Anonymous
Post 02/10/2018 10:09     Subject: Re:9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think at max it's about 10:1.

It sound like overwhelming odds but every year I know a lot of kids who get in from our local public. They're bright and nice kids but not out-of-the-norm brilliant or impressive.


That odds would make these school on par with selective colleges! I don't think so.

Potomac is about 35% - 40% acceptance, Sidwell probably around 20-25%.

Before any Potomac parents out there start throwing a fit, reason for the higher percentage is because historically Potomac's yield is not as high as Sidwell's (or the GDS, NCS/STA bunch).

Potomac, as much as it wants to be, just does not have as much name recognition as Sidwell. Not a reflection that it is a bad school, so calm down.

From my experience dealing with families from all different private schools in the DMV, Potomac families, by far, have the largest chip on their shoulders.


Wow - how happy am I that you aren’t at my kids’ school. You sound totally misinformed and idiotic. Care to cite your sources? And in what context exactly are you exposed to all of these uptight Potomac parents??
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2018 08:58     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't know app number for Potomac and Sidwell but I know when we applied GDS was 275 and told us that they were around 30-35% acceptance. Their class size is 50, Sidwell is 30 and Potomac targets 30-40. I gotta imagine Potomac and Sidwell will be much lower than 30-35 as a result because GDS loses some to Sidwell more than Sidwell loses to GDS.


Last year GDS's acceptance rate for 9th grade was 18%


See so Potomac at 12.5% to 25% makes a lot of sense.


Because there are less slots.


^^fewer
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2018 04:54     Subject: Re:9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think at max it's about 10:1.

It sound like overwhelming odds but every year I know a lot of kids who get in from our local public. They're bright and nice kids but not out-of-the-norm brilliant or impressive.


That odds would make these school on par with selective colleges! I don't think so.

Potomac is about 35% - 40% acceptance, Sidwell probably around 20-25%.

Before any Potomac parents out there start throwing a fit, reason for the higher percentage is because historically Potomac's yield is not as high as Sidwell's (or the GDS, NCS/STA bunch).

Potomac, as much as it wants to be, just does not have as much name recognition as Sidwell. Not a reflection that it is a bad school, so calm down.

From my experience dealing with families from all different private schools in the DMV, Potomac families, by far, have the largest chip on their shoulders.


Its all relative, OP as I would say the laregst chip can routinely be found on the GDS shoulders. -Cathedral parent


First of all, why would you say such a thing? Second of all, why would you out yourself as a Cathedral parent. Rather embarrassing for them, no? I hope you're just a troll trying to make NCS look bad.



Nah I am not a Cathedral parent and I say GDS---the whole Harvard thing.


You realize that “the whole Harvard thing” isn’t said by actual GDS parents but by a notorious anti-GDS troll, right? In fact, I would guess that you are that troll.

— a different Cathedral parent
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 21:49     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
^^Oops! At Potomac.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 21:49     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
I know this isn't for 9th grade, but I just asked about K and they didn't share the acceptance rate but they said it was something like 100 admitted for around 30 spots (I might be off slightly, but the ratio is about right). And you have to imagine they admit more than actually matriculate (either the first time around, or via a waitlist), so for K it's probably around 50%.

Higher than they like people to think!
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 16:55     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't know app number for Potomac and Sidwell but I know when we applied GDS was 275 and told us that they were around 30-35% acceptance. Their class size is 50, Sidwell is 30 and Potomac targets 30-40. I gotta imagine Potomac and Sidwell will be much lower than 30-35 as a result because GDS loses some to Sidwell more than Sidwell loses to GDS.


Last year GDS's acceptance rate for 9th grade was 18%


See so Potomac at 12.5% to 25% makes a lot of sense.


Because there are less slots.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 16:54     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't know app number for Potomac and Sidwell but I know when we applied GDS was 275 and told us that they were around 30-35% acceptance. Their class size is 50, Sidwell is 30 and Potomac targets 30-40. I gotta imagine Potomac and Sidwell will be much lower than 30-35 as a result because GDS loses some to Sidwell more than Sidwell loses to GDS.


Last year GDS's acceptance rate for 9th grade was 18%


See so Potomac at 12.5% to 25% makes a lot of sense.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 16:53     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't know app number for Potomac and Sidwell but I know when we applied GDS was 275 and told us that they were around 30-35% acceptance. Their class size is 50, Sidwell is 30 and Potomac targets 30-40. I gotta imagine Potomac and Sidwell will be much lower than 30-35 as a result because GDS loses some to Sidwell more than Sidwell loses to GDS.


When was this? And was it for 9th grade? We didn't apply to Sidwell or Potomac but I did ask about this in our Maret interview and was told they expect 250-300 applications for 9th. That was in November though, so potentially they got more than they expected.


