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Anonymous
Thanks for confirming that you’re a pathological liar. Twice. |
Anonymous
GP wishes… |
Anonymous
+1. Compare Georgetown Prep and Sidwell’s 2023 results. Prep isn’t touching Sidwell. |
Anonymous
Have you checked yourself? Georgetown prep does very well every year. You don’t know what you’re talking about. |
Anonymous
Have you checked and compared Sidwell and GP’s 2023 (and earlier) matriculation results? GP may “do well,” but as I said before GP isn’t touching Sidwell. I deal in facts, not your feelings. |
Anonymous
We’ll see what happens this year. |
Anonymous
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As an Ivy grad from a W school many moons ago and now have kids who have gone through the cycle — and many decades of DMV comparisons now…
1. Sorry to break the news - but So many kids from this area are so privileged and have various hooks. Most of them look the same to the admissions staff. The highest performing academic students at any of the schools are in one set of looking the same. Then next tier etc. etc. now the kids look even more similar in the tiers since like 20% all get straight As at almost all of the schools. yes hooks like legacies (depending on school), sports, awards, building houses in other countries, top of whatever then make the kid stand out vs others in their tier. 2. Higher percentages of kids in privates get into top schools. The student bodies are smaller and stacked with achievement oriented, rich, hooked families. The parents spent a lot to send their kids to these private schools for a privileged environment where they build pedigrees to stand out. 3. There are still tons of high performing and achievement, rich, hooked families at public schools. Sorry private parents. But a lot of parents in this area who are also rich and hooked send their kids to publics. And many kids at these schools study tons and are high achieving. And they are essentially similar to your kids in the admissions process. 4. Many of the competitive colleges and universities take a large percent of the kids they take early. They are explicit that they want to know the kids applying want to go to that school. In their side they have decades of kids applying to all the Ivies, or using Wash U or Tulane or Pitt as their “safeties”. So it helps them improve their stats and not have to deal with considering as many general apps their side and get committed kids. And then schools like Tulane are able to get that set of kids in vs taking lots of kids who then choose to go elsewhere in the end. So play your ED card well. It limits choices but also improves your odds. 5. The focus on the rigor of the privates etc is just over the top. Doing as much and college level work when you’re in high school doesn’t necessarily make you a better person and you’ve then basically done the equivalent of 8 years of college. I say this from experience that college was way easier than high school for me and many of my DMV classmates. 6. Lots of state schools around the country are excited to take full pay out of state DMV kids. 7. No I’m not particularly happier in life for going to an Ivy. |
Anonymous
Been thinking about this lately on probability of successfully "gaming" the system, so to speak. Given that it's more than likely that top schools can only take x amount of students from each HS, and that the private HS's or even top public HS's will have a lot of student with hooks, and parents who can afford to give them the best tutors and etc (ie more competition that to an extent makes it harder for your kid to stand out). Therefore, for someone who is well off but no hooks (ie not legacy or URM), would it actually make more sense to move to a crappy area like Groverton/Huntington, send the kid to a bad HS (for example West Potomac High), and use the money that you save on either living in that bad area or not sending kid to private to pay for tons of private tutors, and etc, to ensure that your kid has the highest probability of being top of class in the crap HS. Would a strategy like this actually improve the odds of kid getting into a top 10/20 or not? Realistically I don't see most people (if any) trying this, but would be interesting to see what everyone thinks of this idea. |
Anonymous
Wouldn't work because colleges would know the level of public high school. |
Anonymous
There's a huge opportunity cost of time going this route. There are only so many hours in the day, and you'd want the kid spending much of it with tutors instead of on extracurricular activities, with family/friends, or sleep? |
Anonymous
One thing Prep isn’t touching Sidwell on is Ivy League or bust-obsession that defines one’s self-worth and leads to much unhappiness and mental ill-health among parents and students. |
Anonymous
That's because you didn't come from a private and did not have the private world connections. It is a real thing. I am aware of this as a public school person myself. |
Anonymous
| Not trying to be negative, but all these Instagram pages seem to be designed and written by the same person. It’s kinda hilarious. |
Anonymous
I'm so glad our school doesn't put one out until May--after it's all said and done. Even then, not everyone participates in it/submits. |
Anonymous
What people in this area underestimate is the DMV public school and just DMV area connections of well off kids as adults are extremely strong. I have a very high paying job. Well connected. But that doesn’t mean necessarily happier. |