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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why aren't Amherst and Swarthmore similar to Ivy matriculations? And I didn't even include Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, or the service academies, which bumps the total number to over 60 (i.e., about top 20 percent).[/quote]

Ok, Horton is great similar to all the very top elite private schools.  A hidden gem that no one’s ever heard of outside the DMV.  We can add Amherst and Swathmore and Bowdoin, etc. to make it to top 20% [/quote]
I don't even have a connection to Holton! They just happened to be a school that publishes exact matriculation numbers that you can find through Google. Anyway, either you or a different PP used the term "Ivy or similar," not me. Holton had 63 graduates matriculate in a four year period to Ivy League schools plus Stanford, MIT, UChicago, Duke, Hopkins, Northwestern, the service academies, Amherst, and Swarthmore. Which of these schools aren't "similar" in your view? And if you want to take out the two top SLACs in Amherst and Swarthmore, the total is still 60. So the point remains that, on average, 15 Holton graduates each year (about 20 percent) are going to the so-called best of the best colleges. And looking at the class of 2020, six of them (i.e., less than half) were recruited athletes for the schools I'm counting.

Given the available evidence with Holton, I have no reason to think that those touting comparable matriculation numbers for Sidwell, GDS, or the Cathedral schools on DCUM are lying or even exaggerating.[/quote]

Girls schools tend to do better than coed schools.  Looks like Holton is very transparent about where their students go which is very impressive in itself.  Looks like it is the DC version of Brearley.  Nice.   Sidwell, GDS et al, I stick by the top 10% for the ivies and similar meaning Stanford, MIT, UChicago, and add in Williams and Amherst for SALCs. And still waiting to hear what sport got someone in the bottom third at a private in the DMV into an Ivy.  None of these schools are sport powerhouses and not anything like Div I where real future pro athletes go.  Getting into these schools have gotten so much harder bc as pp pointed out, kids are competing against some very talented and academically excelling kids from other countries.

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