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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.bullis.org/college-counseling/colleges-attended-list/index.aspx

Here is the college matriculation list. The kids go to ok colleges but the list seems underwhelming to me. I would not rank this school as high as some of the others.[/quote]

I'm tired of the snark about Bullis on DCUM.  Here's a comparison of Bullis to St. Albans based on one of the college counseling pages from each school's website.  St. Alban's 2006 -2010 matriculation list only includes schools where 2 or more students have attended.  The Bullis matriculation list, on the other hand, includes all colleges attended.

Comparing Bullis to STA, Bullis has not sent 2 students to the following colleges/universities from 2006-2010: Bennington, Brandeis, U Chicago, Cornell, Dartmouth, University of Edinburgh, Guilford, Haverford, Pomona, U Rochester, Swarthmore, Williams. Bullis lists one less matriculated student than STA at Brown, Colgate, Furman, Hamilton, Howard, Lehigh, U Miami, Princeton, Rhodes, Sewanee, St. Andrews, Stanford, Trinity, Washington and Lee and Yale.  This year the Bullis class of 2011 received acceptances from Brandeis (2) , U Chicago (1), U Miami (11), U Rochester (1), Sewanee (1), St. Andrews (1), Trinity (1), Washington and Lee (1)

St. Alban's has NOT sent 2 students to the following schools from 2006-2010 whereas Bullis has sent AT LEAST two: Emory, MIT, NYU, UCLA, Notre Dame, McGill, Berkeley, Gettysburg, Franklin and Marshall, GW and RIT. (And no snark about the last few entries here - they are more highly ranked than Bennington and Guilford).

Both schools have at least two students at: Amherst, BC, BU, Bowdoin, Bucknell, Carnegie Mellon, Colby, College of Charleston, College of William and Mary, Columbia, Davidson, Dickinson, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Indiana, Johns Hopkins, Kenyon, Maryland, Michigan, Middlebury, Morehouse, Northwestern, Penn State, Penn, SMU, Tufts, Tulane, Vanderbilt, Vermont, Villanova, Vermont, UVA, Wash U and Wesleyan.

And lest you start blabbing about athletics, my child was admitted to college based on academics while a senior from STA attending the SAME college was recruited for athletics.

My point is that there are several private schools in the D.C. area that have great track records when it comes to getting students into good colleges.  It's not just the good old boy and good old girl (kinda silly but you know what I mean) schools any more and there's no need for the good old boy schools to dismiss Bullis.  [/quote]

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