Where's the wow factor? I've never even heard of Northeastern.

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Anonymous wrote:I just looked at GP’s Instagram … most of the kids who got accepted at the top schools are international. It’s a lot easier to get accepted at a top school if you are an international student.

Having said that, I don’t think one purely enrolls their kids in a private school because of college matriculation. The families we know who have boys at GP have been very happy with the school. Not sure why GP isn’t much liked on this forum.

Its that for certain? Are you making an assumption or is it a fact? Seems unfair.

I haven’t seen any official stats but I’m an immigrant myself and I know children of friends from my home country who didn’t have nearly all the extracurriculars that the US kids have get accepted into top colleges and Ivies. I’ve also heard it from other immigrant friends from other countries. Granted, these are all well rounded kids from excellent private schools in their home countries who have excellent grades, but I’ve seen local kids with similar profiles get rejected at the same colleges .

Like everyone, finances play a major role. International students are 100% full pay and they are actively courted. That said, Chinese students specifically are increasingly choosing non-US universities (more and more to Canada) in recent years. They are still a sizable foreign population but fewer.

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at GP’s Instagram … most of the kids who got accepted at the top schools are international. It’s a lot easier to get accepted at a top school if you are an international student.

Having said that, I don’t think one purely enrolls their kids in a private school because of college matriculation. The families we know who have boys at GP have been very happy with the school. Not sure why GP isn’t much liked on this forum.

Its that for certain? Are you making an assumption or is it a fact? Seems unfair.

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at GP’s Instagram … most of the kids who got accepted at the top schools are international. It’s a lot easier to get accepted at a top school if you are an international student.

Having said that, I don’t think one purely enrolls their kids in a private school because of college matriculation. The families we know who have boys at GP have been very happy with the school. Not sure why GP isn’t much liked on this forum.

Completely untrue.

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at GP’s Instagram … most of the kids who got accepted at the top schools are international. It’s a lot easier to get accepted at a top school if you are an international student.

Having said that, I don’t think one purely enrolls their kids in a private school because of college matriculation. The families we know who have boys at GP have been very happy with the school. Not sure why GP isn’t much liked on this forum.

It is not a complete list. Based on alphabetical listing most students posted right now are from China. There will be plenty local students enrolling in top schools.

I just looked at GP’s Instagram … most of the kids who got accepted at the top schools are international. It’s a lot easier to get accepted at a top school if you are an international student.

Having said that, I don’t think one purely enrolls their kids in a private school because of college matriculation. The families we know who have boys at GP have been very happy with the school. Not sure why GP isn’t much liked on this forum.

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Richard Montgomery HS is 5 minutes away and their students this year got into MIT, Harvard, Penn, Stanford, Duke et al yet again. RM is also $40,000 cheaper than Prep

I don’t have a kid at either school, but RM has had at least three incidents this year involving guns on campus. Outside tge IB program, tge academics and teaching quality are weak (relatives attend the school). I would much prefer GO to RM if I had boys, regardless of college matriculation.

This. And I bet most RM parents feel the same way.

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Anonymous wrote:Richard Montgomery HS is 5 minutes away and their students this year got into MIT, Harvard, Penn, Stanford, Duke et al yet again. RM is also $40,000 cheaper than Prep.

I would never send my kid to a 3000+ student, dangerous public high school where kids have to jump on each other like werewolves for basic opportunities.

Bwahahahaha.. such an ignorant post

Not ignorant. There have been incidents with firearms and rape in the bathroom. I don’t want my kid surrounded by gang members.

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Anonymous wrote:Also several UVA and BC and at least 3 to Princeton.

GC Honors promoter - what sayeth ye?

It's pretty underwhelming this year. If you look at public schools in the area like Churchill or Whitman, they have better schools than Prep. The private school education isn't for every kid.

Prep will have same schools as Churchill. They will be around 25 percent at top 20 schools. I believe Stone Ridge does as well. Using the data from Bethesda magazine, last year only 7 percent of the Churchill class of 22 matriculated to top 20 universities. So private schools win on a per capita basis. Just because a huge public school has more admits to top 20 schools doesn’t mean anything when comparing it to schools with less than a quarter of their class size. Math is funny like that.

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Anonymous wrote:Richard Montgomery HS is 5 minutes away and their students this year got into MIT, Harvard, Penn, Stanford, Duke et al yet again. RM is also $40,000 cheaper than Prep.

I would never send my kid to a 3000+ student, dangerous public high school where kids have to jump on each other like werewolves for basic opportunities.

RM is in Rockville, not the South Side of Chicago. Prep has just as much danger as Richard Montgomery if not more. Remember, it's an all-boys school (and boys will be boys).

LOL. This is the most ridiculous thing on this thread.

Anonymous wrote:Big whoop… u go md? Boston? Duke? Villanova? Our PWC publics school did much much better!
What a waste of a bad blazer

You are leaving out, Johns Hopkins, University of Virginia, Georgetown.

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Anonymous wrote:Richard Montgomery HS is 5 minutes away and their students this year got into MIT, Harvard, Penn, Stanford, Duke et al yet again. RM is also $40,000 cheaper than Prep.

I would never send my kid to a 3000+ student, dangerous public high school where kids have to jump on each other like werewolves for basic opportunities.

Bwahahahaha.. such an ignorant post

The matriculation from the Chinese students is quite impressive. The rest is pretty mid.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like there were some students added to the instagram post for a total of 20 students so far. Of those students, 5 (or 25%) are attending top 20 universities. That's not too shabby. And I can attest that one student is going to MIT. Not sure if he will be posted, but still this is pretty impressive so far. T20 so far are:

Notre Dame
Duke
Hopkins
Northwestern
Georgetown

Oops...Georgetown didn't belong on that list, so it's more like 20%.

Gosh. That is pretty unfortunate. Smashed by the publics and privates. Good luck to them. I'm sure they did their best.