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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happened with Brown?  Why a washout?[/quote]

An oversized number of kids applied ED and none were admitted and several were rejected outright.[/quote]

Seems like Brown is sending a message to the Sidwell - you're letting too many apply. [/quote]

I heard that something like 15 kids from Sidwell applied early to Brown.  There's no way that all 15 were in the top 20% of the class (or whatever a reasonable cut-off for an Ivy acceptance is). 
So basically you had a lot of kids/parents with inflated sense of their own desirability and Brown responded by cancelling out the entire group.  
Sidwell should really limit where kids can apply (like Andover and Exeter do) if this is what happens.  [/quote]

Why? Each application is evaluated on its own. Colleges do not send messages to schools or groups of students like this. They are happy to take the application fee and read anything that they want to submit. There is no way that a HS should ever limit who or how many kids can apply to one school. [b]If Johnny wants to blow his ED on a school that he is not really qualified for, who else's business is that?[/b][/quote]

Sidwell is doing a MASSIVE disservice if they are not honestly advising on the reality of a student's ED chances, particularly if that student is not a target candidate for a particular school. I find it hard to believe all 15 had a real shot at ED.

Given the 0 for 15 outcome, I think Brown is sending a pretty clear message: we expect you to curate. This happens through brutally honest advising. Brown has different expectations for Sidwell administration than, say, kid randomly applying from MCPS high schools. [/quote]

[b]How do you know they didn't advise them?[/b] Surely you're not suggesting that they literally prevent a student from applying to a specific school? Who are they to make that decision, or to "curate" as you put it? That is the AO's job.

Look, I'm sorry your kid didn't get in. But it is very unfair to blame the Sidwell CCO for that. Brown is a long shot for ANY kid and Sidwell does not have a birthright to a certain number of slots. I'm sure your child was qualified, but, as we've heard a thousand times, every school in the country could fill multiple freshman classes with "qualified" kids. And if Brown didn't want your DC - well, screw 'em.  It's an overrated school anyway.[/quote]

DP here. The view among seniors is that they did not advise them. I know that my senior who did not apply to Brown is unhappy with the office on behalf of their friends/classmates and that others have the same opinion.[/quote]

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