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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college admissions a disaster this year in the early round...parents are up in arms. For some reason GDS and St Albans are doing better, not great but OK. It's a strange year but worth noting Sidwell College admissions have been in flux for several years.

Really? I know of at least 30 kids from the grade who got in to their ED's. How is that a disaster?

Most kids who took the most challenge math and science courses didn't get in to their ED/EA.

Why? I don’t get why this group would not do well at ED vs the other kids?

Because they are going against TJ/Blair/Poolesville kids who have been coding Python since 6th.

No. Because of relatively lower unweight GPA as compared to the the students who took the less challenge courses. Sidwell's Math 1-4 is much difficult than the next level math. The students who couldn't perform Math 3 would switch to AP Calculus. The Most comparison is within the school, and is irrelevant to the other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college admissions a disaster this year in the early round...parents are up in arms. For some reason GDS and St Albans are doing better, not great but OK. It's a strange year but worth noting Sidwell College admissions have been in flux for several years.

Really? I know of at least 30 kids from the grade who got in to their ED's. How is that a disaster?

Most kids who took the most challenge math and science courses didn't get in to their ED/EA.

Why? I don’t get why this group would not do well at ED vs the other kids?

Because they are going against TJ/Blair/Poolesville kids who have been coding Python since 6th.

No. Because of relatively lower unweight GPA as compared to the the students who took the less challenge courses. Sidwell's Math 1-4 is much difficult than the next level math. The students who couldn't perform Math 3 would switch to AP Calculus. The Most comparison is within the school, and is irrelevant to the other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college admissions a disaster this year in the early round...parents are up in arms. For some reason GDS and St Albans are doing better, not great but OK. It's a strange year but worth noting Sidwell College admissions have been in flux for several years.

Really? I know of at least 30 kids from the grade who got in to their ED's. How is that a disaster?

Most kids who took the most challenge math and science courses didn't get in to their ED/EA.

Why? I don’t get why this group would not do well at ED vs the other kids?

Because they are going against TJ/Blair/Poolesville kids who have been coding Python since 6th.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college admissions a disaster this year in the early round...parents are up in arms. For some reason GDS and St Albans are doing better, not great but OK. It's a strange year but worth noting Sidwell College admissions have been in flux for several years.

Really? I know of at least 30 kids from the grade who got in to their ED's. How is that a disaster?

Most kids who took the most challenge math and science courses didn't get in to their ED/EA.

Why? I don’t get why this group would not do well at ED vs the other kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college admissions a disaster this year in the early round...parents are up in arms. For some reason GDS and St Albans are doing better, not great but OK. It's a strange year but worth noting Sidwell College admissions have been in flux for several years.

Really? I know of at least 30 kids from the grade who got in to their ED's. How is that a disaster?

Most kids who took the most challenge math and science courses didn't get in to their ED/EA.

Anonymous wrote:No one’s posts that at all. Schools have policies too

Anonymous wrote:One has a 5% admit rate and the other one a 8% chance of admission.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college admissions a disaster this year in the early round...parents are up in arms. For some reason GDS and St Albans are doing better, not great but OK. It's a strange year but worth noting Sidwell College admissions have been in flux for several years.

Really? I know of at least 30 kids from the grade who got in to their ED's. How is that a disaster?

Most kids who took the most challenge math and science courses didn't get in to their ED/EA.

what schools did they unsuccessfully apply to for EA/ED

It’s incredible that they would pretend to know which schools all of 60 kids have applied to and which they have been accepted to.

huh?
-It's all posted on social media by kids as soon as the results are out. Then they update their instagram heading: "Duke '26" or whatever. My kid in in 9th grade at a different Big3 and she and all her friends talk about where the seniors they know (and don't know) got in and where they didn't.
Granted, this is a bit nuts for a 9th grader to be thinking about but that is another conversation.
-also it sounds like the kids this poster is referring to is a group of about 15 in the highest math/science track and not a school-wide group of 60. Those 15 definitely know who got in and who did not get in.

