No GDS students going to Harvard this year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Actually none of these results is even slightly impressive.

There are over 2000 private high schools and over 20000 public high schools in the US, plus who knows how many internationally.

How many matriculants at Harvard would you expect any top U.S. private school to have when the incoming class size is around 1600 students?

More than this. These schools are supposed to be the best in the DMV.

Give us a number. What should it be? It's like you don't know that there are also dozens of highly regarded privates in NYC, LA, Boston, and other top cities plus boarding schools.

No, I know it all right. And those schools largely do better than the top schools here and often MUCH better.

One example: Dalton in NYC. 75 grads matriculated at either Harvard, Yale or Princeton in the last 5 years. 37 at Harvard alone.

The Big 3 are little fish in the Big World of USA privates.

25 from Brearley going to Harvard from ‘21 to ‘25.

There’s just no comparison. Let get real.

Hmm, I see TJ but nobody else in the DMV and certainly no Big 3

https://interactives.thecrimson.com/2024/news/feeders

What are you talking about? In the image you share, Georgetown Day is right there under Deerfield Academy.

+1 Georgetown Day is also in the following image where they show schools that have sent at least 1 student to Harvard since 2009. It's not in the last image where it shows that "of all schools that have sent students to Harvard, one in 11 students has come from just 21 high schools across the United States." From the DMV area, only Thomas Jefferson magnet is there.

I see Blair, Whitman

Nope, there are three images, and those MCPS schools are not in the final image of the top 21 high school feeders, of the DMV area, I only see TJ.

Of the MCPS, I see Blair, Churchill and Whitman in the second image that shows 184 schools that have had admits at least 10 times since 2009 (Sidwell and GDS are in the second image too).

[Anonymous]

Look, Big 3 and GDS and every other top DC private school parent: you can prolong this pissing match all you want, but the bottom line is that even in a good year none of you can get more than a handful into Harvard and that’s just not impressive.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually none of these results is even slightly impressive.

There are over 2000 private high schools and over 20000 public high schools in the US, plus who knows how many internationally.

How many matriculants at Harvard would you expect any top U.S. private school to have when the incoming class size is around 1600 students?

More than this. These schools are supposed to be the best in the DMV.

Give us a number. What should it be? It's like you don't know that there are also dozens of highly regarded privates in NYC, LA, Boston, and other top cities plus boarding schools.

No, I know it all right. And those schools largely do better than the top schools here and often MUCH better.

One example: Dalton in NYC. 75 grads matriculated at either Harvard, Yale or Princeton in the last 5 years. 37 at Harvard alone.

The Big 3 are little fish in the Big World of USA privates.

25 from Brearley going to Harvard from ‘21 to ‘25.

There’s just no comparison. Let get real.

Hmm, I see TJ but nobody else in the DMV and certainly no Big 3

https://interactives.thecrimson.com/2024/news/feeders

What are you talking about? In the image you share, Georgetown Day is right there under Deerfield Academy.

+1 Georgetown Day is also in the following image where they show schools that have sent at least 1 student to Harvard since 2009. It's not in the last image where it shows that "of all schools that have sent students to Harvard, one in 11 students has come from just 21 high schools across the United States." From the DMV area, only Thomas Jefferson magnet is there.

I see Blair, Whitman

Nope, there are three images, and those MCPS schools are not in the final image of the top 21 high school feeders, of the DMV area, I only see TJ.

Of the MCPS, I see Blair, Churchill and Whitman in the second image that shows 184 schools that have had admits at least 10 times since 2009 (Sidwell and GDS are in the second image too).

An the larger a school’s font, the more kids from that school have been accepted.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually none of these results is even slightly impressive.

There are over 2000 private high schools and over 20000 public high schools in the US, plus who knows how many internationally.

How many matriculants at Harvard would you expect any top U.S. private school to have when the incoming class size is around 1600 students?

More than this. These schools are supposed to be the best in the DMV.

Give us a number. What should it be? It's like you don't know that there are also dozens of highly regarded privates in NYC, LA, Boston, and other top cities plus boarding schools.

No, I know it all right. And those schools largely do better than the top schools here and often MUCH better.

One example: Dalton in NYC. 75 grads matriculated at either Harvard, Yale or Princeton in the last 5 years. 37 at Harvard alone.

The Big 3 are little fish in the Big World of USA privates.

25 from Brearley going to Harvard from ‘21 to ‘25.

There’s just no comparison. Let get real.

Hmm, I see TJ but nobody else in the DMV and certainly no Big 3

https://interactives.thecrimson.com/2024/news/feeders

What are you talking about? In the image you share, Georgetown Day is right there under Deerfield Academy.

+1 Georgetown Day is also in the following image where they show schools that have sent at least 1 student to Harvard since 2009. It's not in the last image where it shows that "of all schools that have sent students to Harvard, one in 11 students has come from just 21 high schools across the United States." From the DMV area, only Thomas Jefferson magnet is there.

