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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well Sidwell crushed NCS based on the data that the poster from that school just offered. [/quote]

I would not call it "data" but, if true, that's a strong performance for NCS.  Remember that Sidwell has a graduating class over 50% bigger than NCS (approx 125 to approx 80).  So if NCS had 8 students who are matriculating at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, that is 10% of their class.  Sidwell by all accounts had an extraordinary college matriculation year this year (9 or 10 into Yale? and a bunch into UPenn) but we don't actually know how many Sidwell is matriculating at (a) HYS -- is it 12 kids total (10%) or 18 kids total (15%) or 15 kids total (12.5%).  Nor do we know NCS's entire college list.  Nor do we know anything about GDS's college matriculations at all (although I'm sure they are excellent).

If the schools don't publicize it -- and I support schools that don't, given the feeding frenzy that ensues -- we actually don't have the "data" here to make comparisons.  To the extent we do, the issue of class size is overlooked routinely as people just focus on the arithmetic totals of students admitted somewhere (the numerator) and frequently ignore the denominator (overall graduating class size).
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Cathedral Parent here. I would definitely rank the big three as STA 1, Sidwell 2, NCS 3, Holten 4, and GDS 5.....over the years, BUT hats off to Sidwell this year. This class truly knocked the cover off the ball. Whats interesting reading this thread, as an old timer in terms of having kids in college now, and also in HS, the teachers at all these schools pretty much see this in 4th grade. STA blew all the others away IVY in 2012 and 2013. I knew these kids as 4th graders, and the faculty was open -- 'star class'. 2015 as 4th graders 'weak class'.

Hats off to Sidwell. An awesome year for this class.[/quote]

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