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[quote=Anonymous]What OP describes, if it is accurate, is on par on with what one would expect for all private high schools. Some Ivy and other top 20 acceptances; many others in good, selective colleges where many factors including student preference play a big role as well (such as the preference of many in Sidwell or GDS for SLACs over comparable, in terms of reputation, bigger state schools). Many students with very good options are still deciding. Based on what I know anecdotally about a small sample, I suspect STA acceptances when the dust settles down is going to be similar to other comparable private schools in the area.

To those attacking OP for looking at college acceptances of kids, instagram pages tracking senior college choices are not hard to find. Sidwell and GDS seem to have pretty well-populated ones, although clearly they aren't exhaustive given the no. of posts, as many kids probably haven't provided the info or haven't decided among multiple options yet. For those who haven't seen these, below are the links. Haven't found one for STA or NCS, but didn't look very hard so they might very well exist.

Finally, it's absolutely natural and human to be curious about college destinations, particularly for parents of younger kids going to any of these schools. Most of us don't send our kids to private schools to get a high "ROI" (ugh!) measured exclusively in terms of college admits. But I don't know of many who wouldn't - in addition to all other real and perceived benefits of private education for our kids - also look at college admits as a short-hand signal for a school's reputation, academic rigor, peer group and quality of college counselling. A highly imperfect signal no doubt, and probably not even the most important one, but not a useless signal all the same. And there is absolutely nothing creepy and "stalky" about looking at public instagram pages where kids report their own college acceptances.

https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2022/
https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors22/ [/quote]

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