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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NCS concentrates on the top 10% of the graduating class.  They are professional, but not too interested in the rest of the class. [/quote]

this is untrue.  1) the top 8 girls in the grade essentially all get in early to their top choice.  2)[b]I had a middle of the road kid who was not going to a top 20 school and the counselors spent a good deal of time helping her sort through schools she would have a good chance of getting into... schools ranging from Tulane to Kenyon to IU [/b]3) when she did not get into her top choices they advocated for her at her top choice and she was eventually taken off the wait list.  I am so sick of blind NCS bashing on this board.  In the Holton post today they jabbed NCS in the second sentence.  Its ridiculous.[/quote]

This is impressive --  and I'm not an NCS parent.[/quote]

Tulane, Kenton and IU are not impressive for Ncs. [/quote]

Different poster.  Were those three schools as brand names the only thing you could take away from that post?  They felt the counseling office worked to help find a school that was a good fit for their daughter, including advocating to get her off the wait list at whatever her eventual top choice was.  I don't think you can have a college age child or you would realize that there are a wide range of academic abilities at even very strong private schools (yes, 50% of students are not in the top half of the their HS class!), and thus there is a relatively wide range of college destinations.  If the family was happy that the school was a good choice for their daughter, that is great and the sooner you can learn not to assume that kids from Sidwell/GDS/NCS/St. Albans/Holton must only attend top 20 colleges or it is something shameful, the better.[/quote]

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