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[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]
It’s only a numerical number of kids who attend (not accepted but enrolled) at those three schools: Harvard, Princeton and MIT.

What differentiates SFS from GDS is that GDS sent 13 kids to Harvard while SFS sent only 7. This seems like a weird comparison because GDS is pretty widely known for having a lot of Harvard legacies and I believe SFS sends more to Yale. [/quote]

It is only really MIT and Princeton that are issues because they weigh class rank pretty heavily and Sidwell hasn't done class ranks since the 1970's at the latest. As a result, college guidance through the years has dissuded applications though there are Princeton matriculations the last couple of years, and I *think* there may have been an MIT in the class of 2022. Sidwell will generally have more applicants and acceptances to places like Yale, Penn, Dartmouth, Chicago, Cornell etc.[/quote]

The top 10% gets in to top schools not all that different from most good public high schools (not magnets).

Either way, 1 kid going to MIT from Sidwell and GDS in three years isn’t impressive.[/quote]

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