HS college commitment websites

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Anonymous wrote:The City
https://www.instagram.com/achsdecisions25?igsh=MXIzZWNtdWtjcWd6NA==

It is gone - but there is the gem

https://www.instagram.com/achsdecisions25.better?igsh=M3psa25xNnBjNHYw

(Tookie really is going to Princeton)

Hilarious!!

This is the best thing around. Makes me proud of my kids’ poorly-rated, gigantic HS. (which we have had a really great experience with) We could never afford GDS, but pretty glad we can’t because if “plucky school” poster is indicative of them - yuck.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's rather creepy that so many people stalk these instagram accounts. Not sure what the point is if you don't know the kids.

It's really sick. Then, they publicly comment about the kids and disparage some of them. If a kid did really well, especially so.

My kid had no desire to post. I noticed most kids did at his private HS and asked him if he was going to and he said 'no'. He did get into an Ivy, but he really isn't into social media. He never posts anything about himself. Maybe it's from the time they were a young age I told them it's best not to. He will congratulate other friends. He did post a few of his best friend's commitments.

I have only followed my kid's HS account. And I'm happy and excited for all of them. I also have another kid who will be applying to college and it's good to see the trends, schools that particularly seem to like our HS. But, no, I'm not coming on bragging about our school's acceptances (like that insufferable GDS person last year) or trolling Instagram looking at other HS, etc. If I want to know where one of my kid's friends is going, I ask him.

DC is such a strange place. My oldest child’s high school (when we still lived in Texas) has these accounts so students can see where their upper class men friends go. It was celebrated at the end of the year and parents gathered during PTA to do a college-based secret Santa exchange in May.

I find it so sad here, because any college or future opportunity is seen as cutthroat and competitive. Why anyone is commenting on another persons child and where they go to college without the words “congrats” and “that’s so exciting” is a really sad personality quirk here that I dislike.

It's within UMC circles in DC that people are like this. Most kids are otherwise going to public universities, usually in-state, or on merit scholarships to privates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Results for Georgetown Day School. Not bad for a plucky little school with 126 seniors.

Princeton
Cornell (4)
Wesleyan (2)
Skidmore (2)
Tufts (3)
Northeastern (3)
Bowdoin (2)
Boston College (2)
Haverford (2)
Wellesley
Middlebury
Tulane
University of Vermont
Occidental
UMiami
WashU in StLouis
Colgate
UConn
Brown
Smith
Carleton
Chapman

My kids’ “plucky little school” (boarding school she was lucky enough to go to because she swims really fast) has 172 seniors with multiple into Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Caltech, etc. Please calm down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's rather creepy that so many people stalk these instagram accounts. Not sure what the point is if you don't know the kids.

It's really sick. Then, they publicly comment about the kids and disparage some of them. If a kid did really well, especially so.

My kid had no desire to post. I noticed most kids did at his private HS and asked him if he was going to and he said 'no'. He did get into an Ivy, but he really isn't into social media. He never posts anything about himself. Maybe it's from the time they were a young age I told them it's best not to. He will congratulate other friends. He did post a few of his best friend's commitments.

I have only followed my kid's HS account. And I'm happy and excited for all of them. I also have another kid who will be applying to college and it's good to see the trends, schools that particularly seem to like our HS. But, no, I'm not coming on bragging about our school's acceptances (like that insufferable GDS person last year) or trolling Instagram looking at other HS, etc. If I want to know where one of my kid's friends is going, I ask him.

DC is such a strange place. My oldest child’s high school (when we still lived in Texas) has these accounts so students can see where their upper class men friends go. It was celebrated at the end of the year and parents gathered during PTA to do a college-based secret Santa exchange in May.

I find it so sad here, because any college or future opportunity is seen as cutthroat and competitive. Why anyone is commenting on another persons child and where they go to college without the words “congrats” and “that’s so exciting” is a really sad personality quirk here that I dislike.

I find it hard to believe that DC is all that different from Dallas and Houston when it comes to one-upping your friends w Larla’s college acceptances.
Also, the secret Santa is cringe because not all kids go to college, so it’s pretty exclusionary. Which makes me wonder even more about that bubble you’re in.

From a Dallas Private- 100% of students go to college, and the environment is pretty supportive. People are hard on their kids but not other peoples children. Heck, a lot of the good publics have 100% of the students going to college.

[Anonymous]

Bullis. https://www.instagram.com/bullis.seniors25?igsh=dm1pY3EyZzkzdGJq

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One thing I noticed and I HATE HATE HATE is that the Big 3 matriculations are overwhelmingly to selective, PRIVATE schools. So these students will never, ever have to mingle with regular public school students. How would they ever know what it means to be an average, everyday person????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I noticed and I HATE HATE HATE is that the Big 3 matriculations are overwhelmingly to selective, PRIVATE schools. So these students will never, ever have to mingle with regular public school students. How would they ever know what it means to be an average, everyday person????

