Anonymous
04/05/2023 08:25
Subject: List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
The most impressive thing here is that NCS and STA don’t have pages. Good for them.
Why? What are they hiding?
Some people just want more privacy.
Anonymous
04/05/2023 08:24
Subject: List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:
The most impressive thing here is that NCS and STA don’t have pages. Good for them.
Why? What are they hiding?
Anonymous
04/05/2023 08:22
Subject: List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again, the level of effort is what makes it stalkery. Not whether the information is publicly available.
And there is a difference between (a) public records that are generated automatically for everyone vs. (b) a special page that requires proactive effort to share your announcement.
If you have basic working knowledge of social media, it requires minimal effort to find these pages. Again, it’s the modern version of reading it in your local paper. Students are very obviously posting it for public consumption. Enough with the pearl clutching over this!
It takes effort to find these pages because you're not part of the school community audience and the IG handle isn't intended to be shared with you. So merely taking the effort to "sleuth" for it, like doing Google background checks, is just plain creepy.
NP. Disagree. This is pure marketing fodder intended for public consumption.
Anonymous
04/05/2023 07:58
Subject: List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again, the level of effort is what makes it stalkery. Not whether the information is publicly available.
And there is a difference between (a) public records that are generated automatically for everyone vs. (b) a special page that requires proactive effort to share your announcement.
If you have basic working knowledge of social media, it requires minimal effort to find these pages. Again, it’s the modern version of reading it in your local paper. Students are very obviously posting it for public consumption. Enough with the pearl clutching over this!
It takes effort to find these pages because you're not part of the school community audience and the IG handle isn't intended to be shared with you. So merely taking the effort to "sleuth" for it, like doing Google background checks, is just plain creepy.
Anonymous
04/05/2023 07:45
Subject: List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:
The most impressive thing here is that NCS and STA don’t have pages. Good for them.
They do usually. NCS usually waits until closer to May
Anonymous
04/05/2023 03:42
Subject: Re:List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:mcleancommits2023
langleycommits2023
The strong publics MCPS and FCPS seem comparable to the privates. One big difference is that many public school kids pick the strong public colleges like UMD, UVA, VT and W&M. Those kids could probably have gone to some more expensive privates.
There is no basis for making that statement other than your intense desire that it be true.
Not really. We are zoned for McLean and will be sending our kids to private starting next year.
Anonymous
04/04/2023 23:57
Subject: List of Insta matriculation pages?
The kids post it for their peers and the flexes. Funny how the adults are justifying the creeping.
Anonymous
04/04/2023 23:46
Subject: List of Insta matriculation pages?
The most impressive thing here is that NCS and STA don’t have pages. Good for them.
Anonymous
04/04/2023 23:42
Subject: Re:List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:mcleancommits2023
langleycommits2023
The strong publics MCPS and FCPS seem comparable to the privates. One big difference is that many public school kids pick the strong public colleges like UMD, UVA, VT and W&M. Those kids could probably have gone to some more expensive privates.
There is no basis for making that statement other than your intense desire that it be true.
Anonymous
04/04/2023 23:39
Subject: Re:List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm just not seeing a huge difference between privates and between privates and the wealthiest/magnet/application publics.
If you see the difference, can you please explain it to me?
The difference is pretty huge when you adjust for the class sizes. Whitman has 450+ students per class and most top privates have 80-120. So take whatever measure you want and see whether Whitman or other similarly sized wealthy public’s are doing 4x better. Not even close.
Yeah…that is really weak analysis. Considering privates are curating their class vs taking the first 120 that walk in the door you can’t say Whitman should somehow have 4X the admits. Even comparing the top 120 at Whitman vs a private isn’t exactly fair, but at least somewhat comparable.
Lmao what?? There’s no test by which private schools could prove their value to you, clearly.
Not lmao. Np here.
Pp you don’t seem to understand that the point is a child who would get into a selective private school will fair just as well at a Whitman-like public as they will be in the top part of the class and the College acceptances for the top part of the class of any dmv hs is similar to overall selective private outcomes. This is obvious now.