I see Blair, Whitman

Nope, there are three images, and those MCPS schools are not in the final image of the top 21 high school feeders, of the DMV area, I only see TJ.

Of the MCPS, I see Blair, Churchill and Whitman in the second image that shows 184 schools that have had admits at least 10 times since 2009 (Sidwell and GDS are in the second image too).

An the larger a school’s font, the more kids from that school have been accepted.

Yes, I had to squint, but I see Maret in the second image of schools with admits at least 10 times since 2009. But in the third image of the top Harvard feeders it's clear because there's so few schools listed--of the DMV schools, there's only TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, Big 3 and GDS and every other top DC private school parent: you can prolong this pissing match all you want, but the bottom line is that even in a good year none of you can get more than a handful into Harvard and that’s just not impressive.

You keep dodging the question. When you consider that there are top private schools in NYC, LA, Boston, Chicago, and other US major cities, plus boarding schools like Exeter and Andover, what is the bar for an "impressive" number of matriculations for a single school in a year?

Again, keep in mind that Harvard has only about 1600 spots.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually none of these results is even slightly impressive.

There are over 2000 private high schools and over 20000 public high schools in the US, plus who knows how many internationally.

How many matriculants at Harvard would you expect any top U.S. private school to have when the incoming class size is around 1600 students?

More than this. These schools are supposed to be the best in the DMV.

Give us a number. What should it be? It's like you don't know that there are also dozens of highly regarded privates in NYC, LA, Boston, and other top cities plus boarding schools.

No, I know it all right. And those schools largely do better than the top schools here and often MUCH better.

One example: Dalton in NYC. 75 grads matriculated at either Harvard, Yale or Princeton in the last 5 years. 37 at Harvard alone.

The Big 3 are little fish in the Big World of USA privates.

25 from Brearley going to Harvard from ‘21 to ‘25.

There’s just no comparison. Let get real.

Hmm, I see TJ but nobody else in the DMV and certainly no Big 3

https://interactives.thecrimson.com/2024/news/feeders

What are you talking about? In the image you share, Georgetown Day is right there under Deerfield Academy.

+1 Georgetown Day is also in the following image where they show schools that have sent at least 1 student to Harvard since 2009. It's not in the last image where it shows that "of all schools that have sent students to Harvard, one in 11 students has come from just 21 high schools across the United States." From the DMV area, only Thomas Jefferson magnet is there.

I see Blair, Whitman

Nope, there are three images, and those MCPS schools are not in the final image of the top 21 high school feeders, of the DMV area, I only see TJ.

Of the MCPS, I see Blair, Churchill and Whitman in the second image that shows 184 schools that have had admits at least 10 times since 2009 (Sidwell and GDS are in the second image too).

An the larger a school’s font, the more kids from that school have been accepted.

Yes, I had to squint, but I see Maret in the second image of schools with admits at least 10 times since 2009. But in the third image of the top Harvard feeders it's clear because there's so few schools listed--of the DMV schools, there's only TJ.

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A statistician once pointed out that being a lawyer increases your chances of becoming a U.S. Senator by about 2600% and, even with that increase, very, very few lawyers will ever become Senators.

Going to a "Big 3" increases your chances of getting into Harvard immensely, but your chances are still about 1%. Go to a Big 3 because it's a good fit, not because it will get you into Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:That is what our kids at another big three are saying. Shocking if true

NCS sending 1, Sidwell sending 3

What happened?

GDS is a substandard woke school is what happened.

[Anonymous]

When GDS had 6 seniors matriculate at Harvard last year, was it a “substandard woke school” then too?

[Anonymous]

Look, if your reason for sending your kids to GDS or a comparable school is to give them a leg up at Harvard, then you need to rethink spending up to six figures each year. You should want to send your kids to these schools if you believe they provide the best educational opportunities possible.

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GDS is too woke for Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:GDS is too woke for Harvard.

Nonsense. Plenty of hardworking and intelligent graduate from GDS and move on to Harvard, and both institutions are lucky to have them.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, Big 3 and GDS and every other top DC private school parent: you can prolong this pissing match all you want, but the bottom line is that even in a good year none of you can get more than a handful into Harvard and that’s just not impressive.

You keep dodging the question. When you consider that there are top private schools in NYC, LA, Boston, Chicago, and other US major cities, plus boarding schools like Exeter and Andover, what is the bar for an "impressive" number of matriculations for a single school in a year?

Again, keep in mind that Harvard has only about 1600 spots.

I haven’t dodge the question at all. To the contrary I’ve posted links showing that those schools often have more success than the Big 3.

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Anonymous wrote:That is what our kids at another big three are saying. Shocking if true

NCS sending 1, Sidwell sending 3

What happened?

GDS is a substandard woke school is what happened.

Precisely!

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Anonymous wrote:That is what our kids at another big three are saying. Shocking if true

NCS sending 1, Sidwell sending 3

What happened?

GDS is a substandard woke school is what happened.

Precisely!

^ dumb and dumber