Anonymous
11/30/2021 17:53
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:One of the (IMO) positives of the Latin college counseling office is that they strive to help kids find the right "fit" for the right price, instead of trying to push kids into taking on large amounts of debt at high profile schools. They do a lot of counseling about which schools are "no loan" schools, and which schools offer great aid options, as well as being very on top of the DC TAG program. The college counselors also spend a lot of time educating students on potential scholarship opportunities. For parents who have $300k+ per kid socked away in 529s to cover HYP, that might not matter, but to many Latin families it does.
Grand, but dozens of schools on the list cost a bomb (around $75,000, same as "high profile" schools) for UMC families who don't qualify for fi aid, and don't offer much in the way of merit scholarships. Moreover, poor kids would do better financially at Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford etc. than at the schools on the list.
100%. High profile schools usually give poor kids a completely free ride. "Poor" being a relative term that would include many parents who have failed to sock away $300+ per kid.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 17:49
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The class of 2021 has kids going to Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell, and Harvard.
I seriously doubt this.
I hate playing your game, but also need to inform you that I personally know of Latin graduates from the last 3 years who are currently studying at Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell and Harvard. Also Pomona.
OK, you might want to tell the Latin college counseling department about that so they can add it to the Latin website.
Why do they need to add it? For the millionth time, Latin cares about the finding the right fit for its students and not only about presigious colleges. They don't need to convince random DCUMers that they have an amazing thing going. If you don't like it, don't apply.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 17:39
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The class of 2021 has kids going to Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell, and Harvard.
I seriously doubt this.
I hate playing your game, but also need to inform you that I personally know of Latin graduates from the last 3 years who are currently studying at Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell and Harvard. Also Pomona.
OK, you might want to tell the Latin college counseling department about that so they can add it to the Latin website.
Where are you looking? and do other public high schools in DC have college counseling sites listing college acceptances current and historical? Would love to see links.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 17:20
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The class of 2021 has kids going to Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell, and Harvard.
I seriously doubt this.
I hate playing your game, but also need to inform you that I personally know of Latin graduates from the last 3 years who are currently studying at Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell and Harvard. Also Pomona.
OK, you might want to tell the Latin college counseling department about that so they can add it to the Latin website.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 17:04
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The class of 2021 has kids going to Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell, and Harvard.
I seriously doubt this.
I hate playing your game, but also need to inform you that I personally know of Latin graduates from the last 3 years who are currently studying at Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell and Harvard. Also Pomona.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 16:52
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:The class of 2021 has kids going to Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell, and Harvard.
I seriously doubt this.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 16:51
Subject: Re:What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
One of the (IMO) positives of the Latin college counseling office is that they strive to help kids find the right "fit" for the right price, instead of trying to push kids into taking on large amounts of debt at high profile schools. They do a lot of counseling about which schools are "no loan" schools, and which schools offer great aid options, as well as being very on top of the DC TAG program. The college counselors also spend a lot of time educating students on potential scholarship opportunities. For parents who have $300k+ per kid socked away in 529s to cover HYP, that might not matter, but to many Latin families it does.
Grand, but dozens of schools on the list cost a bomb (around $75,000, same as "high profile" schools) for UMC families who don't qualify for fi aid, and don't offer much in the way of merit scholarships. Moreover, poor kids would do better financially at Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford etc. than at the schools on the list.
There are a lot of small private schools with high price tags which offer generous merit aid. And another aspect of Latin's College counseling program is that they offer a lot of practical counseling regarding cost considerations which are not typically covered by financial aid, e.g., transportation. They aren't going to push a kid to Stanford (e.g.) if the child's financial situation means that coming home for holidays and summer visits is effectively priced out of reach. Spending an additional $1400 to $2000/ yr in airline tickets is not insignificant. The head of the college counseling office is very sensitive to those types of aspects---frequently overlooked by the comfortable DCUM demographic.
Nonsense. In 2021, Standford and other top tier programs routinely provide travel allowances to low SES American students who need to travel thousands of miles to attend. They also let undergrads stay on campus during semester breaks if they want.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 15:17
Subject: Re:What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just OK for all the hype about Latin academics.
