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Anonymous wrote:My son attended one of the private schools in DC few years ago, now he is at u Chicago and he said the courses are more manageable than his high school and not that bad and he goes a lot to downtown Chicago on weekends for fun and some sport events.
Great city !!

yes, Chicago is generally easier than high school for kids after Sidwell or NCS/STA. These high schools are sweatshops (and I'm not saying this is a good thing--as a parent I think it's overkill)

What a crock of absolute malarkey. The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools. If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.

Why the protective butt hurt? Your vocab, metaphors and syntax tells us you're not Gen Z -- so you're an older Chicago graduate from ... a public high school? A non-elite private high school? Why so cantankerous?

Every year Sidwell sends 7-10 kids to UChicago, including this class of 2022. Sidwell doesn't post "average test scores" of its students so you're just making up data today. That said, the couple of kids I know personally from Sidwell '22 exceed these metrics of current Chicago freshman: https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/class-2025-profile

I hope your day gets better.

You sound like Kelly Ann Conway on the talk shows dodging and weaving to avoid answering the actual question asked.

No one said that there aren't students from Sidwell with SAT scores exceeding Chicago's metrics. What was said was that on average Chicago's scores are higher. And that's an absolute fact.

The average SAT score at Chicago is a 1530, which is higher than TJ -- whose average SAT score is the highest in the region. If you think Sidwell and NCS/STA has higher average SAT scores than TJ's you're delusional.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no reason anyone should ever go to Dickenson. Ever.
https://thedickinsonian.com/opinion/2019/02/07/should-white-boys-still-be-allowed-to-talk/

TBH, this is very well written. Impressive, even if I disagree with the argument.

Disagree, especially given that the author attended one the most elite, expensive high schools in the US for k-12 then a highly selective college.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leda-fisher-3b6b3017a/

It's full of ad hominem attacks, generalizations, stereotypes and mocking. Can anyone picture an essay in actual print that criticizes the discussion style of those "Wangs, Xius and Lins" ? Or "Mohammeds Abduls and Farrouks"? How long would a writer keep their job if they said they were sick of listening to the opinions "Shantays, Tiaras and Mo'niques" ? I

t's just a lazy, mean style. I "get" the oppression imbalance and why one demographic gets an endless, never-ending free pass to take pot shots at their classmates. That is not actually good writing.

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Anonymous wrote:My son attended one of the private schools in DC few years ago, now he is at u Chicago and he said the courses are more manageable than his high school and not that bad and he goes a lot to downtown Chicago on weekends for fun and some sport events.
Great city !!

yes, Chicago is generally easier than high school for kids after Sidwell or NCS/STA. These high schools are sweatshops (and I'm not saying this is a good thing--as a parent I think it's overkill)

What a crock of absolute malarkey. The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools. If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.

Why the protective butt hurt? Your vocab, metaphors and syntax tells us you're not Gen Z -- so you're an older Chicago graduate from ... a public high school? A non-elite private high school? Why so cantankerous?

Every year Sidwell sends 7-10 kids to UChicago, including this class of 2022. Sidwell doesn't post "average test scores" of its students so you're just making up data today. That said, the couple of kids I know personally from Sidwell '22 exceed these metrics of current Chicago freshman: https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/class-2025-profile

I hope your day gets better.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no reason anyone should ever go to Dickenson. Ever.
https://thedickinsonian.com/opinion/2019/02/07/should-white-boys-still-be-allowed-to-talk/

TBH, this is very well written. Impressive, even if I disagree with the argument.

I was also impressed. My takeaway wasn't that the author thought white guys should shut up, but that they should prioritize listening when the issue is something they have little firsthand experience with. Nice piece!

Would you be equally "impressed" with a piece that says "Should black girls still be allowed to talk?"
Do you believe that black girls should "prioritize listening?"

NP.

This opinion piece is the only thing I've ever seen from Dickinson that I liked. I toured their with my (white) son and the admission official was such a self-centered blowhard we couldn't wait to get out of there.

I'm going to say something that will blow your mind, and that is that "black girls" and "white boys" have very different lived experiences. Black girls do not need to "prioritize listening" because it has already been prioritized for them. What they need are more chances to speak. White boys, on the other hand, have plenty of chances to speak. They need to learn to listen a little more, and speak only when they have something of value to add. Just because a thought pops into your head doesn't make it important.

And I love white boys. I married one and two of them are my children.

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Anonymous wrote:My son attended one of the private schools in DC few years ago, now he is at u Chicago and he said the courses are more manageable than his high school and not that bad and he goes a lot to downtown Chicago on weekends for fun and some sport events.
Great city !!

yes, Chicago is generally easier than high school for kids after Sidwell or NCS/STA. These high schools are sweatshops (and I'm not saying this is a good thing--as a parent I think it's overkill)

What a crock of absolute malarkey. The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools. If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.

Lol NCS sent about 5 girls there this year alone. It’s the perfect place for the girl who loves the NCS grind.

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Anonymous wrote:My son attended one of the private schools in DC few years ago, now he is at u Chicago and he said the courses are more manageable than his high school and not that bad and he goes a lot to downtown Chicago on weekends for fun and some sport events.
Great city !!

yes, Chicago is generally easier than high school for kids after Sidwell or NCS/STA. These high schools are sweatshops (and I'm not saying this is a good thing--as a parent I think it's overkill)

What a crock of absolute malarkey. The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools. If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.

Love U of C but PP is nuts.

Anonymous wrote:Cornell engineering is hard. Ton of work to get a B average.

Except for the CS component, that is supposed to be a joke.

CMU for everything but business

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no reason anyone should ever go to Dickenson. Ever.
https://thedickinsonian.com/opinion/2019/02/07/should-white-boys-still-be-allowed-to-talk/

TBH, this is very well written. Impressive, even if I disagree with the argument.

I was also impressed. My takeaway wasn't that the author thought white guys should shut up, but that they should prioritize listening when the issue is something they have little firsthand experience with. Nice piece!

Would you be equally "impressed" with a piece that says "Should black girls still be allowed to talk?"
Do you believe that black girls should "prioritize listening?"

PP here. I don't think you read the piece, or you wouldn't have injected such ignorant hyperbole. Unless you just want to stir up trouble.

And, please answer my question. Do you believe that black girls should "prioritize listening?"

This question doesn't relate to the piece, even as a correlate. If you read it, you didn't comprehend it.

Virginia Tech engineering. DD didn't go. She looked like an potential engineer as a HS senior (720 math sat, AP Physics C, Calc BC). She (we) asked a lot of questions of VT: why they flunk out so many students (who obviously were top of their class, to get into engineering at VT in the first place) Asked if there would be a way to start out, intentionally, on a course schedule that planned on 5 years to graduate in engineering (since so many student inadvertently ended up needing 5 years anyway) Their attitude, their response to questions was so harsh, bullying really. It seemed like such a fallacy that they wanted to encourage students in stem/engineering. Harsh environment for a woman especially. imo

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Anonymous wrote:My son attended one of the private schools in DC few years ago, now he is at u Chicago and he said the courses are more manageable than his high school and not that bad and he goes a lot to downtown Chicago on weekends for fun and some sport events.
Great city !!

yes, Chicago is generally easier than high school for kids after Sidwell or NCS/STA. These high schools are sweatshops (and I'm not saying this is a good thing--as a parent I think it's overkill)

What a crock of absolute malarkey. The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools. If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.