GDS - Wow!

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Anonymous wrote:Well, my white male son at ACHS got into Yale. And we didn't pay 250,000 for HS.

Congratulations to your son.
Why don’t you congratulate other people’s kids now? No need for the one-upping anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:You people are obsessed. Why do you worry about anybody else’s kid but your own? And why are you competing schools against each other?

I come to these threads to remind myself to be thankful that I have a regular kid going to a regular school and who doesn’t stress about it.

I like to sit on the sidelines and watch these competitive people tear each other, kids and schools apart. It’s like theater of the living!

Regular loser parenting

Exhibit A. Thank you for proving the point.

No. To come here and gloat about your “regular” kid at a “regular” school and think you are somehow winning because you are watching others stress out means you truly are a loser.

Exhibit B. You’re really good at this!

Exhibit C. Bitter loser parent feeling misplaced Schadenfreudisch.

Exhibit D. I can do this all day!

DP. Please don’t. It’s really pathetic you’re clogging up this feed with your nonsense. Get a life, both of you.

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Anonymous wrote:GDS always has amazing outcomes, along with Blair in NJ.

GDS’ class of 2023 did NOT have amazing outcomes. The outcome was very meh. This year is looking very good for GDS’ class of 2024.

Clearly reaming out the CCO helps. Are you listening, Sidwell?

What are you talking about? Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 had excellent results (much better than GDS’ c/o ‘23). Sidwell only has two Instagram posts so far. I’m sure Sidwell’s c/o ‘24 is going to do as well (or better) than the c/o ‘23.

We shall see.

- Insider

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Anonymous wrote:The Whitman results seem very good too (I have no connection to either school).

https://www.instagram.com/vikingdestinations2024?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==

These high dollar private schools are in trouble when twin DJs from a public school both get into UPenn ED. I am sure they are smart, worthy, and great kids, but just saying.

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Anonymous wrote:Is GDS the Georgetown day school?

Yes

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Anonymous wrote:So far GDS’s early admissions results are super impressive. As a parent from another good private school, I am curious why their results are so much better than other privates. We toured GDS 20 years ago for PreK and were not impressed, so chose another top school. Is it their college counselors connections, greater amount of Ivy League/top 20 alum parents, big donors? I am honestly curious, how they can have so many more top college admits than other good privates? Many of these private schools have hand picked super smart kids who don’t get into this level of top school and certainly not at these numbers. GDS is not known for athletics or anything really, besides smart quirky liberal kids. Maybe that’s all the colleges are looking for? It’s not like their students are smarter or more accomplished than students at other good privates. Or do the GDS college counselors have the “secret sauce” with connections and packaging abilities? Honestly curious.

Agree 100 percent. As a parent at another so-called "Big 3" I found the Counseling Office to be remarkably apathetic and disengaged. GDS CCO has done a bang up job and it is already clear from yesterdays outcomes. Well done!

Oh, I know!
(Having had kids at GDS an another DC private).

-their grades are not as "deflated" as compared to the other Big3 schools. It's easier to get all As. NCS has maybe 5 girls each year above a 3.9 (for example) while GDS has 25 (and it goes down from there---so the average GPA is higher than that at NCS or Sidwell).
-they have a summer program with matches kids with internships that other GDS parents (and/or their connections) provide. This helps get kids unique/impressive experience on their resumes. Other Big3 privates don't offer this at all.

Sidwell offers this for students following their junior year (the internship also includes a small stipend).

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Anonymous wrote:So far GDS’s early admissions results are super impressive. As a parent from another good private school, I am curious why their results are so much better than other privates. We toured GDS 20 years ago for PreK and were not impressed, so chose another top school. Is it their college counselors connections, greater amount of Ivy League/top 20 alum parents, big donors? I am honestly curious, how they can have so many more top college admits than other good privates? Many of these private schools have hand picked super smart kids who don’t get into this level of top school and certainly not at these numbers. GDS is not known for athletics or anything really, besides smart quirky liberal kids. Maybe that’s all the colleges are looking for? It’s not like their students are smarter or more accomplished than students at other good privates. Or do the GDS college counselors have the “secret sauce” with connections and packaging abilities? Honestly curious.

It's a function of how the students' hooks (e.g., legacy, athlete) align with the elite universities' institutional priorities during any given applications cycle (e.g., Harvard needed a top swimmer).

