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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On college counseling I think  people actually need to pay a little more attention to Sidwelll and I Say this as some one who believed that this was a huge weakness many years.  I went on this board to bash Sidwell for its college counseling and its anti- parent attitude. Things seem to have dramatically turned around in the last two years with new blood and a new attitude. Forgive me or don't forgive me for the boasting but I  believe it's important data. The results are coming in now and it's telling what a difference that a great college counseling program can have - an area where I believe  that GDS was stronger. But this year Sidwell has at least 10 acceptances to Yale; 8 to Penn; 5 to Brown: 5 to Stanford; two to Harvard; at least one to MIT. Not to mention various acceptances to Cornell, Middlebury etc[/quote]

Please don't buy into the idea that past performance is a future guarantee (to borrow investing terminology).  Things change so much from year to year.  This was a great but unusual year for Sidwell (although they always have excellent college admissions results).  If you buy in thinking the people in one college counselors' office at one school can get your kid into a specific school as compare to the college counseling at another school, you are just setting yourself up for significant disappointment.  Private school does not assure access.  What you'll get is an excellent education (also available at many public schools) that will prepare your child beautifully for college.  You will probably also get a lot of care and attention in the college process -- does a guidance counselor at a school with 500 - 800 seniors have time to comment on their essays, for example?  No.  But in the end, it will be about your child's performance (grades, recs, talents, scores) and a lot about luck and margins of error in terms of any small subset of schools with desirable vegetation on their structures.[/quote]

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