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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Whitman - arguable one of the top 5 public schools in the country.  Billed as the best public high school in the area.

Yale - 17 applied - 1 got in
Harvard - 25 applied - 2 got in
Princeton - 22 applied - 2 got in

That is about the same as the broader admissions pool.

Not impressive and not the same as the Big 3.

Public schools parents rant as rave - save your money -- in this case - it appears money was saved and the results were nowhere near the same.[/quote]

You need to take a trip on over to the "Any Parents Disappointed With College Placement?" thread. There you can check out the lists from elite privates for non-HYP acceptances/matriculations, and while you're there you can ogle all the nasty posters calling, for example, certain STA results dismal and worse.[/quote]

According to a recent Sidwell publication University of Michigan was the number one school in terms of both applicants (26 out of a class of about 120, or 22%) AND Sidwell students attending.  At Whitman it's second to UMD in terms of number of applicants (100 applicants out of about 450 students, or 22%), and probably number attending as well.  According to that same publication 2 or fewer Sidwell students went to Princeton and Yale, 3 to Harvard.  Not too dissimilar.  By contrast, Sidwell has one going to Penn while 7 were admitted from Whitman.[/quote]

Isn't Whitman 4-5 times as big as Sidwell?   [/quote]

Yes, but it takes all comers including a large Special Ed program. Sidwell hand picks its students who are presumably the best and brightest (and in some cases the richest and best connected). And Whitman families are far more likely to prefer UMD or other in state options than a Sidwell family. In fact based on my recent conversations with parents, more are aiming at UMD than in the past as people are starting to question the value of $60k/year tuitions. That's less of an issue for people who are already paying $35k for high school.

We've had an excellent experience at Whitman, but there are lots of choices so if you don't like it you are free to go to Sidwell. Neither school is right for everyone. [/quote]

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