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Anonymous

12/15/2024 23:15 Subject: HS college commitment websites

HW really shows how athletic recruiting favors wealthy kids

Anonymous

12/15/2024 22:56 Subject: Re:HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait till they hear about Harvard-Westlake

HW family here. I don't think I've ever seen one of these for HW but have for other LA privates (DC has a lot of friends + their siblings at other schools).

Now, you have.
HW has an IG page too:
https://www.instagram.com/hw24commits?igsh=cml5b2Z4bWJiOXJq

Am I missing something? These look downright average?

Anonymous

12/15/2024 22:54 Subject: Re:HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait till they hear about Harvard-Westlake

HW family here. I don't think I've ever seen one of these for HW but have for other LA privates (DC has a lot of friends + their siblings at other schools).

Now, you have.
HW has an IG page too:
https://www.instagram.com/hw24commits?igsh=cml5b2Z4bWJiOXJq

And here’s the brand new c/o ‘25 IG page:
https://www.instagram.com/hw25collegecommits?igsh=NTBra2xibWI0dzI0

Anonymous

12/15/2024 22:52 Subject: Re:HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait till they hear about Harvard-Westlake

HW family here. I don't think I've ever seen one of these for HW but have for other LA privates (DC has a lot of friends + their siblings at other schools).

Now, you have.
HW has an IG page too:
https://www.instagram.com/hw24commits?igsh=cml5b2Z4bWJiOXJq

Anonymous

12/15/2024 22:42 Subject: HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People, stop. These are supposed to be for the kids and friends/family, not a bunch of parent vultures.

You’re wrong about this. They’d make the pages private if they didn’t want anyone looking. They want them to be seen.

Nope. Not for the public school families. Our kids go to large schools. These can't be private or they would be too much to manage. But, they were not intended for creeping/stalker types. Leave these kids alone.

Anonymous

12/15/2024 22:37 Subject: Re:HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:wait till they hear about Harvard-Westlake

HW family here. I don't think I've ever seen one of these for HW but have for other LA privates (DC has a lot of friends + their siblings at other schools).

Anonymous

12/15/2024 22:26 Subject: HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I noticed and I HATE HATE HATE is that the Big 3 matriculations are overwhelmingly to selective, PRIVATE schools. So these students will never, ever have to mingle with regular public school students. How would they ever know what it means to be an average, everyday person????

Some of that is due to the admissions process. Private colleges and universities tend to understand rigorous, tough grading, fewer AP’s etc. the larger public colleges have more “cuts” based on gpa. Number of AP’s etc. Many Big 3 students fare better with admissions to private schools than to the large state schools.

Perhaps that has something to do with it. However, most of the students and parents I’ve spoken with at my children’s Big 3 school strongly prefer private colleges. I only hear public colleges spoken of occasionally—and it’s rarely mentioned as a first choice.

Anonymous

12/15/2024 21:32 Subject: HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:Updated.

Private Schools

D.C.

Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2025/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors25/
Maret: https://www.instagram.com/maret.frogs2025/
Field: https://www.instagram.com/fieldgrads25/
Burke: https://www.instagram.com/burkeseniors/
St. Albans—(Usually no page)
NCS—(Usually in the Spring)

Maryland

Bullis: https://www.instagram.com/bullis.seniors25
Stone Ridge: https://www.instagram.com/srseniors2025/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2025/

Virginia

Potomac: http://www.instagram.com/potomacdecisions_2025

Public Schools

D.C.

Jackson Reed: https://www.instagram.com/jacksonreed_2025/

Maryland

Bethesda-Chevy Chase: https://www.instagram.com/bccdecisions25/
Einstein: https://www.instagram.com/farewelltitans25/
Gaithersburg: https://www.instagram.com/gburgcommits25/
Montgomery Blair: https://www.instagram.com/blaircommits25/
Richard Montgomery: https://www.instagram.com/blastoffrockets25/
Thomas S Wootton: https://www.instagram.com/peaceoutpatriots25/
Walt Whitman: https://www.instagram.com/vikingdestinations2025/
Winston Churchill: https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebulldog25/
Walter Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/wherethewildcatsgo2025/

Virginia

McLean: https://www.instagram.com/mcleancommits2025/
Thomas Jefferson: https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations/
Fairfax: https://www.instagram.com/fairfaxseniors2025/

Anonymous

12/15/2024 19:35 Subject: Re:HS college commitment websites

And Arlington:

Yorktown: https://www.instagram.com/yhsdecisions2025?igsh=MXAxbHM4Mnk5M29hbA==

Washington-Liberty: https://www.instagram.com/wldecisions25?igsh=MWU0enNwNTk4OXgy

Wakefield: https://www.instagram.com/whsdecisions25?igsh=MXh4c2Vkdm1hOTllbQ==

Anonymous

12/15/2024 18:51 Subject: Re:HS college commitment websites

Thank you to the above poster for compiling!

Anonymous

12/15/2024 18:50 Subject: HS college commitment websites

Anonymous

12/15/2024 18:47 Subject: HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:One thing I noticed and I HATE HATE HATE is that the Big 3 matriculations are overwhelmingly to selective, PRIVATE schools. So these students will never, ever have to mingle with regular public school students. How would they ever know what it means to be an average, everyday person????

You must hate that the BCC and Whitman kids go overwhelmingly to select PRIVATE schools then. Take a look at their instagram pages.

Anonymous

12/15/2024 18:36 Subject: HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I noticed and I HATE HATE HATE is that the Big 3 matriculations are overwhelmingly to selective, PRIVATE schools. So these students will never, ever have to mingle with regular public school students. How would they ever know what it means to be an average, everyday person????

Some of that is due to the admissions process. Private colleges and universities tend to understand rigorous, tough grading, fewer AP’s etc. the larger public colleges have more “cuts” based on gpa. Number of AP’s etc. Many Big 3 students fare better with admissions to private schools than to the large state schools.

+1. At our big 3 students have a hard time getting in to the large publics. The LAC’s love them though. They don’t have 15 AP’s and weighted gpa’s.

Anonymous

12/15/2024 18:33 Subject: HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:People, stop. These are supposed to be for the kids and friends/family, not a bunch of parent vultures.

You’re wrong about this. They’d make the pages private if they didn’t want anyone looking. They want them to be seen.

Anonymous

12/15/2024 18:32 Subject: HS college commitment websites

Anonymous wrote:One thing I noticed and I HATE HATE HATE is that the Big 3 matriculations are overwhelmingly to selective, PRIVATE schools. So these students will never, ever have to mingle with regular public school students. How would they ever know what it means to be an average, everyday person????

Some of that is due to the admissions process. Private colleges and universities tend to understand rigorous, tough grading, fewer AP’s etc. the larger public colleges have more “cuts” based on gpa. Number of AP’s etc. Many Big 3 students fare better with admissions to private schools than to the large state schools.