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Anonymous wrote:As someone with unhooked kids in private, I pray this continues a few more years! But tides can turn. Private might be viewed as privileged and unattractive at any second. For now, I agree with you and can’t believe the results I’m seeing on instagram.

It WAS viewed as the past few cycles. Now colleges are upset by the quality of TO, grade inflated HS kids and going back to old school.

1. Our public fcps HS does not grade inflate.

2. Your entire comment is just your made up guesses.

Re-takes? Multiple bites/tries to raise grade ? Lack of pop quizzes? Hard deadlines? We left a FCPS Hs and all of that was there. Private was much more rigorous.

Yes, get back to me when your FCPS school:

-marks every late assignment as a zero (no late work accepted, ever)
-never allows retakes or test corrections
-gives frequent pop quizzes
-has teachers who don't give As on principal or give a single A in a class of 20 kids
-has an average GPA of 3.5 but an average SAT is 1500+
-has students who routinely to get a B in a class but a 5 on the AP exam.
-doesn't average quarters or semesters by letter grades but by numerical average.

I normally ignore this, but……..

Does the teacher not give As bc the head of the school (the principal) doesn’t allow it or bc of a personal value? It seems relevant.

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Anonymous wrote:these instagram pages from local privates are eye opening. even for kids I know to be unhooked standard smart kids

T20 love full pay, even if they pretend to be need blind

They want to save the aid for the rural kid or FG URM…..

Good. No issues with that. The well-to-to ED full payers get what they want (admission). The colleges get to fund their institutional priorities.

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Anonymous wrote:Well- all of our neighbors that told us we were dumb to send our kids to a private high school aren't saying that anymore--after this college admissions cycle.

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Here too. People are just shocked by the outcomes.

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Anonymous wrote:Well- all of our neighbors that told us we were dumb to send our kids to a private high school aren't saying that anymore--after this college admissions cycle.

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? you have no idea if they would've gone into those schools from their public HS. It's not like there are no public HS students going to T20.

It's the sheer number. Didn't get rejected at a single T10 or T20 they applied to this year (no hooks). I can guarantee they would not have had the same outcome at our public since many of the kids' friends since K are almost exactly like them in terms of --scores/gpa/activities, etc. and, unfortunately, did not have the same luck.

The "sheer number" is cultivated, you understand that, right? You cannot guarantee anything when it comes to college admissions.

It could be the essays for all you know. Maybe you used college counselors, or whatever. I doubt those kids had the exact same college applications.

Some private high schools are known feeders to lower ranked private T25/30 schools…

True, but the lowest my kid applied to which was a single safety T30. The other 10 schools were 4 T10s (hopkins, ivy, duke, etc) and 5 T20s. It was completely shocking after being told it was impossible.

Honestly, I don't think it's impressive to go to a lower ranked private T25-30 school. I would fully expect that from a private school. Those schools are all attainable from a public school too.

Now, if the private school has 10+ unhooked kids going to just Harvard...probablyssome private (and public) schools in the Northeast

GDS has 29% of the kids posting going to a Top 20 (113 kids have posted), with 8 kids going to Harvard which is definitely a big win this year.

GDS has another 3% going to Top 10 SLACS.

Again, these stats don't seem unusual to me compared to previous years.

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Anonymous wrote:Well- all of our neighbors that told us we were dumb to send our kids to a private high school aren't saying that anymore--after this college admissions cycle.

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? you have no idea if they would've gone into those schools from their public HS. It's not like there are no public HS students going to T20.

It's the sheer number. Didn't get rejected at a single T10 or T20 they applied to this year (no hooks). I can guarantee they would not have had the same outcome at our public since many of the kids' friends since K are almost exactly like them in terms of --scores/gpa/activities, etc. and, unfortunately, did not have the same luck.

The "sheer number" is cultivated, you understand that, right? You cannot guarantee anything when it comes to college admissions.

It could be the essays for all you know. Maybe you used college counselors, or whatever. I doubt those kids had the exact same college applications.

Some private high schools are known feeders to lower ranked private T25/30 schools…

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Anonymous wrote:Well- all of our neighbors that told us we were dumb to send our kids to a private high school aren't saying that anymore--after this college admissions cycle.

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? you have no idea if they would've gone into those schools from their public HS. It's not like there are no public HS students going to T20.

It's the sheer number. Didn't get rejected at a single T10 or T20 they applied to this year (no hooks). I can guarantee they would not have had the same outcome at our public since many of the kids' friends since K are almost exactly like them in terms of --scores/gpa/activities, etc. and, unfortunately, did not have the same luck.

The "sheer number" is cultivated, you understand that, right? You cannot guarantee anything when it comes to college admissions.

It could be the essays for all you know. Maybe you used college counselors, or whatever. I doubt those kids had the exact same college applications.

