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Anonymous wrote:Um, nope. This year there were plenty of disappointed girls going to their safety schools. Sure connected girls will always get into an ivy on their legacy status, but the "regular" girl at Holton, not so much.

What's a "safety" school for your typical Holton grad?

pure speculation here; maybe some didn't opt on their first choice due to finances so it's not reflected on that list..

safety on that list could be, UM, Tulane, Howard, Spellman, PennSt and Emory +

You think Emory is a safety school? Are you a total moron?

I'm not the PP you're addressing, but, you know, there are maybe 3-5 schools in the country that are not safeties for somebody. That said, of the schools mentioned by the PP, Emory and Michigan are very strong schools that are safeties for kids applying to schools in the top 10, yes.

lol..^ get what I'm saying, and oh, I meant Maryland not UM, sorry.

I expect this type of thread from the uber competitive NCS moms, but it's disappointing to see Sidwell and Holton moms join in.

Any parent who needs the vicarious accomplishment of a child's classmates to validate their choice of school for their child needs help. Really.

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Anonymous wrote:Um, nope. This year there were plenty of disappointed girls going to their safety schools. Sure connected girls will always get into an ivy on their legacy status, but the "regular" girl at Holton, not so much.

What's a "safety" school for your typical Holton grad?

pure speculation here; maybe some didn't opt on their first choice due to finances so it's not reflected on that list..

safety on that list could be, UM, Tulane, Howard, Spellman, PennSt and Emory +

You think Emory is a safety school? Are you a total moron?

I'm not the PP you're addressing, but, you know, there are maybe 3-5 schools in the country that are not safeties for somebody. That said, of the schools mentioned by the PP, Emory and Michigan are very strong schools that are safeties for kids applying to schools in the top 10, yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Um, nope. This year there were plenty of disappointed girls going to their safety schools. Sure connected girls will always get into an ivy on their legacy status, but the "regular" girl at Holton, not so much.

What's a "safety" school for your typical Holton grad?

pure speculation here; maybe some didn't opt on their first choice due to finances so it's not reflected on that list..

safety on that list could be, UM, Tulane, Howard, Spellman, PennSt and Emory +

You think Emory is a safety school? Are you a total moron?

It is a fine list, but compared to STA/NCS, Sidwell and GDS the middle 50% seem to be going to schools that would be the bottom 25% at these other schools. This matches with the number of NMSFs/Presidential scholars at Holton vs the other top schools at least this year, but in these small schools, there can be a lot of variability from year to year, particularly for schools that start with PK/K like Sidwell/GDS, and 3rd or 4rth for Holton and NCS/StA. Kids mature at different rates, and apply themselves differently, hard to predict how a 5-9 year old will be performing in 7-10 years.

Though I'm not a Holton mom myself, I do love Holton mom for her unabashed pride in her DD's school.

And, you know, it's not a bad list at all -- looks like about 1/3 of the grads are going to schools ranked in US News Top 20 for either research universities or liberal arts colleges.

Anonymous wrote:Welcome back Holton mom.

+1. It's the disingenuous "how do they do it?" that gives it away. We've missed you!

Welcome back Holton mom.

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Anonymous wrote:Um, nope. This year there were plenty of disappointed girls going to their safety schools. Sure connected girls will always get into an ivy on their legacy status, but the "regular" girl at Holton, not so much.

What's a "safety" school for your typical Holton grad?

pure speculation here; maybe some didn't opt on their first choice due to finances so it's not reflected on that list..

safety on that list could be, UM, Tulane, Howard, Spellman, PennSt and Emory +

Anonymous wrote:Um, nope. This year there were plenty of disappointed girls going to their safety schools. Sure connected girls will always get into an ivy on their legacy status, but the "regular" girl at Holton, not so much.

What's a "safety" school for your typical Holton grad?

Go to the holton site, click on recent news, click on the commencement article and there is a link

Where did you see the list?

Just looked at the list -- there sure are a lot of good schools on there, even for the regular girls. And a solid number of Ivys too.

Um, nope. This year there were plenty of disappointed girls going to their safety schools. Sure connected girls will always get into an ivy on their legacy status, but the "regular" girl at Holton, not so much.

Holton college placement is great this year. What's their strategy? Even with college admission spots really tough, they did well.