Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:50
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
Are you a stalker? How much time in a day do you have to sit there and count on random instagram pages?!
Seriously
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:46
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
Gds has a much higher percentage of students reporting. The Sidwell students not going to top 20 schools could be less likely to report than the equivalent students at gds because of differences in school culture.
There is actually a higher percentage of SFS seniors reporting on instagram than in recent years...and there are plenty of kids who don't report who are going to "top" schools.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:45
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Also, as a longtime reader of this forum, seems like every year is a tough year for NCS.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:44
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
One factor could be that girls have a harder time in admissions because there are more high achieving girls. So girls’ schools are at a disadvantage relative to coed schools.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:43
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
What are the “top 20” schools you are basing this off?
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Penn, Stanford, Duke, UChicago, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Cal Tech, Northwestern are pretty set in stone but the rest is highly dependent and could skew your findings
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Penn, Stanford, Duke, UChicago, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Cal Tech, Northwestern are pretty set in stone but the rest is highly dependent and could skew your findings
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:37
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
Yes. This was a tough year for NCS.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:22
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
Gds has a much higher percentage of students reporting. The Sidwell students not going to top 20 schools could be less likely to report than the equivalent students at gds because of differences in school culture.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:18
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
37 percent of NCS grads are attending a top 20 school this year. Sidwell has a lot of legacy and connected kids in this class of 2025. Remember a legacy at any Ivy helps you get into another Ivy (say the Stats). They like the Ivies families.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:13
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
Are you a stalker? How much time in a day do you have to sit there and count on random instagram pages?!
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:12
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
Top 20 SLACs count as well. Many of the kids at our school that could have gotten into Ivies chose to only apply to top SLACS.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:09
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Do you have links to their results?
Anonymous
05/02/2025 16:06
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Anonymous wrote:Because it is the best high school in the area and the top colleges all know accepting kids from Sidwell is low risk
Sure, Jan.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 14:59
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Because it is the best high school in the area and the top colleges all know accepting kids from Sidwell is low risk
Anonymous
05/02/2025 14:53
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Could be a fluke. Likely has little to do with the quality of education or even the quality of college advising.
If you could study these numbers with full knowledge of all hooks (sports, legacy, donor, etc.) then maybe you could find some patterns. But you'll never have that info for all students at all schools, so you just have to ignore it.
Sending 20% or more of students to top 20 schools is a mark of a school with very good college results. I am also sure that when you look at the schools outside the T20 that students at NCS or GDS are attending, they are mostly very well regarded schools even if not Ivies or tippy top schools.
Beyond that, what else is there to say?
If you could study these numbers with full knowledge of all hooks (sports, legacy, donor, etc.) then maybe you could find some patterns. But you'll never have that info for all students at all schools, so you just have to ignore it.
Sending 20% or more of students to top 20 schools is a mark of a school with very good college results. I am also sure that when you look at the schools outside the T20 that students at NCS or GDS are attending, they are mostly very well regarded schools even if not Ivies or tippy top schools.
Beyond that, what else is there to say?
Anonymous
05/02/2025 14:48
Subject: why are Sidwell results so much better than other DC privates this year?
Sidwell is sending 38/90 posted kids to top20 schools. 42%!
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.
NCS is sending 17/81 girls from those posted and a few yet to post. 21%. It's not for lack of trying--my DC knows quite a number of girls who were shut out from Ivies and all top20s with 3.8-3.95 GPAs.
GDS is 23/110. Also 21%.
Why is Sidwell at literally twice the percentage? It doesn't seem to be athletes..
Is a 3.85 from Sidwell viewed as so much stronger than a 3.85 from NCS or GDS?
College counseling better?
What gives?
Just curious. My DC is on deck for next year.