Anonymous wrote:I’m sure the lists aren’t exhaustive, but the public IG pages of acceptances from the top publics and privates aren’t impressive.

Deerfield has an impressive list but hear many are athlete recruits.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en

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Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.

It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.

By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.

+1. This is such a poor taste I don't know where to begin. DC's MCPS school had a fair share of Ivy and T10 too last year. They don't do this. In fact one of the teachers gently reminds kids to take his peers' emotions into account.

Are you always such a stick in the mud, PP? I love the posts and am happy for the kids. Sorry that is so hard for you to see.

My kid got into an Ivy early and they would NEVER think of posting. Very braggy.

Oh please. It's a life milestone. Congratulations to your kid. I'm happy for him/ her, even if you like to feign humility. We're not all so fragile, PP, that we can't handle someone else's good news.

You know quite well it isn't the parents who those posts impact. A lot of kids have a rough ride ahead and I guess you're the type who would just walk over them to announce your success. Sickening.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en

Amazing?

Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.

It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.

By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.

+1. This is such a poor taste I don't know where to begin. DC's MCPS school had a fair share of Ivy and T10 too last year. They don't do this. In fact one of the teachers gently reminds kids to take his peers' emotions into account.

Are you always such a stick in the mud, PP? I love the posts and am happy for the kids. Sorry that is so hard for you to see.

My kid got into an Ivy early and they would NEVER think of posting. Very braggy.

Oh please. It's a life milestone. Congratulations to your kid. I'm happy for him/ her, even if you like to feign humility. We're not all so fragile, PP, that we can't handle someone else's good news.

You know quite well it isn't the parents who those posts impact. A lot of kids have a rough ride ahead and I guess you're the type who would just walk over them to announce your success. Sickening.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en

Amazing?

Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.

It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.

By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.

+1. This is such a poor taste I don't know where to begin. DC's MCPS school had a fair share of Ivy and T10 too last year. They don't do this. In fact one of the teachers gently reminds kids to take his peers' emotions into account.

Are you always such a stick in the mud, PP? I love the posts and am happy for the kids. Sorry that is so hard for you to see.

My kid got into an Ivy early and they would NEVER think of posting. Very braggy.

Oh please. It's a life milestone. Congratulations to your kid. I'm happy for him/ her, even if you like to feign humility. We're not all so fragile, PP, that we can't handle someone else's good news.

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Anonymous wrote:So, to answer the question about Sidwell ED results, what I know is 1 Harvard, 1 Yale, 2 Cornell, 2 UPenn, 4 Princeton. Lots of admits along the range of Rice, WashU, Pitzer, etc. But lots of ED deferrals and rejections as well. GDS is having similar results. My Sidwell senior didn’t do ED. For all of this talk of accommodations and such, I really haven’t much about it, and we’ve been here since K. Maybe we travel in different circles.

This seems like a completely normal an expected outcome for a school like Sidwell.

And not so different from my kid's public high school to be quite honest.

Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.

If this is true then all the whiners on this board who complain about all the unqualified hooked kids taking their precious kid’s spot should STFU, because clearly public schools are getting tons of unhooked kids into the top schools.

They do stfu. That is the point. There are not braggy threads from every high school about future college plans on dcum. Always a thread about this high school.

Are you kidding me? Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots. If public schools get all these kids in why do you whine like this?

Please link us to all the DCUM threads set up to report the "amazing" college be plans of graduates from public high schools

Let me use small words for your benefit (it’s a shame we can’t use pictures).

I wrote: Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots.

And your response is to ask for all the threads about these amazing college results?!?

It’s really quite simple so even you can grasp it.

Public school parents both ritualistically complain about their more deserving children being denied admission and how the college admissions game is totally skewed against the average unhooked applicant and then with the same breath say that their public school admissions are better than Sidwell and all without hooks. All we want is for you to pick a position and stick to it. Frankly I think it’s true that public schools get plenty of kids into great colleges (although not all as unhooked as you’d like to believe), it’s the constant whining that is completely irritating.

Admissions are difficult everywhere and congrats to all the great kids that access to hese top colleges.

The complaint discussed is about starting DCUM threads to brag. Just drool over the Instagram posts like everyone else and move on instead of carrying on on dcum.

No that was the invented complaint. You know you can click to show the quotes. This is what was said

“Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.“

If that is true then why all the whining and blame? Why the constant kvetching about URMs?

Why is there a thread DCUM about this particular high school and the "amazing" ED results?

