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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far GDS’s early admissions results are super impressive. As a parent from another good private school, I am curious why their results are so much better than other privates. We toured GDS 20 years ago for PreK and were not impressed, so chose another top school. Is it their college counselors connections, greater amount of Ivy League/top 20 alum parents, big donors? I am honestly curious, how they can have so many more top college admits than other good privates? Many of these private schools have hand picked super smart kids who don’t get into this level of top school and certainly not at these numbers. GDS is not known for athletics or anything really, besides smart quirky liberal kids. Maybe that’s all the colleges are looking for? It’s not like their students are smarter or more accomplished than students at other good privates. Or do the GDS college counselors have the “secret sauce” with connections and packaging abilities? Honestly curious.[/quote]

A few thoughts ---

Colleges like "smart,  quirky,  liberal kids. "  
The college counseling office is very well run and there has been a lot of stability there over the past five or six years.

The high school is run like it's a small liberal arts college.   There are prospective families who walk away noting nothing other than students using first names for teachers,  kids and backpacks strewn across the forum and every other shared space all day long, or classrooms arranged in a circle with kids sipping drinks.  But the reality of the classrooms is that they are generally run in a discussion based small seminar style,  taught by teachers who very often have taught at the college level.   The discussions carry over after class with even my very laid back kids going to see teachers during their free periods. There is zero academic transition when the kids show up at college.  And at this point,  colleges know that.

And of course,  admissions results go up and down.  Gds is having a great week,  but some classes have a few more strong applicants than others. [/quote]

Great summation. College AOs know what they are getting when reviewing a GDS applicant.

If I had a quarter for every person who raised an eyebrow or turned up their nose when hearing our kids went to GDS, nearly always followed with some statement about the lack of respect students show adults - would make a sizable dent in the tuition bill. [/quote]

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