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Anonymous wrote:There were also Sidwell students who went to Northwestern and Washington University last year --both fine schools.

Yes, but not exactly Ivy League, are they?

Anonymous wrote:There were also Sidwell students who went to Northwestern and Washington University last year --both fine schools.

Anonymous wrote:Is there really that much of a line between the Ivies and a school like Williams or Chicago? A lot of top students choose top LACs over Ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Even STA will tell you #20 is NOT getting into an Ivy, MIT or Stanford. It is a far, far reach even for a legacy at those schools unless you are donating a building named after you.

Do you think the numbers STA publishes on its website are just fictional? They show that #20 is going to an Ivy, MIT or Stanford. And even the partial numbers PP posted for Sidwell suggest the same thing there -- at least 29 to an Ivy, MIT or Stanford in 2015.

Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Even STA will tell you #20 is NOT getting into an Ivy, MIT or Stanford. It is a far, far reach even for a legacy at those schools unless you are donating a building named after you.

Anonymous wrote:So what percentage of boys at STA actually go to good schools? If #20 does not, does #15?

Anonymous wrote:A little less, but I forgot the two who went to Stanford.

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Anonymous wrote:Since Sidwell does not release their matriculation stats like most other elite privates, we don't know.

For better or worse, as far as I can tell, Sidwell is not alone. I don't see NCS or GDS publishing matriculation stats. So STA is all we have to go on, but that's ok because I suspect it's pretty representative of the others.

Anonymous wrote:So let's look at St Albans which does, graduating #20 out of 80 from St Alban's does not get you into an Ivy, MIT or Stanford either ...

I think you're wrong here. If you look at the 5-year averages STA publishes, you see 93 total matriculations at Ivies+Stanford (but not including MIT or Brown). STA only publishes the most common colleges, so let's conservatively assume there are 3-4 each at MIT and Brown over those 5 years, which brings us to 100 total matriculations. In other words, on average 20 per year to Ivies+Stanford+MIT, or roughly 25% of the class. That's certainly less as a raw number than the 40-45 students TJ might send to those same colleges, but since TJ has 5-6 times more students submitting applications, those 40-45 students represent only roughly 10% of the school.

... and the bottom 20% certainly do not go to UVA or Berkley.

You're right we don't know where the bottom 20% of the STA class went to college. But because TJ publishes full matriculation data, we can see where the bottom 20% of TJ goes, and it's clearly not UVA or Berkeley. When I look at TJ's list, I see plenty to schools like Indiana, UCSD, Kalamazoo, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Alabama, Stony Brook, VCU, Miami, etc. Those are all perfectly respectable colleges IMHO, and I suspect they're not too dissimilar to where the bottom 25% of STA might go.