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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell parent here....you "scam" parents are awful. I feel for your children if you are sending/supporting these same sorts of messages to your children regarding college admissions.

Give it a rest. You didn’t pull your kid from a solid public school with the hopes of Tulane being the outcome. 55k. Please

Why is Tulane so bad?

It’s not. But it’s an outcome that doesn’t require a $220,000 investment.

This. Is. The. Problem. Too many people view a college like Tulane as a less than worthy consolation prize.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell parent here....you "scam" parents are awful. I feel for your children if you are sending/supporting these same sorts of messages to your children regarding college admissions.

Give it a rest. You didn’t pull your kid from a solid public school with the hopes of Tulane being the outcome. 55k. Please

Why is Tulane so bad?

It’s not. But it’s an outcome that doesn’t require a $220,000 investment.

I am the above PP you are telling to give a rest. My investment is NOT in college acceptances, it's in my child's HS education. So, yes, I would STILL be happy with my child attending Tulane (and I say this with a high achieving child). I am not obsessed with Ivy's. My child will find their way and succeed where ever they go to college.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell parent here....you "scam" parents are awful. I feel for your children if you are sending/supporting these same sorts of messages to your children regarding college admissions.

Give it a rest. You didn’t pull your kid from a solid public school with the hopes of Tulane being the outcome. 55k. Please

I would be perfectly fine with my child attending Tulane - you do you (and good luck with that).

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is a scam. They admit the parents and situation. The kid is a byproduct.

Funny how the vast majority of Sidwell parents went to Ivy or other too schools. Thus assuring the legacy bump the child would have received from any school.

If the parent isn’t from an Ivy or other too school, you can bet the child is a URM, first in family to go to college or exceptional athlete.

The admissions office stacks the deck. These children would have had the same outcome from any school in the DMV.

But a scam is a scam.

This. And if your kid / parent isn’t one of these categories, they are most certainly full pay financing the other categories. Tulane here you come.

And TJ still has much better admissions to top colleges/universities without legacy, connections and donations.

Some of TJ admissions for 2022:

8 Harvard
7 Stanford
9 Princeton
15 MIT
12 UChicago
14 Duke
14 NW
18 Berkeley
18 Cornell
57 CMU
78 Michigan
79 W&M

They do look better than SWF college results.

Those are acceptances, not matriculations., How many of those are the same students applying to multiple schools? And how does anyone know ACTUALLY, how many kids were accepted? Do you all keep a spreadsheet or something? or has the college guidance office actually disclosed this?

of course you only have acceptances at this time and won't have matriculations until June or July.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is a scam. They admit the parents and situation. The kid is a byproduct.

Funny how the vast majority of Sidwell parents went to Ivy or other too schools. Thus assuring the legacy bump the child would have received from any school.

If the parent isn’t from an Ivy or other too school, you can bet the child is a URM, first in family to go to college or exceptional athlete.

The admissions office stacks the deck. These children would have had the same outcome from any school in the DMV.

But a scam is a scam.

This. And if your kid / parent isn’t one of these categories, they are most certainly full pay financing the other categories. Tulane here you come.

And TJ still has much better admissions to top colleges/universities without legacy, connections and donations.

Some of TJ admissions for 2022:

8 Harvard
7 Stanford
9 Princeton
15 MIT
12 UChicago
14 Duke
14 NW
18 Berkeley
18 Cornell
57 CMU
78 Michigan
79 W&M

They do look better than SWF college results.

Those are acceptances, not matriculations., How many of those are the same students applying to multiple schools? And how does anyone know ACTUALLY, how many kids were accepted? Do you all keep a spreadsheet or something? or has the college guidance office actually disclosed this?

hey now, when user "Anonymous' posts something on DCUM, you can take that to the bank. 100% iron clad guarantee that it's true.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is a scam. They admit the parents and situation. The kid is a byproduct.

Funny how the vast majority of Sidwell parents went to Ivy or other too schools. Thus assuring the legacy bump the child would have received from any school.

If the parent isn’t from an Ivy or other too school, you can bet the child is a URM, first in family to go to college or exceptional athlete.

The admissions office stacks the deck. These children would have had the same outcome from any school in the DMV.

But a scam is a scam.

This. And if your kid / parent isn’t one of these categories, they are most certainly full pay financing the other categories. Tulane here you come.

And TJ still has much better admissions to top colleges/universities without legacy, connections and donations.

Some of TJ admissions for 2022:

8 Harvard
7 Stanford
9 Princeton
15 MIT
12 UChicago
14 Duke
14 NW
18 Berkeley
18 Cornell
57 CMU
78 Michigan
79 W&M

They do look better than SWF college results.

Those are acceptances, not matriculations., How many of those are the same students applying to multiple schools? And how does anyone know ACTUALLY, how many kids were accepted? Do you all keep a spreadsheet or something? or has the college guidance office actually disclosed this?

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell parent here....you "scam" parents are awful. I feel for your children if you are sending/supporting these same sorts of messages to your children regarding college admissions.

Give it a rest. You didn’t pull your kid from a solid public school with the hopes of Tulane being the outcome. 55k. Please

Why is Tulane so bad?

It’s not. But it’s an outcome that doesn’t require a $220,000 investment.

The investment is in your kids education, not in what school they are attending. There is simply no way any high school, particularly in a test-optional, grade-inflation era, to guarantee any sort of outcomes for college applications.

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Anonymous wrote:Calling it a scam is so hyperbolic.

No one claims going to a school like Sidwell means the golden path to an Ivy League school.

What it does provide is a solid, foundational education. Period.

