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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other adjustment needed is the idea that there is something special or essential about the rankings in USNWR.

Until people accept that [b]hundreds of colleges have stellar students getting a stellar eduction from stellar professors and going on to have stellar careers,[/b] this anxiety producing nonsense about only 10-20 colleges being acceptable for strong students will not end.

If your top student is attending a school ranked 60, that school has a fantastic student who will go on to do great things -- likely better things than a hundred kids from Harvard. The workforce makes this obvious; look around you. On top of that, that top-ranked kid from your school might not even be the top student at that 60th ranked college. Yours isn't the only super bright kid attending those schools ranked in the 40-120 range. Do you really think there aren't any geniuses at 117-ranked RIT? There are. [/quote]

T20 is probably a target that should go away, but there are not hundreds of stellar colleges. To take your "hundreds" literally, Ball State is 202 and Bellarmin University is 203 according to US news (there is a multiway tie for 196). Do you think any NCS student or parent sending their kid to NCS would think those are stellar schools? [/quote]
You are forgetting the excellent options at small liberal arts and regional colleges, plus colleges abroad. I stand by hundreds of options. [/quote]

It's not hundreds. It's actually about a hundred and that's being generious. Top 50 Universities, top 50 LACs. That's about it. I crack up when come on here talking about the thousands of colleges. If you come from a private in the DC area, that's just not true. It's hundreds of students competing for a small handful of the same schools. I will be disappointed if my kid winds up at College of Charleston or Elon, which unfortunately is what her counselor is going to recommend as matches (safe matches, but not even safeties). After attending a competitive school with bright, hardworking girls, can you imagine surrounding yourself with those who attend College of Charleston or Elon? It's a whole different world and would be a disappointment. There's no way that many of those girls are extremely disappointed. [/quote]

Yes. The NCS college counselor recommend College of Charleston and Elon for my DD. 3.2 GPA and 34 ACT. [/quote]
Would your daughter consider a university in England or elsewhere? Obviously not Oxford, but somewhere exciting and stimulating in another country? That might be a good option. (I don't say this to be nasty, but are there many girls with this sort of overall GPA, getting almost all B's?) When did your daughter start at NCS? Just Upper School or has she been there the whole time? I am really asking this in a positive spirit and don't mean any offense at all. Very curious as my DD will be starting this fall for 9th.[/quote]

Curious as well. Seems like a big disconnect unless there is ADHD at play and test stakes were high and a hyperfocus.[/quote]

You must be unfamiliar with NCS and obvilious to the rest of this thread. A 3.2 at NCS is not a cakewalk. It requires hard work. There is no disconnect. Just an average kid doing well at a tough school. That 3.2 is like a 4.5 at  your local public.[/quote]

Average kids get 34 on ACT? I always thought I was better than that…[/quote]

I think 34 is the median ACT at cathedral schools[/quote]

They have the highest SATs in town, so it stands to reason that they’d take the biggest hit from test optional. [/quote]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-happens-if-sat-s...consider-adversity-11574773201

2019 Median Scores (from College Board, not Self reported)

TJ: 1520 
Sidwell: 1480 
St Albans: 1460 
NCS: 1430 
GDS: 1410 
Maret: 1370 
Holton: 1375 
WIS: 1345

in NY: 
Dalton: 1480 
Trinity: 1520[/quote]

On the school profile NCS sent to colleges for 2021-2022 the average ACT is 34.[/quote]

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