Reply to Sidwell College Admissions This Year

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Sidwell College Admissions This Year"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is the same everywhere in 2022. 
My daughter is at NCS and to my knowledge there is ONE Ivy admit this year who is not legacy/minority/recruited athlete.  A SINGLE admit without a hook.   I'm not sure STA has any to be honest. 
My good friends at kids at Wilson and School without Walls and they are the same this year.  Walls is sending quite a few kids to the Ivies (maybe 10?) and all but 1 or 2 are legacy or minorities. 
Same with Wilson.  The Ivy admits are almost all URM.  
It used to be (even 2 years ago) that you could reliably get into the Ivy league from DCPS (Walls/Wilson) as an unconnected non-minority (simply as a very smart, accomplished kid).  Not anymore. 
Now you need a hook.

I would agree with the previous posters that the kids getting in ARE worthy of the admits.  They'll do great in college.  So this is not meant to disparage them.  [/quote]

These extreme outcomes have been seriously dispiriting for unhooked students. Meritocracy in the traditional sense is basically dead. But, I suppose, we all knew that anyway.[/quote]

You are mssing the point. The "hooked" kids are also worthy of the spot. They are not lesser students. They just offer something more.[/quote]

Any reasonable system should not consider legacy as the "something more" that the student offers. It is appalling that legacy advantages are offered in admissions today.[/quote]

No two applicants are in "every way equal". Set legacy aside and decide which student you prefer. It is really not that complicated.

If you have two applicants that are in every way equal, and one is a legacy, is there a reason not to take them over the one that is not? What else is a determining factor?[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics