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[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 students to MIT this year. In addition, 2 Sidwell students are going to Yale, 3 are going to Princeton, and 2 are going to Stanford. Next…[/quote]

If your kid can get into Blair or RM, you can save $$ and get equally good results. Colleges are not as keen on private schools so you have better chances coming from public magnet.[/quote]

DP. Nope. Not true. Looking at top privates in this area - results to top 25 national universities and top 25 small liberal arts beat every single public school. Not even close. [/quote]

The only thing that’s certain in this discussion is that you don’t have the data to support that claim and in fact nobody here does.  You only know where students are matriculating and not where they applied, and neither does Bethesda Magazine or the other magazines like it, which have been debunked.

In my case, for example, one of my kids turned down a top 15 private university for UVA, and another turned down a
top five liberal arts college for a merit award to another highly (but not as highly) ranked school.  This happens all the time and especially in Virginia where there’s UVA, W&M and Tech.

I am not suggesting that the average Virginia public school graduate gets into the same caliber college as the average Sidwell graduate, because that would be ridiculous.  Sidwell selects every student who wants to attend their school.  But there are lots of very high achieving kids in Virginia public schools who come from plenty of money, are getting into excellent private colleges, and for financial or other reasons are electing not to attend them.

High income families who choose public school educations are generally of a different mindset than families who choose top private schools when it comes to college.  They’re both more practical in their cost benefit analysis and feel less peer pressure than the Sidwells of the
world to get their kids into the best school they can name drop at a cocktail party.  [/quote]

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