K-8 parents of 8th graders—are you satisfied with outplacement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I just don’t believe this.

This was Norwood’s placement last year: https://www.norwoodschool.org/program/high-school-placement

By my count, 22 of out of the 48 kids went to a top tier school:

GDS — 2
Prep — 1
Holton — 4
Landon — 2
Maret — 2
NCS — 1
Potomac — 2
Sidwell — 5
STA — 3

People will say some of these aren’t top tier, but they’re all very strong. I don’t believe all these kids fell into the categories PP listed. How many 8th graders have developed an app anyway?!

I’d be careful interpreting the list above. This is not the number of individual students that ended up going to these schools, this is the number of acceptances the schools have issued. In most cases, from our experience, it’s the same kids who are getting multiple acceptances at these top tier schools ( elite athletes, URM, super scholars ) . For example, one very elite athlete ( and bright student) at our K-8 got into 4 of the “ Big 5”. When our school publishes acceptances, it might look like they had 4 students accepted at those schools when they in fact had only 1.

I think the list is showing matriculations, at least as to these schools. The bolded schools, some (but all listed above) with the numbers in parentheticals, are schools where Norwood grads ended up, and I'm sure the intent was to show the number of Norwood grads at each. Otherwise why would they have even bothered to list list numbers after Churchill and Whitman?

[Anonymous]

Its always going to be the rich and connected that get into the "Big 3" anyway, so no surprise. Being neither of those, we focused on other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its always going to be the rich and connected that get into the "Big 3" anyway, so no surprise. Being neither of those, we focused on other schools.

Even the “rich and connected” have been disappointed this year. That might not be as helpful as everyone thinks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its always going to be the rich and connected that get into the "Big 3" anyway, so no surprise. Being neither of those, we focused on other schools.

Not really. Mostly the kids from our K-8 who got into 9th grade were top athletes or URMs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its always going to be the rich and connected that get into the "Big 3" anyway, so no surprise. Being neither of those, we focused on other schools.

Not really. Mostly the kids from our K-8 who got into 9th grade were top athletes or URMs

That's because those are the only kids the new school will be able to place well into college.

They are looking for kids that they can get into top colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Not really. Mostly the kids from our K-8 who got into 9th grade were top athletes or URMs

That's because those are the only kids the new school will be able to place well into college.

They are looking for kids that they can get into top colleges.

Great Point!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I just don’t believe this.

This was Norwood’s placement last year: https://www.norwoodschool.org/program/high-school-placement

By my count, 22 of out of the 48 kids went to a top tier school:

GDS — 2
Prep — 1
Holton — 4
Landon — 2
Maret — 2
NCS — 1
Potomac — 2
Sidwell — 5
STA — 3

People will say some of these aren’t top tier, but they’re all very strong. I don’t believe all these kids fell into the categories PP listed. How many 8th graders have developed an app anyway?!

I’d be careful interpreting the list above. This is not the number of individual students that ended up going to these schools, this is the number of acceptances the schools have issued. In most cases, from our experience, it’s the same kids who are getting multiple acceptances at these top tier schools ( elite athletes, URM, super scholars ) . For example, one very elite athlete ( and bright student) at our K-8 got into 4 of the “ Big 5”. When our school publishes acceptances, it might look like they had 4 students accepted at those schools when they in fact had only 1.

I think the list is showing matriculations, at least as to these schools. The bolded schools, some (but all listed above) with the numbers in parentheticals, are schools where Norwood grads ended up, and I'm sure the intent was to show the number of Norwood grads at each. Otherwise why would they have even bothered to list list numbers after Churchill and Whitman?

The bolded are matriculations. Non-bolded schools are places kids got into but decided not to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its always going to be the rich and connected that get into the "Big 3" anyway, so no surprise. Being neither of those, we focused on other schools.

Not really. Mostly the kids from our K-8 who got into 9th grade were top athletes or URMs

We are not rich or connected, not an athlete, not URM, not an alum or sibling and our child got into a Big 3 school from a K8 this year. It does happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its always going to be the rich and connected that get into the "Big 3" anyway, so no surprise. Being neither of those, we focused on other schools.

