HS college commitment websites

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Anonymous wrote:now look at one of the nyc privates ... gds won't look all that

Or Andover and Exeter

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wait till they hear about Harvard-Westlake

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's rather creepy that so many people stalk these instagram accounts. Not sure what the point is if you don't know the kids.

It's really sick. Then, they publicly comment about the kids and disparage some of them. If a kid did really well, especially so.

My kid had no desire to post. I noticed most kids did at his private HS and asked him if he was going to and he said 'no'. He did get into an Ivy, but he really isn't into social media. He never posts anything about himself. Maybe it's from the time they were a young age I told them it's best not to. He will congratulate other friends. He did post a few of his best friend's commitments.

I have only followed my kid's HS account. And I'm happy and excited for all of them. I also have another kid who will be applying to college and it's good to see the trends, schools that particularly seem to like our HS. But, no, I'm not coming on bragging about our school's acceptances (like that insufferable GDS person last year) or trolling Instagram looking at other HS, etc. If I want to know where one of my kid's friends is going, I ask him.

DC is such a strange place. My oldest child’s high school (when we still lived in Texas) has these accounts so students can see where their upper class men friends go. It was celebrated at the end of the year and parents gathered during PTA to do a college-based secret Santa exchange in May.

I find it so sad here, because any college or future opportunity is seen as cutthroat and competitive. Why anyone is commenting on another persons child and where they go to college without the words “congrats” and “that’s so exciting” is a really sad personality quirk here that I dislike.

I find it hard to believe that DC is all that different from Dallas and Houston when it comes to one-upping your friends w Larla’s college acceptances.
Also, the secret Santa is cringe because not all kids go to college, so it’s pretty exclusionary. Which makes me wonder even more about that bubble you’re in.

[Anonymous]

GDS. plucky. Right. Self-important rich connected families trying to out-progressive each other. So plucky.

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No Harvard. No Stanford? My kids FCPS public did better with much less $$.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's rather creepy that so many people stalk these instagram accounts. Not sure what the point is if you don't know the kids.

It's really sick. Then, they publicly comment about the kids and disparage some of them. If a kid did really well, especially so.

My kid had no desire to post. I noticed most kids did at his private HS and asked him if he was going to and he said 'no'. He did get into an Ivy, but he really isn't into social media. He never posts anything about himself. Maybe it's from the time they were a young age I told them it's best not to. He will congratulate other friends. He did post a few of his best friend's commitments.

I have only followed my kid's HS account. And I'm happy and excited for all of them. I also have another kid who will be applying to college and it's good to see the trends, schools that particularly seem to like our HS. But, no, I'm not coming on bragging about our school's acceptances (like that insufferable GDS person last year) or trolling Instagram looking at other HS, etc. If I want to know where one of my kid's friends is going, I ask him.

DC is such a strange place. My oldest child’s high school (when we still lived in Texas) has these accounts so students can see where their upper class men friends go. It was celebrated at the end of the year and parents gathered during PTA to do a college-based secret Santa exchange in May.

I find it so sad here, because any college or future opportunity is seen as cutthroat and competitive. Why anyone is commenting on another persons child and where they go to college without the words “congrats” and “that’s so exciting” is a really sad personality quirk here that I dislike.

You find it sad here but you're A-OK with a college based secret Santa for parents in May? Okaaaaay.

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Anonymous wrote:The City
https://www.instagram.com/achsdecisions25?igsh=MXIzZWNtdWtjcWd6NA==

It is gone - but there is the gem

https://www.instagram.com/achsdecisions25.better?igsh=M3psa25xNnBjNHYw

(Tookie really is going to Princeton)

Hilarious!!

This is the best thing around. Makes me proud of my kids’ poorly-rated, gigantic HS. (which we have had a really great experience with) We could never afford GDS, but pretty glad we can’t because if “plucky school” poster is indicative of them - yuck.

Oh just wait- it’s early. The GDS poster was so insufferable and gross last year. Prolific with their self-aggrandizing posts. I’m glad our HS is about selflessness and humility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is making me spiral. I have a senior who was deferred from ED school and this is filling me with a feeing I do t like at all.

At least yours was deferred. Mine was rejected, which was not at all consistent with scattergram. I have to stop coming to this site.

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Potomac?

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Anonymous wrote:No Harvard. No Stanford? My kids FCPS public did better with much less $$.

Yes, prove the point of OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Potomac?

www.instagram.com/potomacdecisions_2025

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Anonymous wrote:GDS. plucky. Right. Self-important rich connected families trying to out-progressive each other. So plucky.

GDS will forever think of itself as the underdog

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People are so weird commenting these. They're not hard to find, people should just look quietly and have their own private thoughts. You're going to end up with pages that go private or fewer kids that post because over involved adults are rude. My alma matter typically doesn't start posting until after April 1st, which I think is polite to the kids who are dealing with rejections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are so weird commenting these. They're not hard to find, people should just look quietly and have their own private thoughts. You're going to end up with pages that go private or fewer kids that post because over involved adults are rude. My alma matter typically doesn't start posting until after April 1st, which I think is polite to the kids who are dealing with rejections.

Our HS is the same. They are considerate. There is genuine support.

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Anonymous wrote:The City
https://www.instagram.com/achsdecisions25?igsh=MXIzZWNtdWtjcWd6NA==

It is gone - but there is the gem

https://www.instagram.com/achsdecisions25.better?igsh=M3psa25xNnBjNHYw

(Tookie really is going to Princeton)

Hilarious!!

This is the best thing around. Makes me proud of my kids’ poorly-rated, gigantic HS. (which we have had a really great experience with) We could never afford GDS, but pretty glad we can’t because if “plucky school” poster is indicative of them - yuck.

Oh just wait- it’s early. The GDS poster was so insufferable and gross last year. Prolific with their self-aggrandizing posts. I’m glad our HS is about selflessness and humility.

Omg. Totally!!! And every single goddamn acceptance. It was really insane. We had more Ivy/T10/20 commits them then last year and it’s not even a big 3/5 private, $20k/less