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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since Sidwell does not release their matriculation stats like most other elite privates, we don't know.  [/quote]
For better or worse, as far as I can tell, Sidwell is not alone.  I don't see NCS or GDS publishing matriculation stats.  So STA is all we have to go on, but that's ok because I suspect it's pretty representative of the others.

[quote=Anonymous]So let's look at St Albans which does, graduating #20 out of 80 from St Alban's does not get you into an Ivy, MIT or Stanford either ...[/quote]
I think you're wrong here.  If you look at the 5-year averages STA publishes, you see 93 total matriculations at Ivies+Stanford (but not including MIT or Brown).  STA only publishes the most common colleges, so let's conservatively assume there are 3-4 each at MIT and Brown over those 5 years, which brings us to 100 total matriculations.  In other words, on average 20 per year to Ivies+Stanford+MIT, or roughly 25% of the class.  That's certainly less as a raw number than the 40-45 students TJ might send to those same colleges, but since TJ has 5-6 times more students submitting applications, those 40-45 students represent only roughly 10% of the school.

[quote]... and the bottom 20% certainly do not go to UVA or Berkley.[/quote]
You're right we don't know where the bottom 20% of the STA class went to college.  But because TJ publishes full matriculation data, we can see where the bottom 20% of TJ goes, and it's clearly not UVA or Berkeley.  When I look at TJ's list, I see plenty to schools like Indiana, UCSD, Kalamazoo, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Alabama, Stony Brook, VCU, Miami, etc.  Those are all perfectly respectable colleges IMHO, and I suspect they're not too dissimilar to where the bottom 25% of STA might go.[/quote]m

Yawn.  Even STA will tell you #20 is NOT getting into an Ivy, MIT or Stanford.  It is a far, far reach even for a legacy at those schools unless you are donating a building named after you.[/quote]

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