How could you draw that conclusion now, when most selective public schools (other than UVA) haven't announced yet? These first college announcements aren't indicative of anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I noticed and I HATE HATE HATE is that the Big 3 matriculations are overwhelmingly to selective, PRIVATE schools. So these students will never, ever have to mingle with regular public school students. How would they ever know what it means to be an average, everyday person????

How could you draw that conclusion now, when most selective public schools (other than UVA) haven't announced yet? These first college announcements aren't indicative of anything.

NP. The PP is probably basing her (I assume it’s a woman) comment on past years. She’s correct that most Big 3 students prefer and attend private colleges (based on the high schools’ own matriculation data).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I noticed and I HATE HATE HATE is that the Big 3 matriculations are overwhelmingly to selective, PRIVATE schools. So these students will never, ever have to mingle with regular public school students. How would they ever know what it means to be an average, everyday person????

That's a weird perspective. Regular public high school students go to private colleges and universities, too--often with merit or need-based aid. Why would these big 3 students not mingle with them in college?

I say this as an Ivy alum who went to a public high school and whose best friend from college went to Exeter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I noticed and I HATE HATE HATE is that the Big 3 matriculations are overwhelmingly to selective, PRIVATE schools. So these students will never, ever have to mingle with regular public school students. How would they ever know what it means to be an average, everyday person????

I never set foot in a public institution, from preK though grad school, until my own kids started K in MCPS. I lead a pretty average, everyday life.

[Anonymous]

Because this thread will go on for months and people will ask the same question over and over again, here is a list of all of them pulled together into one page. Feel free to copy and add others into the list as they become available.

Private Schools

D.C.

Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2025/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors25/
Maret: https://www.instagram.com/maret.frogs2025/
Field: https://www.instagram.com/fieldgrads25/
Burke: https://www.instagram.com/burkeseniors/
St. Albans—(Usually no page)
NCS—(Usually in the Spring)


Maryland

Bullis: https://www.instagram.com/bullis.seniors25
Stone Ridge: https://www.instagram.com/srseniors2025/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2025/


Virginia

Potomac: http://www.instagram.com/potomacdecisions_2025


Public Schools

D.C.

Jackson Reed: https://www.instagram.com/jacksonreed_2025/

Maryland

Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS: https://www.instagram.com/bccdecisions25/
Montgomery Blair: https://www.instagram.com/blaircommits25/
Richard Montgomery: https://www.instagram.com/rmcommits25/
Thomas S Wootton: https://www.instagram.com/peaceoutpatriots25/
Walt Whitman: https://www.instagram.com/vikingdestinations2025/
Winston Churchill: https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebulldog25/

Virginia

McLean: https://www.instagram.com/mcleancommits2025/
Thomas Jefferson: https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations/
Fairfax: https://www.instagram.com/fairfaxseniors2025/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because this thread will go on for months and people will ask the same question over and over again, here is a list of all of them pulled together into one page. Feel free to copy and add others into the list as they become available.

Private Schools

D.C.

Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2025/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors25/
Maret: https://www.instagram.com/maret.frogs2025/
Field: https://www.instagram.com/fieldgrads25/
Burke: https://www.instagram.com/burkeseniors/
St. Albans—(Usually no page)
NCS—(Usually in the Spring)


Maryland

Bullis: https://www.instagram.com/bullis.seniors25
Stone Ridge: https://www.instagram.com/srseniors2025/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2025/


Virginia

Potomac: http://www.instagram.com/potomacdecisions_2025


Public Schools

D.C.

Jackson Reed: https://www.instagram.com/jacksonreed_2025/

Maryland

Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS: https://www.instagram.com/bccdecisions25/
Montgomery Blair: https://www.instagram.com/blaircommits25/
Richard Montgomery: https://www.instagram.com/rmcommits25/
Thomas S Wootton: https://www.instagram.com/peaceoutpatriots25/
Walt Whitman: https://www.instagram.com/vikingdestinations2025/
Winston Churchill: https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebulldog25/

Virginia

McLean: https://www.instagram.com/mcleancommits2025/
Thomas Jefferson: https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations/
Fairfax: https://www.instagram.com/fairfaxseniors2025/

Richard Montgomery is actually https://www.instagram.com/blastoffrockets25/

[Anonymous]

People, stop. These are supposed to be for the kids and friends/family, not a bunch of parent vultures.

[Anonymous]

Wow! Nice list, thank you. Do you think you can add Philips Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's and Groton?

It is comforting to see such good results considering the backlash against these schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! Nice list, thank you. Do you think you can add Philips Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's and Groton?

It is comforting to see such good results considering the backlash against these schools.

DC area ( VA/DC/MD) HS list.

Go and find your New England list somewhere else.