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Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

Interesting that Sidwell is having a brutal year but other schools, for example GDS, are enjoying continued success in selective early admissions.

Anonymous wrote:NP here. There is "in addition" to academic merit, and there is "in place of". Athletes recruited by the Ivies need a minimum of a "B-" GPA according to an agreement signed by all the Ivy schools. Try getting in to an Ivy on merit alone with a GPA of B-. The SAT scores of recruited athletes also have a minimum that are hundreds of points lower than a true merit admission. Legacies do not have the same academic records often times - though there are some like my child who probably would have gotten in on his own. Why take the chance though! And plenty of check-the-box applicants who are held to different standards. See the lawsuit against Harvard for that discussion. So I wouldn't jump all over PP for not saying "in addition to" academic merit. That just simply isn't true in a lot of cases. If you can't admit that, then you don't live in the real world.

Anonymous wrote:NP here. There is "in addition" to academic merit, and there is "in place of". Athletes recruited by the Ivies need a minimum of a "B-" GPA according to an agreement signed by all the Ivy schools. Try getting in to an Ivy on merit alone with a GPA of B-. The SAT scores of recruited athletes also have a minimum that are hundreds of points lower than a true merit admission. Legacies do not have the same academic records often times - though there are some like my child who probably would have gotten in on his own. Why take the chance though! And plenty of check-the-box applicants who are held to different standards. See the lawsuit against Harvard for that discussion. So I wouldn't jump all over PP for not saying "in addition to" academic merit. That just simply isn't true in a lot of cases. If you can't admit that, then you don't live in the real world.

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Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

2 at Sidwell. DD named names so I'll go with her report vs DCUM.

PP here. Sorry, forgot to say the 2 kids at Sidwell got into Harvard.

My child goes to Sidwell and said only one has been named and feted on facebook and in class, so it would be strange for no one to be publicly saying congrats to someone else. Not exactly something to hide! But maybe someone who got in is waiting for financial aid package before telling people? My child said that the silence on social media vs. Kids talking about getting results back in last few days is deafening.

There are two. Facebook is not the bible. A terrific kid and swimmer has been in for a while, as well as the more recent.


Oh, I thought you meant two kids found out Thursday they got in, the athletes who got recruited from Sidwell and other schools found out weeks ago. I think that OP meant what the early results were for non-athletes. If someone gets into an Ivy as an athlete, that is a reflection of that kid's talent more than the school the kid was recruited from IMO.

In your lame efforts to back out of your statement, you are taking a swipe at a kid you don't even know, and apparently didnt know existed prior to being corrected. The student got in and counts against the 980 precious early slots.

+1. Lame is right. Seems if she doesn't know everything then it must not be true.

PP here - how did I back out? I know the swimmer got in weeks ago. This thread is for EA or ED results and other posters started listing which kids (specifically at SFS at this point for some reason) have heard back in the last few days as results are trickling out. Then some other PP starting saying that the numbers were light, etc. Whatever. the point is that a lot of kids are getting disappointed, and not just from Sidwell. It's worth pointing out that kids will get in because of other reasons than academic merit. That's life.

You don't seem to be getting it. How about phrasing as, "reasons in addition to academic merit".