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Where you go to high school has nothing to do with your chances of attending any particular college. What those percentages show you is that certain high schools enroll students who are more likely to have a hook at certain colleges. If your kid doesn't have a shot at Harvard from your public school, he also does't have a shot at Harvard from GDS or Dalton (and likely didn't have a shot at Dalton in the first place). |
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And that’s why those certain schools want to know where Mom and Dad went to school when deciding whether to admit little Larlx, all the while touting their equity bona fides. |
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But what if the child did have a shot but too many kids from their particular private school are already being admitted? Does that mean that they may not want to be too heavy with one private feeder? |
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You can't look just at the numbers. You have no idea who has a hook and many private school kids have hooks. Sometimes it's not apparent until senior year. If you are a strong student without a hook you are better off in public. Hard to compete with very strong students who are multi-generation legacies or have buildings with their family name. Also, athletes who can afford private coaches. |
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You reeeaaally need to let go of even the inkling of an idea that your private is a Harvard/Ivy feeder. |
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What do you mean? Why? |
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Sidwell's college matriculations over the past few years, just incredible: Sidwell Friends graduating seniors in the classes of 2018-2022 have enrolled at the colleges and universities listed below. Institutions with four or more enrollees in those years are shown in bold. The University of Alabama American University Amherst College Art Center College of Design Babson College Barnard College Bates College Berklee College of Music Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College University of British Columbia Brown University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University University of California-Berkeley University of California-Los Angeles University of California-Santa Barbara University of California-Santa Cruz Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University The Catholic University of America University of Chicago Claremont McKenna College Colby College Colgate University University of Colorado Boulder Colorado College Columbia University in the City of New York Connecticut College Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science Art Cornell University Dartmouth College Davidson College Deep Springs College Denison University Dickinson College Drexel University Duke University Emerson College Emory University Fordham University Franklin and Marshall College George Washington University Georgetown University Gettysburg College Goucher College Grinnell College Hamilton College Harvard University Haverford College Hollins University Howard University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Indiana University-Bloomington Ithaca College James Madison University Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lehigh University Loyola Marymount University Macalester College Marshall University University of Maryland Baltimore County University of Maryland-College Park University of Massachusetts-Amherst Mercyhurst University Miami University, Oxford University of Miami University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Middlebury College Millersville University of Pennsylvania Montgomery College Morehouse College Morgan State University New York University The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Charlotte Northeastern University Northwestern University University of Notre Dame Oberlin College Occidental College Pennsylvania State University Penn State Main Campus University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus Pitzer College Pomona College Princeton University Purdue University-Main Campus Reed College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhodes College Rice University Rochester Institute of Technology University of Rochester University of San Francisco Santa Clara University Scripps College Skidmore College University of South Carolina-Columbia University of Southern California Spelman College St. John’s University-New York St Olaf College Stanford University Stevens Institute of Technology Swarthmore College Syracuse University The University of Tampa The University of Texas at Austin Ohio State University-Main Campus University of Toronto Towson University Tufts University Tulane University of Louisiana Union College United States Air Force Academy United States Military Academy University of Oregon University of Oxford University of St Andrews Vanderbilt University Vassar College University of Vermont Villanova University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University University of Virginia-Main Campus Wake Forest University Washington & Jefferson College Washington and Lee University Washington University in St Louis Wellesley College Wesleyan University William & Mary Williams College University of Wisconsin-Madison The College of Wooster Yale University source: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation |