Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 17:01     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:50K a year?

How about free and 5K of tutors. You all are idiots.


Why would I send my kid to an inadequate school all day so they can come home and learn again with tutors? WTF sense does that make?
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:59     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:Im sounding the alarm. The end is near.

For any one of you paying full tuition at a Private School for college admissions purposes (hoping you'll get into a better college), you are 100% wasting your money. I have several children in Big 3's and unless you are URM, QuestBridge, Athlete or Legacy - you are completely wasting your money. No one cares that your school is tough. That a 3.7 is really great. No one cares about ACT/SATs anymore.

You are wasting your money. 100%

The college admissions process is now washed of achievement. And there is backlash against wealth and privilege.

Dont do it. Dont waste your time. And your money. And stop perpetuating the dummying down of our system.

I wish someone would have told me 3 years ago before I enrolled my kids. Total waste of money.


You can pull your kids out at any time and send them to public. There will always be enough people willing to pay. Many of us have always know this, how could you not.

Even with SAT/ACT scores, each college only takes so many kids from each school. Privates are much smaller, so they will also take less kids from smaller schools.

Private is not a waste of money if your child is thriving and doing well and its a good fit.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:57     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:50K a year?

How about free and 5K of tutors. You all are idiots.


OK! Why don’t you go somewhere else to bask in the glow of your super-smartness?

I went to a “top” public school and the education I got can’t hold a candle to the one my kid is getting. It’s worth it to me. It’s okay if it’s not worth it to you. Not everyone has to make the same decisions.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:57     Subject: Re:The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:I assume if anything, private school will hurt my kids’ chances in college admissions because they will have a lower class ranking. The flip side is they’ll end up better educated and more well-rounded than they would have had they gone to public school, so we’ll take the trade-off.


+1000

They'll also have a much better 13 years of school before going to college. Why people don't understand that that outweighs four years in college I don't know.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:54     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is hardly a newsflash. I think most people are aware that you send your kids to a private school for the education, not for a college admission boost.


I assume you're being sarcastic. At a minimum, it's both.


I am in no way being sarcastic. I’m quite sure that my kid would get into a better college if applying from our local so-so public. I’m more interested in the K-12 educational experience. Why is that so hard for you to believe?


+1

My kids would be much bigger standouts coming from our local, terrible public school. But since college admissions isn't the goal, I don't care.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:52     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:For those of you who say dropping $50K plus on a private school and dont think it is supposed to matter for college admissions - please...

Translation: my kid isn't doing that well and I need to sleep at night.


OK, whatever helps you sleep at night...

Why do you care what other parents do? No parent with their kids in private school spends any time thinking about public school parents.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:52     Subject: Re:The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:Here are the 2021 admissions from a Big3 (does not included multiple admits at many of the schools). Is there one college on this list that you wouldn't be happy that your kid is attending?
Personally I think it's awesome and guarantee that my kid will attend a decent college---never mind that they are also learning to to write well and think critically.

Boston College
Boston University
Brown
Bucknell
Colby
Colgate
William and Mary
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Davidson
Duke
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Northwestern
Oberlin
Princeton
SMU
Stanford
Syracuse
Tufts
Tulane
UCLA
Chicago
Michigan
Penn
Richmond
Sewanee
USC
St. Andrews
UVA
Wisconsin
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Washington and Lee
Wash U
Yale


Sewanee. But other than that, a perfectly fine list.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:51     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:I’m sure private school parents care very deeply about their DC current education. But there is a reason there is a Big 3 and it’s simply because the competition to get in there feeds college admissions.

For those of you that say otherwise, your kid isn’t Ivy material and you found this out in their Junior year. Too late to move them.

You’ve been taken.


My kid was never going to be Ivy material, nor did they want to be. But, the preparation received at their Big3 has made college very manageable.

Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:43     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
50K a year?

How about free and 5K of tutors. You all are idiots.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:26     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
I didn't read the rest of the thread but there is no question in my mind that my kid's admissions chances would be better at our local public, which went full "As for everyone" during the pandemic (as reported by friends with kids there). I am positive DCs GPA in public would be higher, and GPA is the big determinant of admission now.

I do not care. I knew that was a possibility going in.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:21     Subject: Re:The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here are the 2021 admissions from a Big3 (does not included multiple admits at many of the schools). Is there one college on this list that you wouldn't be happy that your kid is attending?
Personally I think it's awesome and guarantee that my kid will attend a decent college---never mind that they are also learning to to write well and think critically.

