Anonymous
07/13/2014 09:19
Subject: Re:Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Don't legacies factor into the Harvard acceptances? Hard to believe it doesn't. MANY of the DC schools have strong legazies.
Legacies do figure in, but IME many of the DC area public and private schools have tons of parents who went to very competitive colleges. In my DS's class at a MCPS elementary school, there are three parents who were in the same class at Harvard, and more who were in different classes.
Anonymous
07/12/2014 21:36
Subject: Re:Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Don't legacies factor into the Harvard acceptances? Hard to believe it doesn't. MANY of the DC schools have strong legazies.
Anonymous
07/12/2014 21:14
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
The bottom line is that GDS doesn't need the Obamas or anyone else for its students to be extremely competitive in admissions to Harvard and the Top Ivys.
The same is true for every private school in the area. They all have some students at top schools, including Harvard. None gives the child an edge.
To be sure, there are many good private schools in the DC area and a lot of their graduates are pretty successful. But when you take super-talented, smart kids, simply amazing teachers and a distinctive culture it yields fantastic results in terms of educational attainment and Ivy admissions.
Are you actually trying to say that GDS grads are different in meaningful ways from the grads of Sidwell, or STA/NCS, or Potomac, Maret, etc in terms of educational attainment and Ivy admissions? Because I just don't see it (and clearly others don't either).
This is just the same old pot-stirrer. At this point it is clear s/he is just trying to rile people up. Better to let it die.
Anonymous
07/12/2014 21:02
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
The bottom line is that GDS doesn't need the Obamas or anyone else for its students to be extremely competitive in admissions to Harvard and the Top Ivys.
The same is true for every private school in the area. They all have some students at top schools, including Harvard. None gives the child an edge.
To be sure, there are many good private schools in the DC area and a lot of their graduates are pretty successful. But when you take super-talented, smart kids, simply amazing teachers and a distinctive culture it yields fantastic results in terms of educational attainment and Ivy admissions.
Are you actually trying to say that GDS grads are different in meaningful ways from the grads of Sidwell, or STA/NCS, or Potomac, Maret, etc in terms of educational attainment and Ivy admissions? Because I just don't see it (and clearly others don't either).
Anonymous
07/12/2014 15:16
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
The bottom line is that GDS doesn't need the Obamas or anyone else for its students to be extremely competitive in admissions to Harvard and the Top Ivys.
The same is true for every private school in the area. They all have some students at top schools, including Harvard. None gives the child an edge.
To be sure, there are many good private schools in the DC area and a lot of their graduates are pretty successful. But when you take super-talented, smart kids, simply amazing teachers and a distinctive culture it yields fantastic results in terms of educational attainment and Ivy admissions.
Give it a rest, GDS Trooster* (combination of Troll and Booster). You can say "fantastic results" all you want but GDS doesn't make the matriculation info public (which is perfectly reasonable) so there's nothing but your repeated assertions.
Anonymous
07/12/2014 15:13
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
Touche (or is it Touchet?)
Hee her good one.
Anonymous
07/12/2014 14:58
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
The bottom line is that GDS doesn't need the Obamas or anyone else for its students to be extremely competitive in admissions to Harvard and the Top Ivys.
The same is true for every private school in the area. They all have some students at top schools, including Harvard. None gives the child an edge.
To be sure, there are many good private schools in the DC area and a lot of their graduates are pretty successful. But when you take super-talented, smart kids, simply amazing teachers and a distinctive culture it yields fantastic results in terms of educational attainment and Ivy admissions.
Anonymous
07/12/2014 08:21
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
The bottom line is that GDS doesn't need the Obamas or anyone else for its students to be extremely competitive in admissions to Harvard and the Top Ivys.
The same is true for every private school in the area. They all have some students at top schools, including Harvard. None gives the child an edge.
Anonymous
07/12/2014 07:50
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
The bottom line is that GDS doesn't need the Obamas or anyone else for its students to be extremely competitive in admissions to Harvard and the Top Ivys.
Anonymous
07/12/2014 06:40
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
Touche (or is it Touchet?)
touché
Anonymous
07/12/2014 06:36
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
http://grammarist.com/usage/cache-cachet/
Anonymous
07/11/2014 22:21
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
Touche (or is it Touchet?)
Anonymous
07/11/2014 19:13
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
1. Sounds like more sour grapes.
2. "Cachet"
Anonymous
07/11/2014 11:30
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
The cache of having Obama's kids at a school ain't what it used to be. Just saying.
Anonymous
07/11/2014 10:31
Subject: Which DC area private school have the highest acceptances to Harvard?
Anonymous wrote:I heard the Obamas were really interested in Maret until they realized the white columns had unfortunate associations and would make for unfortunate photos. Seriously, I read that right here on DCUM a few years ago, so it must be true, right?
That's really funny, since there aren't any big white columns on the federal building the POTUS lives in called the White House! So many unfortunate photos of the Obamas on the South Portico these past few years.