2024 Washington DC area College commits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Potomac kids are having a great year. Very solid list!

Potomac list is pretty insane.

[Anonymous]

How many kids in Dalton class? Does top 50% get into T30?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Potomac kids are having a great year. Very solid list!

Potomac list is pretty insane.

Yes, it is a good list. But I am always surprised how people don’t know how to interpret data. To compare across schools, you need to control for the sample size. For instance, you could look at the proportion of kids going to top schools (say, Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, JHU, etc.) By that metric, Potomac is doing well, but not better than Sidwell, GDS, NCS or Holton. Instead, you realize that a lot more kids have posted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Potomac kids are having a great year. Very solid list!

Potomac list is pretty insane.

Yes, it is a good list. But I am always surprised how people don’t know how to interpret data. To compare across schools, you need to control for the sample size. For instance, you could look at the proportion of kids going to top schools (say, Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, JHU, etc.) By that metric, Potomac is doing well, but not better than Sidwell, GDS, NCS or Holton. Instead, you realize that a lot more kids have posted.

Maybe more kids are posting because some schools suggest ED more than others?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St Alban’s?

My son said the top kids were something like this, but he didn't know if some kids listed got into two schools.

Harvard
Stanford
Princeton (2)
Cambridge
Cornell (2)
Dartmouth (2 or 3)
Chicago (7 or 8)
Duke
St. Andrews (1 or 2)
Michigan (2)
UVA (a few)
UNC
Georgetown

He said several top kids still waiting for RD decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Potomac kids are having a great year. Very solid list!

Potomac list is pretty insane.

Yes, it is a good list. But I am always surprised how people don’t know how to interpret data. To compare across schools, you need to control for the sample size. For instance, you could look at the proportion of kids going to top schools (say, Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, JHU, etc.) By that metric, Potomac is doing well, but not better than Sidwell, GDS, NCS or Holton. Instead, you realize that a lot more kids have posted.

Maybe more kids are posting because some schools suggest ED more than others?

Or maybe Potomac has a larger graduating class. NCS and Holton have graduating classes around 80, I think.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Potomac kids are having a great year. Very solid list!

Potomac list is pretty insane.

Yes, it is a good list. But I am always surprised how people don’t know how to interpret data. To compare across schools, you need to control for the sample size. For instance, you could look at the proportion of kids going to top schools (say, Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, JHU, etc.) By that metric, Potomac is doing well, but not better than Sidwell, GDS, NCS or Holton. Instead, you realize that a lot more kids have posted.

How many students are in Potomac’s graduating class this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Potomac kids are having a great year. Very solid list!

Potomac list is pretty insane.

Yes, it is a good list. But I am always surprised how people don’t know how to interpret data. To compare across schools, you need to control for the sample size. For instance, you could look at the proportion of kids going to top schools (say, Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, JHU, etc.) By that metric, Potomac is doing well, but not better than Sidwell, GDS, NCS or Holton. Instead, you realize that a lot more kids have posted.

Maybe more kids are posting because some schools suggest ED more than others?

All of these schools push ED for every kid and wry close to 100% of kids try. I have kids at two of them. If admissions results vary by now it's because class sizes are different or ED/EA success rates differ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St Alban’s?

My son said the top kids were something like this, but he didn't know if some kids listed got into two schools.

Harvard
Stanford
Princeton (2)
Cambridge
Cornell (2)
Dartmouth (2 or 3)
Chicago (7 or 8)
Duke
St. Andrews (1 or 2)
Michigan (2)
UVA (a few)
UNC
Georgetown

He said several top kids still waiting for RD decisions.

That is amazing. The way they do their grade average with a number system and no A minuses really helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St Alban’s?

My son said the top kids were something like this, but he didn't know if some kids listed got into two schools.

Harvard
Stanford
Princeton (2)
Cambridge
Cornell (2)
Dartmouth (2 or 3)
Chicago (7 or 8)
Duke
St. Andrews (1 or 2)
Michigan (2)
UVA (a few)
UNC
Georgetown

He said several top kids still waiting for RD decisions.

That is amazing. The way they do their grade average with a number system and no A minuses really helps.

STA gets it and it helps their students while other schools are hurting their kids college chances. Numbers and facts do not lie.

[Anonymous]

The STA list is the usual mix of legacies, recruits, and a few super smart kids with multiple admits on that list. Some of the top kids are 3-5 classes above calculus. they're not just doing the basic curriculum. STA is doing things well but they're not getting blood from a stone. if your kid was that impressive they'd be getting into Stanford and Cambridge too--regardless of what grading their Hugh school is doing or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The STA list is the usual mix of legacies, recruits, and a few super smart kids with multiple admits on that list. Some of the top kids are 3-5 classes above calculus. they're not just doing the basic curriculum. STA is doing things well but they're not getting blood from a stone. if your kid was that impressive they'd be getting into Stanford and Cambridge too--regardless of what grading their Hugh school is doing or not.

Oh please noone is 3-5 classes above calculus. Their grading system is an advantage just admit it. I am happy for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The NCS posts so far are really impressive because many are top of the class and they were successful in the first round. What will be interesting is where the rest of the class lands. there is a LOT of unknown.

I imagine this is probably the case with all of the privates that we are seeing. Strongest kids are all placed. Now what happens with the rest?

The NCS results seem very similar to Holton’s.

Holton’s seems more impressive!

very few athletic recruits at ncs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The NCS posts so far are really impressive because many are top of the class and they were successful in the first round. What will be interesting is where the rest of the class lands. there is a LOT of unknown.

I imagine this is probably the case with all of the privates that we are seeing. Strongest kids are all placed. Now what happens with the rest?

The NCS results seem very similar to Holton’s.

Holton’s seems more impressive!

very few athletic recruits at ncs.

Most of Holton’s top school acceptances are not athletic recruits. And the few athletic recruits going to these schools are also in the top 10 percent of the grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Potomac kids are having a great year. Very solid list!

Potomac list is pretty insane.

Yes, it is a good list. But I am always surprised how people don’t know how to interpret data. To compare across schools, you need to control for the sample size. For instance, you could look at the proportion of kids going to top schools (say, Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, JHU, etc.) By that metric, Potomac is doing well, but not better than Sidwell, GDS, NCS or Holton. Instead, you realize that a lot more kids have posted.

And they also have no information on which of these kids have hooks. It doesn't undermine the student achievement but it says nothing about the actual HS or future college prospects of unhooked kids from that school.