Which of the "top 3" or "top 5" private schools has the best track record at the Ivies?
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Anonymous
It is one poster. Who posts again and again and again. So that they can fool people like you into thinking there are multiple posters. 
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Anonymous
It is also almost certainly not someone associated with GDS. |
Anonymous
I am a Sidwell parent and not said "troll". The schools that you mention certainly do well with the top Ivies, but in defense of GDS' honor, so do they. Pound for pound they have more (and in some cases way more) Presidential Scholar nominees, NMS Semis and H/Y/P acceptances than some on the list. I host an event for accepted students to one of the referenced colleges and GDS is well represented. Don't discount the quality of their students because of the annoying repetitive posts of one nut. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Well Sidwell crushed NCS based on the data that the poster from that school just offered. |
Anonymous
| Nobody says GDS doesn't do well. They just don't do as well as they think relative to other schools. Size wise, gds graduates just as many kids, if not more, than the big three. |
Anonymous
No, there were specific statement made that they don't do well, which is false. |
Anonymous
I find this hard to believe. NCS had the acceptances referenced by the poster plus a smattering more at places like Stanford. Very strong year, which I doubt is matched by any of the other locals. |
Anonymous
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Based on several posts on this site and confirmed with conversations. Sidwell had 10 at Yale; 8 at
Penn; five at Stanford; five at brown; two at Harvard; two at MIT. These are all early so it may have increased since then |
Anonymous
I would not call it "data" but, if true, that's a strong performance for NCS. Remember that Sidwell has a graduating class over 50% bigger than NCS (approx 125 to approx 80). So if NCS had 8 students who are matriculating at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, that is 10% of their class. Sidwell by all accounts had an extraordinary college matriculation year this year (9 or 10 into Yale? and a bunch into UPenn) but we don't actually know how many Sidwell is matriculating at (a) HYS -- is it 12 kids total (10%) or 18 kids total (15%) or 15 kids total (12.5%). Nor do we know NCS's entire college list. Nor do we know anything about GDS's college matriculations at all (although I'm sure they are excellent). If the schools don't publicize it -- and I support schools that don't, given the feeding frenzy that ensues -- we actually don't have the "data" here to make comparisons. To the extent we do, the issue of class size is overlooked routinely as people just focus on the arithmetic totals of students admitted somewhere (the numerator) and frequently ignore the denominator (overall graduating class size). |
Anonymous
| Not much overlap if any cause those results are early decision. Happy Easter |
Anonymous
Each has increased since early round, Yes, they even got more kids into Yale after the 10 early admits - and a couple more into Penn and Harvard, for that matter. |
Anonymous
Yale is early action and so nonbinding. But my guess would be that most would then stick with Yale. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: The way it seems on DCUM, a number of posters believe that GDS is basically Harvard junior college. It is one poster. Who posts again and again and again. So that they can fool people like you into thinking there are multiple posters. It is also almost certainly not someone associated with GDS. Im sure it was a GDS parent. I hear it all the time. |
Anonymous
| How do Maret kids fare? |