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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]

+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]

But if the Sidwell STEM kids are so amazing, why don’t they have any chance at getting in to those schools?

There is at least 1 Sidwell senior who got in early do Princeton, don’t believe there was a hook.[/quote]

Because they don’t live and breathe math and stem like those in the TJ or Blair program do. If half your upper school time is social studies and SJ literature and speakers and no mix of econ, capitalism, labs, science field trips, research projects, and stem career assemblies, you’ll be a weaker stem candidate. Maybe stick to Gender Studies or Inequality blogs. Just yell about how we need more diversity in stem but no one wants to take higher levels math classes. [/quote]

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