Anonymous
05/04/2025 09:49
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBU3VGK/
This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.
Congratulations?
Anonymous
05/04/2025 09:34
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBU3VGK/
3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts
This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.
Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).
Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.
3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago
Looks like ~ 25% success rate . Means 75% headed to target/safety schools . So for majority of parents Sidwell was NOT a good deal?
STA did better and they have fewer kids.
No, they didn’t. However they did send students to such illustrious institutions as Eastern Arizona College, Ole Miss, and
Elizabeth City State University.
I can see why STA students don’t publicly post their college matriculations, and the school doesn’t highlight (bold) the most frequently attended schools. They don’t want you to know how popular Ole Miss is for these STA good ol’ boys: https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling
The Eliz City student was a Black football player who wanted to play in college. You go picking on an HBCU and a kid’s dreams.
STA lands 7 to Yale one year, 5 to Princeton the next with the full complement of top schools and always a couple Harvard, Dartmouth’s, MIT, and Stanfords, ever year. There are also almost always 5 or more to Chicago.
They don’t post bc they don’t want or need to.
Anonymous
05/04/2025 09:29
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBU3VGK/
3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts
This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.
Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).
Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.
3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago
Looks like ~ 25% success rate . Means 75% headed to target/safety schools . So for majority of parents Sidwell was NOT a good deal?
STA did better and they have fewer kids.
No, they didn’t. However they did send students to such illustrious institutions as Eastern Arizona College, Ole Miss, and
Elizabeth City State University.
I can see why STA students don’t publicly post their college matriculations, and the school doesn’t highlight (bold) the most frequently attended schools. They don’t want you to know how popular Ole Miss is for these STA good ol’ boys: https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling
Those were all athletes or children of Ol Miss alums. The Mississippi alums probably employ you hence the anger but it’s ok.
Anonymous
05/04/2025 09:26
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is Quaker in name only. That is part of the reason why so many families like SSFS.
So many that the school went financially destitute?
Anonymous
05/04/2025 08:56
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.
Agree
+1000
USNews ranking is truly laughable.
It's clear they manipulated the metrics little by little to suit their own preferences and tried to align the results with the commonly accepted top 20–30 schools.
This has led to many schools sharing the same rankings and has completely distorted the lower end of the list. If you choose your schools based on this ranking, you're a fool.
Anonymous
05/04/2025 08:25
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell folks seem a little bit combative for a Quaker school. Can only imagine the PTO meetings. Doubt many Ford F250s in parking lot. Yikes
Sidwell is Quaker in name only. That is part of the reason why so many families like SSFS.
Anonymous
05/04/2025 01:04
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.
I don't think they are going to be comparable to top privates.
Key word here is “top.” As in T20. Nova BC WF are much worse schools than Berkeley UCLA Michigan UVA.
Someone has a complex.
Anonymous
05/04/2025 00:15
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.
I don't think they are going to be comparable to top privates.
Key word here is “top.” As in T20. Nova BC WF are much worse schools than Berkeley UCLA Michigan UVA.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 23:50
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:This thread has totally gone off point, but the purpose of public universities is to educate as many kids as possible at the lowest price possible, which benefits society overall. But only a few offer an experience comparable to private universities — Berkeley, GaTech, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Michigan, and William and Mary. The rest are vastly overrated by the current USNews criteria.
I don't think they are going to be comparable to top privates.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 16:27
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Sidwell folks seem a little bit combative for a Quaker school. Can only imagine the PTO meetings. Doubt many Ford F250s in parking lot. Yikes
Anonymous
05/03/2025 16:14
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBU3VGK/
3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts
This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.
Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).
Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.
3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago
Looks like ~ 25% success rate . Means 75% headed to target/safety schools . So for majority of parents Sidwell was NOT a good deal?
STA did better and they have fewer kids.
No, they didn’t. However they did send students to such illustrious institutions as Eastern Arizona College, Ole Miss, and
Elizabeth City State University.
I can see why STA students don’t publicly post their college matriculations, and the school doesn’t highlight (bold) the most frequently attended schools. They don’t want you to know how popular Ole Miss is for these STA good ol’ boys: https://www.stalbansschool.org/academics/college-counseling
Anonymous
05/03/2025 16:05
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBU3VGK/
3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts
This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.
Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).
Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.
3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago
Looks like ~ 25% success rate . Means 75% headed to target/safety schools . So for majority of parents Sidwell was NOT a good deal?
Your logic is…illogical. Over 75% of Sidwell students are headed to T50 universities and SLACS. It’s often Sidwell’s recruited athletes with D1/pro-career dreams that attend schools below T50 (and of course, the bottom 10% of the grade).
Unless you think Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Vanderbilt, Washington University, UVA, and Michigan are target/safety schools, you clearly need to think again.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 15:43
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
I went to HYP from an Atlanta private - not Westminster. It’s easier than here for sure. Fewer legacies/hooks. Only a few privates in Atlanta that send to these kinds of schools. The Atlanta version of these schools is more conservative - westminister in particular - than here for sure. It was only about 25 years ago they even hired Jewish teachers.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 15:35
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBU3VGK/
3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts
This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.
Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).
Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.
3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago
Looks like ~ 25% success rate . Means 75% headed to target/safety schools . So for majority of parents Sidwell was NOT a good deal?
not a Sidwell parent, but imagine there are T25 schools not listed here and T10 SLACs? The rule of thumb in the IEC world is that if 40 %+ seniors are admitted (not matriculating) to a T25/T10 SLAC that is a sign of a feeder high school. At the many feeder high schools, it's usually 50% of the class is admitted to a T25.
I imagine that's the case here as it's only limited to Ivy+.
Anonymous
05/03/2025 15:33
Subject: Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBU3VGK/
3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts
This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible.
Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).
Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.
3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago
Looks like ~ 25% success rate . Means 75% headed to target/safety schools . So for majority of parents Sidwell was NOT a good deal?
STA did better and they have fewer kids.