How have early results been so far at your child’s school? Specifically Ivy/Stanford/Duke/MIT

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:W school

MIT 2
Yale 3
Harvard 1
Princeton 1
Stanford 4

I call bullshit on the 4 Stanford

Whitman had 3 acceptances from last year.

DP. All early, though?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:CA poster here. My list is accurate, just may be incomplete. 1 Stanford REA legacy, Princeton athletic recruit.

I moved from the Bay Area and have heard things have been very good again this year at Castilleja (as usual).

Bullying is not warranted but listing non-DC area school results on a DC-specific board is more than a little odd (even if it is only 95% DC area). You could start another thread with CA or West Coast early results very easily. Plenty of "DCUM blame" all around!

I mean I think it’s a good data point. Are there differences between DC area admits and CA and if so why is an interesting question….

I have my kid in a Bay Area private and was unprepared for the faculty children admits to Stanford, including this set of twins my son called the “throw up twins.” They ruined so much upholstery at their friends’ parties that they started getting charged $75 to attend such parties. They were not very academic-minded but still got into Stanford because their parent was a faculty member.

I have to disagree at least partially based on my experience in Palo Alto. Yes, some faculty kids go to Stanford but plenty don't get in. I'm guessing the twins have a little more substance than your son realized or their parent is an especially big deal. My wife's fairly well known advisor had only 1 child admitted (the others still ended up at T20s too) and several faculty members mentioned admissions being harder for their children than what they had seen when they first came to Stanford. Don't get me wrong, it is still a hook better than just being a basic legacy but it is far from a golden ticket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W school

MIT 2
Yale 3
Harvard 1
Princeton 1
Stanford 4

I call bullshit on the 4 Stanford

Whitman had 3 acceptances from last year.

DP. All early, though?

No but all legacy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Small private singe sex not in DC: 2 Princeton, Rice, 2 Middlebury, Northwestern, Duke, 2 Wesleyan, 2 Wash U, 2 Swarthmore, 2 Georgetown
Single sex private attended by opposite gender child: Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Amherst, Stanford, Hopkins, Chicago, Notre Dame, 2 Emory

Baltimore

Ok, i am nosey.

2 Princeton, Rice, 2 Middlebury, Northwestern, Duke, 2 Wesleyan, 2 Wash U, 2 Swarthmore, 2 Georgetown -- This is Bryn Mawr. Princeton x 2, Rice, Middlebury, Northwestern, Duke and Swarthmore are all athletic recruits.
Single sex private attended by opposite gender child: Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Amherst, Stanford, Hopkins, Chicago, Notre Dame, 2 Emory ---This is Gilman. Columbia, Amherst, Stanford and JHU are all athletic recruits.

Same story everywhere. The smartest kids who are non-athletes mostly go to WashU and Chicago.

Wow I wouldn’t have thought these two schools were that sporty, especially BM. I had no idea their success rate with matriculations was based so much on sports.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Small private singe sex not in DC: 2 Princeton, Rice, 2 Middlebury, Northwestern, Duke, 2 Wesleyan, 2 Wash U, 2 Swarthmore, 2 Georgetown
Single sex private attended by opposite gender child: Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Amherst, Stanford, Hopkins, Chicago, Notre Dame, 2 Emory

Baltimore

Ok, i am nosey.

2 Princeton, Rice, 2 Middlebury, Northwestern, Duke, 2 Wesleyan, 2 Wash U, 2 Swarthmore, 2 Georgetown -- This is Bryn Mawr. Princeton x 2, Rice, Middlebury, Northwestern, Duke and Swarthmore are all athletic recruits.
Single sex private attended by opposite gender child: Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Amherst, Stanford, Hopkins, Chicago, Notre Dame, 2 Emory ---This is Gilman. Columbia, Amherst, Stanford and JHU are all athletic recruits.

Same story everywhere. The smartest kids who are non-athletes mostly go to WashU and Chicago.

Wow I wouldn’t have thought these two schools were that sporty, especially BM. I had no idea their success rate with matriculations was based so much on sports.

Swimming and lacrosse. Both really big in Baltimore privates/Baltimore County. Plus the private school favorite: squash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Small private singe sex not in DC: 2 Princeton, Rice, 2 Middlebury, Northwestern, Duke, 2 Wesleyan, 2 Wash U, 2 Swarthmore, 2 Georgetown
Single sex private attended by opposite gender child: Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Amherst, Stanford, Hopkins, Chicago, Notre Dame, 2 Emory

Baltimore

Ok, i am nosey.