Not everyone posts on social media like this at Sidwell. There was an Instagram with about 1/2 of that grade's college destination a few years ago - that wasn't until the end of the school year and I have never seen one since (but I may just not know what they named it). I know my kid wouldn't be posting all over social media for an EA/ED outcome and my kid would definitely not report it to us (parents) where others were applying/accepted/rejected. It's considered in poor taste in that friend group. (and in life!)

That's been our experience with our Sidwell senior as well, who did get in ED but is not blasting it over social media. Our kid will also only talk to us about a very small number of their good friends. There is a senior class instagram that has been set up this year but it is a private group and I doubt any parents are members or will be allowed in, and I doubt any kids have or will post ED results anyway (my kid has not). In that group that would be seen as bad form I think.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college admissions a disaster this year in the early round...parents are up in arms. For some reason GDS and St Albans are doing better, not great but OK. It's a strange year but worth noting Sidwell College admissions have been in flux for several years.

Really? I know of at least 30 kids from the grade who got in to their ED's. How is that a disaster?

Most kids who took the most challenge math and science courses didn't get in to their ED/EA.

what schools did they unsuccessfully apply to for EA/ED

It’s incredible that they would pretend to know which schools all of 60 kids have applied to and which they have been accepted to.

huh?
-It's all posted on social media by kids as soon as the results are out. Then they update their instagram heading: "Duke '26" or whatever. My kid in in 9th grade at a different Big3 and she and all her friends talk about where the seniors they know (and don't know) got in and where they didn't.
Granted, this is a bit nuts for a 9th grader to be thinking about but that is another conversation.
-also it sounds like the kids this poster is referring to is a group of about 15 in the highest math/science track and not a school-wide group of 60. Those 15 definitely know who got in and who did not get in.

Not everyone posts on social media like this at Sidwell. There was an Instagram with about 1/2 of that grade's college destination a few years ago - that wasn't until the end of the school year and I have never seen one since (but I may just not know what they named it). I know my kid wouldn't be posting all over social media for an EA/ED outcome and my kid would definitely not report it to us (parents) where others were applying/accepted/rejected. It's considered in poor taste in that friend group. (and in life!)

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college admissions a disaster this year in the early round...parents are up in arms. For some reason GDS and St Albans are doing better, not great but OK. It's a strange year but worth noting Sidwell College admissions have been in flux for several years.

Really? I know of at least 30 kids from the grade who got in to their ED's. How is that a disaster?

Most kids who took the most challenge math and science courses didn't get in to their ED/EA.

what schools did they unsuccessfully apply to for EA/ED

It’s incredible that they would pretend to know which schools all of 60 kids have applied to and which they have been accepted to.

huh?
-It's all posted on social media by kids as soon as the results are out. Then they update their instagram heading: "Duke '26" or whatever. My kid in in 9th grade at a different Big3 and she and all her friends talk about where the seniors they know (and don't know) got in and where they didn't.
Granted, this is a bit nuts for a 9th grader to be thinking about but that is another conversation.
-also it sounds like the kids this poster is referring to is a group of about 15 in the highest math/science track and not a school-wide group of 60. Those 15 definitely know who got in and who did not get in.

Anonymous wrote:ED / this has nothing to do with comparing GDS and SFS lower schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell college admissions a disaster this year in the early round...parents are up in arms. For some reason GDS and St Albans are doing better, not great but OK. It's a strange year but worth noting Sidwell College admissions have been in flux for several years.

Really? I know of at least 30 kids from the grade who got in to their ED's. How is that a disaster?

Most kids who took the most challenge math and science courses didn't get in to their ED/EA.

what schools did they unsuccessfully apply to for EA/ED

It’s incredible that they would pretend to know which schools all of 60 kids have applied to and which they have been accepted to.

huh?
-It's all posted on social media by kids as soon as the results are out. Then they update their instagram heading: "Duke '26" or whatever. My kid in in 9th grade at a different Big3 and she and all her friends talk about where the seniors they know (and don't know) got in and where they didn't.
Granted, this is a bit nuts for a 9th grader to be thinking about but that is another conversation.
-also it sounds like the kids this poster is referring to is a group of about 15 in the highest math/science track and not a school-wide group of 60. Those 15 definitely know who got in and who did not get in.