Stone ridge

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Anonymous wrote:SR is a very good academic school, with a strong emphasis on supporting athletes. The reality is every all girls school is a vipers nest. Co-Ed balances a lot of things out.

Co-ed balances a lot of things out?

I would hope that all girls schools aren’t any worse than at the top public high school I went to when it comes to mean girl behavior.

As a boy, I was surprised at how the girls treated one another. If you weren’t in the right clique, your life could be very difficult.

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Anonymous wrote:There are always a significant number of girls at SR who apply to top tier Catholic schools. These are schools that of less popular with girls at Holton. Having followed this for years (and two students), it seems like the high achieving girls at SR tend to want something different for college (ie fewer applying to HYP). This isn’t a good or bad thing…

This 100%. Have a student at SR now and the bulk of schools she plans to apply to are Catholic. Her SAT is 1560 and a 4.3 GPA. She could apply to lots of other top schools, but she has no interest at all. My son, who attended Gonzaga, was the same way with even higher SAT score and he ended up at ND. So don't assume these kids are necessarily applying to these schools. In most cases, they are not.

Well, nobody (out of the 44 SR girls) is going to ND this year…One (out of 29 Holton girls) is heading there. So I am not sure that argument works either.

As the PP mentioned, there is one girl going to ND from SR. Easy to overlook when you don't want to find something lol.

At SR as of now, 27% of the class of '25 students are going to Catholic colleges and universities. Holton only has 10% (3 students going to BC and ND).

In the class of 2024, 18% of the SR class matriculated to Catholic schools vs. 10% of the Holton class.

So I think we can safely say that the PP's argument that SR graduates' have a clear preference for Catholic schools is a sound one.

I’m confident that the student run insta account that you are leaning on for data doesn’t also include a list of all the schools each senior applied to. For example, I know at least one student who was admitted to ND this cycle but isn’t going because she got a better aid offer elsewhere. People make different choices based on their needs and values.

The data is sufficient to prove that SR grads are more drawn to Catholic schools. Your one off example doesn’t do enough to dispute this.

I wasn’t trying to dispute that SR students tend to gravitate to Catholic schools. They absolutely do! I was responding to the poster who was citing the Instagram posts as evidence of anything. The kid who is choosing not to go to ND is going elsewhere (non Catholic) for financial reasons. Who knows how many others are in a similar boat. The point I was trying to make is using the instagram postings to support an argument is just silly.

Using matriculation data on schools’ students’ tendencies to attend Catholic universities is absolutely the most accurate way to compare because it uses an apples to apples approach. And as you point out, there could very well be students in the same situation. The difference in percentage is significant and it makes absolute sense that students coming out of a Catholic school would be more likely to choose Catholic universities.

Insta is incomplete data. I know kids who never posted where they applied or where they were accepted. They can’t be the only ones. Using Insta to compare schools is a waste of time.

That 2024 Insta account for Stone Ridge is pretty damn accurate and was missing only 5 students. I have access to the school published data as well as well and the percentage remains at 18% using that data set.

As far as Holton is concerned, I would be glad to calculate if someone wants to share the official school data. It appears the Instagram may be missing 10 or so students based on the fact that there are only 78 listed. Still, this is a large enough sample to calculate percentage of students attending Catholic universities. Bottom line, the data I presented is about as accurate as you can get...unless someone wants to prove me wrong with a complete list of Holton matriculations.