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If you were to adjust downward for inflation, is the current tuition similar- adjusted for inflation - to the tuition in the 1980s/90s? Or even if you consider the overall inflation is it still much more expensive? In other words is becoming more and more expensive?

No, tuition increases have outpaced inflation throughout that time.

The increases feel outrageously excessive.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

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What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

You clearly struggle with reading comprehension. You must be a W school graduate. 😝

Again where in the link it shows that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"?
Help me out

Did you click on the link? I’ll make it easy, just focus on Ivies. Select every W school, look at the number of applicants to each Ivy, and then look at the number of students admitted—simple math. Next, compare those numbers to Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 (about 80-85% of graduating seniors posted on Instagram). Sidwell’s posts only include matriculants to specific colleges. There are several Sidwell students who are admitted to more than one Ivy every year. Despite that fact, Sidwell sent/sends/will send a much larger percentage of students to Ivies than any of the W schools.

Yes and the link doesn't show the "fact" that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools". In fact the link doesn't have anything to do with Sidwell, much less showing your so-called facts. You clearly don't understand facts.
You're clearly not too bright.

Sticks and stones, dear.

I see those poor public W school matriculation stats have upset you. I cannot relate—lol.

Of course you cannot relate. We have more matriculations than you, without having to pay $50,000+ a year.
Like I said, you're not too bright.

Oh, I see you don’t understand how percentages work. I knew you were a W(oeful) grad—lol.

Cheer up, your children are used to public school, so they will feel right at home at Maryland state universities. It’s a good thing you didn’t “waste” your money paying for your children’s education at a W school. Based on these W(oeful) admissions stats, you would be absolutely enraged.

Let’s use Whitman as an example.
#Applications/#Admitted:

1. Brown: 41/0
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3
Total = 306/11

Whitman seniors submitted 306 applications to the Ivies, but only 11 students were admitted. That’s a 3.5% admissions rate!

On the other hand, this is how they fared at Salisbury (27/22); UMBC (148/130); and UMD (386/243).

Like I said earlier, I can’t relate. Sidwell can’t relate either because they send at LEAST 15-25% of their students to Ivies EVERY year (not to mention the total number of admits). Good luck!

1. Where's the admission stats for Sidwell? How can we compare? Goodness
2. Going by percentage is irrelevant and pointless because schools are Limited by the number of admittance.
Once again, you showed that you are not very bright.

Good Morning W(oeful) grad/parent!

1. Instagram (Sidwell c/o 2023). Look it up. 83% of the graduating seniors posted, and based on Instagram posts alone 17/125 (13.6%) are Ivies. I personally know 4 students from that class who didn’t post. They are currently freshman at Ivies this year (21/125=16.8%). Btw, there were several 2023 Sidwell grads who were admitted to more than one Ivy that year, so the overall Ivy admissions rate is much higher than 16.8% (and MUCH higher than 3.5%).

2. You don’t understand percentages or college admissions policies. Private colleges can select as many students from a particular high school as they want. There are a couple of NYC privates that consistently send 20-35% of their graduates to Ivies (and they’re the same size as Sidwell). Unlike you, I’m not going to try to make excuses. Those colleges clearly prefer those NYC privates for whatever reason.

Which Washington DC area private sends the most kids the Ivys (you can exclude Cornell)?

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If you were to adjust downward for inflation, is the current tuition similar- adjusted for inflation - to the tuition in the 1980s/90s? Or even if you consider the overall inflation is it still much more expensive? In other words is becoming more and more expensive?

No, tuition increases have outpaced inflation throughout that time.

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If you were to adjust downward for inflation, is the current tuition similar- adjusted for inflation - to the tuition in the 1980s/90s? Or even if you consider the overall inflation is it still much more expensive? In other words is becoming more and more expensive?