Because, IMHO, the poster was a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:So, to answer the question about Sidwell ED results, what I know is 1 Harvard, 1 Yale, 2 Cornell, 2 UPenn, 4 Princeton. Lots of admits along the range of Rice, WashU, Pitzer, etc. But lots of ED deferrals and rejections as well. GDS is having similar results. My Sidwell senior didn’t do ED. For all of this talk of accommodations and such, I really haven’t much about it, and we’ve been here since K. Maybe we travel in different circles.

This seems like a completely normal an expected outcome for a school like Sidwell.

And not so different from my kid's public high school to be quite honest.

Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.

If this is true then all the whiners on this board who complain about all the unqualified hooked kids taking their precious kid’s spot should STFU, because clearly public schools are getting tons of unhooked kids into the top schools.

They do stfu. That is the point. There are not braggy threads from every high school about future college plans on dcum. Always a thread about this high school.

Are you kidding me? Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots. If public schools get all these kids in why do you whine like this?

Please link us to all the DCUM threads set up to report the "amazing" college be plans of graduates from public high schools

Let me use small words for your benefit (it’s a shame we can’t use pictures).

I wrote: Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots.

And your response is to ask for all the threads about these amazing college results?!?

It’s really quite simple so even you can grasp it.

Public school parents both ritualistically complain about their more deserving children being denied admission and how the college admissions game is totally skewed against the average unhooked applicant and then with the same breath say that their public school admissions are better than Sidwell and all without hooks. All we want is for you to pick a position and stick to it. Frankly I think it’s true that public schools get plenty of kids into great colleges (although not all as unhooked as you’d like to believe), it’s the constant whining that is completely irritating.

Admissions are difficult everywhere and congrats to all the great kids that access to hese top colleges.

The complaint discussed is about starting DCUM threads to brag. Just drool over the Instagram posts like everyone else and move on instead of carrying on on dcum.

No that was the invented complaint. You know you can click to show the quotes. This is what was said

“Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.“

If that is true then why all the whining and blame? Why the constant kvetching about URMs?

Why is there a thread DCUM about this particular high school and the "amazing" ED results?

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Anonymous wrote:So, to answer the question about Sidwell ED results, what I know is 1 Harvard, 1 Yale, 2 Cornell, 2 UPenn, 4 Princeton. Lots of admits along the range of Rice, WashU, Pitzer, etc. But lots of ED deferrals and rejections as well. GDS is having similar results. My Sidwell senior didn’t do ED. For all of this talk of accommodations and such, I really haven’t much about it, and we’ve been here since K. Maybe we travel in different circles.

This seems like a completely normal an expected outcome for a school like Sidwell.

And not so different from my kid's public high school to be quite honest.

Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.

If this is true then all the whiners on this board who complain about all the unqualified hooked kids taking their precious kid’s spot should STFU, because clearly public schools are getting tons of unhooked kids into the top schools.

They do stfu. That is the point. There are not braggy threads from every high school about future college plans on dcum. Always a thread about this high school.

Are you kidding me? Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots. If public schools get all these kids in why do you whine like this?

Please link us to all the DCUM threads set up to report the "amazing" college be plans of graduates from public high schools

Let me use small words for your benefit (it’s a shame we can’t use pictures).

I wrote: Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots.

And your response is to ask for all the threads about these amazing college results?!?

It’s really quite simple so even you can grasp it.

Public school parents both ritualistically complain about their more deserving children being denied admission and how the college admissions game is totally skewed against the average unhooked applicant and then with the same breath say that their public school admissions are better than Sidwell and all without hooks. All we want is for you to pick a position and stick to it. Frankly I think it’s true that public schools get plenty of kids into great colleges (although not all as unhooked as you’d like to believe), it’s the constant whining that is completely irritating.

Admissions are difficult everywhere and congrats to all the great kids that access to hese top colleges.

The complaint discussed is about starting DCUM threads to brag. Just drool over the Instagram posts like everyone else and move on instead of carrying on on dcum.

No that was the invented complaint. You know you can click to show the quotes. This is what was said

“Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.“

If that is true then why all the whining and blame? Why the constant kvetching about URMs?

Why is there a thread DCUM about this particular high school and the "amazing" ED results?

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en

Amazing?

Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.

It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.

By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.

I'm affiliated with one of these schools, and I agree these are weird. They make me very uncomfortable.

Oh and my goodness, we can't have this mom being "very uncomfortable."

How sad for you, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:So, to answer the question about Sidwell ED results, what I know is 1 Harvard, 1 Yale, 2 Cornell, 2 UPenn, 4 Princeton. Lots of admits along the range of Rice, WashU, Pitzer, etc. But lots of ED deferrals and rejections as well. GDS is having similar results. My Sidwell senior didn’t do ED. For all of this talk of accommodations and such, I really haven’t much about it, and we’ve been here since K. Maybe we travel in different circles.