Looking at this years class list, it is very impressive to where the kids are going to college. Same with GDS and Maret.

Just because there aren't 100 kids out of 130 going to Ivies doesn't make it a scam. The kids are all going to fine schools and have a great educational background from which to launch whatever comes next.

Ok. But they fit into one of several buckets. Let’s be honest.

1 URM
2 Financial hardship
3 legacy
4 athlete

Yes if you are top 3 in your class, perhaps there is an exception. You did not have a social life.

It’s a scam.

You can keep posting that and telling yourself that, but it simply isn't true. Yes, there are kids who fall in those catgories going to Ivies. Guess what...there are also kids outside of those categories who are also going to ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is a scam. They admit the parents and situation. The kid is a byproduct.

Funny how the vast majority of Sidwell parents went to Ivy or other too schools. Thus assuring the legacy bump the child would have received from any school.

If the parent isn’t from an Ivy or other too school, you can bet the child is a URM, first in family to go to college or exceptional athlete.

The admissions office stacks the deck. These children would have had the same outcome from any school in the DMV.

But a scam is a scam.

This. And if your kid / parent isn’t one of these categories, they are most certainly full pay financing the other categories. Tulane here you come.

And TJ still has much better admissions to top colleges/universities without legacy, connections and donations.

Some of TJ admissions for 2022:

8 Harvard
7 Stanford
9 Princeton
15 MIT
12 UChicago
14 Duke
14 NW
18 Berkeley
18 Cornell
57 CMU
78 Michigan
79 W&M

They do look better than SWF college results.

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This is now complete outdated. With the new criteria post covid woke-ism era, every internship has to demonstrate that it is NOT elitist. This means the benefits from attending an elite institution going forward are greatly diminished.

You're an idiot. Applications are at an all time high yields are also high as more kids apply ED and acceptance rates for most elite schools are below 15%.

How long before people realize acceptance rate means very little and maybe nothing? If you have 10,000 unqualified people apply, bingo! You have a low acceptance rate. It doesn't mean anything.

U Chicago encourages unqualified students to apply. More money for Chicago and a lower acceptance rate. Then: Higher rankings and people here talking about how "competitive" it is.

I throw out all the U Chicago mail as soon as I see it.

USN&WR has not used acceptance rate in its rankings for several years now. But don’t let facts get in the way of your beliefs or anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell parent here....you "scam" parents are awful. I feel for your children if you are sending/supporting these same sorts of messages to your children regarding college admissions.

Give it a rest. You didn’t pull your kid from a solid public school with the hopes of Tulane being the outcome. 55k. Please

Why is Tulane so bad?

It’s not. But it’s an outcome that doesn’t require a $220,000 investment.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell parent here....you "scam" parents are awful. I feel for your children if you are sending/supporting these same sorts of messages to your children regarding college admissions.

Give it a rest. You didn’t pull your kid from a solid public school with the hopes of Tulane being the outcome. 55k. Please

Why is Tulane so bad?

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell parent here....you "scam" parents are awful. I feel for your children if you are sending/supporting these same sorts of messages to your children regarding college admissions.

Give it a rest. You didn’t pull your kid from a solid public school with the hopes of Tulane being the outcome. 55k. Please

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is a scam. They admit the parents and situation. The kid is a byproduct.

Funny how the vast majority of Sidwell parents went to Ivy or other too schools. Thus assuring the legacy bump the child would have received from any school.

If the parent isn’t from an Ivy or other too school, you can bet the child is a URM, first in family to go to college or exceptional athlete.

The admissions office stacks the deck. These children would have had the same outcome from any school in the DMV.

But a scam is a scam.

This. And if your kid / parent isn’t one of these categories, they are most certainly full pay financing the other categories. Tulane here you come.

And TJ still has much better admissions to top colleges/universities without legacy, connections and donations.

Some of TJ admissions for 2022:

8 Harvard
7 Stanford
9 Princeton
15 MIT
12 UChicago
14 Duke
14 NW
18 Berkeley
18 Cornell
57 CMU
78 Michigan
79 W&M

And congratulations to TJ kids. The parents suck though.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is a scam. They admit the parents and situation. The kid is a byproduct.

Funny how the vast majority of Sidwell parents went to Ivy or other too schools. Thus assuring the legacy bump the child would have received from any school.

If the parent isn’t from an Ivy or other too school, you can bet the child is a URM, first in family to go to college or exceptional athlete.

The admissions office stacks the deck. These children would have had the same outcome from any school in the DMV.

But a scam is a scam.

This. And if your kid / parent isn’t one of these categories, they are most certainly full pay financing the other categories. Tulane here you come.

I agree with this.
We're in the "sucker" category. Academically top kid but no hook: not legacy, URM or recruit.
I watched it play out this year. It was more apparent than ever that my kid will get into a worse college by attending Sidwell than he would have by attending public school.

I'm sorry you feel this way and I can hear the disappointment and pain in your post.

Although my senior was admitted to one of their top choice schools, many similar high achieving classmates were in your child's position. This year, more than any other, top grades and scores were just table stakes. A 4.0 or a top SAT score was no guarantee of success. Having high stats meant your child landed in the right pile for consideration but internships, writing samples, recommendations, ECs and other interests separated the rejections from the acceptances. It was quite simply a very tough and unprecedented admissions cycle.

Ultimately, all of these kids are all headed to good schools. Even if your child is disappointed and headed to a safety or target school, they are in good company. Embrace it, they'll be fine.

A word of caution, don't be one of the parents who down talks the kids who had great outcomes. It's a very bad look and everyone hears about it.