Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 18:59     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Results for Georgetown Day School. Not bad for a plucky little school with 126 seniors.

Princeton
Cornell (4)
Wesleyan (2)
Skidmore (2)
Tufts (3)
Northeastern (3)
Bowdoin (2)
Boston College (2)
Haverford (2)
Wellesley
Middlebury
Tulane
University of Vermont
Occidental
UMiami
WashU in StLouis
Colgate
UConn
Brown
Smith
Carleton
Chapman


Is this a troll post? Plucky little school! It’s an expensive school full of mostly privileged and legacy students. I wouldn’t expect anything less.


EXACTLY!!!
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 18:58     Subject: HS college commitment websites
now look at one of the nyc privates ... gds won't look all that
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 18:56     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The City
https://www.instagram.com/achsdecisions25?igsh=MXIzZWNtdWtjcWd6NA==


It is gone - but there is the gem

https://www.instagram.com/achsdecisions25.better?igsh=M3psa25xNnBjNHYw

(Tookie really is going to Princeton)


Hilarious!!


This is the best thing around. Makes me proud of my kids’ poorly-rated, gigantic HS. (which we have had a really great experience with) We could never afford GDS, but pretty glad we can’t because if “plucky school” poster is indicative of them - yuck.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 18:47     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Results for Georgetown Day School. Not bad for a plucky little school with 126 seniors.

Princeton
Cornell (4)
Wesleyan (2)
Skidmore (2)
Tufts (3)
Northeastern (3)
Bowdoin (2)
Boston College (2)
Haverford (2)
Wellesley
Middlebury
Tulane
University of Vermont
Occidental
UMiami
WashU in StLouis
Colgate
UConn
Brown
Smith
Carleton
Chapman


Is this a troll post? Plucky little school! It’s an expensive school full of mostly privileged and legacy students. I wouldn’t expect anything less.


I was thinking the same. So tired of the uber entitled dominating this board. Can't they all just meet up for a boozy lunch and brag to each other? Barf.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 18:11     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:Results for Georgetown Day School. Not bad for a plucky little school with 126 seniors.

Princeton
Cornell (4)
Wesleyan (2)
Skidmore (2)
Tufts (3)
Northeastern (3)
Bowdoin (2)
Boston College (2)
Haverford (2)
Wellesley
Middlebury
Tulane
University of Vermont
Occidental
UMiami
WashU in StLouis
Colgate
UConn
Brown
Smith
Carleton
Chapman


Is this a troll post? Plucky little school! It’s an expensive school full of mostly privileged and legacy students. I wouldn’t expect anything less.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 18:09     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:I think it's rather creepy that so many people stalk these instagram accounts. Not sure what the point is if you don't know the kids.


LOL. Sure, it’s “creepy” from parents who have probably been plastering their kids all over SM for 17 years. The websites are public. Students can choose to post to them or not. I know nothing about the students, don’t even look at the pictures of the students, but I do look at the names of the colleges. I do want to see where kids are from our high school are being admitted. I couldn’t tell you the name, gender or race of a single kid on our school’s insta. I’m only looking at the school name. I also look at the scattergrams on naviance.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 17:46     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:GDS will end up with 30+ after Ivy Day.

Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 17:44     Subject: HS college commitment websites
GDS will end up with 30+ after Ivy Day.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 17:42     Subject: Re:HS college commitment websites
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Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 17:42     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:Results for Georgetown Day School. Not bad for a plucky little school with 126 seniors.

Princeton
Cornell (4)
Wesleyan (2)
Skidmore (2)
Tufts (3)
Northeastern (3)
Bowdoin (2)
Boston College (2)
Haverford (2)
Wellesley
Middlebury
Tulane
University of Vermont
Occidental
UMiami
WashU in StLouis
Colgate
UConn
Brown
Smith
Carleton
Chapman


Again are top 100 or so out of 200 are similar. Though more Ivies.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 17:28     Subject: HS college commitment websites
No one to Dartmouth from GDS?
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 17:21     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Results for Georgetown Day School. Not bad for a plucky little school with 126 seniors.

Princeton
Cornell (4)
Wesleyan (2)
Skidmore (2)
Tufts (3)
Northeastern (3)
Bowdoin (2)
Boston College (2)
Haverford (2)
Wellesley
Middlebury
Tulane
University of Vermont
Occidental
UMiami
WashU in StLouis
Colgate
UConn
Brown
Smith
Carleton
Chapman
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 17:14     Subject: HS college commitment websites
My kid didn’t post. She initially didn’t want to because she felt it was putting kids who didn’t know yet under pressure. The ED round can cause kids to spiral. Then later in year she just decided that those who know her would know where she was going through her personal stuff and not the big instagram page.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 17:00     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:GDS quickly filling up with their Ivy admits!


Oh god, they're back.

Our school didn't even post many of the Ivy admits last year. In total, there were more than GDS. Larger school, yes. But, GDS wasn't some huge outlier in this area.


GDS will send their entire class to top colleges with a substantial portion to Ivies. What school is yours that has better outcomes?


BIM has better outcomes per capita and rates above GDS in MDV rankings.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 16:59     Subject: HS college commitment websites
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think it's rather creepy that so many people stalk these instagram accounts. Not sure what the point is if you don't know the kids.


It's really sick. Then, they publicly comment about the kids and disparage some of them. If a kid did really well, especially so.

My kid had no desire to post. I noticed most kids did at his private HS and asked him if he was going to and he said 'no'. He did get into an Ivy, but he really isn't into social media. He never posts anything about himself. Maybe it's from the time they were a young age I told them it's best not to. He will congratulate other friends. He did post a few of his best friend's commitments.

I have only followed my kid's HS account. And I'm happy and excited for all of them. I also have another kid who will be applying to college and it's good to see the trends, schools that particularly seem to like our HS. But, no, I'm not coming on bragging about our school's acceptances (like that insufferable GDS person last year) or trolling Instagram looking at other HS, etc. If I want to know where one of my kid's friends is going, I ask him.

DC is such a strange place. My oldest child’s high school (when we still lived in Texas) has these accounts so students can see where their upper class men friends go. It was celebrated at the end of the year and parents gathered during PTA to do a college-based secret Santa exchange in May.

I find it so sad here, because any college or future opportunity is seen as cutthroat and competitive. Why anyone is commenting on another persons child and where they go to college without the words “congrats” and “that’s so exciting” is a really sad personality quirk here that I dislike.