Anonymous
12/27/2014 19:52
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:With so many DC area public and private high schools doing so well with college placement this year, the better question is - which school is not doing well with college placement this year?
The best universities and colleges in this country, and around the world, should not bother to admit students outside of the Washington, DC, area, because it is obvious that the very best and brightest are all right here in our local schools!
Gross.
Perhaps its a little late in the conversation to point this out, but you are talking about competing over your kids. Getting into college isn't a sport. This is the attitude thats distorting so many of our kids' childhood.
Nobody gets sarcasm on DCUM, I've noticed. People also fall for trolling a lot. Are we any irony-deficient area?
Anonymous
12/26/2014 20:41
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:With so many DC area public and private high schools doing so well with college placement this year, the better question is - which school is not doing well with college placement this year?
The best universities and colleges in this country, and around the world, should not bother to admit students outside of the Washington, DC, area, because it is obvious that the very best and brightest are all right here in our local schools!
Gross.
Perhaps its a little late in the conversation to point this out, but you are talking about competing over your kids. Getting into college isn't a sport. This is the attitude thats distorting so many of our kids' childhood.
I am the poster you quoted and, well, it was a sarcastic post.
Anonymous
12/26/2014 16:21
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
Anonymous wrote:With so many DC area public and private high schools doing so well with college placement this year, the better question is - which school is not doing well with college placement this year?
The best universities and colleges in this country, and around the world, should not bother to admit students outside of the Washington, DC, area, because it is obvious that the very best and brightest are all right here in our local schools!
Gross.
Perhaps its a little late in the conversation to point this out, but you are talking about competing over your kids. Getting into college isn't a sport. This is the attitude thats distorting so many of our kids' childhood.
Anonymous
12/26/2014 14:54
Subject: Re:Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:GDS 4 accepted ED at Harvard, 6 at Penn.
Ironically, because of all the GDS puffery, I am skeptical of this claim. Probably not a lie,but you never know.
It's not puffery, and it seems that GDS got more Harvard acceptances than Sidwell. Huge.
Why is this "huge"? I think it's great for GDS kids who got in, but GDS is now, and always has been, one of the top schools in the area for college admissions. So is Sidwell, and several others. It's not a competition.
True. When it comes to DC area independent school admissions to Harvard, there is no competition.
Anonymous
12/25/2014 18:02
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
With so many DC area public and private high schools doing so well with college placement this year, the better question is - which school is not doing well with college placement this year?
The best universities and colleges in this country, and around the world, should not bother to admit students outside of the Washington, DC, area, because it is obvious that the very best and brightest are all right here in our local schools!
The best universities and colleges in this country, and around the world, should not bother to admit students outside of the Washington, DC, area, because it is obvious that the very best and brightest are all right here in our local schools!
Anonymous
12/25/2014 17:45
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
I agree with PP, especially in terms of humanities students^
Anonymous
12/25/2014 17:39
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
Of course, but if you look at the pool going to yale, it's a truly outstanding group
Anonymous
12/25/2014 12:55
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
.Anonymous wrote:Excuse me, I'm typing on my phone:
Anonymous
10 Sidwell kids got accepted to yale, it's fairly obvious that sidwells most qualified candidates were not looking to spend their college years at Harvard
Not even close to the truth. The STEM types are going to places like Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Harvard, Penn Enginering, UChicago and MIT. Good students headed to Yale of course, but you would be mistaken to draw any conclusions about the rest of the class.
Anonymous
12/25/2014 11:59
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
Anonymous wrote:Maret, NCS, GDS, WIS, Wilson, TJ, BCC, Holton, STA, GP, the MD big publics, they ALL did well!
Wow, I guess you would know this since you work in the college counseling offices of these respective schools. How great is that!
Anonymous
12/25/2014 11:57
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
Anonymous wrote:Are the GDS posts a joke?
Yes, someone has been trolling for months and people keep buying into it. I am guessing it's not a GDS person.
Anonymous
12/25/2014 08:34
Subject: Early Decision/Action for any OTHER school besides Sidwell?
Sadly, no. There are some students or parents who think they are representing their school well.