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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If everyone has straight A’s, then no one does.[/quote]

But they balance it out with high act and sats then it does matter. Gpa matters whether you like it or not. Look at Instagram pages and where these kids are going. Schools known for having many kids with learning  disabilities are sending the same number of kids to top colleges as top privates. It’s not rocket science. [/quote]

Yeah, [b]if you look at the matriculations for Field and Bullis, they are not any different than Sidwell or NCS.[/b] In 2024, high school rigor just does not matter. If so, then savvy families will put their kid in lower-tier high schools where they can get easy A's.

Changing up the school profile to help out the students is the smart thing to do, and it will encourage families to keep their kids in rigorous high schools. The old, "A 3.4 GPA means a lot for this high school" does not matter anymore. Colleges want to see straight-A's whether you go to Phillips Exeter or Dunbar. If that's the reality, then rigorous prep schools are engaging in malpractice by giving their kids deflated GPAs. [/quote]

Field and Bullis’ college admissions results are nothing like Sidwell’s. Those schools are not close to Sidwell’s level.

For example, over a period of FOUR years (2020 to 2023), Sidwell sent at least 4 students to EVERY Ivy plus Stanford. In contrast, over a period of FIVE years (2019 to 2023), Bullis sent at least 4 students to only Cornell, Penn, Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Further, over a period of FIVE years (2019 to 2023), Field sent at least THREE students ONLY to Penn. over that same FIVE year period, ZERO students were admitted to Brown, Yale or Stanford.

Sidwell: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Bullís: https://www.bullis.org/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Field: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/14oJLbZ6pp5BUOyimR9S69OEgsEQQq-328bmATE__VLM/mobilebasic

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But Sidwell also has a survey this year that said most of the kids were depressed and unhappy? It’s on another thread so something is not right if that’s the case. [/quote]

Most teens are. [/quote]

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