Yep. We can't give specifics about any of these kids here (or Jeff will delete the post for privacy reasons) but they all have something about them that randomly aligns with what the respective universities wanted or needed.
I could go down the list of names and probably tell you what it was about each kid (as I know many of them) got them accepted where they were accepted.
It's really nothing a college office did or didn't do.

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Anonymous wrote:So far GDS’s early admissions results are super impressive. As a parent from another good private school, I am curious why their results are so much better than other privates. We toured GDS 20 years ago for PreK and were not impressed, so chose another top school. Is it their college counselors connections, greater amount of Ivy League/top 20 alum parents, big donors? I am honestly curious, how they can have so many more top college admits than other good privates? Many of these private schools have hand picked super smart kids who don’t get into this level of top school and certainly not at these numbers. GDS is not known for athletics or anything really, besides smart quirky liberal kids. Maybe that’s all the colleges are looking for? It’s not like their students are smarter or more accomplished than students at other good privates. Or do the GDS college counselors have the “secret sauce” with connections and packaging abilities? Honestly curious.

Agree 100 percent. As a parent at another so-called "Big 3" I found the Counseling Office to be remarkably apathetic and disengaged. GDS CCO has done a bang up job and it is already clear from yesterdays outcomes. Well done!

Oh, I know!
(Having had kids at GDS an another DC private).

-their grades are not as "deflated" as compared to the other Big3 schools. It's easier to get all As. NCS has maybe 5 girls each year above a 3.9 (for example) while GDS has 25 (and it goes down from there---so the average GPA is higher than that at NCS or Sidwell).
-they have a summer program with matches kids with internships that other GDS parents (and/or their connections) provide. This helps get kids unique/impressive experience on their resumes. Other Big3 privates don't offer this at all.

Sidwell offers this for students following their junior year (the internship also includes a small stipend).

This is really nice! The Cathedral schools don't offer anything like this.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a rich school that’s has full pay students fitting the ALDC profile.

It’s more about the individual kid than the school.

GDS and schools like it select students with the money to be able to make the Ivy happen.

Nice troll thread though.

Actually, plenty of “rich” kids (meaning they can afford tuition) at other good privates who have excellent stats and extracurriculars who don’t get into their first or even second or third choice of top schools. Money does not = making Ivy happen, even for super smart and successful kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, my white male son at ACHS got into Yale. And we didn't pay 250,000 for HS.

What is ACHS?

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Anonymous wrote:GDS always has amazing outcomes, along with Blair in NJ.

GDS’ class of 2023 did NOT have amazing outcomes. The outcome was very meh. This year is looking very good for GDS’ class of 2024.

Clearly reaming out the CCO helps. Are you listening, Sidwell?

What are you talking about? Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 had excellent results (much better than GDS’ c/o ‘23). Sidwell only has two Instagram posts so far. I’m sure Sidwell’s c/o ‘24 is going to do as well (or better) than the c/o ‘23.

We shall see.

- Insider

Yes we shall.

-Sidwell parent of a current senior

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Is someone going to compile a list of the Instagram pages again this year?

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Anonymous wrote:You people are obsessed. Why do you worry about anybody else’s kid but your own? And why are you competing schools against each other?

I come to these threads to remind myself to be thankful that I have a regular kid going to a regular school and who doesn’t stress about it.

I like to sit on the sidelines and watch these competitive people tear each other, kids and schools apart. It’s like theater of the living!

Regular loser parenting

Exhibit A. Thank you for proving the point.

No. To come here and gloat about your “regular” kid at a “regular” school and think you are somehow winning because you are watching others stress out means you truly are a loser.

Exhibit B. You’re really good at this!

Exhibit C. Bitter loser parent feeling misplaced Schadenfreudisch.

Exhibit D. I can do this all day!

A true loser

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Does BCC have a Instagram page?

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Anonymous wrote:GDS always has amazing outcomes, along with Blair in NJ.

GDS’ class of 2023 did NOT have amazing outcomes. The outcome was very meh. This year is looking very good for GDS’ class of 2024.

Clearly reaming out the CCO helps. Are you listening, Sidwell?

What are you talking about? Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 had excellent results (much better than GDS’ c/o ‘23). Sidwell only has two Instagram posts so far. I’m sure Sidwell’s c/o ‘24 is going to do as well (or better) than the c/o ‘23.

We shall see.

- Insider

Yes we shall.

-Sidwell parent of a current senior

Would be super happy if Sidwell is doing well too TBH. Any results you can share?