Anonymous wrote:Wow, what an obnoxious post. You could have made your questionable point without dripping with contempt. If it weren’t also gauche I’d apologize on behalf of our parent community.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
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What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

You clearly struggle with reading comprehension. You must be a W school graduate. 😝

Again where in the link it shows that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"?
Help me out

Did you click on the link? I’ll make it easy, just focus on Ivies. Select every W school, look at the number of applicants to each Ivy, and then look at the number of students admitted—simple math. Next, compare those numbers to Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 (about 80-85% of graduating seniors posted on Instagram). Sidwell’s posts only include matriculants to specific colleges. There are several Sidwell students who are admitted to more than one Ivy every year. Despite that fact, Sidwell sent/sends/will send a much larger percentage of students to Ivies than any of the W schools.

Yes and the link doesn't show the "fact" that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools". In fact the link doesn't have anything to do with Sidwell, much less showing your so-called facts. You clearly don't understand facts.
You're clearly not too bright.

Sticks and stones, dear.

I see those poor public W school matriculation stats have upset you. I cannot relate—lol.

Of course you cannot relate. We have more matriculations than you, without having to pay $50,000+ a year.
Like I said, you're not too bright.

Oh, I see you don’t understand how percentages work. I knew you were a W(oeful) grad—lol.

Cheer up, your children are used to public school, so they will feel right at home at Maryland state universities. It’s a good thing you didn’t “waste” your money paying for your children’s education at a W school. Based on these W(oeful) admissions stats, you would be absolutely enraged.

Let’s use Whitman as an example.
#Applications/#Admitted:

1. Brown: 41/0
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3
Total = 306/11

Whitman seniors submitted 306 applications to the Ivies, but only 11 students were admitted. That’s a 3.5% admissions rate!

On the other hand, this is how they fared at Salisbury (27/22); UMBC (148/130); and UMD (386/243).

Like I said earlier, I can’t relate. Sidwell can’t relate either because they send at LEAST 15-25% of their students to Ivies EVERY year (not to mention the total number of admits). Good luck!

1. Where's the admission stats for Sidwell? How can we compare? Goodness
2. Going by percentage is irrelevant and pointless because schools are Limited by the number of admittance.
Once again, you showed that you are not very bright.

Good Morning W(oeful) grad/parent!

1. Instagram (Sidwell c/o 2023). Look it up. 83% of the graduating seniors posted, and based on Instagram posts alone 17/125 (13.6%) are Ivies. I personally know 4 students from that class who didn’t post. They are currently freshman at Ivies this year (21/125=16.8%). Btw, there were several 2023 Sidwell grads who were admitted to more than one Ivy that year, so the overall Ivy admissions rate is much higher than 16.8% (and MUCH higher than 3.5%).

2. You don’t understand percentages or college admissions policies. Private colleges can select as many students from a particular high school as they want. There are a couple of NYC privates that consistently send 20-35% of their graduates to Ivies (and they’re the same size as Sidwell). Unlike you, I’m not going to try to make excuses. Those colleges clearly prefer those NYC privates for whatever reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
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What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

You clearly struggle with reading comprehension. You must be a W school graduate. 😝

Again where in the link it shows that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"?
Help me out

Did you click on the link? I’ll make it easy, just focus on Ivies. Select every W school, look at the number of applicants to each Ivy, and then look at the number of students admitted—simple math. Next, compare those numbers to Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 (about 80-85% of graduating seniors posted on Instagram). Sidwell’s posts only include matriculants to specific colleges. There are several Sidwell students who are admitted to more than one Ivy every year. Despite that fact, Sidwell sent/sends/will send a much larger percentage of students to Ivies than any of the W schools.

Yes and the link doesn't show the "fact" that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools". In fact the link doesn't have anything to do with Sidwell, much less showing your so-called facts. You clearly don't understand facts.
You're clearly not too bright.

Sticks and stones, dear.

I see those poor public W school matriculation stats have upset you. I cannot relate—lol.

Of course you cannot relate. We have more matriculations than you, without having to pay $50,000+ a year.
Like I said, you're not too bright.

Oh, I see you don’t understand how percentages work. I knew you were a W(oeful) grad—lol.

Cheer up, your children are used to public school, so they will feel right at home at Maryland state universities. It’s a good thing you didn’t “waste” your money paying for your children’s education at a W school. Based on these W(oeful) admissions stats, you would be absolutely enraged.

