2024 Washington DC area College commits

[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.

I just showed my son the list. He said one, maybe two of those are legacies and two are sports. The rest are academic and unhooked. He said there is only one kid he knows of taking math at a university from the senior class.

[Anonymous]

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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.

That is 1/4 of the grade going to top 25 schools?

I think in recent years 40% or more have gone to top 25 schools.

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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.

That is 1/4 of the grade going to top 25 schools?

I think in recent years 40% or more have gone to top 25 schools.

Their GPAs are putting them in the running for too 25 schools

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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.

That is 1/4 of the grade going to top 25 schools?

I think in recent years 40% or more have gone to top 25 schools.

Their GPAs are putting them in the running for too 25 schools

Happy for these students but it is really hard to swallow the unfairness of this and I encourage families looking at highschools to really ask them about how they calculate GPAs and more importantly ask potential schools what THEIR average GPA is. It will limit your college choices of that is a factor to you.

Things have changed.

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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.

That is 1/4 of the grade going to top 25 schools?

I think in recent years 40% or more have gone to top 25 schools.

Their GPAs are putting them in the running for too 25 schools

Happy for these students but it is really hard to swallow the unfairness of this and I encourage families looking at highschools to really ask them about how they calculate GPAs and more importantly ask potential schools what THEIR average GPA is. It will limit your college choices of that is a factor to you.

Things have changed.

+1 I didn't know anything about this and especially had no idea how differently schools grade from each other. The school will try to convince you that colleges know how rigorous they are, but that doesn't cut it anymore.

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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.

That is 1/4 of the grade going to top 25 schools?

I think in recent years 40% or more have gone to top 25 schools.

Their GPAs are putting them in the running for too 25 schools

Happy for these students but it is really hard to swallow the unfairness of this and I encourage families looking at highschools to really ask them about how they calculate GPAs and more importantly ask potential schools what THEIR average GPA is. It will limit your college choices of that is a factor to you.

Things have changed.

+1 I didn't know anything about this and especially had no idea how differently schools grade from each other. The school will try to convince you that colleges know how rigorous they are, but that doesn't cut it anymore.

Clearly not. These Instagram pages are really eye opening. Schools that are considered much less rigorous are getting the same if not better results if we are looking at all of these schools shown.

I don’t know why the parents of students at these top schools that are not doing well are not marching into their HOS’s office and demanding the school change it policies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools that are considered much less rigorous are getting the same if not better results if we are looking at all of these schools shown?

The "much less rigorous" schools are sending 40% of their graduates to top 25 schools?

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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.

That is 1/4 of the grade going to top 25 schools?

I think in recent years 40% or more have gone to top 25 schools.

Their GPAs are putting them in the running for too 25 schools

Happy for these students but it is really hard to swallow the unfairness of this and I encourage families looking at highschools to really ask them about how they calculate GPAs and more importantly ask potential schools what THEIR average GPA is. It will limit your college choices of that is a factor to you.

Things have changed.

+1 I didn't know anything about this and especially had no idea how differently schools grade from each other. The school will try to convince you that colleges know how rigorous they are, but that doesn't cut it anymore.

Clearly not. These Instagram pages are really eye opening. Schools that are considered much less rigorous are getting the same if not better results if we are looking at all of these schools shown.

I don’t know why the parents of students at these top schools that are not doing well are not marching into their HOS’s office and demanding the school change it policies?

I think it's because parents don't believe this is true until their own kid is a senior and by then they don't want to anger the school by causing a stir because they're trying to get their kid into college. Up until this point they either have their head in the sand completely or they truly believe that their kid will be the exception.

I think one of these years is going to be a really bad year for admissions at a Big3 (half of the class only getting into schools ranked 75 or above or similar) and then something will change. Until then status quo will continue. it may end up being this year--right now it's really only the top and hooked kids that have been placed. these Instagrams look great but you're seeing a very small section of kids--the very strongest academically, the super hooked kids and a few kids who grabbed an ED at a lower ranked school. There are tons of Big3 schools who don't know where they're going.

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There are tons of Big3 KIDS who don't know where they're going.

[Anonymous]

These kids are not placed.

The overwhelming sense one gets from these comments is that parents think their kid deserves a spot and is only missing out because someone is out to get them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools that are considered much less rigorous are getting the same if not better results if we are looking at all of these schools shown?

The "much less rigorous" schools are sending 40% of their graduates to top 25 schools?

Relax sta mom - was not talking about sta.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools that are considered much less rigorous are getting the same if not better results if we are looking at all of these schools shown?

The "much less rigorous" schools are sending 40% of their graduates to top 25 schools?

Potomac is not considered a top 5 school by most and their stats look pretty amazing.

[Anonymous]

Poster at 17:46 is 100% correct. Everybody should read that. Parents don't believe the truth until it happens to their own kid. The truth is being from a "Big 3" school does not really help much if at all with college admission versus being from a public for the unhooked kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poster at 17:46 is 100% correct. Everybody should read that. Parents don't believe the truth until it happens to their own kid. The truth is being from a "Big 3" school does not really help much if at all with college admission versus being from a public for the unhooked kid.

Disagree! Privates still get better admissions than publics. The question and new developments is that kids at privates with higher GPAs are now getting in at the same rate as kids at the more rigorous and more difficult privates. Used to be different but it has changed. GPA is the deciding factor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No A minuses at Saint Alban's, is that true?

If so, it is a huge advantage for their kids because GPA is the most important factor in admissions.

Sidwell gives massive numbers of A minuses, and it is one of many factors that hurts their students chances of admissions compared with other schools.

Same with Potomac just saying