This seems like a completely normal an expected outcome for a school like Sidwell.

And not so different from my kid's public high school to be quite honest.

Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.

If this is true then all the whiners on this board who complain about all the unqualified hooked kids taking their precious kid’s spot should STFU, because clearly public schools are getting tons of unhooked kids into the top schools.

They do stfu. That is the point. There are not braggy threads from every high school about future college plans on dcum. Always a thread about this high school.

Are you kidding me? Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots. If public schools get all these kids in why do you whine like this?

Please link us to all the DCUM threads set up to report the "amazing" college be plans of graduates from public high schools

Let me use small words for your benefit (it’s a shame we can’t use pictures).

I wrote: Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots.

And your response is to ask for all the threads about these amazing college results?!?

It’s really quite simple so even you can grasp it.

Public school parents both ritualistically complain about their more deserving children being denied admission and how the college admissions game is totally skewed against the average unhooked applicant and then with the same breath say that their public school admissions are better than Sidwell and all without hooks. All we want is for you to pick a position and stick to it. Frankly I think it’s true that public schools get plenty of kids into great colleges (although not all as unhooked as you’d like to believe), it’s the constant whining that is completely irritating.

Admissions are difficult everywhere and congrats to all the great kids that access to hese top colleges.

The complaint discussed is about starting DCUM threads to brag. Just drool over the Instagram posts like everyone else and move on instead of carrying on on dcum.

No that was the invented complaint. You know you can click to show the quotes. This is what was said

“Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.“

If that is true then why all the whining and blame? Why the constant kvetching about URMs?

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I have kids at another Big3 and they have had not had more things "handed to them" vs. their equally well-off friends from publics. We came from public in 8th (and graduated one kid from pubic) so i know of what I speak.

You live in a bubble. Not all publics are filled with kids who are equally well off.

No, I don't live in a bubble. Perhaps my phrasing was confusing. My private school kids are typical DCUM kids--children of two professional parents. I'm not comparing my kids to impoverished kids, etc.

Professional class DCUM kids in private are resourced the same as professional class DCUM kids in public. T Their school does not hand them any other opportunities or coddling.
That's what I'm saying. I was either confusing or you are choosing to be obtuse.

No, you were clear but can't seem to understand that there are public schools outside of your bubble that aren't resourced the same.

My kids went to DCPS for 10 years each (and one for 14). I understand under resourced. NEXT.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell: https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2023/
GDS: https://www.instagram.com/gdsseniors23/
Holton: https://www.instagram.com/holtonarms2023/?hl=en
Landon: https://www.instagram.com/landonseniors23/?hl=en

Amazing?

Uhh. I find these social media postings creepy. Why would these schools do this? It's one thing to list the schools where your students got accepted, but it's another to post poofed up pictures of young men and women for the entire universe to gawk over. I expect children to do this stuff. Not grown adults.

It almost feels like some creepy modeling agency.

By the way, my kid's MCPS high school could post a bunch of Ivy and T20 ED accepted posts too, but they don't.

I'm affiliated with one of these schools, and I agree these are weird. They make me very uncomfortable.

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This seems like a completely normal an expected outcome for a school like Sidwell.

And not so different from my kid's public high school to be quite honest.

Public school my kid graduated from has better college acceptances w/o legacies, donors, connections etc.

If this is true then all the whiners on this board who complain about all the unqualified hooked kids taking their precious kid’s spot should STFU, because clearly public schools are getting tons of unhooked kids into the top schools.

They do stfu. That is the point. There are not braggy threads from every high school about future college plans on dcum. Always a thread about this high school.

Are you kidding me? Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots. If public schools get all these kids in why do you whine like this?

Please link us to all the DCUM threads set up to report the "amazing" college be plans of graduates from public high schools

Let me use small words for your benefit (it’s a shame we can’t use pictures).

I wrote: Check any thread on this board and see how many parents whine about their unhooked white UMC kid not getting into college when all these hooked kids are stealing their spots.

And your response is to ask for all the threads about these amazing college results?!?

It’s really quite simple so even you can grasp it.

Public school parents both ritualistically complain about their more deserving children being denied admission and how the college admissions game is totally skewed against the average unhooked applicant and then with the same breath say that their public school admissions are better than Sidwell and all without hooks. All we want is for you to pick a position and stick to it. Frankly I think it’s true that public schools get plenty of kids into great colleges (although not all as unhooked as you’d like to believe), it’s the constant whining that is completely irritating.

Admissions are difficult everywhere and congrats to all the great kids that access to hese top colleges.

The complaint discussed is about starting DCUM threads to brag. Just drool over the Instagram posts like everyone else and move on instead of carrying on on dcum.