2024 Washington DC area College commits

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell Friends School (SFS)
https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2024

Maret
https://www.instagram.com/maretfrogs2024

Georgetown Day school (GDS)
https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors2024

Holton Arms
https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2024

Landon
https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors24

Potomac School
https://www.instagram.com/pmacdecisions2024/

Georgetown Visitation ("Visitation"/ "Visi")
https://www.instagram.com/v1s1collegedecisions2024/

Madeira
https://www.instagram.com/madeiradecisions24/

Washington International School ("WIS")
https://www.instagram.com/wisclassof2024/

Flint Hill
https://www.instagram.com/flinthilldecisions24

Edmund Burke
https://www.instagram.com/burkeseniors/

Field
https://www.instagram.com/fieldgrads.2024/

Bullis School
https://www.instagram.com/bullisseniors24/

Sandy Springs Friends School (SSFS)
https://www.instagram.com/ssfs24seniors

St. Stephens and St. Agnes School (DC)
https://www.instagram.com/sssasdecisions2024/

St. Andrews Episcopal School (SAES)
https://www.instagram.com/saes24decisions

Connelly School of the Holy Child (Holy Child)
https://www.instagram.com/hcseniors24

The Academy of the Holy Cross ("Holy Cross")
https://www.instagram.com/ahc_seniors24/

St. John’s College (high)
https://www.instagram.com/sjc2024seniors

The Heights
https://www.instagram.com/heights24.seniors

Stone Ridge
https://www.instagram.com/srseniors24/

Waldorf (Note Waldorf Schools use one page for nation-wide)
https://www.instagram.com/waldorfdecisions24/?igsh=azNkaWkzM2treHNy

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Walt Whitman (Bethesda):
https://www.instagram.com/vikingdestinations2024/

Winston Churchill (Potomac):
https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebulldog2024/

Walter Johnson High School ("WJ")
https://www.instagram.com/wherethewildcatsgo24/

Thomas S. Wootton High School ("Wootton")
https://www.instagram.com/peaceoutpatriots24/

Bethesda Chevy Chase High School ("BCC")
https://www.instagram.com/bccdecisions_2024/

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Additional school(s) for informational context:

Dalton School (prestigious NYC school) added for perspective:
https://www.instagram.com/daltonseniors23/

Is Dalton the "Churchill" of NYC?

I think it’s more that Churchill is the Dalton of DMV.

Yeah, Dalton's on a different level from DMV schools, public or private. All NYC privates are. That's not a slight against our schools, it's just that there's a lot more wealth and power at the NYC privates.

Yes, literally billionaires

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

No, you’re clueless. At least 8 students from Dalton’s class of 2023 are now freshmen at Harvard (https://www.instagram.com/daltonseniors23/). Not every Dalton student posts their results, but that’s the publicly advertised yield. It is entirely possible, and very likely, that more than 10 Dalton students were admitted to Harvard last year.

You’re probably right that Harvard wouldn’t admit more than 10 Churchill students in a single year. However, Harvard would admit more than 10 Dalton students.
Churchill =/= Dalton.

First we’re not talking about Dalton we’re talking about other DMV area privates. Secondly you are clearly clueless. Harvard is not going to give out 10 spaces to Churchill when MCPS has 20 other HS’ in its district.

This.
Dalton is just one school, but an Ivy has to look at over 20 other MCPS and distribute their admittance. No way they would give 10 spaces to Churchill, while Whitman, Wootton, Blair, RM etc... also deserved some.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

This is not how math works. If 20 of the 100 seniors from GDS get into a top school that is 20% and 25 of the 500 seniors at Whitman do the same that is 5%. You have a 20% chance of getting in from GDS and a 5% chance from Whitman. A percentage looking higher meaning your chances have gone up, how hard is this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

This is not how math works. If 20 of the 100 seniors from GDS get into a top school that is 20% and 25 of the 500 seniors at Whitman do the same that is 5%. You have a 20% chance of getting in from GDS and a 5% chance from Whitman. A percentage looking higher meaning your chances have gone up, how hard is this?

