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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a hard message to deliver and I apologize in advance. [b] A 3.7 just isn’t all that compelling and neither is a 34 ACT relatively speaking for top 15 universities even coming from a great school like Sidwell.   If your kid isn’t a NMF and/or Presidential Scholar candidate and done some substantive internships or academic research outside of school, and hit &gt; 3.9 overall GPA having taken the Math I — Math IV sequence plus all the accelerated 1A sciences plus four years of language, plus a &gt;1560 SAT or 35/36 ACT, you really don’t get on the radar screen of the top 15 schools.  [/b]Exception is the hooked kids — namely athletes, legacies and URM, but a couple of those hooked kids have the former qualifications, too, making them spectacularly attractive applicants.  These schools really know Sidwell and for example understand that a solid A from Math III is a pretty powerful academic signal.  I just cannot sit by and continue to watch the Sidwell CCO get trashed the way it is by some folks on this forum. In the aggregate, they are doing a good job in a very challenging and competitive environment.  The reality is, putting aside the “branding” element, the top 30 - 50 schools offer a great education.  Sidwell parent of senior.[/quote]

The bolded is absolute bullshit.  Any upper school parent reading this, please disregard if your kid's intention isn't STEM research or a top 5 engineering program.  e.g., if your kid signals to a T15 school that their current goal (at age 17) is arts and sciences.

My Sidwell senior and several of his friends are off to T15 schools next year -- from the regular math and science track and not &gt; 1560.   Another group of his friends are also off to Ivies and a few T15 schools (which I can't name because I'd identify them) with the Math III but lower SATs than you indicate and not powerhouse research.

Bottom line, if your Sidwell teen wants to study philosophy or econ or international relations at Northwestern or Yale or Duke or Chicago or Penn or Cornell or Vanderbilt ... PP's assertions are exaggeration.   Can't speak to the kids who want to pursue chemical engineering at Stanford -- but a sizable group doesn't want this and does very well without hitting PP's benchmarks.[/quote]

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