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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The results are very similar to the local magnet schools and top publics. I would imagine these are strong academic cohorts across the board, which Sidwell is known to select for. [/quote]

The facts say otherwise: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/09/17/where-do-moco-students-attend-college/

Please let me know which MoCo “magnet schools and top publics” have results that are similar to Sidwell’s. Make sure you control for size (Sidwell only has 125/grade in the U.S.). [/quote]

Bethesda Magazine data has already been debunked. Keep up.[/quote]

By whom? You and your hurt feelings.

For those of you who are interested in facts, here’s one example: According to the data, out of 353 MoCo students (10 different high schools) that applied to Harvard, 4 were admitted. Sidwell sent 4 to Harvard last year, and they’re sending 3 this year. I don’t know how many students applied last year, but Sidwell only has 125 students/class and all of them did not apply to Harvard. 
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Talk about cherry-picking. Okay, just based on commitment posts RMIB and Blair are each sending 3+ students to Yale and 3+ students to MIT this year. Plus students to HPS, many to Duke and Penn etc. Same sized cohort.

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Cherry picking? No, Sidwell has the whole cherry tree. Are you shocked that a free STEM magnet school is sending 3 students to MIT? Sidwell is not a STEM school and it’s sending 2 [b]students to MIT this year.[/b] In addition, 2 Sidwell students are going to Yale, 3 are going to Princeton, and 2 are going to Stanford. Next…[/quote]
They are sending 2 to MIT this year? How many did they send last year? Or the year before? Before?Zero, zero,  zero [/quote]

Sidwell to MIT:
2025: 2
2024: 0
2023: 1

Did you miss the part about Sidwell not being a STEM-focused school? Yet, in any given year, they’re still sending only 1-3 students fewer to MIT than a “top” STEM focused high school.

We can go round for round on Sidwell’s admissions to Ivy+ universities, compared to those two STEM magnets, but you don’t want that fight. [/quote]

Different schools different kids. Sidwell has a lot more money as a community. Kids will go Tulane over UMBC because they have the resources. While there are immigrant a second generation families at Sidwell, public magnets have more. Many families have political connections or generational wealth high gives an edge in college admissions. So given that context, kids from public magnets do well.[/quote]

Yes, they are very different schools so I don’t know why anyone mentioned those two public schools in the first place. This thread is about Sidwell, so two random public magnet schools in Maryland shouldn’t even enter this conversation. It’s akin to comparing apples and cars. They are not the same.[/quote]

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