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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is at NCS. 
From what I can tell: 
20% Ivies 
10% U of Chicago
10% other top 20 universities
10% top 10 liberal arts colleges
Etc.
That is 50% of the class into TOP20 colleges/universities. Minimum.

Even with the deflated GPAs (well under 4.0), almost no APs, etc.

STA is similar. 
Sidwell has pretty much gotten the entire class in top50 schools.  
GDS is a bit uneven.

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Am I the only one that actually thinks the %age going to top 20 schools [b]should be [/b]much higher than 50%?

Curious if anyone knows the %age from 10 or 20 years ago.[/quote]

No. Why should going to a freaking $50,000/year private high school entitle you to go to a top 20 school? [/quote]

You are missing the point…OP is bragging that the school did so well with top 20 admissions…I thought they were going to say 80%+ were accepted Top 20…50% is fine, but I bet it was much higher in previous years.  [/quote]

How did the NCS arrive at the 20% Ivy statistic?

My understanding is that NCS usually has 70-75 graduating seniors. So far, 66 NCS students have posted their college destinations. Of the 66 students, 8 (12%) are heading to Ivies. Are we to believe that the remaining 4 students are all heading to the Ivies? Even if the 4 students, who haven’t posted, are attending Ivies in the fall that still brings the total for future NCS Ivy Leaguers to only 17%.[/quote]

I personally know two NCS seniors who haven't posted on IG = one is going to Harvard; the other to Yale[/quote]

Ok, but that still doesn’t add up to 20% of NCS students going to Ivies. That would bring the total to 14% of students, which is good, but it’s definitely not 20% of the graduating class.[/quote]

Maret has 11 Ivies out of 47 posts. 23.40%[/quote]

How many graduating seniors does Maret have? The number of Ivies should be based on the total number of students, not the number of students who posted.[/quote]

FFS they already have more Ivy bound students than NCS both in % and absolute values. 
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