Very interesting -- these strong reviews of GDS were written by students at Harvard and at Yale who are GDS alums.

http://www.prepreview.com/school/Georgetown_Day_School.html

Tell it to Duke.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently saw the GDS rowing team practicing and several were wearing Harvard gear, so I assume that several team members will attend Harvard or have older siblings there.

Or have parents who went there. Or boy/girlfriends. Or rowed in the Head of the Charles and bought souvenirs.

Rowing is a very important sport in the Ivy League. It wouldn't surprise me that GDS crew team members are being recruited.

This is true, because their results at the last couple of Stotesbury Cup Regattas have been almost unprecedented:
http://stotesburycupregatta.com/results/

Last year - boys junior 8, 49th of 52 boats
- senior 4, 41st of 52 boats
- girls senior 4, 44th of 53

What top Ivy League coach wouldn't be rushing to GDS to sign all those kids?

Last time I checked, the first word in scholar-athlete is "scholar." And an Ivy coach is well aware that GDS students are well-prepared for demanding college work. It doesn't mean that they are automatic recruits, of course, but they start off in a very strong pole position.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently saw the GDS rowing team practicing and several were wearing Harvard gear, so I assume that several team members will attend Harvard or have older siblings there.

Or have parents who went there. Or boy/girlfriends. Or rowed in the Head of the Charles and bought souvenirs.

Rowing is a very important sport in the Ivy League. It wouldn't surprise me that GDS crew team members are being recruited.

This is true, because their results at the last couple of Stotesbury Cup Regattas have been almost unprecedented:
http://stotesburycupregatta.com/results/

Last year - boys junior 8, 49th of 52 boats
- senior 4, 41st of 52 boats
- girls senior 4, 44th of 53

What top Ivy League coach wouldn't be rushing to GDS to sign all those kids?

Anonymous wrote:Rowing is a very important sport in the Ivy League. It wouldn't surprise me that GDS crew team members are being recruited. "

I have to believe that someone is trolling GDS here. Can't be a real post.

I'm sure this is the GDS CAT (College Acceptance Troll) at work again. Continue to believe it's somebody happy to make GDS look bad who enjoys how quickly people rise to this particular variety of bait (in this case, with the predictable, silly, and not accurate "nobody at GDS is ever good at sports" type post).

Rowing is a very important sport in the Ivy League. It wouldn't surprise me that GDS crew team members are being recruited. "

I have to believe that someone is trolling GDS here. Can't be a real post.

NO GDS is terrible at sports including crew. All of the other elites have many more athletic recruits. GDS kids are lucky they can walk and talk at the same time

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Anonymous wrote:I recently saw the GDS rowing team practicing and several were wearing Harvard gear, so I assume that several team members will attend Harvard or have older siblings there.

Or have parents who went there. Or boy/girlfriends. Or rowed in the Head of the Charles and bought souvenirs.

Rowing is a very important sport in the Ivy League. It wouldn't surprise me that GDS crew team members are being recruited.

If you had to make a bet on getting your kid into an ivy, you have to go with the Trad 3 STA, NCS & Sidwell.

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When exactly did GDS become the "it" school for the Ivys

NEVER

Anonymous wrote:Folks: GDS is the top feeder school for the Ivies... This has been already proven by several exhaustive studies...

... As commissioned by the Machers and shakers and uber-talented board of Georgetown Day.

Folks: GDS is the top feeder school for the Ivies... This has been already proven by several exhaustive studies...

When exactly did GDS become the "it" school for the Ivys?

Anonymous wrote:STA as far as I know...in fact Businessweek did an article on the top ivy feeder schools in the U.S. and I believe STA came up as one of the top three. Very intense though, had a child there, it really is survival of the fittest.

I'm familiar with STA, it's got excellent results but I wouldn't think better than a Sidwell in DC and certainly no better than some of the top day schools in other cities, such as Trinity (NYC); Horace Mann (NYC); Roxbury Latin, Winsor, and Noble & Greenough (Boston area); Harvard-Westlake, Polytechnic School (LA and Pasadena), etc.

It varies year by year. Obviously you can tell at a given school that a lot of good students go there (and that they'll generally have good college results) but the exact percentages vary widely from year to year (in part because it is small sample size -- if 4 more kids get into an Ivy from STA that adds 5% on to their percentage for that year).

STA as far as I know...in fact Businessweek did an article on the top ivy feeder schools in the U.S. and I believe STA came up as one of the top three. Very intense though, had a child there, it really is survival of the fittest.