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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Baltimore is interesting, many would never consider McDonogh, Garrison, or St. Tims due to location.  They only consider RPCS, Bryn Mawr, Gilman, Loyola, Friends.  Next would be SPSG and boys, and Park.  However, they will go Calvert for k-8, if they get in.  Truly GF, McDonogh and St, Tims are great schools but never in their consideration.[/quote]

McDonogh is probably the most sought after school in Baltimore. [/quote]

Not among the old baltimore crowd[/quote]

Times are changing. You'd be surprised. Whatever passes for old money Baltimore does send kids to McDonogh along to the others. 2023 isn't Baltimore of 1995 nor Baltimore of 1955 nor Baltimore of 1925. Bryn Mawr, for all practical purposes, has no meaningful relationship to the Bryn Mawr of the past. Cultural fault lines have been shifting in recent decades and it's affecting the privates and people now look at different privates depending on how they fall along the cultual fault lines.

If we are going by semantics, McDonogh gets the most applicants and has the lowest admission rate but it does also draw from a bigger region. [/quote]

Mcdonogh peaked in popularity about 5 to 10 years ago with the Calvert crowd, and generally, in terms of being the “hot” school.  For whatever reason, Calvert is now back to sending the majority of its graduates to Gilman/Roland Park/Bryn Mawr.  Saint Paul’s has also become more popular and is attracting kids who might have gone to Mcdonogh in the recent past.

I have no idea who gets the “most” applications and I doubt the poster claiming this has any actual knowledge as no local school reports number of applicants.[/quote]

Not sure what role Calvert plays in this discussion. Re McDonogh, it is the biggest school and admissions mentioned 10 apps for every spot for 9th grade entry. Makes sense it gets the most apps, and they also avoided the enrollment slump that hit BMS and Park, and which Gilman only avoided by ramping up US size and lowering admin standards. A lot of it is certainly driven by geography, taking in HoCo and Carroll Counties and offering the bases that go everywhere in Maryland, it seems. And five day boarding. It’s not a metric to live and die by. [/quote]

This does not suggest that McDonogh is the most selective school. All the schools have significantly more applicants than spots. People usually get accepted to more than one school and then decide where to go based on fit. The yield is probably somewhat low at all the Baltimore schools for this reason. Often students/parents don’t know what they like best until they shadow.

McD does seem to draw from different region than the Roland park area schools and appeals to a slightly different type of student. The same can be said for Park and etc.[/quote]

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