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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, the term big 3 is not helpful.  These private schools are all very different and lumping them together does not produce a useful data point.

My take is that seniors at my kid’s school are doing just fine.  It is definitely true that it is no longer the 1950s where a third of the class got into Harvard, Yale and Princeton.  The landscape is vastly more competitive for everyone, including private schools. But I would hold my head high to be at a number of the schools where graduates plan to matriculate.

Kids (beyond athletes) have been accepted to Chicago (in droves), UVA, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Hopkins, UNC, Notre Dame, Davidson, Williams, BC, and Tulane off the top of my head.  At other privates, the list feels pretty similar for the kids I know.  Also, UMD (if you are in-state) was not as difficult an admit as a PP claimed.

My kid loved high school and is excited for college.  That is enough for me to consider tuition a worthwhile investment for our family. [/quote]

Is this STA? 
It sounds like it by the kids I know.  The school is doing well. [/quote]

And most of these kids are hooked[/quote]

This.  There are hooks other than recruited athlete, and the PP who announced that "everything's the same as it ever was" over on the Close neglected to mention these hooks exist.  Which I get -- we shouldn't be identifying individuals here -- but it's disingenuous to intimate that Dartmouth still loves STA guys, for example, but is over GDS and Sidwell.  [/quote]

I *think* I am the poster to whom you are referring.  I never said anything about GDS and Sidwell because I don’t know outcomes there.  I didn’t mean that to be disparaging but rather didn’t want to speak to a topic I don’t have first-hand info.  I hope they are having great outcomes.

I am pretty sure the non-athlete kids are both legacy and non-legacy.  I know for a fact that several are non-legacy but don’t know the entire universe of parents’ alma maters.  I can’t speak to full pay though I would argue there are just as many full pay kids at the W schools in MCPS or close-in Virginia suburbs.  People want to sell the narrative that privates are bad - don’t get me wrong they can be - but I take issue with the “bloodbath” idea.[/quote]

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