What? I did not say they’re not as smart. Girls’ admissions disadvantage is well documented. It’s because there are disproportionately MORE smart high scoring girl applicants than boys. |
For example this explains what I’m saying: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/17/8050259/discrimination-against-women-is-a-real-problem-in-college-admissions |
NCS college counseling actually says that being male is "a hook." |
Can you imagine being these students and reading the way others are talking about kids they don’t even know? And putting so much value on where they go to college without knowing anything else about them? |
**Sigh** That’s called…life. These “kids” are 18 years old and heading off to college in a couple of months. If their skin isn’t thick enough to handle this very mild discussion, then I’m not sure they’re ready for adulthood. In other words, suck it up buttercup! |
Yes, the numbers are something like 20 qualified female applicants for 1 qualified male applicant. |
You gotta drive your kid to be in top 10% otherwise might have well saved the money and gone public |
When is cum laude awarded? Senior year? College admits are finished by then so it is not like it is changing much by receiving the award even though it is great. That is life. Life is not fair. Not sure why some think otherwise. STA does a lot of things differently. |
Anti-NCS troll strikes again. Same verbiage words changed around a bit but same idea. |
It sounds like the person you’re calling an anti-NCS troll is an NCS parent. If so, that’s not a good look for NCS. |
Question. What do people mean when they talk about a school "placing" students or "getting students in"? How much power does a CO have these days? I'm not even sure that counselors call the admissions people like they did in the past.
I have a senior graduating from a Big3 this year and don't feel like the counselor did much at all besides writing the counselor's letter. I certainly would never say that the school got my senior into college. |
No, I'm not an NCS troll (and frankly I'm not even sure what that means.) I haven't posted about this before. |
The sidwell kids in the "top 10%" are not there because their parents are driving them |
1. Only 41 of 71 seniors have posted their decisions. 2. 10 of the 49 are into Ivies and MIT/Duke/West Point. That is 24% of the girls who have posted. 3. The results that you refer to as “dropping like a rock” include NYU, Wash U in StL, Middlebury, U of Chicago, Michigan, Wellesley, Wake Forest and Georgetown. Many others chose to go international— univ of St. Andrews, Trinity in Dublin… |
DP. Where are you getting these numbers? NCS’ IG account shows 41 c/o ‘24 posts, not 49. There are only 6 Ivies posted on IG—stop trying to conflate that number with Ivy plus/military academies. No one has mentioned the Sidwell students that will attend Stanford or the Naval Academy on this thread. I don’t think NCS or Sidwell need to be compared, but if you’re going to do so, it should be apples to apples. SN: For the record, I think the NCS results posted so far are great! There’s no need to make up numbers though. |