2 Princeton, Rice, 2 Middlebury, Northwestern, Duke, 2 Wesleyan, 2 Wash U, 2 Swarthmore, 2 Georgetown -- This is Bryn Mawr. Princeton x 2, Rice, Middlebury, Northwestern, Duke and Swarthmore are all athletic recruits.
Single sex private attended by opposite gender child: Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Amherst, Stanford, Hopkins, Chicago, Notre Dame, 2 Emory ---This is Gilman. Columbia, Amherst, Stanford and JHU are all athletic recruits.

Same story everywhere. The smartest kids who are non-athletes mostly go to WashU and Chicago.

Wow I wouldn’t have thought these two schools were that sporty, especially BM. I had no idea their success rate with matriculations was based so much on sports.

It isn’t, but the sports recruits are all accepted ED. Come back in May for RD decisions, that
‘S when most of their Ivy admits were last year.

[Anonymous]

BM had exceptional swim team this year - conf A champs!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP local with a Senior this year. This is my third admissions cycle. The results from each year from each of my other kids had absolutely no bearing on what happened another year. The kids are all different, the landscape changes. I think it’s interesting that people are so interested in what particular school it is. Because, in my limited, but current experience- it doesn’t matter the school. Kids have different grades, test scores, activities, hooks. Bottom line, any of this info from any poster will not help you or your kid get into the school of their dreams- these are merely data points. Thanks to everyone for posting!!

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:f*ck me i am the only reader of this board whose children do not attend harvard-westlake

Maybe not the only, but a whole lot of Californians are here. This board is not a private conversation amongst locals.

"Regional: Over half of visits from DC, MD, and VA. California and New York are the next most common locations of users"
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/advertising/

I wonder why someone doesn't seize the opportunity to create a similar forum in the CA and NY markets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do people know these things about hundreds of other students

Kids talk and many schools have an insta with decisions

Kids also lie because they don't want other kids to know they received rejections. Since the HS records are self-reported and kids lie about acceptances, you can't even know for sure how many kids from your HS got accepted to Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m local. Kids at private. Senior this year. I’m interested in all of the results. Not sure why everyone is so crabby about others posting. Lighten up!!

The college process creates a lot of stress. Kids don't need to have it made worse by hearing that other kids got in schools and they did not. Plus, when results are made public it encourages some kids to fabricate favorable admission results. That makes other kids feel like they are the only ones who weren't accepted to schools. With mental health being such a concern, our senior child's school had an assembly at the beginning of the year and recommended that kids not share results.

[Anonymous]

Kids are lying in these Instagram posts? Wouldn't they be found out by fall when instead of attending Yale they're at JMU? So weird.

I can't see this happening in private school classes of 75 where everyone is quite close. Unless they want to be among the 5 kids who disappear into oblivion upon graduation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m local. Kids at private. Senior this year. I’m interested in all of the results. Not sure why everyone is so crabby about others posting. Lighten up!!

The college process creates a lot of stress. Kids don't need to have it made worse by hearing that other kids got in schools and they did not. Plus, when results are made public it encourages some kids to fabricate favorable admission results. That makes other kids feel like they are the only ones who weren't accepted to schools. With mental health being such a concern, our senior child's school had an assembly at the beginning of the year and recommended that kids not share results.

It is an awful process, but it’s totally unrealistic to expect kids not to share results. I’m not a fan of social media and hate that it presents one side of life with kids only posting good things they are trying to brag about — pics from vacations, parties, what not. There are always kids who feel left out of things because of if. College admissions is no different. Funny how the kids who always post pictures of lavish vacations to brag about it now want others not to post college admissions because they might now feel hurt.

[Anonymous]

I reaaaaaly wish the non DMV posters would get off this forum. College admissions are very much dependent on where you live, not mention if the kids are in public or private.

SO what happened to Thelma at public or private school X in Palo Alto really has no bearing on our kids. It may be marginally interesting to hear that NYC private school kids are killing it while ours are getting shut out- but it's a different landscape in every city.

So to answer the OP question at our Big 3- Ivy And Stanford/Duke/MIT early action results are worse than usual, less acceptances more deferrals and rejections.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:CA poster here. My list is accurate, just may be incomplete. 1 Stanford REA legacy, Princeton athletic recruit.

I moved from the Bay Area and have heard things have been very good again this year at Castilleja (as usual).

Bullying is not warranted but listing non-DC area school results on a DC-specific board is more than a little odd (even if it is only 95% DC area). You could start another thread with CA or West Coast early results very easily. Plenty of "DCUM blame" all around!

+1000. None of us care about admittances at your CA school.

agreed. find another blog.