Let’s use Whitman as an example.
#Applications/#Admitted:

1. Brown: 41/0
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3
Total = 306/11

Whitman seniors submitted 306 applications to the Ivies, but only 11 students were admitted. That’s a 3.5% admissions rate!

On the other hand, this is how they fared at Salisbury (27/22); UMBC (148/130); and UMD (386/243).

Like I said earlier, I can’t relate. Sidwell can’t relate either because they send at LEAST 15-25% of their students to Ivies EVERY year (not to mention the total number of admits). Good luck!

1. Where's the admission stats for Sidwell? How can we compare? Goodness
2. Going by percentage is irrelevant and pointless because schools are Limited by the number of admittance.
Once again, you showed that you are not very bright.

Anonymous wrote:But how many of the sidwell students admitted are legacies?

Anonymous wrote:Ivy grad here: i’m not so keen on sending my own kids to Ivy; have you seen the protests and crazinees?; also my most ambitious and succcessful friends did not go to ivies; rather most of my ivy friends stopped working when they married, are complaining about how hard their life is as SAHM with 2 nannies and —- i don’t know —- its just not the be all end all to go to an ivy. The kids at some of the state schools may be more ambitious!

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
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What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

You clearly struggle with reading comprehension. You must be a W school graduate. 😝

Again where in the link it shows that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"?
Help me out

Did you click on the link? I’ll make it easy, just focus on Ivies. Select every W school, look at the number of applicants to each Ivy, and then look at the number of students admitted—simple math. Next, compare those numbers to Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 (about 80-85% of graduating seniors posted on Instagram). Sidwell’s posts only include matriculants to specific colleges. There are several Sidwell students who are admitted to more than one Ivy every year. Despite that fact, Sidwell sent/sends/will send a much larger percentage of students to Ivies than any of the W schools.

Yes and the link doesn't show the "fact" that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools". In fact the link doesn't have anything to do with Sidwell, much less showing your so-called facts. You clearly don't understand facts.
You're clearly not too bright.

Sticks and stones, dear.

I see those poor public W school matriculation stats have upset you. I cannot relate—lol.

Of course you cannot relate. We have more matriculations than you, without having to pay $50,000+ a year.
Like I said, you're not too bright.

Oh, I see you don’t understand how percentages work. I knew you were a W(oeful) grad—lol.

Cheer up, your children are used to public school, so they will feel right at home at Maryland state universities. It’s a good thing you didn’t “waste” your money paying for your children’s education at a W school. Based on these W(oeful) admissions stats, you would be absolutely enraged.

Let’s use Whitman as an example.
#Applications/#Admitted:

1. Brown: 41/0
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3
Total = 306/11

Whitman seniors submitted 306 applications to the Ivies, but only 11 students were admitted. That’s a 3.5% admissions rate!

On the other hand, this is how they fared at Salisbury (27/22); UMBC (148/130); and UMD (386/243).

Like I said earlier, I can’t relate. Sidwell can’t relate either because they send at LEAST 15-25% of their students to Ivies EVERY year (not to mention the total number of admits). Good luck!

But how many of the sidwell students admitted are legacies?

I don’t know. How many of 11 Whitman students admitted were legacies?

Anonymous wrote:Affluent household with 3 kids in private here. At under $120K for 3 kids, we were buyers. Now looking at $165-$180K in the near future, we’re strategizing an exit.

Forget affordability. It’s the whole premise of shelling all this for kids to be stressed. Then there’s the nitpicking over stats that no one who’s actually living life to the fullest cares about.

Add tutoring, sports, music, summer camp, and now therapy, the cost of “rigor,” “health,” and “exposure” is reaching $200K and will only grow. That’s excluding the kids we hire to chauffer our kids around.

$500K pretax, $1m every-other-year into a system that brings out insecurity, competitiveness, instability

Half the parents at Sidwell and other privates left college wanting to make the world a better place. We’ve completely lost the plot.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
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What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

You clearly struggle with reading comprehension. You must be a W school graduate. 😝

Again where in the link it shows that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"?
Help me out

Did you click on the link? I’ll make it easy, just focus on Ivies. Select every W school, look at the number of applicants to each Ivy, and then look at the number of students admitted—simple math. Next, compare those numbers to Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 (about 80-85% of graduating seniors posted on Instagram). Sidwell’s posts only include matriculants to specific colleges. There are several Sidwell students who are admitted to more than one Ivy every year. Despite that fact, Sidwell sent/sends/will send a much larger percentage of students to Ivies than any of the W schools.

