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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can look up Sidwell and GDS at Polarislist.com which ranks high schools by how many kids they sent to Harvard, Princeton and MIT in 2018-2020.

Sidwell sent 9, ranked 148
GDS sent 16, ranked 66

Notably MIT which doesn’t give legacy preference accepted 1 kid and that was from Sidwell.[/quote]

Sidwell kids generally don't apply to either Princeton or MIT, so if that is what the ranking is based on, then it is pretty self-selective.[/quote]

+1. Most kids don’t apply to Princeton or MIT (bc they don’t have any chance of getting in) so yeah, it is a self selective.[/quote]
And yet the comparison was:

MIT
SFS: 1
GDS: 0

Princeton
SFS: 2
GDS: 3[/quote]

The data is inaccurate.  In Sidwell website, there is no MIT in the past 5 years.  LOL
https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation[/quote]

Maybe someone who graduated before 2016 went?  Or Sidwell and GDS sent 0 kids to MIT  in the past 3 years.  Lol![/quote]

But the quoted data is from 2018-2020. The school website data is from 2016-2021. I just want to point out that the source may not be accurate.[/quote]

Agree.  High schools get matriculation data from their students so if the kid does not update, the school doesn’t know.  Maybe someone got off the waitlist at MIT and did not tell Sidwell.[/quote]
To be very honest, I don’t think it’s Sidwell’s biggest priority to ensure that this list is 100% accurate. [/quote]

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