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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell, StA, Holton.
Look at the National Merit Semifinalists and college admissions and you'll see that Holton does far better than NCS.[/quote]

I was interested in this -- and figured it was verifiable -- so I checked out the assertion that Holton "does far better than NCS" in NMSF and college admissions.

The assertion does not seem to hold water.  It looks like Holton is close to, but not equal to NCS, in both those categories.  I think the gap has closed, but Holton still looks like it is slightly behind (and no shame there, the schools in DC don't have to compete for students with strong public schools in their jurisdiction).

Here's a link to the "sticky" on applying to private schools which, in turn, has links to documents with NMSF and college matriculation comparisons.  
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/99066.page

For National Merit Semifinalists, over the past three years NCS had 7.38% compared to 4.15% for Holton.  Over the past five years NCS had 8.07% to Holton 6.97%.  Over the past 10 years NCS had 9.26% to 8.07% to Holton.

On college matriculations, I looked at the website matriculationstats.org and clicked on the heading for "Day Schools Outside of NYC."  It was last updated in 2011, so maybe lots has changed since then, but NCS beat Holton on all of their metrics:
1.  Harvard/Yale/Princeton/MIT/Stanford: NCS 12.3% to Holton 6.8%
2.  Ivy League Schools: NCS 22.1% to Holton 10.2%
3.  "Top Schools" (defined as top 25 National Universities and top 15 Liberal Arts Colleges in US News & World Report rankings):  NCS 57.2% to 45% for Holton
4.  "Strong Schools" (top 50 National Universities and top 30 Liberal Arts colleges): NCS 78.2% and Holton 63%

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