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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I know this is an old post, but since the thread has gone live I thought I'd comment on this post, since the methodology is so off.  Bullis (to its credit), has a college matriculation list that includes the exact number of students enrolled at colleges/universities from 2007-2011:  http://www.bullis.org/academics/college-counseling/colleges-attended-list/index.aspx.  St. Albans' list give much less information -- it just lists all colleges to which at least one St. Albans student matriculated during the same five-year period: http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=722

You might logically think that the school giving less info (St. Albans) has the worse results, right?  In fact, its results are much stronger than Bullis.  Purely by way of example, Bullis from its own chart has had 4 students total attend HYP (Harvard-Yale-Princeton) in the past five years.  Just for this year alone, per DCUM postings (see the "Cathedral Schools" thread, page 2, http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/205697.page) St. Albans had 10 students admitted to HYP for early decision (meaning it is 10 different boys): 5 to Harvard, 4 to Yale, 1 to Princeton (and then of course more at other Ivies).  Why doesn't STA give more information, then, since its results are extremely good?  Probably it is a sense that they don't have to for their marketing, that the good college matriculations (or "exmissions" in DCUM speak) are a known quantity in this area.

This is not to be dismissive of Bullis -- I've heard some good things about the teaching and am sure they prepare their students well for college -- but if the quoted post was meant to suggest that Bullis as a school has the same type of academic cohort as St. Albans (with college matriculations as a metric), that is not borne out by the data.[/quote]

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