Anonymous
12/13/2024 09:53
Subject: HS college commitment websites
I wish they would wait until spring to set up these pages--that way, all of the kids would be able to share in the fun at the same time. Right now, the disappointed ED kids (and those kids who didn't/couldn't ED for whatever reason) are left out.
Anonymous
12/13/2024 09:51
Subject: Re:HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid didn’t announce/submit last year. After seeing how parents stalk those sites and gossip I’m glad he chose not to.
This post is creepy. People know how to google a school on IG. This should come down.
Alas - not all of us have your google skills.
It's one thing to look up the schools. It's another thing to post a list here. The latter is the creepy one.
Anonymous
12/13/2024 09:45
Subject: HS college commitment websites
GDS quickly filling up with their Ivy admits!
Anonymous
12/12/2024 22:38
Subject: Re:HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid didn’t announce/submit last year. After seeing how parents stalk those sites and gossip I’m glad he chose not to.
This post is creepy. People know how to google a school on IG. This should come down.
Alas - not all of us have your google skills.
Anonymous
12/12/2024 22:25
Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:Toxic. Just adds another unnecessary layer of stress to an already rough process. Sends kids the wrong message. They’re no longer able to live genuine 3-d lives outside social media.
I can see this perspective. But my kid has been watching the instagram posts come up tonight with pure excitement for his classmates. It sucks to see all the happiness if you got bad news, but he is looking out for those friends, too. The kids seem to be better people than the parents, and are genuinely using these posts to celebrate each other.
Anonymous
12/12/2024 22:24
Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:I asked my exceptionally anti social media kid if he was going to post once he had made a decision and he said of course. This is definitely a thing the kids like.
My kid goes to a tiny school where not everyone goes to college, so they don't do it for all the right reasons -- but my kid, who is going to college, is disappointed.
Anonymous
12/12/2024 22:23
Subject: HS college commitment websites
I asked my exceptionally anti social media kid if he was going to post once he had made a decision and he said of course. This is definitely a thing the kids like.
Anonymous
12/12/2024 22:08
Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a public HS in DC and I love seeing where all the kids are headed! It makes me so happy to see all of them finding success in such different places, and they all cheer each other on in the comments.
Last year someone mentioned my kid’s college choice on DCUM, which DC and another student posted about it. It’s popular with DC-area kids, know a handful there now from DC’s school and other publics/privates, but nobody talks about ever wanting to go there, so it definitely was weird seeing that someone saw it and posted (they were positive, but still).
Anonymous
12/12/2024 21:42
Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sidwell with a Stanford! Middlebury, Tulane, ODU, RIT, BC, UVM
Georgetown Day with 3! Northeasterns, Wellesley, Middlebury, 2 BC's, Tulane, UVM
Looks like GDS kids also got into Princeton, Carleton, and Cornell.
Soon to be HYPMS...
Anonymous
12/12/2024 21:40
Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:Sidwell with a Stanford! Middlebury, Tulane, ODU, RIT, BC, UVM
Georgetown Day with 3! Northeasterns, Wellesley, Middlebury, 2 BC's, Tulane, UVM
Looks like GDS kids also got into Princeton, Carleton, and Cornell.
Anonymous
12/12/2024 21:20
Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You should wait until mid-January at the earliest before deciding whether a school’s results are good or not - whatever that means. The most impressive sounding colleges tend to get posted in the mid- December to end of Jan time frame and then again mid-March to end of April. The very early ones are often people locking in schools that have more rolling decision processes.
You try not play the game, but you are deep in it.
+10000
Know too many people who say things like "there are no such things as good and bad schools, only good and bad fits!" and then the next day mention something about their "good friend Jenna who went to STANFORD. Did you hear me?..STANFORD(!!!)..."
and/or are obsessed with where their kid goes to school even if they feign disinterest. So cringey. Just own it.
Anonymous
12/12/2024 21:12
Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:I think it's rather creepy that so many people stalk these instagram accounts. Not sure what the point is if you don't know the kids.
My senior has switched schools a bunch. We haven't stayed in touch, but I'm curious where her former classmates are going to school.
Anonymous
12/12/2024 21:02
Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous
12/12/2024 20:57
Subject: HS college commitment websites
I think it's rather creepy that so many people stalk these instagram accounts. Not sure what the point is if you don't know the kids.
Anonymous
12/12/2024 13:01
Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a public HS in DC and I love seeing where all the kids are headed! It makes me so happy to see all of them finding success in such different places, and they all cheer each other on in the comments.
Agreed! Must just be the private schools where it is so toxic.
No, we love it too at our private. It's met with nothing but excitement and support and no one I've ever met cares if strangers are watching. It's just the DCUM weirdos who find it so objective.