Forum Index
»
Private & Independent Schools
"Tier" High Schools
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| To the best of your ability, can you designate a tier to each of these schools, respectively: ST ALBANS, GONZAGA, SIDWELL FRIENDS, ST STEPHENS ST AGNES, BULLIS, ST ANDREWS, FLINT HILL, POTOMAC, GDS, MARET, LANDON, GEORGETOWN PREP. If there are other schools you would like to categorize, please do so!!!. Thanks a bunch. By doing this, you are helping my son and me choose his school, and choose the school of the many who will read this. Thank you again! |
Anonymous
| So check the schools' web sites and go visit them. Talk to parents in your son's class who are doing the same. Quit beating this dead horse here ... there is plenty of information on these schools already on DCUM is you care to use the SEARCH function. No need to attempt over and over to start a fight by asking for "best" or "tiers" etc on numerous threads ... each one signed off with your perky "Thank you!" |
Anonymous
|
OP is definitely a rabble-rouser and is trying to work off some steam from being a snow shut-in by instigating a thread fight. Don't feed her fire, posters.
Look at the schools she's listed - all over the DC region. No one would be applying to schools from all three states/district. This is a fake post. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I know, pp. And yet I can't resist responding to such an ignorant question ... oh no ... I'm being drawn in ... aieeee!!!! 
|
Anonymous
|
Why do you need others to make this decision for you?
And based on where your son is now, why can't HE decide for himself since money doesn't seem to be an issue for you? After exiting a 1-8 program, I knew exactly where I wanted to attend high school based upon my own research. You seem to like to complicate matters. |
Anonymous
| Forget the tiers - at this point from visiting the schools any 8th grader - and his parents - should have a good sense of the schools where they feel he will thrive over the next four years. If this is indeed a true post, why haven't you included your local public or magnet programs in the mix - you should at least consider them, since a larger class is something to be considered as well. |
Anonymous
| As if this was a serious thread ... but please keep posting. Thankyou!! |
Anonymous
| OP's tone and word choice sound like that of a middle schooler's. Hmm. |
Anonymous
Yes, I can help you. Tier I schools: Georgetown Day, Maret, St. Andrews, St Albans, and Bullis Tier II schools: St Stephens/St. Agnes, Sidwell Friends, Georgetown Prep, and Landon Tier III schools: Flint Hill, Potomac and Gonzaga Note some people put Georgetown Prep into the Tier I, it depends on how you are looking at things. Potomac Sidwell Flint Hill Landon Georgetown Prep Agnes Bullis Albans Stephens Maret Georgetown Day |
Anonymous
| OOps, sorry, I listed all the schools at the bottom to help me arrange them, ignore that part. |
Anonymous
Uh oh - now she is going to regret not applying to Bullis and St Andrews, per one of her other 5 threads. Not to worry - perhaps you can do a late application. |
Anonymous
Tier 1: Bullis, Episcopal, Flint Hill, Georgetown Day, Georgetown Prep, Tier 2: Gonzaga, Holton-Arms, Landon, Maret, NCS, Potomac Tier 3: Saint Albans, Saint Stephens/Saint Agnes, Sidwell /Friends Tier 4: Woodberry Forest |
Anonymous
| Ugh...you must be drunk from the snow pp. Bullie and Flint HIll are third tier. The WSJ wrote: Holton, TJ, Sidwell and NCS are tier one. |
Anonymous
|
Similar to a concept problem on a previous STA entrance exam. Note the schools in the tiers are listed by alphabetical order. The questioner is not drunk on snow. The responder just fell out of the 99.9% WPSSI category. No STA admission for son.
|
Anonymous
| I don't know ... that was a fine piece of alphabetizing. If done by a 3 year old in preparation for WPSSI, I think responder is indeed 99.9%! Not that such preparation is cheating, mind you. |