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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the Sidwell CCO actually does a very good job.  The brutal reality is they have the absolutely daunting task of telling the PARENTS of the bottom 85 percent of the class that there is no way in hell their kid is getting into the Ivy League.  I believe they deliver that message but parents don’t “hear” it.  Sadly, I think parents don’t accept the reality that their kid just isn’t a top student in a Sidwell context no matter how otherwise fabulous the kid might be.  I am with you when it comes to undistinguished legacies who defy this reality.  My observation is that top students with the most rigorous coursework (top 10 percent of class — top 13 students) got into top schools.  This year.  The next 40 percent got into top 50 schools.  Sound and fury signifying nothing.  Every single kid in the grade has a bright future.  Sidwell parent of senior.  [/quote]

You are just moving the goalposts and defining expectations down. Many more students than the top 13 should reasonably expect to be competitive at Ivies/Stanford/MIT and top SLACs and have a real chance of enrolling at them.

The Dalton list that people have been pointing to shows that this is a reasonable expectation. Even as a 5 year list, look at the averages per year:

Amherst 1/year
Bowdoin 1-2/year
Brown 6/year
Columbia 4/year
Cornell 7-8/year
Dartmouth 2-3/year
Duke 2/year
Harvard 7/year
MIT 1/year
Princeton 3/year
Stanford 1/2 year
Penn 4/year
Williams 1-2/year
Yale 4-5/year

Just looking at the Ivies, that averages out to more than 35 students per year. Their senior class is about the same size as Sidwell if not a bit smaller.[/quote]

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