It’s less competition from your own school esp if CCO heavily tries to “slot” kids in…

Some privates (UChicago, Vanderbilt, Rice, WashU , USC, Emory) will each admit 3-5% of a selective private HS class…and depending on Hs, add in Northwestern & Duke…it adds up…that’s 25-30% or so of the class….

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Anonymous wrote:Well- all of our neighbors that told us we were dumb to send our kids to a private high school aren't saying that anymore--after this college admissions cycle.

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? you have no idea if they would've gone into those schools from their public HS. It's not like there are no public HS students going to T20.

It's the sheer number. Didn't get rejected at a single T10 or T20 they applied to this year (no hooks). I can guarantee they would not have had the same outcome at our public since many of the kids' friends since K are almost exactly like them in terms of --scores/gpa/activities, etc. and, unfortunately, did not have the same luck.

The "sheer number" is cultivated, you understand that, right? You cannot guarantee anything when it comes to college admissions.

It could be the essays for all you know. Maybe you used college counselors, or whatever. I doubt those kids had the exact same college applications.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone with unhooked kids in private, I pray this continues a few more years! But tides can turn. Private might be viewed as privileged and unattractive at any second. For now, I agree with you and can’t believe the results I’m seeing on instagram.

It WAS viewed as the past few cycles. Now colleges are upset by the quality of TO, grade inflated HS kids and going back to old school.

1. Our public fcps HS does not grade inflate.

2. Your entire comment is just your made up guesses.

Re-takes? Multiple bites/tries to raise grade ? Lack of pop quizzes? Hard deadlines? We left a FCPS Hs and all of that was there. Private was much more rigorous.

Yes, get back to me when your FCPS school:

-marks every late assignment as a zero (no late work accepted, ever)
-never allows retakes or test corrections
-gives frequent pop quizzes
-has teachers who don't give As on principal or give a single A in a class of 20 kids
-has an average GPA of 3.5 but an average SAT is 1500+
-has students who routinely to get a B in a class but a 5 on the AP exam.
-doesn't average quarters or semesters by letter grades but by numerical average.

Our non-DMV public does all that above. A late assignment is an automatic 0. It's quite strict and never once would our kids entertain the idea of asking a teacher about a late assignment or a retake. Grades have strict cutoffs. I actually felt the private that we left in 8th was more subjective in grading style. I have many friends with kids in high schools in various privates and publics. One family shared that they felt their private supported the "top" students more and that was determined by performance freshman year. Their kid did fine with admissions but they're also headed to a place that many kids in our public school also gained admission. I fully expect private schools to have better admissions bc of legacy, wealth, connections, and the kids are all going to be more academically driven. But I don't see them any different from the top quarter of our public school seniors who are headed to a wide range of colleges, including Ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:Our non-DMV private:

- 15% of class is committed to Ivy
- 50% is attending T25 or T5 SLAC (and closer to 65% if counting T10 SLAC)
- If counting T40, it’s 85%.

It’s a materially better year than last 2 cycles.

Test scores and HS caliber/rigor (not course rigor as we don’t even have official APs) seems to matter a lot. Plus private colleges want kids who will easily do well and thrive.

Plus you were able to screen out the undesirables through testing and interviews. So of course your results reflect the students you have.

+1 kids with the same high work ethic and high caliber stats in public also get into T10, especially from magnet schools. It's just diluted because public HS grads are like 600+ kids per class.

It's diluted because the biggest filter for private high school is a parent's ability to afford private high school. Among middle class and upper middle class kids, the ability to afford private college is also the biggest filter

Yes, but that cuts both ways. Any college that likes ability to pay, can turn to private schools for better returns.

Anonymous wrote:Well- all of our neighbors that told us we were dumb to send our kids to a private high school aren't saying that anymore--after this college admissions cycle.

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Here too. People are just shocked by the outcomes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well- all of our neighbors that told us we were dumb to send our kids to a private high school aren't saying that anymore--after this college admissions cycle.

This^^

? you have no idea if they would've gone into those schools from their public HS. It's not like there are no public HS students going to T20.

It's the sheer number. Didn't get rejected at a single T10 or T20 they applied to this year (no hooks). I can guarantee they would not have had the same outcome at our public since many of the kids' friends since K are almost exactly like them in terms of --scores/gpa/activities, etc. and, unfortunately, did not have the same luck.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well- all of our neighbors that told us we were dumb to send our kids to a private high school aren't saying that anymore--after this college admissions cycle.

This^^

? you have no idea if they would've gone into those schools from their public HS. It's not like there are no public HS students going to T20.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone with unhooked kids in private, I pray this continues a few more years! But tides can turn. Private might be viewed as privileged and unattractive at any second. For now, I agree with you and can’t believe the results I’m seeing on instagram.

It WAS viewed as the past few cycles. Now colleges are upset by the quality of TO, grade inflated HS kids and going back to old school.

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