Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell by a landslide last year --and I'm not a Sidwell parent but have kids at another big3, including a 2025 senior. Sidwell was able to get in almost 50% of the class into top20 schools and all the ones I knew well were completely unhooked. meanwhile at our school you pretty much needed to be top15% in the class or an athlete/legacy. it was night and day.

Your kids don’t even go to Sidwell. You are in no position to make sweeping generalizations based on “all the ones you know well.” How many is that, exactly? How is it that you know enough intimate detail about the families of kids attending a school that yours don’t to know that who is “completely unhooked?”

Answer: you don’t. You’re full of shit.

You're weirdly hostile for a Sunday morning. I suggest medication.

Not hostile. Just accurate. And tired of bullshit meaningless and entirely unhelpful responses.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell by a landslide last year --and I'm not a Sidwell parent but have kids at another big3, including a 2025 senior. Sidwell was able to get in almost 50% of the class into top20 schools and all the ones I knew well were completely unhooked. meanwhile at our school you pretty much needed to be top15% in the class or an athlete/legacy. it was night and day.

Your kids don’t even go to Sidwell. You are in no position to make sweeping generalizations based on “all the ones you know well.” How many is that, exactly? How is it that you know enough intimate detail about the families of kids attending a school that yours don’t to know that who is “completely unhooked?”

Answer: you don’t. You’re full of shit.

You're weirdly hostile for a Sunday morning. I suggest medication.

Anonymous wrote:Well, the OP is full of it so the comment is perfect for the thread.

Well, it also fits perfectly with the overall DCUM readership.

Well, the OP is full of it so the comment is perfect for the thread.

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell by a landslide last year --and I'm not a Sidwell parent but have kids at another big3, including a 2025 senior. Sidwell was able to get in almost 50% of the class into top20 schools and all the ones I knew well were completely unhooked. meanwhile at our school you pretty much needed to be top15% in the class or an athlete/legacy. it was night and day.

Your kids don’t even go to Sidwell. You are in no position to make sweeping generalizations based on “all the ones you know well.” How many is that, exactly? How is it that you know enough intimate detail about the families of kids attending a school that yours don’t to know that who is “completely unhooked?”

Answer: you don’t. You’re full of shit.

Sidwell by a landslide last year --and I'm not a Sidwell parent but have kids at another big3, including a 2025 senior. Sidwell was able to get in almost 50% of the class into top20 schools and all the ones I knew well were completely unhooked. meanwhile at our school you pretty much needed to be top15% in the class or an athlete/legacy. it was night and day.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League admissions are entirely a crapshoot. Don’t try to pick a HS because you think it will help your kid get into Harvard.

I think the question still is valid. Which school has a good track record in college admissions. Maybe not Harvard but let’s say a top public university.

It is truly impossible to separate hooked kids going to college from the non-hooked. In some cases, the hook is visible. In many other cases, the hook is not visible (uncle, grandparent, or whatever else). This also is true in public schools, btw.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League admissions are entirely a crapshoot. Don’t try to pick a HS because you think it will help your kid get into Harvard.

I think the question still is valid. Which school has a good track record in college admissions. Maybe not Harvard but let’s say a top public university.

All the area schools have solid college admissions results, exactly how “good” is going to be entirely subjective unless you start applying metrics like top 10 or Ivy, at which point you’re back to the crapshoot problem.

Remove the legacy kids from your statistics.

It doesn’t matter when looking at overall admissions. All the kids get in somewhere to perfectly good colleges. It’s when you start looking at elite college results that it’s meaningless—with or without legacy, because of how minuscule the number of admits are to those schools. Hence my point, don’t pick a high school because you think it will increase your kid’s chance of getting into an Ivy. It won’t. The Ivy-attending kids would have gotten into an Ivy from any HS they attended.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League admissions are entirely a crapshoot. Don’t try to pick a HS because you think it will help your kid get into Harvard.

I think the question still is valid. Which school has a good track record in college admissions. Maybe not Harvard but let’s say a top public university.

All the area schools have solid college admissions results, exactly how “good” is going to be entirely subjective unless you start applying metrics like top 10 or Ivy, at which point you’re back to the crapshoot problem.

Remove the legacy kids from your statistics.

You local HS. Your kid will outshine any of them so they'll be a shoo in everywhere. Best wishes!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League admissions are entirely a crapshoot. Don’t try to pick a HS because you think it will help your kid get into Harvard.

I think the question still is valid. Which school has a good track record in college admissions. Maybe not Harvard but let’s say a top public university.

All the area schools have solid college admissions results, exactly how “good” is going to be entirely subjective unless you start applying metrics like top 10 or Ivy, at which point you’re back to the crapshoot problem.

I strongly suspect that OP is the same AI bot that posts overly flowery wanna-be controversial click-bait. That said, if I'm wrong, do you own research and come to your own conclusion. Here is all you need:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1251590.page

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League admissions are entirely a crapshoot. Don’t try to pick a HS because you think it will help your kid get into Harvard.

I think the question still is valid. Which school has a good track record in college admissions. Maybe not Harvard but let’s say a top public university.

Ivy League admissions are entirely a crapshoot. Don’t try to pick a HS because you think it will help your kid get into Harvard.

I’ve noticed that many expensive private schools showcase impressive admission results to Ivy League universities, but the statistics can be misleading since a large share of those students benefit from legacy admissions. Which private schools have a strong record of Ivy League placements when legacy admissions are excluded?