Boston College
Boston University
Brown
Bucknell
Colby
Colgate
William and Mary
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Davidson
Duke
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Northwestern
Oberlin
Princeton
SMU
Stanford
Syracuse
Tufts
Tulane
UCLA
Chicago
Michigan
Penn
Richmond
Sewanee
USC
St. Andrews
UVA
Wisconsin
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Washington and Lee
Wash U
Yale


Is this the complete list?


Yes, complete list from alumni magazine this month


Is this from an all boys school? Since there are no women's colleges on this list that one would expect: Barnard, Smith, Wellesley?
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:16     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
My kids are 7 years into their private school education with many to go. They are getting an excellent education and love going to school every day. They also went to school nearly every day last year during covid. Their school is worth every penny I pay for it and I would keep them there for the experience even if you told me right now that they would get into a lower ranked college than our local overcrowded public school that wasn't in person last year and might be out again any time with a strike or other dysfunction.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:07     Subject: Re:The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here are the 2021 admissions from a Big3 (does not included multiple admits at many of the schools). Is there one college on this list that you wouldn't be happy that your kid is attending?
Personally I think it's awesome and guarantee that my kid will attend a decent college---never mind that they are also learning to to write well and think critically.

Boston College
Boston University
Brown
Bucknell
Colby
Colgate
William and Mary
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Davidson
Duke
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Northwestern
Oberlin
Princeton
SMU
Stanford
Syracuse
Tufts
Tulane
UCLA
Chicago
Michigan
Penn
Richmond
Sewanee
USC
St. Andrews
UVA
Wisconsin
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Washington and Lee
Wash U
Yale


Is this the complete list?


Yes, complete list from alumni magazine this month


Ok. So, looking at this list, clearly the large majority of this school's graduating class did not end up enrolling in an Ivy League school. Is there any way of knowing how many of the acceptances to the Ivies were to legacies? I ask because, as we all know, the Big 3 is full of parents with Ivy League degrees.

Once you take out the Ivies, the list is really no more impressive than what you'd find mixed in with any of the top 1/3 or so public high schools in the DMV. You'd also find many other schools in the mix in those schools as well, of course, because the schools are much bigger and have open enrollment.

In other words, I don't see any real "bump."


The whole premise of the post is ludicrous. You seem to be assuming everyone applies to Ivy league schools (they don't) and any one on the list going somewhere else didn't get in and are disappointed (they aren't). Ridiculous. Even so, how could you see a bump from a list? You need to know the kids and the stats and where they actually chose to apply to see if there is a bump.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:05     Subject: The Death of Private School As We Know It
Oh welcome back! It’s the lying troll who has _several_ kids at multiple different big 3 school. Is that, like, six kids? Seven?
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2021 16:03     Subject: Re:The Death of Private School As We Know It
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here are the 2021 admissions from a Big3 (does not included multiple admits at many of the schools). Is there one college on this list that you wouldn't be happy that your kid is attending?
Personally I think it's awesome and guarantee that my kid will attend a decent college---never mind that they are also learning to to write well and think critically.

Boston College
Boston University
Brown
Bucknell
Colby
Colgate
William and Mary
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Davidson
Duke
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Northwestern
Oberlin
Princeton
SMU
Stanford
Syracuse
Tufts
Tulane
UCLA
Chicago
Michigan
Penn
Richmond
Sewanee
USC
St. Andrews
UVA
Wisconsin
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Washington and Lee
Wash U
Yale


Is this the complete list?


Yes, complete list from alumni magazine this month


Ok. So, looking at this list, clearly the large majority of this school's graduating class did not end up enrolling in an Ivy League school. Is there any way of knowing how many of the acceptances to the Ivies were to legacies? I ask because, as we all know, the Big 3 is full of parents with Ivy League degrees.

Once you take out the Ivies, the list is really no more impressive than what you'd find mixed in with any of the top 1/3 or so public high schools in the DMV. You'd also find many other schools in the mix in those schools as well, of course, because the schools are much bigger and have open enrollment.

In other words, I don't see any real "bump."


I see a real bump Smart kids from our public high school (Wilson) the past two years went to places like Wisconsin and vermont. There were no HYP ivy admits last year. The Cornells were all legacy or crew recruits.