It was a rhetorical question. Chicago top 5-7 LOL in your dreams

Anonymous wrote:Are Cornell, Penn or Chicago really elite?

Lol—I’ll indulge you because I’m feeling charitable. Harvard: ALWAYS top 3 (but really #1 based on history and reputation). Penn and Chicago: Top 5-7; and Cornell: Top 12. I hope that helps, buttercup. 😊

Anonymous wrote:Are Cornell, Penn or Chicago really elite?

UChicago ranked 6, Penn 7, Cornell 12. So you tell me.

Are Cornell, Penn or Chicago really elite?

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that more Sidwell grads get into more highly competitive colleges probably says very little about the causal relationship between going to Sidwell and those admissions. Sidwell is attracting the highly motivated children of highly ambitious parents who work all the levers to get their kids every opportunity to attain wealth and status. For the most part, I suspect those kids could achieve the same admissions coming from Bullis, but their parents wouldn't feel as good about themselves if they stooped to that level.

Agree. It’s like a right of passage to have these kids stressed out, doing hours and hours of homework after their activities in a hyper competitive environment where the parents are trying to game if each Ivy only takes 3 kids from Sidwell, how will mine be the one.

Usually, Harvard takes 3-4 Sidwell students, Cornell takes 4-5, and Penn takes 4-6.

It’s an Ivy+, but Chicago will probably get 12-15 Sidwell students this year. That’s more than 10% of the graduating class, and I’m sure that’s a record for recent years.

Bullis kids do very well in college

Anonymous wrote:The fact that more Sidwell grads get into more highly competitive colleges probably says very little about the causal relationship between going to Sidwell and those admissions. Sidwell is attracting the highly motivated children of highly ambitious parents who work all the levers to get their kids every opportunity to attain wealth and status. For the most part, I suspect those kids could achieve the same admissions coming from Bullis, but their parents wouldn't feel as good about themselves if they stooped to that level.

Agree. It’s like a right of passage to have these kids stressed out, doing hours and hours of homework after their activities in a hyper competitive environment where the parents are trying to game if each Ivy only takes 3 kids from Sidwell, how will mine be the one.

The fact that more Sidwell grads get into more highly competitive colleges probably says very little about the causal relationship between going to Sidwell and those admissions. Sidwell is attracting the highly motivated children of highly ambitious parents who work all the levers to get their kids every opportunity to attain wealth and status. For the most part, I suspect those kids could achieve the same admissions coming from Bullis, but their parents wouldn't feel as good about themselves if they stooped to that level.

Our kid chose Bullis over Sidwell, and we haven't regretted it for one second. He's thriving in all the advanced classes, but he has lots of fun with friends of various stripes, loves his non-academic activities, and has very little pressure to be anything in particular or achieve anything in particular -- it's just learn, explore, and have fun. DH and I are HYP grads, and I'm sure our kid will be a viable candidate for the same, but we couldn't care less if he went there. Having your teenager on Meritocracy's rat wheel is terrible.

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is for very smart, driven kids who thrive in hard working environment.
Bullis is more well rounded and has more of a mix of kids.
If you want to study hard and get into an Ivy, you can certainly do that at Bullis.
But not all the kids at Bullis are striving for that. (Or I should say parents too)

Looks like plenty of Sidwell kids go to totally random colleges.

Some of the dumbest kids from our ncrc class went to Sidwell

I love all the "DS has a friend at Bullis" posts or "I looked at the Bullis website" posts as the voices of authority and knowledge. LOL! Bullis isn't the new Sidwell, and it isn't the new GDS, St. Andrew's, Maret, or St. John's. Bullis has it's own, wonderful identity, and thank God for that.

Anonymous wrote:Just reading this post. Hilarious! Bullis is where dropouts from the Big 3 go.

It doesn’t matter how good their college admissions are, the quality of education at Bullis just isn’t on the same level. DS has a friend who was bottom of the class at Sidwell who was counseled out. He’s now close to top of the class (or so he claims) at Bullis.

This is not something bad. Perhaps that kid was overwhelmed by peer pressure that he needed to study more. Now in the new environment, he can play the role of a hardworking kid of the class that he had been watching on others for several years. It is time for him to be the shining star! If his college outcome ends up ti be better than your kid’s I would not be surprised at all.

Anonymous wrote:Move over Big threes. It's hard to argue against facts. Is Bullis the new number one school in Greater DC?

This is where Bullis grads are going to college. Many of the the Colleges are the best in the country/world.
https://www.bullis.org/class-of-2023-admitted-data#data

Is Bullis the new Sidwell prestige-wise?

Of course not! But if the Bullis community wants to think of themselves as being on the same level as Sidwell, who can stop them? Delusional people are everywhere.

Anonymous wrote:I heard only good things about Bullis. If it fits your kid, it is better than Sidwell. I think the best school for a kid is the one that is the best fit. You would not want your kid to suffer just because the school name is so important for a society of DC elites.

I heard the teacher turnover there is crazy. So I looked at their website and many their teachers are new to the school. Not sure what’s up with that. Sidwell teachers though seem to stay at the school for a long time. Matters to some people.

Sidwell is for very smart, driven kids who thrive in hard working environment.
Bullis is more well rounded and has more of a mix of kids.
If you want to study hard and get into an Ivy, you can certainly do that at Bullis.
But not all the kids at Bullis are striving for that. (Or I should say parents too)