Which of the "top 3" or "top 5" private schools has the best track record at the Ivies?

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Anonymous wrote:How do Maret kids fare?

Maret kids do well, but my sense is they are more likely to attend the highly selective liberal arts colleges rather than go for the HYP/STAN/MIT cluster.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody says GDS doesn't do well. They just don't do as well as they think relative to other schools. Size wise, gds graduates just as many kids, if not more, than the big three.

No, there were specific statement made that they don't do well, which is false.

Those in the know know that GDS students do rather well in admissions to the most selective and prestigious colleges. But unlike at some other schools, it is not the GDS community's way to talk about it very much.

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Why the obsession with Ivies? There are many great colleges and universities that are not Ivy that offer their students amazing intellectual opportunities and position them well for any range of careers.

I'm genuinely curious as to why parents value the Ivies so highly. What do you think your kids will get there that they won't get at other schools? Is it the status? Do you think it will open doors that, say, Stanford, Berkeley, UVA, UT, etc. will not?

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No, there were specific statement made that they don't do well, which is false.

Those in the know know that GDS students do rather well in admissions to the most selective and prestigious colleges. But unlike at some other schools, it is not the GDS community's way to talk about it very much

Anybody who has ever had a college related conversation with a parent - or even a kid - with a GDS connection knows that the above statement is inoperative

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Anonymous wrote:
No, there were specific statement made that they don't do well, which is false.

Those in the know know that GDS students do rather well in admissions to the most selective and prestigious colleges. But unlike at some other schools, it is not the GDS community's way to talk about it very much

Anybody who has ever had a college related conversation with a parent - or even a kid - with a GDS connection knows that the above statement is inoperative

When it comes down to top college options, GDS = great decisions for seniors.

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Anonymous wrote:

When it comes down to top college options, GDS = great decisions for seniors.

This must be a troll whose intent is to make GDS parents appear desperate for status and asinine to boot.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

When it comes down to top college options, GDS = great decisions for seniors.

This must be a troll whose intent is to make GDS parents appear desperate for status and asinine to boot.

They've been at it for years: the GDS CAT (College Acceptance Troll).

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Anonymous wrote:Well Sidwell crushed NCS based on the data that the poster from that school just offered.

I would not call it "data" but, if true, that's a strong performance for NCS. Remember that Sidwell has a graduating class over 50% bigger than NCS (approx 125 to approx 80). So if NCS had 8 students who are matriculating at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, that is 10% of their class. Sidwell by all accounts had an extraordinary college matriculation year this year (9 or 10 into Yale? and a bunch into UPenn) but we don't actually know how many Sidwell is matriculating at (a) HYS -- is it 12 kids total (10%) or 18 kids total (15%) or 15 kids total (12.5%). Nor do we know NCS's entire college list. Nor do we know anything about GDS's college matriculations at all (although I'm sure they are excellent).

If the schools don't publicize it -- and I support schools that don't, given the feeding frenzy that ensues -- we actually don't have the "data" here to make comparisons. To the extent we do, the issue of class size is overlooked routinely as people just focus on the arithmetic totals of students admitted somewhere (the numerator) and frequently ignore the denominator (overall graduating class size).

Cathedral Parent here. I would definitely rank the big three as STA 1, Sidwell 2, NCS 3, Holten 4, and GDS 5.....over the years, BUT hats off to Sidwell this year. This class truly knocked the cover off the ball. Whats interesting reading this thread, as an old timer in terms of having kids in college now, and also in HS, the teachers at all these schools pretty much see this in 4th grade. STA blew all the others away IVY in 2012 and 2013. I knew these kids as 4th graders, and the faculty was open -- 'star class'. 2015 as 4th graders 'weak class'.

Hats off to Sidwell. An awesome year for this class.

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Grew up in dc kids in high school and college. The rank is Sidwell 1; sta and NCS 2 and 3. Then the rest.

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Aren't NCS and STA sort of the same school?

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If you ask admission directors at the Nation's top prestigious colleges, I suspect that among Washington private schools, Georgetown Day would be whispered most often.

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Anonymous wrote:If you ask admission directors at the Nation's top prestigious colleges, I suspect that among Washington private schools, Georgetown Day would be whispered most often.

Hi Troll.

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Anonymous wrote:If you ask admission directors at the Nation's top prestigious colleges, I suspect that among Washington private schools, Georgetown Day would be whispered most often.

Well, please, don't leave us breathless -- what are they whispering???

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It is probably an exaggeration to say that 50% + of the GDS senior class gets into the Ivys/Stanford/MIT and Amherst/Williams, but it seems like it's a very substantial number.

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Anonymous wrote:If you ask admission directors at the Nation's top prestigious colleges, I suspect that among Washington private schools, Georgetown Day would be whispered most often.

I'm an alumni interviewer for two of the HYPs, and I can assure you this is not the case for at least two Ivies.