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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"[b]Sidwell does not publish its results, [/b]so you have to rely on parent reports. There were at least six accepted to Harvard, five to Yale, 10 to Chicago, six to Dartmouth, four to Brown, three to Princeton, three to Penn, three to Stanford, and one or two to Columbia."

Above copied from another thread. (not mine) It jives with what my kid reports.  Also three to Cornell.  My kid says all of these are matriculations except two that are double listed he thinks. He is going to one of these ivies and knows all the kids entering with him.  They are happy to be going together, although one may take a gap year.

So it was a typical year for Sidwell.  Not 10 to Yale like 2015. Also despite the comments above several 2015 Sidwell graduates are enjoying Chicago and doing very well there, which may have contributed to their acceptance of 10 from Sidwell.
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Apparently, Sidwell does publish its results.  A quick internet search shows this article giving the numbers for Sidwell's class of 2012:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/class-struggle/post/admissions-101-where-first-school-kids-go-to-college/2012/09/05/7eba5374-f625-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_blog.html   The Post article quotes the Sidwell alumni magazine on the numbers:  "The magazine said two Ivy schools, Brown and Harvard, will be getting at least four Sidwell grads, but so will NYU, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, Michigan and Tufts. Two other Ivies, Columbia and Penn, will get three Sidwell grads each. The other colleges in that category were Boston College, Emory, Georgetown, Occidental, and the University of Chicago. The magazine failed to reveal if anyone got into Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth or Cornell."
So, at least in 2012, Sidwell had at least 14 going to Ivies (Brown 4, Harvard 4, Columbia 3, Penn 3, and the four other Ivies unknown--although presumably less than 3), and had 3 going to Chicago.  
Of course, these are great numbers for a class of 123, but not the same as the numbers being thrown around here.[/quote]

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