Not really. Mostly the kids from our K-8 who got into 9th grade were top athletes or URMs

We are not rich or connected, not an athlete, not URM, not an alum or sibling and our child got into a Big 3 school from a K8 this year. It does happen.

Same for our DC last year. Also from public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we are a former Langley family with many friends still at the school and I agree with PP.
Their outplacement this year was not the best.
Zero accepted at Sidwell , 1 accepted at GDS. I am not sure about other “Big 5s” but seems like the same few kids who got into several of the top schools

to be fair the 8th grade class is one of the smallest at Langley so hard to compare when saying it is a small few. the list above with school school names by a prior poster is correct there was more than one to GDS, maret, cathedral schools etc. several applied to field and got in. yes there are a few on waiting lists as well

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are a former Langley family with many friends still at the school and I agree with PP.
Their outplacement this year was not the best.
Zero accepted at Sidwell , 1 accepted at GDS. I am not sure about other “Big 5s” but seems like the same few kids who got into several of the top schools

to be fair the 8th grade class is one of the smallest at Langley so hard to compare when saying it is a small few. the list above with school school names by a prior poster is correct there was more than one to GDS, maret, cathedral schools etc. several applied to field and got in. yes there are a few on waiting lists as well

I’m a parent familiar with this grade and it’s always been an outlier class. Small, a lot of kids with behavioral issues. Not sure what was in the water that year. The current 7th grade is a really nice group I expect that Langley will do well with outplacement next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its always going to be the rich and connected that get into the "Big 3" anyway, so no surprise. Being neither of those, we focused on other schools.

Not really. Mostly the kids from our K-8 who got into 9th grade were top athletes or URMs

Also siblings and academic stars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its always going to be the rich and connected that get into the "Big 3" anyway, so no surprise. Being neither of those, we focused on other schools.

Not really. Mostly the kids from our K-8 who got into 9th grade were top athletes or URMs

We are not rich or connected, not an athlete, not URM, not an alum or sibling and our child got into a Big 3 school from a K8 this year. It does happen.

Maybe it does for one or two kids, but this is not the norm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are a former Langley family with many friends still at the school and I agree with PP.
Their outplacement this year was not the best.
Zero accepted at Sidwell , 1 accepted at GDS. I am not sure about other “Big 5s” but seems like the same few kids who got into several of the top schools

to be fair the 8th grade class is one of the smallest at Langley so hard to compare when saying it is a small few. the list above with school school names by a prior poster is correct there was more than one to GDS, maret, cathedral schools etc. several applied to field and got in. yes there are a few on waiting lists as well

I’m a parent familiar with this grade and it’s always been an outlier class. Small, a lot of kids with behavioral issues. Not sure what was in the water that year. The current 7th grade is a really nice group I expect that Langley will do well with outplacement next year.

but the adm..err, "informed parents" in this thread has assured everyone its been a wonderful year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we are a former Langley family with many friends still at the school and I agree with PP.
Their outplacement this year was not the best.
Zero accepted at Sidwell , 1 accepted at GDS. I am not sure about other “Big 5s” but seems like the same few kids who got into several of the top schools

to be fair the 8th grade class is one of the smallest at Langley so hard to compare when saying it is a small few. the list above with school school names by a prior poster is correct there was more than one to GDS, maret, cathedral schools etc. several applied to field and got in. yes there are a few on waiting lists as well

I’m a parent familiar with this grade and it’s always been an outlier class. Small, a lot of kids with behavioral issues. Not sure what was in the water that year. The current 7th grade is a really nice group I expect that Langley will do well with outplacement next year.

yes it’s a disjointed class but honestly they didn’t do badly for placement at all. the dysfunction of the class has nothing to do with it
larger grade coming up with have it harder w more competing for fewer spots. fyi GDS admitted fewer overall bc of their enrollment cap