Anyone notice an imbalance of girls vs boys?

Girls seem to go to the higher ranked schools in larger numbers?

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why private school kids do not have the same issue as public magnet schools, where the fierce competition from classmates is an issue?

legacies

Our public school has so many legacies. Close-in wealthy. McLean, Langley, YHS, Great Falls, Whitman, etc. tons of parents that went to top T10/20s.

Privates have more legacies per capita.

Private to private.
Public to public.

Anonymous wrote:these instagram pages from local privates are eye opening. even for kids I know to be unhooked standard smart kids

50% or more of a selective private is “standard smart”

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Anonymous wrote:As someone with unhooked kids in private, I pray this continues a few more years! But tides can turn. Private might be viewed as privileged and unattractive at any second. For now, I agree with you and can’t believe the results I’m seeing on instagram.

It WAS viewed as the past few cycles. Now colleges are upset by the quality of TO, grade inflated HS kids and going back to old school.

1. Our public fcps HS does not grade inflate.

2. Your entire comment is just your made up guesses.

Re-takes? Multiple bites/tries to raise grade ? Lack of pop quizzes? Hard deadlines? We left a FCPS Hs and all of that was there. Private was much more rigorous.

Yes, get back to me when your FCPS school:

-marks every late assignment as a zero (no late work accepted, ever)
-never allows retakes or test corrections
-gives frequent pop quizzes
-has teachers who don't give As on principal or give a single A in a class of 20 kids
-has an average GPA of 3.5 but an average SAT is 1500+
-has students who routinely to get a B in a class but a 5 on the AP exam.
-doesn't average quarters or semesters by letter grades but by numerical average.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't forget practically ALL the independent private school apply ED. It is really pushed by their counselors. The vast majority of public school kids simply need to compare financial aid packages and can't do that.

My unhooked kid got in RD to an Ivy. Didn’t ED anywhere.

Mine got into Ivy RD after ED deferral to T10. Unhooked.

Yes. The response is yes, that's right OP

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget practically ALL the independent private school apply ED. It is really pushed by their counselors. The vast majority of public school kids simply need to compare financial aid packages and can't do that.

My unhooked kid got in RD to an Ivy. Didn’t ED anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:these instagram pages from local privates are eye opening. even for kids I know to be unhooked standard smart kids

T20 love full pay, even if they pretend to be need blind

They want to save the aid for the rural kid or FG URM…..

Even better is a rural kid who can pay or a FG URM who can pay

Anonymous wrote:Our non-DMV private:

- 15% of class is committed to Ivy
- 50% is attending T25 or T5 SLAC (and closer to 65% if counting T10 SLAC)
- If counting T40, it’s 85%.

It’s a materially better year than last 2 cycles.

Test scores and HS caliber/rigor (not course rigor as we don’t even have official APs) seems to matter a lot. Plus private colleges want kids who will easily do well and thrive.

Plus you were able to screen out the undesirables through testing and interviews. So of course your results reflect the students you have.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:these instagram pages from local privates are eye opening. even for kids I know to be unhooked standard smart kids

T20 love full pay, even if they pretend to be need blind

They want to save the aid for the rural kid or FG URM…..

Don't forget practically ALL the independent private school apply ED. It is really pushed by their counselors. The vast majority of public school kids simply need to compare financial aid packages and can't do that.

Anonymous wrote:these instagram pages from local privates are eye opening. even for kids I know to be unhooked standard smart kids

T20 love full pay, even if they pretend to be need blind

Our non-DMV private:

- 15% of class is committed to Ivy
- 50% is attending T25 or T5 SLAC (and closer to 65% if counting T10 SLAC)
- If counting T40, it’s 85%.

It’s a materially better year than last 2 cycles.

Test scores and HS caliber/rigor (not course rigor as we don’t even have official APs) seems to matter a lot. Plus private colleges want kids who will easily do well and thrive.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder why private school kids do not have the same issue as public magnet schools, where the fierce competition from classmates is an issue?

legacies

Our public school has so many legacies. Close-in wealthy. McLean, Langley, YHS, Great Falls, Whitman, etc. tons of parents that went to top T10/20s.