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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's been a very tough year for top students at Big 3 schools in DC. Whew. RD has offered no real relief..[/quote]

Don’t think it’s a big “3”,  but take a look at the Instagram page for the holton class of 2023… these kids are going to tons of highly selective schools. Some are athletes, some are legacies and some are just hard working smart kids who go to a rigorous school ( which dropped APs)… [/quote]

How do you find these pages ? Do you mean the schools official Instagram or a student run one [/quote]

It’s not hard to find them. I think HA is official? But anyway the PP is wrong, it’s less impressive than what the Sidwell and GDS accounts have posted: no HYPSM, and only one non-athlete to an Ivy (and they could be hooked). A lot of EDs to schools ranked 40+; even the elite ED choices are non-Ivy. A smart but humble college office, I think, but not exactly disproving the theory that smart unhooked students can no longer go from elite private high schools to elite private colleges.

(Also, while Holton has dropped APs it still gives a bump for “advanced” courses and calculates a weighted GPA, a practice derided by Big 3 boosters as “grade inflation” but which can be helpful at state schools like UGA.)[/quote]

The accounts are unofficial and not complete, fwiw.  But I came on to take issue with your post: you mention there are kids attending “elite ED” choices but then say they aren’t going to “elite colleges”?  I think what you want is to see more Ivy acceptances but I think those girls are going to schools they really like, some of which are Ivy and some not.  Vanderbilt, UNC, Chicago, Penn, Michigan, Emory, RISD, and a lot of others. Also fwiw, that class has several top girls who are also athletes, so hard to say athletic hook was only reason they were accepted.

From what I hear those kids are thrilled with their choices, isn’t that what matters?  Why are adults on here decrying their results?
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