No school admitting in the single digits on the list...Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, private Ivies (one student to Ivy-public Cornell), Univ Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin, Northwestern, Pomona, military academies etc.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/lowest-acceptance-rate
Cornell is private.
Cornell is actually a private-NY State School hybrid. You can look that up.
Fair enough. Maybe the lone Latin Ivy student is attending the state-supported agricultural, human ecology, or industrial relations college.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 15:09
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:The class of 2021 has kids going to Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell, and Harvard.
Odd how that isn’t in the Latin website.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 14:46
Subject: Re:What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:
One of the (IMO) positives of the Latin college counseling office is that they strive to help kids find the right "fit" for the right price, instead of trying to push kids into taking on large amounts of debt at high profile schools. They do a lot of counseling about which schools are "no loan" schools, and which schools offer great aid options, as well as being very on top of the DC TAG program. The college counselors also spend a lot of time educating students on potential scholarship opportunities. For parents who have $300k+ per kid socked away in 529s to cover HYP, that might not matter, but to many Latin families it does.
Grand, but dozens of schools on the list cost a bomb (around $75,000, same as "high profile" schools) for UMC families who don't qualify for fi aid, and don't offer much in the way of merit scholarships. Moreover, poor kids would do better financially at Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford etc. than at the schools on the list.
There are a lot of small private schools with high price tags which offer generous merit aid. And another aspect of Latin's College counseling program is that they offer a lot of practical counseling regarding cost considerations which are not typically covered by financial aid, e.g., transportation. They aren't going to push a kid to Stanford (e.g.) if the child's financial situation means that coming home for holidays and summer visits is effectively priced out of reach. Spending an additional $1400 to $2000/ yr in airline tickets is not insignificant. The head of the college counseling office is very sensitive to those types of aspects---frequently overlooked by the comfortable DCUM demographic.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 14:11
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
The class of 2021 has kids going to Stanford, UChicago, Penn, Cornell, and Harvard.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 13:46
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:One of the (IMO) positives of the Latin college counseling office is that they strive to help kids find the right "fit" for the right price, instead of trying to push kids into taking on large amounts of debt at high profile schools. They do a lot of counseling about which schools are "no loan" schools, and which schools offer great aid options, as well as being very on top of the DC TAG program. The college counselors also spend a lot of time educating students on potential scholarship opportunities. For parents who have $300k+ per kid socked away in 529s to cover HYP, that might not matter, but to many Latin families it does.
Grand, but dozens of schools on the list cost a bomb (around $75,000, same as "high profile" schools) for UMC families who don't qualify for fi aid, and don't offer much in the way of merit scholarships. Moreover, poor kids would do better financially at Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford etc. than at the schools on the list.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 13:42
Subject: Re:What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just OK for all the hype about Latin academics.
No school admitting in the single digits on the list...Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, private Ivies (one student to Ivy-public Cornell), Univ Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin, Northwestern, Pomona, military academies etc.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/lowest-acceptance-rate
Cornell is private.
Cornell is actually a private-NY State School hybrid. You can look that up.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 12:00
Subject: What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:One of the (IMO) positives of the Latin college counseling office is that they strive to help kids find the right "fit" for the right price, instead of trying to push kids into taking on large amounts of debt at high profile schools. They do a lot of counseling about which schools are "no loan" schools, and which schools offer great aid options, as well as being very on top of the DC TAG program. The college counselors also spend a lot of time educating students on potential scholarship opportunities. For parents who have $300k+ per kid socked away in 529s to cover HYP, that might not matter, but to many Latin families it does.
+1 the counseling at Latin is amazing - our child wound up at a great school that has been a great fit.
Anonymous
11/30/2021 11:55
Subject: Re:What do we think about Latin second campus
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just OK for all the hype about Latin academics.
No school admitting in the single digits on the list...Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, private Ivies (one student to Ivy-public Cornell), Univ Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin, Northwestern, Pomona, military academies etc.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/lowest-acceptance-rate
I wasn’t aware that there was any hype about Latin academics (other than from Latin boosters here).
For example, USN&WR ranks it the #14 public middle school in DC behind KIPP Aim Academy.
https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia
Don’t know anything about KIPP Aim but only a 1/3 of kids there are even proficient in math and reading.