Anonymous wrote:I'm writing this for all of us who don't have children at GDS because we didn't want to have children at GDS. Whose children didn't apply to Harvard because, honestly, we've known more than a few Harvard people and they're all kind of a drag.

I was a new mom in New York City just in time for urbanbaby.com, and if you don't know what that is, well. You're poorer for your ignorance. I read about stroller wars, and preschool applications, and Gifted and Talented testing, debates about the merits 29 over 312, testing into Hunter, whether Nest or Anderson was better--and if TAG was acceptable at all--but never in all of my days there did I see parents that were so status obsessed (even at Dalton) that they stalked their kids' classmates Instagrams and then ran to post here and discuss breathlessly, endlessly, without saying anything, if Larlo and Larlx only got in because of hooks, or athletics, or if their "crop" was better than last year's crop... I mean what the ever-living hell? These are children. They are not harvested, or plucked. And at the end of the day it's fairly gauche.

Of course what else could we expect from the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:lol ---- in the new system it was supposed to be Private School kids that were hurt. It is not turning out that way last year or this. New system favors Private School kids.

As a parent of a sophomore in a top private HS, this is encouraging. Tides are turning to our favor!! Money worth every penny.

Relief! The cards are regularly stacked against expensive private school kids.

Anonymous wrote:Early applications at Harvard declined by 17% to four-year lows, according to figures released Thursday. !!!!

Harvard College accepted 692 students for the Class of 2028 from a pool of 7,921 applicants. The acceptance rate was 8.7%, up from 7.6% last year.

Anonymous wrote:Early applications at Harvard declined by 17% to four-year lows, according to figures released Thursday. !!!!

Harvard College accepted 692 students for the Class of 2028 from a pool of 7,921 applicants. The acceptance rate was 8.7%, up from 7.6% last year.

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Anonymous wrote:PP Here. I am not entitled to anything. I simply don't think 3 Harvard admits out of 140 kids means the whole class is doing stellar. There are plenty of disappointments. And sorry, but for GDS, this result is not really that different than most other years.

It's so interesting to be in this position as a parent bc there are so many GDS haters on DCUM, and I usually feel the need to try to be positive, but this boosterism is weird to me. GDS is an elite private. It's not uncommon to have 20% of the class go to top 25 schools. So all I am saying is the jury is still out.

I'm a GDS parent. Happy I don't know you. Obnoxious and ungrateful.

Hmm PP here. What am I ungrateful for exactly? My child is not one of the three into Harvard so I'm not grateful for that. Many of my kid's friends have been deferred or rejected so, no, I am not grateful for that. As I stated, the kids who got in deserve kudos and are great- how is that obnoxious?. The rejections and deferrals for many families do not translate to the title of this thread which is "GDS-WOW!" SO if you are a booster who cannot take a reality check that not all GDS parents and kids in the senior class are over the moon with happiness with stellar early admits, since less the 20% of the class has results, then I am glad I don't know you too.

Another gds parent here. Agree with you. Been there with a prior kid who went there in a year with many disappointments. It’s sucks

The picture is not clear until April when the last schools report (Michigan last often) and even until wait lists move.

It sucked for my kid when many of their friends had gotten in ED and my kid was rejected. That said, kid eventually got into a Top25 and is thriving there. Fact he, the kid picked an ED that was too aspirational for their grades and scores in our case. That was the hindsight view and I won’t repeat it w next kid.

In the meantime, hang in there.

Hopefully gds office got more numerate this year? Do they allow parents or kids to look at SCOIR grades and scores data yet? At least they increased to 12 schools from 10. Was WW3 in our year arguing how stupid 10 is.


It’s a stressful time no doubt and even though according to the instagram 25% of class have landed quite strongly, that’s a lotta kids/families left feeling anxiety.. as a gds parent (not of a senior) we know some kids that have landed in first round as well and I get it, it’s stressful.

That said, it’s hard to argue on aggregate, the list is anything but impressive. It’s not just the Ivies, but very strong schools like Macalester, Grinnell, Vanderbilt, Williams. Certainly stronger than last year.

I don’t know if it’s a stronger class or people are being a little more strategic or just luck. But these are not all ‘hooked’ kids and the outcomes are impressive so far. Good luck to everyone else in class of 24!