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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public schools, and not necessarily great ones. Times have changed. [/quote]

That's the in vogue answer these days, but the publicly available numbers and the Naviance data I've seen for a few well-regarded public schools just don't bear that out (TJ notwithstanding).[/quote]

Even TJ only sends the top kids to top colleges. There are many qualified students who probably would have matriculated to better colleges had they not attended TJ, but all public schools are capped and thus have raised standards. It’s a scam.[/quote]

TJ likely will send fewer students to the Ivys now that wokeness and “equity” have replaced academic achievement in TJ’s application process.[/quote]

Yep, that leaves the privates to sweep in and take all the good marticulation spots. However St. albans marticulation will also unfortunately likely be at odds, as that school historically has not arrived for “equity”. [/quote]

Ivy presidents and their admissions deans are quite familiar with the fact that unlike other top DC privates, GDS was founded on social justice principles and has been a national DEI leader from its inception.[/quote]

And they still have worse college marticulation than STA when accounting class size  :lol: [/quote]

GDS sets the pace in the “Big 3” in Harvard admissions.   It’s been that way for some time.[/quote]

Is that true even when adjusted for the size of the graduating class? [/quote]

It very well may be, but STA takes the cake certainly with Yale and most other Ivy colleges. Not to mention Chicago, which is a T5 school and no school sends anything close to STA. [/quote]

Except for Sidwell.  Especially  this year.[/quote]

GDS has a pretty amazing Ivy record, particularly with Harvard.  People joke that Harvard practically could have a “GDS House” alongside Eliot or Winthrop![/quote]

Not sure who the "people" are that you're referring to, but I've never heard that joke. 14 students to Harvard between 2017 - 2020 doesn't seem like it would warrant it. Am I missing something?

https://www.gds.org/academics/college-counseling/matriculation

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