Not this convo again. Do we really need to explain that no way is Columbia taking 20 kids from GDS? No, they’re dividing admits among area publics and privates. Also, do we really need to explain that lots of public school kids can’t afford ivies, and the ivies don’t give merit aid, so they don’t even apply? And that applying ED, which is a huge leg up, is a privilege reserved for families who don’t care whether their FA application results in enough money to attend, and that too means that more private school kids are applying ED?

— my kid got into Columbia ED but I’m not going to pretend being full-pay had nothing to do with it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

This is not how math works. If 20 of the 100 seniors from GDS get into a top school that is 20% and 25 of the 500 seniors at Whitman do the same that is 5%. You have a 20% chance of getting in from GDS and a 5% chance from Whitman. A percentage looking higher meaning your chances have gone up, how hard is this?

A lot of private school students have the legacy hook.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

This is not how math works. If 20 of the 100 seniors from GDS get into a top school that is 20% and 25 of the 500 seniors at Whitman do the same that is 5%. You have a 20% chance of getting in from GDS and a 5% chance from Whitman. A percentage looking higher meaning your chances have gone up, how hard is this?

Not this convo again. Do we really need to explain that no way is Columbia taking 20 kids from GDS? No, they’re dividing admits among area publics and privates. Also, do we really need to explain that lots of public school kids can’t afford ivies, and the ivies don’t give merit aid, so they don’t even apply? And that applying ED, which is a huge leg up, is a privilege reserved for families who don’t care whether their FA application results in enough money to attend, and that too means that more private school kids are applying ED?

— my kid got into Columbia ED but I’m not going to pretend being full-pay had nothing to do with it

Srs — congrats to your DC!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

This is not how math works. If 20 of the 100 seniors from GDS get into a top school that is 20% and 25 of the 500 seniors at Whitman do the same that is 5%. You have a 20% chance of getting in from GDS and a 5% chance from Whitman. A percentage looking higher meaning your chances have gone up, how hard is this?

Not this convo again. Do we really need to explain that no way is Columbia taking 20 kids from GDS? No, they’re dividing admits among area publics and privates. Also, do we really need to explain that lots of public school kids can’t afford ivies, and the ivies don’t give merit aid, so they don’t even apply? And that applying ED, which is a huge leg up, is a privilege reserved for families who don’t care whether their FA application results in enough money to attend, and that too means that more private school kids are applying ED?

— my kid got into Columbia ED but I’m not going to pretend being full-pay had nothing to do with it

I understand that there are many factors that contribute to the fact that a higher percentage of kids from private school end up at highly ranked schools than the percentage from public schools. The earlier posters who were trying to say public school lower percentage > private school higher percentage were making some strange arguments about why your chances don’t go up in private school, which is not borne out by the data we have. Of course there are a lot of other factors that cause the discrepancy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

This is not how math works. If 20 of the 100 seniors from GDS get into a top school that is 20% and 25 of the 500 seniors at Whitman do the same that is 5%. You have a 20% chance of getting in from GDS and a 5% chance from Whitman. A percentage looking higher meaning your chances have gone up, how hard is this?

A lot of private school students have the legacy hook.

This is also true, my kids are legacies at 2 different Ivies, 3 if you count their grandparents. This is one of many factors that contribute to a higher percentage of private school kids going to top schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

The PP just basically said each school gets an allotment and that Harvard would not give out 10 times more slots just because there are more students. So at one slot per school, your chances increase significantly if your student body is smaller. Boy you are dumb.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

This is not how math works. If 20 of the 100 seniors from GDS get into a top school that is 20% and 25 of the 500 seniors at Whitman do the same that is 5%. You have a 20% chance of getting in from GDS and a 5% chance from Whitman. A percentage looking higher meaning your chances have gone up, how hard is this?

