Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?

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Anonymous wrote:Ranked #1 private school by Niche...though I have absolutely no idea what that means in the scheme of things.

Giving any credibility to Niche was your first mistake.

Well Sidwell is ranked #1 in DC…which many would agree is definitely in the top 3.

Sidwell's reputation pre-dates Niche by many years, so this isn't exactly helpful to your argument.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh all these privates are more similar than people admit. When I went to Potomac, the head had previously been the head at Westminster.

Agree

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Anonymous wrote:Ranked #1 private school by Niche...though I have absolutely no idea what that means in the scheme of things.

Giving any credibility to Niche was your first mistake.

Well Sidwell is ranked #1 in DC…which many would agree is definitely in the top 3.

Sidwell's reputation pre-dates Niche by many years, so this isn't exactly helpful to your argument.

What does that have to do with anything. It’s ranked #1 on Niche, so not sure why Niche rankings don’t have credibility.

All these various private schools have been around well before niche.

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Emory doesn’t draw from wealthy Republican southern families.

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Has op come back to explain why we should be impressed by these results?

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised so many at UVA. I realize cost isn’t an issue for these families…but why pay private school prices for an OOS public.

I'm in another southern city --In many cases, it's more about the social factors and "connections" vs. feeder to certain schools. We have many excellent public schools and many are still paying for private where outcome ends up being identical to the public schools.

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So much ignorance here:

This is number attending, not admitted. Westminster usually sends 5+ kids to Duke. Must have just been an off year. Or a lot of kids got in but chose to go elsewhere.
Emory is a great school. But there are a lot of similar schools not a few miles from where these kids grew up. They want a change of scenery. Those bashing Emory know nothing. It is not Ivy. But it is just below.
GA Tech is one of the best engineering schools around. A lot of these kids can go virtually for free. I guarantee they have kids turning down MIT for GA Tech. Anyone who knocks GA Tech is also clueless.
All of the anti-south stupidity is childish. I lived there for a while. Atlanta is a great city. Lots of smart, very successful people. Many alums of top tier schools (including Ivies). Westminster is the best private school in town, but there are plenty of others (Pace, Lovett, Woodward, Paideia, etc) as well as plenty of really good publics.

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I know someone who chose GA tech OOS over Northwestern and Vanderbilt.
Just FYI.

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Anonymous wrote:So much ignorance here:

This is number attending, not admitted. Westminster usually sends 5+ kids to Duke. Must have just been an off year. Or a lot of kids got in but chose to go elsewhere.
Emory is a great school. But there are a lot of similar schools not a few miles from where these kids grew up. They want a change of scenery. Those bashing Emory know nothing. It is not Ivy. But it is just below.
GA Tech is one of the best engineering schools around. A lot of these kids can go virtually for free. I guarantee they have kids turning down MIT for GA Tech. Anyone who knocks GA Tech is also clueless.
All of the anti-south stupidity is childish. I lived there for a while. Atlanta is a great city. Lots of smart, very successful people. Many alums of top tier schools (including Ivies). Westminster is the best private school in town, but there are plenty of others (Pace, Lovett, Woodward, Paideia, etc) as well as plenty of really good publics.

Put down the crack pipe. Please.

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Anonymous wrote:Being from Georgia is a hook at many of these schools.

+1. If you took Harvard-Westlake, Brearley or Andover and place them in GA, their exmissions will go from 40% Ivies to 100%.

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised Emory isnt more...

Ha! Atlanta kids don’t want to attend Emory. It’s mostly a graduate school, isn’t a traditional college environment and most importantly…

It’s called “Long Island University of Atlanta.”

Wealthy southerners have 0 interest in Emory.

It takes more than wealth to get into Emory. If half of those UGA and Gatech students actually got into Emory, they would attend. Emory has a harder time yielding students at its level from schools with bigger brands. They're SAT avg is a 1550 this year, that's high enough to get into any Ivy/Vandy etc.

No they wouldn’t. In the south Emory is for Jews and/or Yankees.

Yes they would. Or they wouldn't have applied. Why apply to the harder admit, if you don't even want to go?

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Anonymous wrote:So much ignorance here:

This is number attending, not admitted. Westminster usually sends 5+ kids to Duke. Must have just been an off year. Or a lot of kids got in but chose to go elsewhere.
Emory is a great school. But there are a lot of similar schools not a few miles from where these kids grew up. They want a change of scenery. Those bashing Emory know nothing. It is not Ivy. But it is just below.
GA Tech is one of the best engineering schools around. A lot of these kids can go virtually for free. I guarantee they have kids turning down MIT for GA Tech. Anyone who knocks GA Tech is also clueless.
All of the anti-south stupidity is childish. I lived there for a while. Atlanta is a great city. Lots of smart, very successful people. Many alums of top tier schools (including Ivies). Westminster is the best private school in town, but there are plenty of others (Pace, Lovett, Woodward, Paideia, etc) as well as plenty of really good publics.

What do you find particularly impressive about these placements? Local top privates do better.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBU3VGK/
3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts

This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.

Only one Duke admit.

Surprising for a southern school.

It’s challenging to explain but there is bad Yankee (Emory) and good yankee (Yale). Duke is in the bad yankee category. If you’re a well to do southerner you’d be a little embarrassed to tell people your child attended duke.

18% of all Emory students come from GA, followed by NY at 11%.

40% come from GA, FL, NC, TX, SC and TN.

Seems like plenty of southerners attend Emory. Tulane as an example has only 25% of kids coming from the south plus Texas with NY its largest state feeder at 12%.

People say any and everything on this site. Southerners that don't like Emory or Duke, is because they're diverse.

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Anonymous wrote:As Not sure BC and Wake are great.

For nonstem, yes.

BC? #37 (and if you take out all of the public schools that moved ahead of them, they would be much higher.)
For non-stem, do you really think University of California San Diego is better than BC? University of Florida?
University of California Davis or Irvine?

The classes are HUGE at these schools.…

Yes, UCSD, UF, and U Illinois are better than BC. BC’s rank wasn’t much better before the ranking criteria changed. Rich families in CA and Florida use the state school system regularly. Funny you mention class size, it’s not like BC is a small NESCAC with professors reading poetry to ten freshmen.