Anonymous
08/05/2025 19:23
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:That is what our kids at another big three are saying. Shocking if true
NCS sending 1, Sidwell sending 3
What happened?
Some kids do not apply to Ivies despite being able to be admitted.
Stop with the sour grapes. If no one in the graduating class at GDS applied to Harvard, I’ll eat my hat.
That said, the data someone posted upthread from the Harvard Crimson that shows that GDS had had at least one kid admitted since 2009 is impressive.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 19:08
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:But we were talking about raw numbers of matriculants. Why do DC area public schools, with lots of legacies and upper class families, not have more students attending Harvard?
What are you talking about?
“Of all schools that have sent students to Harvard, one in 11 students has come from just 21 high schools across the United States."
From the DMV area, only the Thomas Jefferson magnet is among the 21 top schools. Sorry Sidwell, GDS and Cathedral schools.
Sometimes merit beats out money.
Doesn’t TJ have like 500 students per grade? Of course a top magnet with that many students will send more kids to elite colleges than schools with 80-150 students.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 19:04
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Wow. You people are nuts.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 19:01
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually none of these results is even slightly impressive.
There are over 2000 private high schools and over 20000 public high schools in the US, plus who knows how many internationally.
How many matriculants at Harvard would you expect any top U.S. private school to have when the incoming class size is around 1600 students?
More than this. These schools are supposed to be the best in the DMV.
Give us a number. What should it be? It's like you don't know that there are also dozens of highly regarded privates in NYC, LA, Boston, and other top cities plus boarding schools.
No, I know it all right. And those schools largely do better than the top schools here and often MUCH better.
One example: Dalton in NYC. 75 grads matriculated at either Harvard, Yale or Princeton in the last 5 years. 37 at Harvard alone.
The Big 3 are little fish in the Big World of USA privates.
25 from Brearley going to Harvard from ‘21 to ‘25.
There’s just no comparison. Let get real.
Hmm, I see TJ but nobody else in the DMV and certainly no Big 3
https://interactives.thecrimson.com/2024/news/feeders
What are you talking about? In the image you share, Georgetown Day is right there under Deerfield Academy.
GDS is not listed as a top Harvard feeder. Deerfield is, with 69 matriculants in 15 years. No school in the DMV is listed other than TJ.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:46
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:That is what our kids at another big three are saying. Shocking if true
NCS sending 1, Sidwell sending 3
What happened?
Some kids do not apply to Ivies despite being able to be admitted.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:30
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:But we were talking about raw numbers of matriculants. Why do DC area public schools, with lots of legacies and upper class families, not have more students attending Harvard?
What are you talking about?
“Of all schools that have sent students to Harvard, one in 11 students has come from just 21 high schools across the United States."
From the DMV area, only the Thomas Jefferson magnet is among the 21 top schools. Sorry Sidwell, GDS and Cathedral schools.
Sometimes merit beats out money.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:29
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
TJ also has how many times more students in its graduating class?
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:27
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:But we were talking about raw numbers of matriculants. Why do DC area public schools, with lots of legacies and upper class families, not have more students attending Harvard?
You mean like the Thomas Jefferson magnet which is one of the top schools in the country in terms of admissions to Harvard?
Many public high schools are large and diverse and on occasion their students do get into Harvard but the concentration of legacies and wealthy donor admits isn’t there as it is with the private schools.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:24
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
LOL no, they should have more money saved up for college from not paying nearly $1M in private school tuition.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:22
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:But we were talking about raw numbers of matriculants. Why do DC area public schools, with lots of legacies and upper class families, not have more students attending Harvard?
Public schools in the richer suburbs are filled with donut hole families -- they can't easily pay full price (that's why they are in public school for K12) but aren't eligible for aid at schools that don't give merit money.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:18
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
But we were talking about raw numbers of matriculants. Why do DC area public schools, with lots of legacies and upper class families, not have more students attending Harvard?
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:13
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually none of these results is even slightly impressive.
There are over 2000 private high schools and over 20000 public high schools in the US, plus who knows how many internationally.
How many matriculants at Harvard would you expect any top U.S. private school to have when the incoming class size is around 1600 students?
More than this. These schools are supposed to be the best in the DMV.
Give us a number. What should it be? It's like you don't know that there are also dozens of highly regarded privates in NYC, LA, Boston, and other top cities plus boarding schools.
The best schools in the DMV are the public magnet schools (ex: TJ, Blair) where kids actually get in on merit. Those are the ones winning the national competitions, not GDS or any other private for that matter.
Right, because TJ, Blair, and the W schools don't have legacies.
GDS has a bunch of Harvard legacies amongst its student body. Legacy admissions give you a 5x greater probability of admissions, which is meaningful in a selective school, but don't guarantee admissions.
I was being sarcastic. There are more legacies in public schools than private.
There are more kids in public schools (about 85 percent of the population) so that’s not surprising. However proportionately, given the correlation between wealth and admissions to elite schools, I would bet that legacies to elite schools make up a far higher share of the Big 3 population than they do at public high schools.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:08
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually none of these results is even slightly impressive.
There are over 2000 private high schools and over 20000 public high schools in the US, plus who knows how many internationally.
How many matriculants at Harvard would you expect any top U.S. private school to have when the incoming class size is around 1600 students?
More than this. These schools are supposed to be the best in the DMV.
Give us a number. What should it be? It's like you don't know that there are also dozens of highly regarded privates in NYC, LA, Boston, and other top cities plus boarding schools.
The best schools in the DMV are the public magnet schools (ex: TJ, Blair) where kids actually get in on merit. Those are the ones winning the national competitions, not GDS or any other private for that matter.
Right, because TJ, Blair, and the W schools don't have legacies.
GDS has a bunch of Harvard legacies amongst its student body. Legacy admissions give you a 5x greater probability of admissions, which is meaningful in a selective school, but don't guarantee admissions.
I was being sarcastic. There are more legacies in public schools than private.
Anonymous
08/05/2025 18:06
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
Anonymous wrote:That is what our kids at another big three are saying. Shocking if true
NCS sending 1, Sidwell sending 3
What happened?
Three from Maret go Frogs (cue the Maret haters)
Anonymous
08/05/2025 17:52
Subject: No GDS students going to Harvard this year?
There are several DMV schools in the second set, schools that have sent at least 10 students to Harvard since 2009.