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[quote=Anonymous]There is quite a lot of variability from year to year, but Sidwell in a recent graduating class sent I believe 8 to Yale, 2 to Harvard, 1 to Princeton, 1 to Stanford, 1 to MIT, 4-5 to Cornell, 2-3 to Brown, 3 to Columbia, 2-3 each to Penn and Duke, 6 to Michigan, another 8-10 to the very top SLACs (Pomona, Midd, Bowdoin, Amherst), a few to U Va, U Chicago, Rice, Northwestern, quite a few to NYU including honors program.  There were a few legacies in there but by no means all, only 1 athletic recruit.  I completely believe that the median composite SAT score is around 2100.  The lower half or third of the class is going to have mostly Bs, with a few As and Cs thrown in, the lowest 10% might have all low Bs and Cs, there is virtually no one even at the very top of the class that graduates with straight As, the grading is not inflated, but even kids with scattered Bs particularly freshman and sophmore year can get into HYPS, without any other specific hooks such as athletics or legacy. The college advising in our experience was very good and personalized and absolutely did not spend more time/focus on the top 20% academically, really everyone at the school just about takes themselves seriously as a student and works hard by particularly the second half of high school, and is taken seriously by the school regarding college placement.  I have no idea exactly which kids in the classes were lower quarter or so in terms of grades/testing, but my guess would be they were perhaps the ones going to places such as George Washington, Tufts, Wellesley, Barnard, Colgate, Occidental, Wake Forest, U Rochester, but really it seemed like just about everyone was going to a very strong college/university. I think it is the kids that are somewhat below the median at Sidwell that probably got the most out of the individualized college counseling process and the strong relationships the school has with admissions departments at a wide variety of great schools. And as a PP said, kids from Sidwell or similar schools are going to have a very easy time in college based on their strong writing and analysis skills.  [/quote]

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