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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]where did you get these Whitman stats?
They're completely wrong.

If you look at the 2023 WWHS Instagram, (https://www.instagram.com/vikingdestinations.2023/)
Here are the omissions from your list.  Instagram only shows 269 members of a class that was probably just over 500 kids. 
But there were at least 14 more Ivy kids. I'm not a Whitman parent (I'm actually a Big3 parent) but I looked this up because I remember the Whitman 
results being really good last year.

1. Brown: 41/0  [b]4[/b]
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3  [b]12[/b]
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0  [b]1[/b]
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3  
Total = 306/11

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Thanks for the update. So, Whitman averages about 507 students per grade. Based on your numbers, there were 25 Ivy admits from the c/o 2023. That’s a 4.9% Ivy admit rate. [/quote]

Wow, I think maybe you should go back to school to get a better handle on how to generate and interpret meaningful statistics. I have no skin in this game, but comparing the number of admits N to N is way more meaningful than calculating an "admit rate" for each school.[/quote]

You should relax. DCUM posters routinely calculate admissions rates based on publicly available information (CCO data, Instagram posts, articles, etc). We can safely assume that there were a few more admits than what was posted on Instagram. However, there’s no way to know for sure without seeking written proof (admissions letters) from each student. [/quote]

np:  She's talking about the absurdity of comparing admit rates for a selective school to a large public high school.

Obviously, you need to compare the subset from that public high school, ie, not including the kids with little academic capacity or motivation.

Moreover, you have to remember that no one at the public high school is discouraging students from applying where ever they want, while private schools try to manage applicant numbers.  Most likely, the public school kids are putting in more applications.[/quote]

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