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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like on average 4 graduates a year (out of a typical class of 115) get into an Ivy.  Yea, that's worth $45k.[/quote]
yup and I'll bet on average 2-3 of those are girl's lax players.  [/quote]

I cannot believe I’m on here correcting this because the attacks on St Stephens college list are so ridiculous, BUT…

Around 5% of the graduating class (looking at last 5 years) goes to an Ivy, Stanford, or MIT
Around 10% goes to Williams, Georgetown, John’s Hopkins, and similar top private schools
Around 20-25% goes to UVA, William and Mary, or other top public schools
The rest go to a mix of solid colleges and universities.

No one is going to argue that this compares to Sidwell, where something like 18% of kids go to an Ivy. But not all of us want an academically intense experience for our kids. And of course St Stephens sends more kids to top colleges than a local public school, mostly because the population of kids is richer.
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this is bullshit.  these numbers don't match the information the school releases.  [/quote]

It’s literally on their website, though they don’t describe it this way because the ranking is obnoxious. [/quote]
right here it is:  https://www.sssas.org/academics/college-counseling.  No way 35-40% go to schools like UVA, similar or better.  so BS comment stands.  [/quote]

Maybe we disagree about how good a school UVA is compared to U Michigan or UCSD? I put all those in one category. Also lots of these smaller schools people choose (Oberlin, Kenyon, etc) are fabulous schools even if not Ivy League.

But seriously - I’m strangely invested in defending St Stephens college admissions list because I’m a St Stephens parent, and I happen to have some time on my hands today to be checking dcum.

Why in the world are you so invested in bashing SSSAS? Clearly plenty of well educated parents think it’s worth 45K a year. What does it matter to you?[/quote]

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