why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y’all realize you’re all a bunch of weirdos, right?

That aside, the bottom line is that the “top 20” thing is bullshit. Take out the Ivy League, which is truly a crapshoot for any student, and a very good student at just about any high school in this area - public or private - has a decent shot at the rest of the “top 20.” You don’t think that many if not most of the UVA admits at Virginia publics couldn’t/didn’t get into a top 20 university or SLAC? Of course they did/could.

And putting THAT aside, all of you strivers will learn soon enough that “top 20” is meaningless a decade down the line. No one will care. You won’t be able to distinguish your kids’ success or lack thereof on the basis of their college ranking.

Yet here you are commenting, just like everyone else on this thread. I wonder what that makes you. 🤔

P.S. Your post is complete and utter nonsense.

Ha ha guess I struck a nerve if that’s the best response you can come up with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The results are very similar to the local magnet schools and top publics. I would imagine these are strong academic cohorts across the board, which Sidwell is known to select for.

The facts say otherwise: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/09/17/where-do-moco-students-attend-college/

Please let me know which MoCo “magnet schools and top publics” have results that are similar to Sidwell’s. Make sure you control for size (Sidwell only has 125/grade in the U.S.).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The results are very similar to the local magnet schools and top publics. I would imagine these are strong academic cohorts across the board, which Sidwell is known to select for.

The facts say otherwise: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/09/17/where-do-moco-students-attend-college/

Please let me know which MoCo “magnet schools and top publics” have results that are similar to Sidwell’s. Make sure you control for size (Sidwell only has 125/grade in the U.S.).

Bethesda Magazine data has already been debunked. Keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids at schools like Sidwell have $$. A school like Gettysburg knows a kid at the bottom of the Sidwell class would enroll and pay full freight rather than go to JMU. Most Americans would see that as a waste of money, but the wealthy would rather their kids go to third tier LACs than go to public colleges. This applies to schools like Tulane and BC as well.

Most of the kids going to Gettysburg from Sidwell are athletes getting a full ride. Ask me how I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The results are very similar to the local magnet schools and top publics. I would imagine these are strong academic cohorts across the board, which Sidwell is known to select for.

The facts say otherwise: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/09/17/where-do-moco-students-attend-college/

Please let me know which MoCo “magnet schools and top publics” have results that are similar to Sidwell’s. Make sure you control for size (Sidwell only has 125/grade in the U.S.).

Bethesda Magazine data has already been debunked. Keep up.

By whom? You and your hurt feelings.

For those of you who are interested in facts, here’s one example: According to the data, out of 353 MoCo students (10 different high schools) that applied to Harvard, 4 were admitted. Sidwell sent 4 to Harvard last year, and they’re sending 3 this year. I don’t know how many students applied last year, but Sidwell only has 125 students/class and all of them did not apply to Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids at schools like Sidwell have $$. A school like Gettysburg knows a kid at the bottom of the Sidwell class would enroll and pay full freight rather than go to JMU. Most Americans would see that as a waste of money, but the wealthy would rather their kids go to third tier LACs than go to public colleges. This applies to schools like Tulane and BC as well.

Most of the kids going to Gettysburg from Sidwell are athletes getting a full ride. Ask me how I know.

If you have evidence that kids are getting athletic scholarships from Gettysburg, the NCAA would like to know how you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The results are very similar to the local magnet schools and top publics. I would imagine these are strong academic cohorts across the board, which Sidwell is known to select for.

The facts say otherwise: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/09/17/where-do-moco-students-attend-college/

Please let me know which MoCo “magnet schools and top publics” have results that are similar to Sidwell’s. Make sure you control for size (Sidwell only has 125/grade in the U.S.).

Bethesda Magazine data has already been debunked. Keep up.

By whom? You and your hurt feelings.

For those of you who are interested in facts, here’s one example: According to the data, out of 353 MoCo students (10 different high schools) that applied to Harvard, 4 were admitted. Sidwell sent 4 to Harvard last year, and they’re sending 3 this year. I don’t know how many students applied last year, but Sidwell only has 125 students/class and all of them did not apply to Harvard.

Talk about cherry-picking. Okay, just based on commitment posts RMIB and Blair are each sending 3+ students to Yale and 3+ students to MIT this year. Plus students to HPS, many to Duke and Penn etc. Same sized cohort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The results are very similar to the local magnet schools and top publics. I would imagine these are strong academic cohorts across the board, which Sidwell is known to select for.

The facts say otherwise: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/09/17/where-do-moco-students-attend-college/

Please let me know which MoCo “magnet schools and top publics” have results that are similar to Sidwell’s. Make sure you control for size (Sidwell only has 125/grade in the U.S.).

Bethesda Magazine data has already been debunked. Keep up.

By whom? You and your hurt feelings.

For those of you who are interested in facts, here’s one example: According to the data, out of 353 MoCo students (10 different high schools) that applied to Harvard, 4 were admitted. Sidwell sent 4 to Harvard last year, and they’re sending 3 this year. I don’t know how many students applied last year, but Sidwell only has 125 students/class and all of them did not apply to Harvard.

Talk about cherry-picking. Okay, just based on commitment posts RMIB and Blair are each sending 3+ students to Yale and 3+ students to MIT this year. Plus students to HPS, many to Duke and Penn etc. Same sized cohort.

Well this is not surprising given that the highest number of NMSF and USPSC students are at the three test-in magnets. Loads more than at Sidwell. What is even more impressive than the high number of T-15 admits at these schools is the number of kids getting full merit scholarships to great schools like GATech, Harvey Mudd, and W&M. There's your meritocracy.

[Anonymous]

More expensive school= families with more money for college admissions.

[Anonymous]

Can someone break it down for me why it would matter to go to a t20 vs a state university in the big picture thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

My impression is that Sidwell's admits this year look like GDS's last year. Those two generally seem to be high above the other privates for T-15 admits over time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More expensive school= families with more money for college admissions.

Yes. As good as the public admits mentioned above are, many of those kids go to UMD and UVA due to cost. And very likely end up in the same place in their careers. Attending a T-20 might help with connections to a point, but this is field dependent and grad school pedigree is far more important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More expensive school= families with more money for college admissions.

Yes. As good as the public admits mentioned above are, many of those kids go to UMD and UVA due to cost. And very likely end up in the same place in their careers. Attending a T-20 might help with connections to a point, but this is field dependent and grad school pedigree is far more important.

I did the quoted comment and the question you answered thanks for answering it the way you did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The results are very similar to the local magnet schools and top publics. I would imagine these are strong academic cohorts across the board, which Sidwell is known to select for.

The facts say otherwise: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/09/17/where-do-moco-students-attend-college/

Please let me know which MoCo “magnet schools and top publics” have results that are similar to Sidwell’s. Make sure you control for size (Sidwell only has 125/grade in the U.S.).

Bethesda Magazine data has already been debunked. Keep up.

By whom? You and your hurt feelings.

For those of you who are interested in facts, here’s one example: According to the data, out of 353 MoCo students (10 different high schools) that applied to Harvard, 4 were admitted. Sidwell sent 4 to Harvard last year, and they’re sending 3 this year. I don’t know how many students applied last year, but Sidwell only has 125 students/class and all of them did not apply to Harvard.

Ok, so spend $60,000 a year in tuition so your kid has a 3 to 4 percent chance of going to Harvard?

No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell is the best private school in dc full stop. There are a lot of copycats wannabe elite schools. Loooosers.