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Anonymous wrote:Because MIT doesn't count legacy, high $$ donations or sports (yes, they do care about sports...but don't recruit as intensively as Ivy schools). So, you are left with acceptance largely on merit.

Imagine being this naive. I'm sure it was just a roll of the dice when the Amazon oligarch's kid got into MIT.

To whom are you referring? Jeff Bezos' kid goes to Princeton as you would expect.

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Anonymous wrote:Because MIT doesn't count legacy, high $$ donations or sports (yes, they do care about sports...but don't recruit as intensively as Ivy schools). So, you are left with acceptance largely on merit.

Imagine being this naive. I'm sure it was just a roll of the dice when the Amazon oligarch's kid got into MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:Because MIT doesn't count legacy, high $$ donations or sports (yes, they do care about sports...but don't recruit as intensively as Ivy schools). So, you are left with acceptance largely on merit.

Imagine being this naive. I'm sure it was just a roll of the dice when the Amazon oligarch's kid got into MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:Because MIT doesn't count legacy, high $$ donations or sports (yes, they do care about sports...but don't recruit as intensively as Ivy schools). So, you are left with acceptance largely on merit.

Why doesn't athletic achievement count as merit?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just not seeing a huge difference between privates and between privates and the wealthiest/magnet/application publics.

If you see the difference, can you please explain it to me?

The difference is pretty huge when you adjust for the class sizes. Whitman has 450+ students per class and most top privates have 80-120. So take whatever measure you want and see whether Whitman or other similarly sized wealthy public’s are doing 4x better. Not even close.

Yeah…that is really weak analysis. Considering privates are curating their class vs taking the first 120 that walk in the door you can’t say Whitman should somehow have 4X the admits. Even comparing the top 120 at Whitman vs a private isn’t exactly fair, but at least somewhat comparable.

Lmao what?? There’s no test by which private schools could prove their value to you, clearly.

Not lmao. Np here.
Pp you don’t seem to understand that the point is a child who would get into a selective private school will fair just as well at a Whitman-like public as they will be in the top part of the class and the College acceptances for the top part of the class of any dmv hs is similar to overall selective private outcomes. This is obvious now.

It’s actually not. But you’ll then claim that the reason privates do better is because of the greater amount of hooked kids.

A more apt comparison is between say Sidwell and TJ...where both are able to curate their classes.

So, let's look at the stats from Polarislist that look at admits from those two schools to Harvard, Princeton and MIT from 2018-2020.

Sidwell...120 kids in typical graduating class...sent 9 kids to those schools
TJ...450 kids in typical graduating class (so factor of 3.75x)...sent 57

So, TJ sent 6.33x more kids to those schools compared to Sidwell, yet class size is only 3.75x bigger

What other weak, lazy analysis will you come back with now?

You picked the one outlier that's regarded as the best public high school in the country to make your point that all local publics do better or as well as top privates...who is the one using lazy, weak analysis?

Where is anything approaching analysis on your part? I picked it because it is one of the only local DMV publics that is able to curate the entire school. Blair also sends actually 25 kids to those schools vs Sidwell's 9...but you will say "well golly gee, Blair has 750 students in each class...so of course they do"...even though the Blair magnet graduating class is only 100 kids and nearly all of those admits are coming from that group.

The MIT piece completely throws these stats. Very few if any kids from Sidwell apply. It's just not their lane.
My son is at STA and I don't think they've had an MIT matriculant in years but they'll send a dozen yearly to Chicago and 20 to the Ivies.

I actually give major props to STA...they are performing way better than Sidwell or GDS....even NCS. Maybe there is only the Big1 nowadays.

Anonymous wrote:Because MIT doesn't count legacy, high $$ donations or sports (yes, they do care about sports...but don't recruit as intensively as Ivy schools). So, you are left with acceptance largely on merit.

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Anonymous wrote:Y'all are shameful. Stalking teenagers pages. The insecurity of private parents and the checking of acceptances and then saying that you’re not sending your kid to private school based on the college acceptances. Classic 🤮. “ I’m sending my child here because it’s small and they will get a lot of personalized attention and resouces. They can’t handle the chaos of a large school.” You know you can’t protect your child forever right? I’d much rather help my child navigate the world while they’re under my roof. There must be a stat somewhere about private school kids depression rate as adults.

While you’re at it you should probably stock DMV public school pages you’d be surprised. And probably need a drink at your country club afterwards. Maybe 2!

There is nothing stalkerish about checking public instagram pages.

These kids post by their own free will.

It's PUBLIC TO THE WORLD.

Are you 100 years old? Ask your high schooler. Kids who don't want to participate don't. Those that do don't care who sees their posts.

Anonymous wrote:Because MIT doesn't count legacy, high $$ donations or sports (yes, they do care about sports...but don't recruit as intensively as Ivy schools). So, you are left with acceptance largely on merit.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just not seeing a huge difference between privates and between privates and the wealthiest/magnet/application publics.

If you see the difference, can you please explain it to me?

The difference is pretty huge when you adjust for the class sizes. Whitman has 450+ students per class and most top privates have 80-120. So take whatever measure you want and see whether Whitman or other similarly sized wealthy public’s are doing 4x better. Not even close.

Yeah…that is really weak analysis. Considering privates are curating their class vs taking the first 120 that walk in the door you can’t say Whitman should somehow have 4X the admits. Even comparing the top 120 at Whitman vs a private isn’t exactly fair, but at least somewhat comparable.

Lmao what?? There’s no test by which private schools could prove their value to you, clearly.

Not lmao. Np here.
Pp you don’t seem to understand that the point is a child who would get into a selective private school will fair just as well at a Whitman-like public as they will be in the top part of the class and the College acceptances for the top part of the class of any dmv hs is similar to overall selective private outcomes. This is obvious now.

It’s actually not. But you’ll then claim that the reason privates do better is because of the greater amount of hooked kids.

A more apt comparison is between say Sidwell and TJ...where both are able to curate their classes.

So, let's look at the stats from Polarislist that look at admits from those two schools to Harvard, Princeton and MIT from 2018-2020.

Sidwell...120 kids in typical graduating class...sent 9 kids to those schools
TJ...450 kids in typical graduating class (so factor of 3.75x)...sent 57

So, TJ sent 6.33x more kids to those schools compared to Sidwell, yet class size is only 3.75x bigger

What other weak, lazy analysis will you come back with now?

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s Field

https://instagram.com/fieldgrads.2023

I’m impressed!

The most impressive thing here is that NCS and STA don’t have pages. Good for them.

Why? What are they hiding?

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Anonymous wrote:STA & NCS are traditional, modest & humble. You won’t see them bragging like these Instagram pages do.

lol.
NCS just waits until later so the fragile parents don't complain until it is too late https://www.instagram.com/cathedral2022/

They all look happy in those pics & in the comment sections, but the reality is very very different than that. That school is really socially competitive.

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Anonymous wrote:STA & NCS are traditional, modest & humble. You won’t see them bragging like these Instagram pages do.

lol.
NCS just waits until later so the fragile parents don't complain until it is too late https://www.instagram.com/cathedral2022/

Anonymous wrote:STA & NCS are traditional, modest & humble. You won’t see them bragging like these Instagram pages do.