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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One is co-ed, one is all-girls

One is way out in the suburbs, one is in Baltimore City

One has a reputation for well-rounded kids with an emphasis on sports, one has a reputation for being an academic pressure cooker

One seems popular with long-time Baltimore families and is a bit more conservative, one is laden with kids of Hopkins professors and high-achieving immigrants

It's a little surprising you need all of these differences laid out for you. How did you pick these 2 schools? Have you set foot on either campus?[/quote]

Other than geographical locations, literally nothing in this quote is accurate.[/quote]

Huh? Not the person you’re replying to but.. all looks 100% accurate to me. My kid is in a different Baltimore independent school, but everyone knows this stuff about both McDonogh and BMS. Which of these assertions do you  dispute?[/quote]

Well, for one, there is of course well rounded kids at both schools.  Bryn Mawr doesn’t recruit athletes but most girls participate in sports and some are quite competitive in the IAAM.  Bryn Mawr isn’t an academic pressure cooker.  Mcdonogh is not more popular with long time Baltimore families.  Bryn Mawr is not “laden with kids of Hopkins professors and high achieving immigrants.”   Doesn’t leave much.

Source: had one daughter and several other family members recently attend Bryn Mawr,  son is at Gilman, and know lots of kids at all the other Baltimore private schools including Mcdonogh.  I also have one child who applied and was accepted to Mcdonogh but chose not to attend.[/quote]

Oh, come on. Sure, plenty of Bryn Mawr girls play sports. But McDonogh is sportier. Of course what makes an “academic pressure cooker” is subjective, but Bryn Mawr is a heck of a lot closer than McD. I do agree with you that for real old Baltimore money the pipeline is Calvert > Gilman/Bryn Mawr. But for County money, McDonogh is certainly a popular choice.

Do you think that Gilman is “laden with kids of Hopkins professors and high achieving immigrants”? I do, and we are a Gilman family. But again, I guess “laden” is subjective.

Anyway, I think PP’s post is basically sound information, albeit obvious stuff. [/quote]

High achieving immigrants?  I think there are very few at any of the private schools, including Gilman.  And there are Hopkins parents at literally every private in Baltimore including Mcdonogh.  [/quote]

Even back in the 1990s when I was in HS a decent percentage of girls at BMS plus boys at Gilman had parents who were first generation immigrants from Asia, India and Iran. Most were affiliated with Hopkins or were doctors in various practices and typically had come to the US for their medical training. By the time their kids were in high school, they'd been in the us for 20-30 years but technically they'd still be immigrants. So "high achieving immigrants" is a very valid term. And from what I see around me today, that's still the case albeit the backgrounds have diversified somewhat, knowing some families at Gilman where parents grew up in South America.

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Weird,  I’m the prior poster and my spouse works at Hopkins.  Don’t know any first generation immigrants at the schools or work.  Certainly know people of different ethnicities but none are immigrants.[/quote]

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