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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe STA should take a lesson from Sidwell and stop publishing its matriculation list.  If a few kids get accepted at HYP you can't wait to jump on here and start bragging.  The conversation in those cases could easily slip into debating the merits of those candidates.  [/quote]

The school does not publish a matriculation list.  In past years the student newspaper did so -- this year that was not the case.  [/quote]

STA certainly toots its college matriculation horn here [http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=2722] and here [http://www.stalbansschool.org/page.aspx?pid=722].  There may be other places too.  Perhaps if STA really wants to stop publishing a matriculation list, it should quit posting the info on its website.[/quote]

It seems pretty clear that an aggregate 5-year list is a far cry from a yearly list published by the school with names and colleges, and, to my mind, does not justify people discussing the college choices of specific kids (particularly in a dismissive/critical way).

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Actually, the college choice not the specific young men was being discussed.  Then, there were folks from STA's community with personal knowledge about the students who chimed in defending them and their special reasons for attending.  I'm sure applying from STA, they were also accepted elsewhere.

If this school was a SLAC or Ivy there would have been chest thumping not the defensive posture.

A pp, possibly a STA parent/student posted the name of the school initially, not clear for what reason.  However, someone mentioned that the matriculation list was in the commencement program (?).

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