Anonymous
Post 03/22/2019 09:33     Subject: Sidwell college advisor leaves
Could it just be that he got a better offer? Maybe Gonzaga is closer to home? Some people don’t want to stay in the same job forever especially if the community is not very uplifting.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2019 09:18     Subject: Sidwell college advisor leaves
Or the kids ended up where they belonged.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2019 09:16     Subject: Sidwell college advisor leaves
Anonymous wrote:People are trying to say it obliquely yet others continue to suggest the problem is just parents with unrealistic demands. So to be direct: One of the college counseling staff turned out to be incompetent at his job, and the director insisted on keeping him on long after the problem was obvious to students, parents and other school staff.


And that's why he left? Makes no sense. The demanding-parents-wore-him-down makes more sense.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2019 09:13     Subject: Sidwell college advisor leaves
Seconding the other poster's request for some transparency and explalantion from BG about how we can work together going forward.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2019 07:54     Subject: Sidwell college advisor leaves
People are trying to say it obliquely yet others continue to suggest the problem is just parents with unrealistic demands. So to be direct: One of the college counseling staff turned out to be incompetent at his job, and the director insisted on keeping him on long after the problem was obvious to students, parents and other school staff.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 20:15     Subject: Re:Sidwell college advisor leaves
Anonymous wrote:Calm down, people. Why are you always so upset with strangers’ choices? So much anger.


No wonder the counselors got worn down.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 19:57     Subject: Re:Sidwell college advisor leaves
Calm down, people. Why are you always so upset with strangers’ choices? So much anger.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 19:41     Subject: Sidwell college advisor leaves
I will. Enjoy your sad snobby life.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 19:12     Subject: Sidwell college advisor leaves
Ok. Go ahead and enjoy Elon.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 19:04     Subject: Re:Sidwell college advisor leaves
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parent here with two Sidwell alum. College counselor is a miserable job. They're the last one in the food chain of a 4-year program and held overly responsible for getting every student into the college of his/her (his/her parents') dream. They do their best to match the students and their achievements with the schools they believe would be a good fit. Then the students and/or parents lean in with, "What?!!!! Not Harvard/Yale/Stanford/Penn/etc.? We didn't spend $175,000 to only go to Muhlenberg/Elon/Franklin & Marshall/etc."

Combine the student population of all the seniors at all the DMV private AND public schools and that's the number who are competing for the small # of slots that a college/university will allocate to the DMV area.


umm, i'd be pissed if my private school kid ended up at Elon.


And would you be just as upset if they end up at a major state school (Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, etc.)?


Umm, you missed University of Deep South......or Deep South State....all major schools to end up at after spending 40k plus year, good decision!


Although I'm guessing that even graduates of these universities know how trite and sophomoric one's writing appears when one chooses to start sentences with the "word" Umm....


weak!
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 18:05     Subject: Sidwell college advisor leaves
Wait, the "moderator" once more deleted the post showing how much teachers make in public schools???

I guess it is tough to accept those crazy salaries and at the same time complain about private schools....
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 17:57     Subject: Re:Sidwell college advisor leaves
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parent here with two Sidwell alum. College counselor is a miserable job. They're the last one in the food chain of a 4-year program and held overly responsible for getting every student into the college of his/her (his/her parents') dream. They do their best to match the students and their achievements with the schools they believe would be a good fit. Then the students and/or parents lean in with, "What?!!!! Not Harvard/Yale/Stanford/Penn/etc.? We didn't spend $175,000 to only go to Muhlenberg/Elon/Franklin & Marshall/etc."

Combine the student population of all the seniors at all the DMV private AND public schools and that's the number who are competing for the small # of slots that a college/university will allocate to the DMV area.


umm, i'd be pissed if my private school kid ended up at Elon.


And would you be just as upset if they end up at a major state school (Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, etc.)?


Umm, you missed University of Deep South......or Deep South State....all major schools to end up at after spending 40k plus year, good decision!


Although I'm guessing that even graduates of these universities know how trite and sophomoric one's writing appears when one chooses to start sentences with the "word" Umm....
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 17:42     Subject: Re:Sidwell college advisor leaves
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parent here with two Sidwell alum. College counselor is a miserable job. They're the last one in the food chain of a 4-year program and held overly responsible for getting every student into the college of his/her (his/her parents') dream. They do their best to match the students and their achievements with the schools they believe would be a good fit. Then the students and/or parents lean in with, "What?!!!! Not Harvard/Yale/Stanford/Penn/etc.? We didn't spend $175,000 to only go to Muhlenberg/Elon/Franklin & Marshall/etc."

Combine the student population of all the seniors at all the DMV private AND public schools and that's the number who are competing for the small # of slots that a college/university will allocate to the DMV area.


umm, i'd be pissed if my private school kid ended up at Elon.


And would you be just as upset if they end up at a major state school (Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, etc.)?


Umm, you missed University of Deep South......or Deep South State....all major schools to end up at after spending 40k plus year, good decision!
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 17:37     Subject: Sidwell college advisor leaves
is Elon really that bad? I mean, was the child prepared for college and life? Did they end of successful, motivated people? The answers to those questions are more important to me. And we are a Sidwell family that has been at the school since PK.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2019 17:37     Subject: Re:Sidwell college advisor leaves
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parent here with two Sidwell alum. College counselor is a miserable job. They're the last one in the food chain of a 4-year program and held overly responsible for getting every student into the college of his/her (his/her parents') dream. They do their best to match the students and their achievements with the schools they believe would be a good fit. Then the students and/or parents lean in with, "What?!!!! Not Harvard/Yale/Stanford/Penn/etc.? We didn't spend $175,000 to only go to Muhlenberg/Elon/Franklin & Marshall/etc."

Combine the student population of all the seniors at all the DMV private AND public schools and that's the number who are competing for the small # of slots that a college/university will allocate to the DMV area.


umm, i'd be pissed if my private school kid ended up at Elon.


And would you be just as upset if they end up at a major state school (Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, etc.)?