Two years ago when we applied. Yes for GDS 9th.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 16:13     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:I don't know app number for Potomac and Sidwell but I know when we applied GDS was 275 and told us that they were around 30-35% acceptance. Their class size is 50, Sidwell is 30 and Potomac targets 30-40. I gotta imagine Potomac and Sidwell will be much lower than 30-35 as a result because GDS loses some to Sidwell more than Sidwell loses to GDS.


Last year GDS's acceptance rate for 9th grade was 18%
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 14:23     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:I don't know app number for Potomac and Sidwell but I know when we applied GDS was 275 and told us that they were around 30-35% acceptance. Their class size is 50, Sidwell is 30 and Potomac targets 30-40. I gotta imagine Potomac and Sidwell will be much lower than 30-35 as a result because GDS loses some to Sidwell more than Sidwell loses to GDS.


When was this? And was it for 9th grade? We didn't apply to Sidwell or Potomac but I did ask about this in our Maret interview and was told they expect 250-300 applications for 9th. That was in November though, so potentially they got more than they expected.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 14:09     Subject: Re:9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think at max it's about 10:1.

It sound like overwhelming odds but every year I know a lot of kids who get in from our local public. They're bright and nice kids but not out-of-the-norm brilliant or impressive.


That odds would make these school on par with selective colleges! I don't think so.

Potomac is about 35% - 40% acceptance, Sidwell probably around 20-25%.

Before any Potomac parents out there start throwing a fit, reason for the higher percentage is because historically Potomac's yield is not as high as Sidwell's (or the GDS, NCS/STA bunch).

Potomac, as much as it wants to be, just does not have as much name recognition as Sidwell. Not a reflection that it is a bad school, so calm down.

From my experience dealing with families from all different private schools in the DMV, Potomac families, by far, have the largest chip on their shoulders.


Its all relative, OP as I would say the laregst chip can routinely be found on the GDS shoulders. -Cathedral parent


First of all, why would you say such a thing? Second of all, why would you out yourself as a Cathedral parent. Rather embarrassing for them, no? I hope you're just a troll trying to make NCS look bad.



Nah I am not a Cathedral parent and I say GDS---the whole Harvard thing.

+ not only about H. When I just came to this forum, I thought it's troll or a joke. Then after reading many GDS parents' p, I can feel their tone is slightly different from others. Guess the whole GDS thing coming from.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 13:43     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
No cathedral parents on here. No Big 3 parents on here making GDS jokes. It's all wannabes.

Tons of fantastic independent schools around here, with exciting curricula, events, and teachers. Good stuff.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 13:36     Subject: 9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Here is an old thread citing a book on Potomac's 900 apps. That is for the whole school not just high school. They accepted 130 of the 900 in the whole school which suggests a PP's number of 12.5% to 25% is right on target for high school. That is 14.4% overall.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/94496.page
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 13:31     Subject: Re:9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think at max it's about 10:1.

It sound like overwhelming odds but every year I know a lot of kids who get in from our local public. They're bright and nice kids but not out-of-the-norm brilliant or impressive.


That odds would make these school on par with selective colleges! I don't think so.

Potomac is about 35% - 40% acceptance, Sidwell probably around 20-25%.

Before any Potomac parents out there start throwing a fit, reason for the higher percentage is because historically Potomac's yield is not as high as Sidwell's (or the GDS, NCS/STA bunch).

Potomac, as much as it wants to be, just does not have as much name recognition as Sidwell. Not a reflection that it is a bad school, so calm down.

From my experience dealing with families from all different private schools in the DMV, Potomac families, by far, have the largest chip on their shoulders.


Its all relative, OP as I would say the laregst chip can routinely be found on the GDS shoulders. -Cathedral parent


First of all, why would you say such a thing? Second of all, why would you out yourself as a Cathedral parent. Rather embarrassing for them, no? I hope you're just a troll trying to make NCS look bad.



Nah I am not a Cathedral parent and I say GDS---the whole Harvard thing.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2018 13:29     Subject: Re:9th grade acceptance rate at Sidwell and Potomac
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think at max it's about 10:1.

It sound like overwhelming odds but every year I know a lot of kids who get in from our local public. They're bright and nice kids but not out-of-the-norm brilliant or impressive.


That odds would make these school on par with selective colleges! I don't think so.

Potomac is about 35% - 40% acceptance, Sidwell probably around 20-25%.

Before any Potomac parents out there start throwing a fit, reason for the higher percentage is because historically Potomac's yield is not as high as Sidwell's (or the GDS, NCS/STA bunch).

Potomac, as much as it wants to be, just does not have as much name recognition as Sidwell. Not a reflection that it is a bad school, so calm down.

From my experience dealing with families from all different private schools in the DMV, Potomac families, by far, have the largest chip on their shoulders.


Its all relative, OP as I would say the laregst chip can routinely be found on the GDS shoulders. -Cathedral parent


First of all, why would you say such a thing? Second of all, why would you out yourself as a Cathedral parent. Rather embarrassing for them, no? I hope you're just a troll trying to make NCS look bad.