Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the person with the 5 admits!
Nobody is asking for names of students or how many got rejected. We are looking for data on how many people from certain schools got into particular colleges. It's a legit question for people looking to apply to area HS as well as for those of us with kids in lower grades already. Chill out.

So, is the "6 GDS to Harvard" real or not?

Uh, not. The joke has run its course. Time to get some new material, people.

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Anonymous wrote:GDS got 6 into Harvard ED

That's pretty par for the course, although GDS has had even bettter years, too.

But none of them are going to go there, because GDS students found too many mistakes in the professors syllabi last year, right?

This would be comical if it weren't a bit sad. I have no connection with, GDS, but I do have a PhD from a HYPS school and did work as a professor. You are truly clueless if you believe that the road to success in any elite school is by passively ingesting the material presented by faculty. If you have successfully taught your kids to be passive learners, they have already lost the game at the higher levels. Critical engagement is the key. And sure, there are subtle and not so subtle ways of doing it, but those can easily be addressed in most contexts (unless they are overtly politicized).

At research schools professors are used to having their work robustly critiqued at faculty seminars and at conferences. Most would invite questions about potential gaps in the syllabus as a great opportunity to explain further how they have shaped the course. And if the questions were memorable in a good way, that will be very helpful to the student when it comes to letters of recommendation.

Congrats to the person with the 5 admits!
Nobody is asking for names of students or how many got rejected. We are looking for data on how many people from certain schools got into particular colleges. It's a legit question for people looking to apply to area HS as well as for those of us with kids in lower grades already. Chill out.

So, is the "6 GDS to Harvard" real or not?

The entire senior class at Maret was admired early to Harvard, thus finally answering the question of whether or not it is a "Big 3" school.

Anonymous wrote:DC was admitted to five private SLACs that DCUM'ers would turn their noses up at, with substantial merid aid packages - so will have lots of great choices, at prices comparable to in-state publics. DC would be happy at any one, so we are happy here!

To get those "substantial aid packages", have the parents filed the FAFSA and with financial aid at the colleges? Does anyone know of a financial aid counselor. DS has been accepted but we haven't even started the FAFSA.

Anonymous wrote:DC was admitted to five private SLACs that DCUM'ers would turn their noses up at, with substantial merid aid packages - so will have lots of great choices, at prices comparable to in-state publics. DC would be happy at any one, so we are happy here!

Great news and congrats! These are the posts we like to see (as opposed to the troll posting about all of the GDS Harvard admits!)

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Anonymous wrote:GDS got 6 into Harvard ED

That's pretty par for the course, although GDS has had even bettter years, too.

But none of them are going to go there, because GDS students found too many mistakes in the professors syllabi last year, right?

Anonymous wrote:GDS got 6 into Harvard ED

That's pretty par for the course, although GDS has had even bettter years, too.

Anonymous wrote:GDS got 6 into Harvard ED

Please just stop with the trolling. It's growing soooo tiring.

DC was admitted to five private SLACs that DCUM'ers would turn their noses up at, with substantial merid aid packages - so will have lots of great choices, at prices comparable to in-state publics. DC would be happy at any one, so we are happy here!

GDS got 6 into Harvard ED

Anonymous wrote:Kudos to those who have refrained from posting an answer to this. College admissions should not be a spectator sport. There are many, many seniors out there who have worked really hard and achieved great things. Some have gotten good news, some not. Even those who have gotten good news can't be completely joyous because they have empathy for those who did not. It is a stressful time for all of them. They are only 17 years old. The last thing any of them need is a bunch of people on an anonymous message board discussing their credentials and speculating on why the results turned out the way they did.

Anyway what are the results?

Kudos to those who have refrained from posting an answer to this. College admissions should not be a spectator sport. There are many, many seniors out there who have worked really hard and achieved great things. Some have gotten good news, some not. Even those who have gotten good news can't be completely joyous because they have empathy for those who did not. It is a stressful time for all of them. They are only 17 years old. The last thing any of them need is a bunch of people on an anonymous message board discussing their credentials and speculating on why the results turned out the way they did.

+1

interested in hearing about early decision and early action results for privates. thanks.