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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people thought this through, I'm not sure what they mean with remarks like "Sidwell needs to step it up" in college counseling.  From what I've seen, Sidwell gets about 15 or so National Merit Semifinalists every year.  From what I understand (friends' kids, etc.), the NMSF semifinalists who ALSO have good grades get into the schools that the people on this board are most interested in: Ivy League, Stanford, University of Chicago.  So the top kids -- the kids who would be "top kids" at TJ or St. Albans or Whitman as well as at Sidwell -- are getting in to the schools they "should" get into.

Sidwell could hire 100 college counselors and I don't think they would be able to get materially more students into the colleges with admission percentages below 10%.  The landscape has changed so much since the current private school parent body applied to college in the 1970s and 1980s.  Some of the Ivies had admission rates in the 30% range back then -- not true today.  The "democratization" (Common App and internet) and internationalization of college admissions, along with colleges' increased interest in geographic diversity, mean that the outcomes are only going to be so good.  Your child will still get great teacher rec letters from teachers who know him/her really well, but most importantly they will be really well prepared to excel once they get to college -- and the U.S. has the greatest concentration of good colleges and universities in the world for them to choose from.[/quote]

++1.  Well said.  [/quote]Ditto.[/quote]

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