchill's seniors were enrolled in top 20 schools. Compare that to 20+% for many private schools.

For a public school, Churchill is doing great. But you cannot even put it close to the same league as top DC area private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:What if we shifted this conversation away from politics or the merits of public vs private school and we talked about 2024 Washington DC area college commits for private and independent schools? Just a thought.

I would say that the two big three privates that are linked are doing amazing. And I would say Churchill and Whitman are doing amazing as well.

Only 8% of Churchill's seniors were enrolled in top 20 schools. Compare that to 20+% for many private schools.

For a public school, Churchill is doing great. But you cannot even put it close to the same league as top DC area private schools.

I agree with that: "top" privates.

[Anonymous]

In the now locked Sidwell thread (“How Tough Is It To Get A's In Sidwell Math I-IV Track And Chem 1A?”), the last poster said there hasn’t been a Sidwell “class in the last 5 years where more than 2/3 of the class even posts.” That’s incorrect. In 2023, 83% of Sidwell’s graduating class posted their results on Instagram.

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Anonymous wrote:In the now locked Sidwell thread (“How Tough Is It To Get A's In Sidwell Math I-IV Track And Chem 1A?”), the last poster said there hasn’t been a Sidwell “class in the last 5 years where more than 2/3 of the class even posts.” That’s incorrect. In 2023, 83% of Sidwell’s graduating class posted their results on Instagram.

Several elite schools across the country don’t post. It’s more of a privacy thing than anything else.

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Anonymous wrote:In the now locked Sidwell thread (“How Tough Is It To Get A's In Sidwell Math I-IV Track And Chem 1A?”), the last poster said there hasn’t been a Sidwell “class in the last 5 years where more than 2/3 of the class even posts.” That’s incorrect. In 2023, 83% of Sidwell’s graduating class posted their results on Instagram.

Several elite schools across the country don’t post. It’s more of a privacy thing than anything else.

For example STA does not have a page and most of NCS does not post. I wouldn’t want anyone across the country to be able to see where I was going to college and my name with all the shit going down in the world right now and identity theft and what not. I think these kids are smart not to post. It’s noches local DC people looking some really creepy people online.

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Anonymous wrote:In the now locked Sidwell thread (“How Tough Is It To Get A's In Sidwell Math I-IV Track And Chem 1A?”), the last poster said there hasn’t been a Sidwell “class in the last 5 years where more than 2/3 of the class even posts.” That’s incorrect. In 2023, 83% of Sidwell’s graduating class posted their results on Instagram.

Several elite schools across the country don’t post. It’s more of a privacy thing than anything else.

For example STA does not have a page and most of NCS does not post. I wouldn’t want anyone across the country to be able to see where I was going to college and my name with all the shit going down in the world right now and identity theft and what not. I think these kids are smart not to post. It’s noches local DC people looking some really creepy people online.

Most of NCS does post. They just don't do it until the Spring. Last year, nearly the entire class posted. This year could be different. Who knows?

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Anonymous wrote:In the now locked Sidwell thread (“How Tough Is It To Get A's In Sidwell Math I-IV Track And Chem 1A?”), the last poster said there hasn’t been a Sidwell “class in the last 5 years where more than 2/3 of the class even posts.” That’s incorrect. In 2023, 83% of Sidwell’s graduating class posted their results on Instagram.

Several elite schools across the country don’t post. It’s more of a privacy thing than anything else.

For example STA does not have a page and most of NCS does not post. I wouldn’t want anyone across the country to be able to see where I was going to college and my name with all the shit going down in the world right now and identity theft and what not. I think these kids are smart not to post. It’s noches local DC people looking some really creepy people online.

Most of NCS does post. They just don't do it until the Spring. Last year, nearly the entire class posted. This year could be different. Who knows?

I wouldn't at all if I were a student. You realize these are public pages and any stalker or weird guy can see your picture, name, and now where you are going to school next year and this year? Bad idea

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Anonymous wrote:In the now locked Sidwell thread (“How Tough Is It To Get A's In Sidwell Math I-IV Track And Chem 1A?”), the last poster said there hasn’t been a Sidwell “class in the last 5 years where more than 2/3 of the class even posts.” That’s incorrect. In 2023, 83% of Sidwell’s graduating class posted their results on Instagram.

Several elite schools across the country don’t post. It’s more of a privacy thing than anything else.

For example STA does not have a page and most of NCS does not post. I wouldn’t want anyone across the country to be able to see where I was going to college and my name with all the shit going down in the world right now and identity theft and what not. I think these kids are smart not to post. It’s noches local DC people looking some really creepy people online.

Most of NCS does post. They just don't do it until the Spring. Last year, nearly the entire class posted. This year could be different. Who knows?

I wouldn't at all if I were a student. You realize these are public pages and any stalker or weird guy can see your picture, name, and now where you are going to school next year and this year? Bad idea

Your child is not special enough for anyone to care where they are or what they’re doing. Parents are posting on Facebook kids post on Instagram. No one cares. Just be smart when you post. So silly. Stop being so self important.

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Anonymous wrote:In the now locked Sidwell thread (“How Tough Is It To Get A's In Sidwell Math I-IV Track And Chem 1A?”), the last poster said there hasn’t been a Sidwell “class in the last 5 years where more than 2/3 of the class even posts.” That’s incorrect. In 2023, 83% of Sidwell’s graduating class posted their results on Instagram.

Several elite schools across the country don’t post. It’s more of a privacy thing than anything else.

For example STA does not have a page and most of NCS does not post. I wouldn’t want anyone across the country to be able to see where I was going to college and my name with all the shit going down in the world right now and identity theft and what not. I think these kids are smart not to post. It’s noches local DC people looking some really creepy people online.

Most of NCS does post. They just don't do it until the Spring. Last year, nearly the entire class posted. This year could be different. Who knows?

I wouldn't at all if I were a student. You realize these are public pages and any stalker or weird guy can see your picture, name, and now where you are going to school next year and this year? Bad idea

Your child is not special enough for anyone to care where they are or what they’re doing. Parents are posting on Facebook kids post on Instagram. No one cares. Just be smart when you post. So silly. Stop being so self important.

This. You do realize that millions of teenagers post every imaginable detail and identifier about their lives on social media every day, don't you? Often from accounts with ZERO privacy settings in place. Plus in many of these posts they're barely wearing clothing.
Your child posting a single shot of herself smiling, fully clothed with the name of her college is not going to get her kidnapped, raped, or otherwise harmed. What happens in 4 years (or less) when she posts a LinkedIn profile? I mean, the world will know her every educational and professional detail!

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Probably was embarrassed about the college. The child is attending and asked them not to post.