You have no idea whatsoever what kids are factoring into their choices, which schools they chose to apply to and which they did not, which schools they turn down any why, nor do you know what ADs are seeing when they choose a student.

Anonymous wrote:How can someone looks up St. Albans? Those kids don’t post.

Agree w sports team analogy. Gds had a great year in ‘24.
Many of them are pretty active though

The bulletin indicates STA kids did very well. Standard array of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and other ivies plus Chicago, Vandy, Stanford.

Sidwell > GDS

New poster - if you are honest with yourself it is quite obvious that similar students from public and gds go to schools that are ranked very far apart. Certain schools have a lot of pull with colleges and gds is one

Anonymous wrote:Op - i don’t mind if you don’t believe it or if i am wrong. Was just an observation. It’s reflects well on the school and how colleges respect it.

You really don’t know how many of those kids are legacies, have donor parents, or are underrepresented (I know, AA is “dead” but you can still say something in the essay!). One of my friends in college was a member of the Osage tribe (her grandmother was a full blooded Osage) and she was from Connecticut and had dark blond hair. Also, plenty of people do extracurriculars that aren’t sports. Some kids are senate pages, etc. Just because your child doesn’t think another child they know does anything outside of school doesn’t mean that your child is correct.

You know who did well and didn't pay? Jackson Reed.

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Anonymous wrote:Correct me if I am wrong but it seems that students from GDS with good grades, and not much else outside the classroom, are getting accepted to strong schools like Ivies, Vanderbilt, Emory, Wash U. On the other hand, kids from other schools going to even the less competitive of these schools all seem to have lots of other things going on besides good grades. Just an observation that if getting into a top college if your goal, it pays to go to GDS and just focus on your grades.

overall same percentage of kids going to top 25 as STA, Sidwell and NCS last year - yup just looked

NCS 41 out of 71 students class of 2024 attending top 25 schools - many of those are ivies

Would these results be better than say the top 71 students coming out of Whitman or Langley?

Such noxious insecurity . . . student or parent!

How can someone looks up St. Albans? Those kids don’t post.

Agree w sports team analogy. Gds had a great year in ‘24.
Many of them are pretty active though

Anonymous wrote:Correct me if I am wrong but it seems that students from GDS with good grades, and not much else outside the classroom, are getting accepted to strong schools like Ivies, Vanderbilt, Emory, Wash U. On the other hand, kids from other schools going to even the less competitive of these schools all seem to have lots of other things going on besides good grades. Just an observation that if getting into a top college if your goal, it pays to go to GDS and just focus on your grades.

College admissions is like high school sports teams. Some years it is really good because the teams has good players and the next year the team is bad because the key players are gone. It all depends on the students in the class, what connections they have, etc. College admissions have no correlation to previous admissions and specially your kid.

Anonymous wrote:Correct me if I am wrong but it seems that students from GDS with good grades, and not much else outside the classroom, are getting accepted to strong schools like Ivies, Vanderbilt, Emory, Wash U. On the other hand, kids from other schools going to even the less competitive of these schools all seem to have lots of other things going on besides good grades. Just an observation that if getting into a top college if your goal, it pays to go to GDS and just focus on your grades.

You are misinformed. Not sure where you heard this but I wouldn't proceed on this advice.

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Anonymous wrote:Correct me if I am wrong but it seems that students from GDS with good grades, and not much else outside the classroom, are getting accepted to strong schools like Ivies, Vanderbilt, Emory, Wash U. On the other hand, kids from other schools going to even the less competitive of these schools all seem to have lots of other things going on besides good grades. Just an observation that if getting into a top college if your goal, it pays to go to GDS and just focus on your grades.

overall same percentage of kids going to top 25 as STA, Sidwell and NCS last year - yup just looked

STA a bit better than GDS but yes GDS had great placement but in no way better than other top schools. Sorry not true. Others did as well if not better OVERALL.

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Anonymous wrote:Correct me if I am wrong but it seems that students from GDS with good grades, and not much else outside the classroom, are getting accepted to strong schools like Ivies, Vanderbilt, Emory, Wash U. On the other hand, kids from other schools going to even the less competitive of these schools all seem to have lots of other things going on besides good grades. Just an observation that if getting into a top college if your goal, it pays to go to GDS and just focus on your grades.

overall same percentage of kids going to top 25 as STA, Sidwell and NCS last year - yup just looked

NCS 41 out of 71 students class of 2024 attending top 25 schools - many of those are ivies

Anonymous wrote:Correct me if I am wrong but it seems that students from GDS with good grades, and not much else outside the classroom, are getting accepted to strong schools like Ivies, Vanderbilt, Emory, Wash U. On the other hand, kids from other schools going to even the less competitive of these schools all seem to have lots of other things going on besides good grades. Just an observation that if getting into a top college if your goal, it pays to go to GDS and just focus on your grades.

overall same percentage of kids going to top 25 as STA, Sidwell and NCS last year - yup just looked

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Anonymous wrote:Such obvious trolling. Mainly to attract the massively insecure Sidwell parents. Is this today’s pissing contest thread?

Why are you invoking Sidwell’s name? I’m not a Sidwell parent but I’m so tired of people bringing up Sidwell’s name in every random DCUM thread. This stupid thread is GDS’ to deal with—jeez.

Got one! Go OP.

😝 I wish! Like your kid, mine didn’t get into Sidwell.

OP, the PP sounds like one of yours—a GDS family. As an outside observer, GDS seems to be engaged in a one-sided competition with Sidwell that it constantly loses.