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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you think everyone got where they really wanted you are wrong. There’s a lot of very disappointed family with awesome high achieving kids who were not urm  or hooked that are sorely disappointed. [/quote]

Welcome to 2023. It is what it is. The priorities given to UMC white kids that has permeated for the past two centuries is no longer. The sooner people adapt to that fact, the better.[/quote]

NYC parent here. Not sure what’s going on but I was stunned to see that a top private girls school did not do so great based upon my anecdotal conversations. Like shockingly not great. Including URM’s.

Middle school parent here. When did college become so hard to get into? [/quote]

It has become increasingly hard for upper middle class "regular" white kids because of the proliferation of international, first generation and under represented minority applicants.

Also, the Common Application and Test Optional has lowered barriers for applicants to toss in submissions to many more schools with the push of a button and no additional effort.

The general barriers to entry, writ large, is a good thing, but is an eye-opener for parents who went through the process before 2015 or so, and particularly since COVID.[/quote]

The landscape has been changing all along, not just now. It's not just about the "hooks" or going test-optional. Admissions to US universities is a global market now, and because Covid caused a massive disruption, there is probably a "bump" of foreign applicants that probably made it even more difficult for everyone this year. Good news is that this bump is likely to be temporary, but the trend is toward more internationalization of education, esp US colleges that are coveted worldwide, in a large part because of their holistic admission standards that ensure that people's life choices aren't entirely shaped by 3 high-stakes exams taken at age 17.

As far as local privates are concerned, let's look at some nos. Picking GDS because of the large share of the graduating class who have posted on the Insta page (nearly 100), and the general vibe on DCUM about this school's college outcomes not being as good as previous year's (Sidwell and Maret's have arguably been better than in 2022). 
61 of 98 GDS kids on this page are going to either a top-50 college, top-20 Liberal arts college, or their foreign equivalents (global top 20). That is 62% of the graduating class who have posted so far. The rest are going to a mix of large universities with great resources and opportunities (e.g. Indiana, Vermont, Colorado), nice liberal arts colleges  (e.g. Oberlin, Scripps), colleges with special history or appeal (HBCUs), or foreign unis popular with local students (e.g. St Andrews). 21% is going to a T20 ranked school, including 12 to Ivies.
Whatever the landscape is, these are objectively good outcomes. As a parent of a younger high schooler, I would take the odds of a fifth of the class going to a T20 school (some of the best unis in the world), another 14% going to a great liberal arts college, a total of more than 60% going to colleges that are highly selective, and the rest going to places that can all provide a great education. Sidwell, NCS/STA, Potomac, Maret outcomes are probably comparable or better.

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