Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not.

So, you get stats but you choose to ignore them.

That makes you, what, a willful moron?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not.

So, you get stats but you choose to ignore them.

That makes you, what, a willful moron?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

I get statistics perfectly well. That it's more *unusual* to have a 2/3 Jewish school than an 80% Catholic school in a country that 2% Jewish and 25% Catholic is undoubtedly true. That the Jewish school has a *diversity* problem but the Catholic school does not implies that Jews are inherently undiverse, but Catholics are not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

Oh G-d.

You don't get stats, do you.

Hint: show me a school in Israel that is 2/3 Catholic

Anonymous wrote:On the Jewish thing, I'm not from this area, so I don't know about GDS. But I do remember when I was applying for colleges, a lot of college guides said that Brandeis had a diversity issue, because it was 2/3 Jewish. But I was also interested in Georgetown, which was not only even more Catholic, but at the time had a huge % from Catholic prep schools. Not a peep in the guides about Georgetown not being diverse.

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Anonymous wrote:This issue isn't accessibility, it's the ability to easily secure the campus. GDS LS/MS has apartments about a 100 feet from the school building, with a direct line of sight. St. Andrews is a huge campus that's isolated from nearby private residences.

In addition, it's convenient given that Melania lives right around the corner.

The White House’s dirty little not-so-secret.

Anonymous wrote:This issue isn't accessibility, it's the ability to easily secure the campus. GDS LS/MS has apartments about a 100 feet from the school building, with a direct line of sight. St. Andrews is a huge campus that's isolated from nearby private residences.

In addition, it's convenient given that Melania lives right around the corner.

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Anonymous wrote:Back on topic... it's redicylous to assert that GDS has some amazing admissions record with Harvard, and I've yet to see any GDS parents assert this. While it may be that GDS students tend to excel more than others once they get there, the admissions departments don't want to overadmit from GDS given that it will put too many critical thinking alphas in their classrooms, which disturbs the balance.

These GDS folks can't help themselves...it's like a cult!

Anonymous wrote:Back on topic... it's redicylous to assert that GDS has some amazing admissions record with Harvard, and I've yet to see any GDS parents assert this. While it may be that GDS students tend to excel more than others once they get there, the admissions departments don't want to overadmit from GDS given that it will put too many critical thinking alphas in their classrooms, which disturbs the balance.

Anonymous wrote:This issue isn't accessibility, it's the ability to easily secure the campus. GDS LS/MS has apartments about a 100 feet from the school building, with a direct line of sight. St. Andrews is a huge campus that's isolated from nearby private residences.

In addition, it's convenient given that Melania lives right around the corner.

Anonymous wrote:The references to college placement on this and other threads is redicylous. More students place at the elite colleges from these schools because, as referenced above, the parents who choose these schools are graduates of the elite colleges themselves. Yes, efforts to diversify the colleges and universities are real, but the numbers are still relatively small. When you eliminate the legacies you find the college placements from the often referenced top placing local private schools to be much less compelling.