Yeah and significant percentage got into those schools when they were five years old.
Anonymous
04/04/2023 22:43
Subject: Re:List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm just not seeing a huge difference between privates and between privates and the wealthiest/magnet/application publics.
If you see the difference, can you please explain it to me?
The difference is pretty huge when you adjust for the class sizes. Whitman has 450+ students per class and most top privates have 80-120. So take whatever measure you want and see whether Whitman or other similarly sized wealthy public’s are doing 4x better. Not even close.
Yeah…that is really weak analysis. Considering privates are curating their class vs taking the first 120 that walk in the door you can’t say Whitman should somehow have 4X the admits. Even comparing the top 120 at Whitman vs a private isn’t exactly fair, but at least somewhat comparable.
Lmao what?? There’s no test by which private schools could prove their value to you, clearly.
Not lmao. Np here.
Pp you don’t seem to understand that the point is a child who would get into a selective private school will fair just as well at a Whitman-like public as they will be in the top part of the class and the College acceptances for the top part of the class of any dmv hs is similar to overall selective private outcomes. This is obvious now.
It’s actually not. But you’ll then claim that the reason privates do better is because of the greater amount of hooked kids.
Anonymous
04/04/2023 22:29
Subject: List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:There’s something really creepy about this. Sorta hope Jeff deletes.
If your so creeped out about people discussing social media made available to the public, stay out of this topic.
Anonymous
04/04/2023 22:15
Subject: Re:List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm just not seeing a huge difference between privates and between privates and the wealthiest/magnet/application publics.
If you see the difference, can you please explain it to me?
The difference is pretty huge when you adjust for the class sizes. Whitman has 450+ students per class and most top privates have 80-120. So take whatever measure you want and see whether Whitman or other similarly sized wealthy public’s are doing 4x better. Not even close.
Yeah…that is really weak analysis. Considering privates are curating their class vs taking the first 120 that walk in the door you can’t say Whitman should somehow have 4X the admits. Even comparing the top 120 at Whitman vs a private isn’t exactly fair, but at least somewhat comparable.
Lmao what?? There’s no test by which private schools could prove their value to you, clearly.
Not lmao. Np here.
Pp you don’t seem to understand that the point is a child who would get into a selective private school will fair just as well at a Whitman-like public as they will be in the top part of the class and the College acceptances for the top part of the class of any dmv hs is similar to overall selective private outcomes. This is obvious now.
Anonymous
04/04/2023 21:54
Subject: Re:List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm just not seeing a huge difference between privates and between privates and the wealthiest/magnet/application publics.
If you see the difference, can you please explain it to me?
The difference is pretty huge when you adjust for the class sizes. Whitman has 450+ students per class and most top privates have 80-120. So take whatever measure you want and see whether Whitman or other similarly sized wealthy public’s are doing 4x better. Not even close.
Yeah…that is really weak analysis. Considering privates are curating their class vs taking the first 120 that walk in the door you can’t say Whitman should somehow have 4X the admits. Even comparing the top 120 at Whitman vs a private isn’t exactly fair, but at least somewhat comparable.
Lmao what?? There’s no test by which private schools could prove their value to you, clearly.
Anonymous
04/04/2023 21:53
Subject: Re:List of Insta matriculation pages?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm just not seeing a huge difference between privates and between privates and the wealthiest/magnet/application publics.
If you see the difference, can you please explain it to me?
The difference is pretty huge when you adjust for the class sizes. Whitman has 450+ students per class and most top privates have 80-120. So take whatever measure you want and see whether Whitman or other similarly sized wealthy public’s are doing 4x better. Not even close.
Yeah…that is really weak analysis. Considering privates are curating their class vs taking the first 120 that walk in the door you can’t say Whitman should somehow have 4X the admits. Even comparing the top 120 at Whitman vs a private isn’t exactly fair, but at least somewhat comparable.