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Anonymous wrote:With the exception of Beauvoir feeding NCS/StA, I doubt any of the "big few" schools accept more than a handful of applicants from ANY given school in any given year.

I think this is true regardless of how the pre-HS school might be. There just aren't very many total open places in 9th across the top handful of K-12s locally. This also, I believe, is why DCUM perpetually discusses things which might (or might not) be a hook for local private school admissions.

I also seriously do not think it makes a huge difference in a kid’s life whether they go to Sidwell or Maret or—for shame—Bullis for high school.

Exactly, and Warren Buffet did go to Deal.

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Anonymous wrote:With the exception of Beauvoir feeding NCS/StA, I doubt any of the "big few" schools accept more than a handful of applicants from ANY given school in any given year.

I think this is true regardless of how the pre-HS school might be. There just aren't very many total open places in 9th across the top handful of K-12s locally. This also, I believe, is why DCUM perpetually discusses things which might (or might not) be a hook for local private school admissions.

I also seriously do not think it makes a huge difference in a kid’s life whether they go to Sidwell or Maret or—for shame—Bullis for high school.

Anonymous wrote:With the exception of Beauvoir feeding NCS/StA, I doubt any of the "big few" schools accept more than a handful of applicants from ANY given school in any given year.

I think this is true regardless of how the pre-HS school might be. There just aren't very many total open places in 9th across the top handful of K-12s locally. This also, I believe, is why DCUM perpetually discusses things which might (or might not) be a hook for local private school admissions.

Anonymous wrote:This is from St Patrick’s website for the past 5 years of students:

With about 22 students across the last five years attending boarding schools, other recent destinations have included Christ Church (VA), George (PA), Masters (NY), Salisbury (CT), Episcopal (VA), St. George’s (RI), St. Mark’s (MA), St. Paul’s (NH), and Woodberry Forest (VA).

With respect to day schools, the most frequent destinations across the past five years have been the paired single-sex Cathedral schools (17) of St. Albans (11) and NCS (6), Bullis (13), the paired single-sex schools of Holton and Landon (11), Maret (11), St. Andrew’s (11), Sidwell Friends (11), Madeira (9), and Stone Ridge (8). Other frequent destinations have included Georgetown Day (6), Potomac (6), Holy Child (5), Field (5), and Edmund Burke (4). Several students attended the Catholic high schools of Georgetown Visitation, Gonzaga, St. Anselm’s, and St. John’s during that five-year period, while two attended Georgetown Prep.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Now add the URM and Sporty Kid count next to the asterisk and you'll have the full story! Basically, this k-8 did not do to well for top 5 schools.

Another parent with a mediocre kid and parents without enough connections or wealth. Should have just gone to public school.

Too bad so sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Now add the URM and Sporty Kid count next to the asterisk and you'll have the full story! Basically, this k-8 did not do to well for top 5 schools.

Another parent with a mediocre kid and parents without enough connections or wealth. Should have just gone to public school.

Too bad so sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Now add the URM and Sporty Kid count next to the asterisk and you'll have the full story! Basically, this k-8 did not do to well for top 5 schools.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Now add the URM and Sporty Kid count next to the asterisk and you'll have the full story! Basically, this k-8 did not do to well for top 5 schools.

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Anonymous wrote:8% to Big3 6/71
Your odds are higher from DCPS (Deal).

So… more than 39 kids from deal’s class of 2023 are going to the Big 3? Because that would be the ratio.

Only a very small percentage of Deal 9th grade kids apply to the Big3. I'd estimate 10%. Maybe 25% of each class applies
to any private and the majority are to SJC and other Catholics. The Big3 applicant pool is quite small and yet quite
a few get in. I know (for example) 4 girls who were accepted to NCS this year from Deal for 9th.

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Anonymous wrote:8% to Big3 6/71
Your odds are higher from DCPS (Deal).

So… more than 39 kids from deal’s class of 2023 are going to the Big 3? Because that would be the ratio.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, Bullis and St Andrew’s seem like logical schools to go to from Norwood. Norwood is pretty far from NW Washington and some of the families will be commuting to Norwood from even farther out. Those families will be looking for schools near where they live and not ones a 45 minute to 1 hour commute away.

We liked Norwood when we looked at it, but the commute out from the city made it impossible. I imagine the reverse is also true.

Right. Most families live further out.

It’s FARTHER out. Not further out.

They’re typically interchangeable. This is not the clear distinction you think it is.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-further-or-farther-usage-how-to-use

Typically interchangeable does not equal correct

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, Bullis and St Andrew’s seem like logical schools to go to from Norwood. Norwood is pretty far from NW Washington and some of the families will be commuting to Norwood from even farther out. Those families will be looking for schools near where they live and not ones a 45 minute to 1 hour commute away.

We liked Norwood when we looked at it, but the commute out from the city made it impossible. I imagine the reverse is also true.

Right. Most families live further out.

It’s FARTHER out. Not further out.

They’re typically interchangeable. This is not the clear distinction you think it is.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-further-or-farther-usage-how-to-use

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, Bullis and St Andrew’s seem like logical schools to go to from Norwood. Norwood is pretty far from NW Washington and some of the families will be commuting to Norwood from even farther out. Those families will be looking for schools near where they live and not ones a 45 minute to 1 hour commute away.

We liked Norwood when we looked at it, but the commute out from the city made it impossible. I imagine the reverse is also true.

Right. Most families live further out.

It’s FARTHER out. Not further out.