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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid who is a sophomore at a Big 3 and by that let's say I mean St Albans/NCS, GDS, Sidwell or Maret.  I have heard through my school grapevine that this year the kids at the elite privates are having terrible results-
 especially the unhooked kids.  I have heard that they are negatively affected by test-optional, the elimination of AP's and grade deflation.

Ok please tell me your experiences- Big 3 parents only please...I am not interested in hearing how well your W school kid did, or how stupid you think I am for paying private school tuition.[/quote]

To close the loop on this, based on my son's year at STA, college admissions for the Class of 2021 was the best year since I've been tracking this (since C Form).  My grapevine says NCS/Sidwell/GDS had similarly strong years.  A few observations.  Things started off looking bleak as apart from the recruited athletes the ED round was not a good one for many.  But ED2 proved fruitful.  Also the STA list was not as highly concentrated in a few schools as usual (e.g., 5 Chicago rather than 10; 2 Harvard rather than 6) and a lot of excellent schools not typically on the STA list were represented (UC-Boulder, Alabama, Duke, Lafayette, Richmond, RPI, Denver, Gettysburg, Rollins, Syracuse, Temple, UT, VMI)  Here's the final list for those who follow this stuff.

Harvard (multiple), Yale (multiple), Princeton (multiple), Columbia, Dartmouth (a boatload), Cornell (multiple), Alabama, Chicago (lots), Bates (2), Berkeley, Boston College, Bowdoin (3), Colgate (2), UC Boulder, Conn Coll, Denver, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Gettysburg, Indiana (2), Lafayette, Maryland, McGill, Miami of Ohio, Michigan (multiple), Northeastern, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Occidental (2), Pomona, Richmond, RIT, Rollins, St. Andrews (multiple), SMU, Syracuse, Temple, Tulane (multiple), UCLA, UNC, UT, UVA, VMI, Wake (multiple), Wash U (multiple), Wesleyan, West Point, Washington and Lee (multiple), Williams, Wisconsin, Xavier.
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You seriously need a life... [/quote]

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