Yes and the link doesn't show the "fact" that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools". In fact the link doesn't have anything to do with Sidwell, much less showing your so-called facts. You clearly don't understand facts.
You're clearly not too bright.

Sticks and stones, dear.

I see those poor public W school matriculation stats have upset you. I cannot relate—lol.

Of course you cannot relate. We have more matriculations than you, without having to pay $50,000+ a year.
Like I said, you're not too bright.

Oh, I see you don’t understand how percentages work. I knew you were a W(oeful) grad—lol.

Cheer up, your children are used to public school, so they will feel right at home at Maryland state universities. It’s a good thing you didn’t “waste” your money paying for your children’s education at a W school. Based on these W(oeful) admissions stats, you would be absolutely enraged.

Let’s use Whitman as an example.
#Applications/#Admitted:

1. Brown: 41/0
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3
Total = 306/11

Whitman seniors submitted 306 applications to the Ivies, but only 11 students were admitted. That’s a 3.5% admissions rate!

On the other hand, this is how they fared at Salisbury (27/22); UMBC (148/130); and UMD (386/243).

Like I said earlier, I can’t relate. Sidwell can’t relate either because they send at LEAST 15-25% of their students to Ivies EVERY year (not to mention the total number of admits). Good luck!

Out of curiosity, where are you getting these admissions stats? Is it online somewhere? Just curious. Please post link as would be interested in seeing.

I think public school kids have just as good a shot at Ivy's (maybe more), if you factor in the subset with same SAT range (I am guessing Sidwell kids on average higher SAT), and grades, and take out legacies.

I am sending my 3 kids to a private -- and the reason is not for the ultimate college outcome - but for the process -- there are so many activities, small class size, etc., that I myself nor did my husband have growing up in public school. However, I would only do private if it is a small fraction of your income, or if on financial aid. It is not worth siphoning off retirement security over.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
a-holes…

What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

You clearly struggle with reading comprehension. You must be a W school graduate. 😝

Again where in the link it shows that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"?
Help me out

Did you click on the link? I’ll make it easy, just focus on Ivies. Select every W school, look at the number of applicants to each Ivy, and then look at the number of students admitted—simple math. Next, compare those numbers to Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 (about 80-85% of graduating seniors posted on Instagram). Sidwell’s posts only include matriculants to specific colleges. There are several Sidwell students who are admitted to more than one Ivy every year. Despite that fact, Sidwell sent/sends/will send a much larger percentage of students to Ivies than any of the W schools.

Yes and the link doesn't show the "fact" that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools". In fact the link doesn't have anything to do with Sidwell, much less showing your so-called facts. You clearly don't understand facts.
You're clearly not too bright.

Sticks and stones, dear.

I see those poor public W school matriculation stats have upset you. I cannot relate—lol.

Of course you cannot relate. We have more matriculations than you, without having to pay $50,000+ a year.
Like I said, you're not too bright.

Oh, I see you don’t understand how percentages work. I knew you were a W(oeful) grad—lol.

Cheer up, your children are used to public school, so they will feel right at home at Maryland state universities. It’s a good thing you didn’t “waste” your money paying for your children’s education at a W school. Based on these W(oeful) admissions stats, you would be absolutely enraged.

Let’s use Whitman as an example.
#Applications/#Admitted:

1. Brown: 41/0
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3
Total = 306/11

Whitman seniors submitted 306 applications to the Ivies, but only 11 students were admitted. That’s a 3.5% admissions rate!

On the other hand, this is how they fared at Salisbury (27/22); UMBC (148/130); and UMD (386/243).

Like I said earlier, I can’t relate. Sidwell can’t relate either because they send at LEAST 15-25% of their students to Ivies EVERY year (not to mention the total number of admits). Good luck!

But how many of the sidwell students admitted are legacies?