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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting that McDonogh is so much more competitive.  It's not one that we're interested in and I would not have assumed it was anywhere near as desirable as Bryn Mawr or Gilman.  My perspective is probably just skewed by living much closer to those schools. [/quote]

I don’t think that it is, in the sense that they don’t have higher academic standards.   Mcdonogh does however, recruit much  more aggressively for athletes than other Baltimore independents (the Catholic schools do as well, but much bigger classes) so there is going to be less room for normal “academic” candidates at both the middle school and upper school level.[/quote]

Academically, the high school advanced track at Mcdonogh is similar to Bryn Mawr or Gilman.  They produce similar numbers of national merit semi finalists and college outcomes are similar for students on that track.  Of course there is year to year variation.

However, McDonogh also has a larger class size allowing it to cater to a wider range of students who are not all on the highest academic track.

The boarding program at McDonogh and their bus fleet allow them to capture students from a wider area than some of their peer schools.

Mcdonogh has the best athletics program in Maryland, a campus that rivals colleges, and is overall the most in-demand private school in the Baltimore area.[/quote]

The national merit numbers are never actually as good, especially on per capita basis.

As for your last sentence, come on.  Peak Mcdonogh was a decade ago, the last few years, it has been the second “hottest” school in the County to Saint Paul’s.  Most people in the city no longer consider it.[/quote]

Yes, actually the national merit semi finalist numbers are the same, even per capita, when you are comparing the kids on the advanced academic track.

As per the rest of what you are saying, you seem very out of touch with the private school scene in Baltimore.[/quote]

Let’s look at the numbers and see who is “very out of touch:”

Gilman had 8 National merit semifinalists and 28 commended in a class of 118.  So, 7 percent of class is a semifinalist and 24 percent are commended.

Bryn Mawr had 5 semi finalists and 14 commended in a class of  82.  So 6 percent of class is a semifinalist and 17 percent are commended.

Mcdonogh has 6 semifinalists in a class of 166.  That’s 4 percent of the class.  They didn’t release commended students for this year yet, but last year, they had 11, which is 7 percent of the class.

Last year, Mcdonogh had 1 national merit semifinalist while Gilman had 5 and Bryn Mawr had 4. Keep in mind the Gilman class is smaller by  more than 35 kids, and Bryn Mawr is roughly half the size of Mcdonogh.

We can also look at the average test scores of the top quarter [/quote]

You aren't looking at all the data.  The year that Gilman had 8 semifinalists was extremely unusual.  Here is some more data:

Semifinalists at Gilman
2023  2 kids
2022  6 kids

Semifinalists at Bryn Mawr
2023  2 kids

Of course there is year to year variation.  You seemed to have missed the point entirely in your last post.  McDonogh has a larger class size than GIlman and Bryn Mawr, allowing it to cater to a wider range of students who are not all on the highest academic track.  If you focus on the kids in the highest academic track, there is no difference between that track at McDonogh and that track at Gilman or Bryn Mawr.
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Huh?   I looked at the two most recent years but your cherry-picked data isn’t even right, Bryn Mawr has 3 semifinalists in 2023.  2023 was definitely an off year for a Gilman, as shown by the two most recent years, and  your numbers from 2022.

Mcdonogh also had 2 in 2023, so even in Gilman’s outlier year, it still did better on a per capita basis than Mcdonogh.[/quote]

You are exhausting.   There is no difference in these numbers between these schools.  When you get into the details it becomes pointless.[/quote]

Sweetie, you are ridiculous.  Bryn Mawr and Gilman consistently have more semifinalists and commended  despite being significantly smaller.  By a lot most years.[/quote]

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