Anonymous
12/19/2022 09:16
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en
Amazing?
Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.
It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.
By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.
+1. This is such a poor taste I don't know where to begin. DC's MCPS school had a fair share of Ivy and T10 too last year. They don't do this. In fact one of the teachers gently reminds kids to take his peers' emotions into account.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 09:13
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Last week, a friend whose DD is at Sidwell immediately posted her daughter's ED acceptance result on Facebook. She used a social media frame that the college had apparently sent out.
The mom predictably got many of us to "like" and congratulate her for her DD's wonderful news. I am generally happy for my friend's DD, but it seemed tone deaf of the mom (my friend) to send that out when so many kids are awaiting ED results right now, and so many were deferred or rejected.
No, you're not "generally happy for your friend's DD." You are jealous and bitter because you are making this all about you. Heaven forbid you can actually be happy for someone else's good news. I really hope you're not a Sidwell parent.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 09:10
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en
Amazing?
Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.
It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.
By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.
You mean like @vikingdestinations.2023? That surely doesn’t exist.
The poster saying that MCPS does not is clearly a dim bulb or lives life under a rock.
Is the poster you quoted a parent of an ES or MS student and doesn't realize ALL high schools (public, private, even schools outside MCPS) now have these Instagram pages?
Anonymous
12/19/2022 09:05
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en
Amazing?
Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.
It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.
By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.
You mean like @vikingdestinations.2023? That surely doesn’t exist.
Is the poster you quoted a parent of an ES or MS student and doesn't realize ALL high schools (public, private, even schools outside MCPS) now have these Instagram pages?
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:57
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good Lord people.
I have kids at another Big3 and they have had not had more things "handed to them" vs. their equally well-off friends from publics. We came from public in 8th (and graduated one kid from pubic) so i know of what I speak.
You live in a bubble. Not all publics are filled with kids who are equally well off.
No, I don't live in a bubble. Perhaps my phrasing was confusing. My private school kids are typical DCUM kids--children of two professional parents. I'm not comparing my kids to impoverished kids, etc.
Professional class DCUM kids in private are resourced the same as professional class DCUM kids in public. T Their school does not hand them any other opportunities or coddling.
That's what I'm saying. I was either confusing or you are choosing to be obtuse.
No, you were clear but can't seem to understand that there are public schools outside of your bubble that aren't resourced the same.
My kids went to DCPS for 10 years each (and one for 14). I understand under resourced.
NEXT.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:56
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en
Amazing?
Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.
It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.
By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.
If you opened the links you would see that they are "student run".
AND the MCPS W schools all have Instagram links as well.
Frankly, you are not all that with it.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:54
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good Lord people.
I have kids at another Big3 and they have had not had more things "handed to them" vs. their equally well-off friends from publics. We came from public in 8th (and graduated one kid from pubic) so i know of what I speak.
You live in a bubble. Not all publics are filled with kids who are equally well off.
No, I don't live in a bubble. Perhaps my phrasing was confusing. My private school kids are typical DCUM kids--children of two professional parents. I'm not comparing my kids to impoverished kids, etc.
Professional class DCUM kids in private are resourced the same as professional class DCUM kids in public. T Their school does not hand them any other opportunities or coddling.
That's what I'm saying. I was either confusing or you are choosing to be obtuse.
No, you were clear but can't seem to understand that there are public schools outside of your bubble that aren't resourced the same.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:54
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good Lord people.
I have kids at another Big3 and they have had not had more things "handed to them" vs. their equally well-off friends from publics. We came from public in 8th (and graduated one kid from pubic) so i know of what I speak.
You live in a bubble. Not all publics are filled with kids who are equally well off.
No, I don't live in a bubble. Perhaps my phrasing was confusing. My private school kids are typical DCUM kids--children of two professional parents. I'm not comparing my kids to impoverished kids, etc.
Professional class DCUM kids in private are resourced the same as professional class DCUM kids in public. T Their school does not hand them any other opportunities or coddling.
That's what I'm saying. I was either confusing or you are choosing to be obtuse.
You don’t understand. Having to fight for a parking spot for their Land Rover in the morning prepares them for the real world.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:53
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en
Amazing?
Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.
It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.
By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.
You mean like @vikingdestinations.2023? That surely doesn’t exist.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:51
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en
Amazing?
Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.
It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.
By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.
LOL, I’m a MCPS parent and most of the MCPS high schools have the exact same IG pages. And btw, it’s the kids/SGA who organize these pages (at least at our public), not the parents.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:49
Subject: Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
So no 12 students applying ED to Princeton this year? That should improve ED results tremendously.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:48
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good Lord people.
I have kids at another Big3 and they have had not had more things "handed to them" vs. their equally well-off friends from publics. We came from public in 8th (and graduated one kid from pubic) so i know of what I speak.
You live in a bubble. Not all publics are filled with kids who are equally well off.
No, I don't live in a bubble. Perhaps my phrasing was confusing. My private school kids are typical DCUM kids--children of two professional parents. I'm not comparing my kids to impoverished kids, etc.
Professional class DCUM kids in private are resourced the same as professional class DCUM kids in public. T Their school does not hand them any other opportunities or coddling.
That's what I'm saying. I was either confusing or you are choosing to be obtuse.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:45
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good Lord people.
I have kids at another Big3 and they have had not had more things "handed to them" vs. their equally well-off friends from publics. We came from public in 8th (and graduated one kid from pubic) so i know of what I speak.
You live in a bubble. Not all publics are filled with kids who are equally well off.
There are more lower middle class students at your big 3 private school than at Whitman or Langley. You’re really trying to paint these kids as scrappers rising above their social status? Half their parents also went to elite colleges.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:44
Subject: Re:Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en
Amazing?
Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.
It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.
By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.
Anonymous
12/19/2022 08:43
Subject: Sidwell Friends ED results amazing this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So, to answer the question about Sidwell ED results, what I know is 1 Harvard, 1 Yale, 2 Cornell, 2 UPenn, 4 Princeton. Lots of admits along the range of Rice, WashU, Pitzer, etc. But lots of ED deferrals and rejections as well. GDS is having similar results. My Sidwell senior didn’t do ED. For all of this talk of accommodations and such, I really haven’t much about it, and we’ve been here since K. Maybe we travel in different circles.
This seems like a completely normal an expected outcome for a school like Sidwell.
And not so different from my kid's public high school to be quite honest.
Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.
If this is true then all the whiners on this board who complain about all the unqualified hooked kids taking their precious kid’s spot should STFU, because clearly public schools are getting tons of unhooked kids into the top schools.
They do stfu. That is the point. There are not braggy threads from every high school about future college plans on dcum. Always a thread about this high school.
Are you kidding me? Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots. If public schools get all these kids in why do you whine like this?
Please link us to all the DCUM threads set up to report the "amazing" college be plans of graduates from public high schools
Let me use small words for your benefit (it’s a shame we can’t use pictures).
I wrote: Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots.
And your response is to ask for all the threads about these amazing college results?!?
It’s really quite simple so even you can grasp it.
Public school parents both ritualistically complain about their more deserving children being denied admission and how the college admissions game is totally skewed against the average unhooked applicant and then with the same breath say that their public school admissions are better than Sidwell and all without hooks. All we want is for you to pick a position and stick to it. Frankly I think it’s true that public schools get plenty of kids into great colleges (although not all as unhooked as you’d like to believe), it’s the constant whining that is completely irritating.