Anonymous wrote:Has anybody got any insider info on this year's results yet? STA parents are welcome to comment.

The word is not as impressive as last year. I haven't seen all of the details, so I'd expect the final college placement list is still strong, but less stellar as a whole.

How is NCS doing by comparison? Anyone?

Anonymous wrote:Let's just say that the Harvard admissions data for SAT class of 2013 is as spectacular as the last year's. STA is on a roll.

Sorry, I meant STA, not SAT!

Let's just say that the Harvard admissions data for SAT class of 2013 is as spectacular as the last year's. STA is on a roll.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anybody got any insider info on this year's results yet? STA parents are welcome to comment.

Why the curiosity? There's a fair amount of info about some prior years available, what does another yearly snapshot contribute to the discussion?

Not PP. But it's interesting to see the trends. Last year, for example, was a banner year. In years where you see other independent schools dipping, it says something about another school when it's rising or at least staying constant in terms of college placement.

Anonymous wrote:Has anybody got any insider info on this year's results yet? STA parents are welcome to comment.

Why the curiosity? There's a fair amount of info about some prior years available, what does another yearly snapshot contribute to the discussion?

Has anybody got any insider info on this year's results yet? STA parents are welcome to comment.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a link to the page from a prior thread that contains a post purporting to give the St. Albans matriculation list for 2012 (I eyeballed it and it looks accurate from what I can remember):

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/165/227610.page

Thank you, this information is very helpful. We chose St.Albans over a couple other New England and Mid-Atlantic boarding schools based on its excellent academics and outstanding matriculation data (which did outshine some big name schools like Choate, Deerfield, Hotchkiss).

St. Albans is very strong academically, both in terms of the cohort and the quality of instruction, and the college counseling is very good. The only thing that might be better about some of the big boarding schools is a greater selection of courses due to their larger size (as I recall Hotchkiss has something like 600 students and Choate is over 800?). St. Albans students can generally cross-register for courses at NCS (for example, Chinese is offered at NCS) so that helps to functionally expand the course offerings.

Anonymous wrote:Here's a link to the page from a prior thread that contains a post purporting to give the St. Albans matriculation list for 2012 (I eyeballed it and it looks accurate from what I can remember):

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/165/227610.page

Thank you, this information is very helpful. We chose St.Albans over a couple other New England and Mid-Atlantic boarding schools based on its excellent academics and outstanding matriculation data (which did outshine some big name schools like Choate, Deerfield, Hotchkiss).

Here's a link to the page from a prior thread that contains a post purporting to give the St. Albans matriculation list for 2012 (I eyeballed it and it looks accurate from what I can remember):

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/165/227610.page

Over the past 10 years many of the local elite private schools have stopped giving out detailed annual college info. They prefer to show schools that grads have gone to over the past 5 or 10 years, but don't say how many have gone to each school. This allows them to not have to defend why "x" number had to "settle" for bucknell (not picking on bucknell, just giving an example) and why only 1 has gone to say stanford. As there is more parity between other privates as well as several strong publics, the traditional elites don't want to get into a numbers race and risk looking bad.

Many of the ED results may actually be Early Action or Single Choice Early Action. The ED applicants are pretty much committed to matriculating if accepted. But the EA and SCEA applicants can wait until Regular Decisions finish trickling out to decide where to matriculate, based on financial aid offers or if, say, Stanford accepted someone in addition to the SCEA acceptances he already has in his pocket from Yale. So the actual matriculation list is probably far from being finalized.

Just pointing out that regular decisions are trickling out over the next few weeks, and kids have until May 1 to decide. So for this year's class, the honest answer would be "nobody knows".

Several STA parents have posted here claiming the ED college results are great, and I have no reason to doubt them. But no one has provided any clear data on the whole class, like you are requesting. They post just highlights about the most positive results.

I anticipate you may need to ask the STA college counselors directly if you want real data. And they might not even provide it to you unless your son is close to college application time.

Does anyone have STA's college matriculation data for recent years? I tried to find them on the forum but to no avail.

It seems that STA doesn't publish its year by year data online. Their college counseling website only listed either the names of the colleges (without matriculation numbers) or several schools (IVYs and other big name schools) with the number of students from the past five years. (But according to prepreview.com and matriculationstats.org rankings they have an astounding record)

How is the Class of 13 looking so far? I heard the results from ED was very impressive.

I am not from the US but my son is attending STA next year as a boarding student.