A lot of private school students have the legacy hook.

This is also true, my kids are legacies at 2 different Ivies, 3 if you count their grandparents. This is one of many factors that contribute to a higher percentage of private school kids going to top schools.

Whitman and Churchill have plenty of legacy families. Next.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

The PP just basically said each school gets an allotment and that Harvard would not give out 10 times more slots just because there are more students. So at one slot per school, your chances increase significantly if your student body is smaller. Boy you are dumb.

My goodness, y'all dumb

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

This is not how math works. If 20 of the 100 seniors from GDS get into a top school that is 20% and 25 of the 500 seniors at Whitman do the same that is 5%. You have a 20% chance of getting in from GDS and a 5% chance from Whitman. A percentage looking higher meaning your chances have gone up, how hard is this?

Not this convo again. Do we really need to explain that no way is Columbia taking 20 kids from GDS? No, they’re dividing admits among area publics and privates. Also, do we really need to explain that lots of public school kids can’t afford ivies, and the ivies don’t give merit aid, so they don’t even apply? And that applying ED, which is a huge leg up, is a privilege reserved for families who don’t care whether their FA application results in enough money to attend, and that too means that more private school kids are applying ED?

— my kid got into Columbia ED but I’m not going to pretend being full-pay had nothing to do with it

I understand that there are many factors that contribute to the fact that a higher percentage of kids from private school end up at highly ranked schools than the percentage from public schools. The earlier posters who were trying to say public school lower percentage > private school higher percentage were making some strange arguments about why your chances don’t go up in private school, which is not borne out by the data we have. Of course there are a lot of other factors that cause the discrepancy.

Which posters were making this argument? Or are you lacking reading comprehension?

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Anonymous wrote:The top MD publics have far more Ivy League admits than the top MD privates.

I think we have been through this already. If you take the 8 "Bethesda Area" MCPS high schools analyzed in last Sept.'s article, about 5% of all students matriculated to top 20 schools. You will find that in the private schools in this area, that percentage ranges between 15-25% depending on the school. Private schools have more success per capita. That's because the student body is stronger in general and colleges are more inclined to give them spots, all things being equal.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

You're clueless.
Harvard would not give 10 admissions to just one school (let say Churchill), even though way more than 10 would qualify.
Yale would not give 10 admissions to just Whitman, even though way more than 10 would qualify.
MIT would not give no more than 15 admissions to Blair, even though more than 50 would qualify.
Admissions to the ivies and other top schools are limited, so percentage-wise, the private schools will always look higher because they have fewer students. (just 5 admissions to almost any private school already equal to almost 5% of the class; meanwhile it would take at least over 20 admissions to most public school to equal 5% of the class. Do you know of any ivy that would normally give 20 admissions to just one school?)
Private schools look higher per capita because of the limit put on admissions. All things are not equal.
Comparing on percentage in this case is like comparing apples to oranges.

LOL so you realize you just proved a point that private school students do better with ivy admissions!! Because of the small class size, their chance of an ivy acceptance quadruples! Thanks for confirming this fact!!

My goodness no. You're not too bright.
The poster showed that because of their small size, their percentage will always look higher, even if they have 4* less admits.
Their chances do not increase.

This is not how math works. If 20 of the 100 seniors from GDS get into a top school that is 20% and 25 of the 500 seniors at Whitman do the same that is 5%. You have a 20% chance of getting in from GDS and a 5% chance from Whitman. A percentage looking higher meaning your chances have gone up, how hard is this?

A lot of private school students have the legacy hook.

This is also true, my kids are legacies at 2 different Ivies, 3 if you count their grandparents. This is one of many factors that contribute to a higher percentage of private school kids going to top schools.

Whitman and Churchill have plenty of legacy families. Next.

Yes they do, the previous public school booster said that the difference in the percentage admits was partially due to legacies. By percentage there may be a difference between the groups.

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Anonymous wrote:Take out the public schools. Take out McDonough.

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