College Placement Success at Sidwell/GDS?

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Anonymous wrote:As a Sidwell parent, pretty embarrassed by the "we are number one with Yale" folks. Sit down, please.

Thank god a voice of reason. Thank you pp. As a parent with kids at neither school, the objective view is same as yours, sit down please.

You must absolutely hate the Boston U Full Scholarship or Yale Full Price thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Sidwell parent, pretty embarrassed by the "we are number one with Yale" folks. Sit down, please.

What I read is pretty balanced and in direct reaction to comments about Sidwell kids being less poised. What's eating at you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a Sidwell parent, pretty embarrassed by the "we are number one with Yale" folks. Sit down, please.

What I read is pretty balanced and in direct reaction to comments about Sidwell kids being less poised. What's eating at you?

Unless I missed something, nobody said anything about Sidwell kids being less poised. One poster commented that he/she was impressed with NCS students. So what? A complement about one school and its students is not a diss on another school. I think the poster even said Sidwell students were great too, (I assume SWW was a typo for Sidwell) just had less experience with them.

Everyone calm down, these schools are all great but different and all have great track records with college acceptance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year GDS sent 6 to Penn; 5 each to Tufts and Tulane; 4 to NYU; 3 each to Harvard, Dartmouth, Duke, Williams, Michigan, USC, UCLA, and Bates; 2 each to Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Brown, Amherst, Haverford, Wesleyan, Oberlin, Georgetown, Carleton, Wash U, Vanderbilt, and Harvey Mudd; 1 each to MIT, Northwestern, Notre Dame, McGill, Toronto, and Columbia. No one to Stanford or Berkeley.

Not an exhaustive list but covers almost 2/3 of the class.

South Carolina! Go Covks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a Sidwell parent, pretty embarrassed by the "we are number one with Yale" folks. Sit down, please.

What I read is pretty balanced and in direct reaction to comments about Sidwell kids being less poised. What's eating at you?

Unless I missed something, nobody said anything about Sidwell kids being less poised. One poster commented that he/she was impressed with NCS students. So what? A complement about one school and its students is not a diss on another school. I think the poster even said Sidwell students were great too, (I assume SWW was a typo for Sidwell) just had less experience with them.

Everyone calm down, these schools are all great but different and all have great track records with college acceptance.

Where the heck did anyone on this thread say anything about Sidwell kids being less poised? And as several posters said, they are all great schools! So the we're-number-one poster(s) just needs to relax.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last year GDS sent 6 to Penn; 5 each to Tufts and Tulane; 4 to NYU; 3 each to Harvard, Dartmouth, Duke, Williams, Michigan, USC, UCLA, and Bates; 2 each to Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Brown, Amherst, Haverford, Wesleyan, Oberlin, Georgetown, Carleton, Wash U, Vanderbilt, and Harvey Mudd; 1 each to MIT, Northwestern, Notre Dame, McGill, Toronto, and Columbia. No one to Stanford or Berkeley.

Not an exhaustive list but covers almost 2/3 of the class.

South Carolina! Go Covks!

Southern California.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a Sidwell parent, pretty embarrassed by the "we are number one with Yale" folks. Sit down, please.

What I read is pretty balanced and in direct reaction to comments about Sidwell kids being less poised. What's eating at you?

Here is what made me cringe.

"Numbers still favor Sidwell, sorry. I am not saying generally, but at Yale this is a fact. Sidwell sent more kids to Yale over the last few years than NCS, STA, GDS and Maret combined."

I understand this board brings out the worst in people. This is a good example.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Simple, these schools breed strong students.

I think, overall, students are average. It's just there are more legacy parents with money in these schools that definitely helps to swing the scale. If you take kids from the TJ, a lot of them get accepted to ivys, but not too many actually going there.

I disagree. If you take a look at the kinds of independent academic pursuits, the time spent over summers and breaks doing unique things, plus having strong board scores and extracurriculars, these are generally not average students. Certainly many are, but the top 40-50 kids in each grade are pretty impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happens to these kids if they don't want to attend an Ivy League/top 20 college? it seems that is all these poor kids are measured by. And why does everyone assume that if they have good grades and scores that they will necessarily apply to that small range of schools?

Kids will select the schools they want to apply to. Some want Ivy's, others will take a free ride at a school if given the option, others will choose smaller name schools that may have a specialty they favor. There isn't pressure by the school to send kids to Ivy's as a goal.