See 8:58 and 11:05.

I've read this thread, and I can't tell who the alleged school admins are. What makes you think they are not just parents? For example, I am just a parent, and I don't have a connection to NCS, but I have done college interviewing and know something about matriculations, so I could write things that sound as if an insider wrote them, but that doesn't make me a school admin.

Agree! As if we wouldn't notice.

Anonymous wrote:I'm also amused by all the talk of holding NCS "accountable" for their supposedly sliding standards. Accountable to who? An anonymous troll on a message board? Be serious! No school admin would stoop to responding to the OP on this forum.

Full disclosure: I have no past, present, or anticipated future connection to NCS. This whole thread just reeks to high heaven of somebody with an agenda trying to stir up a big old smelly bucket of shit.

Yeah, I agree there is somebody with an axe to grind here. I have to say, though, that school admins to seem to pop up here like little whack-a-moles, to propagandize for their schools.

I'm also amused by all the talk of holding NCS "accountable" for their supposedly sliding standards. Accountable to who? An anonymous troll on a message board? Be serious! No school admin would stoop to responding to the OP on this forum.

Full disclosure: I have no past, present, or anticipated future connection to NCS. This whole thread just reeks to high heaven of somebody with an agenda trying to stir up a big old smelly bucket of shit.

This IS a ridiculous OP and thread because the underlying assumption is false, that the college matriculations of a prep school should stay constant from year to year regardless of the quality of each graduating class. Someone who makes such an assumption is going to be very angry when her own child ends up getting into small-name colleges and she tries to hold the school "accountable" for not making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is the ONLY school in the area that is nationally known and that's only thanks to Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls. And it's really not crucial to go to a nationally known school. Most of us didn't and we turned out a-ok.

Well, how many non boarding high schools are nationally known? Sidwell and Beverly Hills (public) high school are the only ones I can think of. I suppose Columbine for reasons of infamy.

Roxbury Latin; Collegiate; Dalton; Trinity; Regis; Chicago Latin; UofC Lab School; Harvard-Westlake.

That's private. Add public and one would need to include at least Stuyvesant and Bronx Science, and probably New Trier.

Anonymous wrote:Well, how many non boarding high schools are nationally known? Sidwell and Beverly Hills (public) high school are the only ones I can think of. I suppose Columbine for reasons of infamy.

Not many. Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Chicago Lab School, maybe Thomas Jefferson because of all that USNews propaganda.

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is the ONLY school in the area that is nationally known and that's only thanks to Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls. And it's really not crucial to go to a nationally known school. Most of us didn't and we turned out a-ok.

Well, how many non boarding high schools are nationally known? Sidwell and Beverly Hills (public) high school are the only ones I can think of. I suppose Columbine for reasons of infamy.

I went to NCS in the late '80s/early '90s and didn't think it was that great then. I rarely studied and skipped lots of classes and was still a straight-A student and Bishop's Scholar, etc. In terms of being known nationally, that was not my experience post-NCS. However, I went to college and graduate school in the Midwest (Chicago). When I am back in D.C., people do seem to know NCS.

Holton offers the same math. NCS does have more English class offerings. Writing at Holton is incorporated into all the English classes.

Anonymous wrote:Hate to change the subject, but how is NCS able to offer so many class choices? I looked at their class offerings in English and it is remarkable! There are no other all girl school in this area with such a wonderful selection of upper level english and Math classes. They seem to have a faculty that comes from some great schools too and quite a few PHDs. I would love to know how this school is going down.

They do have a great selection of electives. Juniors and seniors can also take electives at St. Albans in virtually all subjects (and vice versa for STA students at NCS), which has the advantage of effectively broadening the course catalogue for both schools. The "coordinate program" as they call it is one thing that sets STA/NCS apart from the other single-sex schools -- because of geography they can really make it work as part of the normal school schedule.

Hate to change the subject, but how is NCS able to offer so many class choices? I looked at their class offerings in English and it is remarkable! There are no other all girl school in this area with such a wonderful selection of upper level english and Math classes. They seem to have a faculty that comes from some great schools too and quite a few PHDs. I would love to know how this school is going down.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by accountability?

Sounds like she thinks the Head should be fired if her DD didn't get into her 1st , 2nd or 3rd choice Ivy. And, that was after she wrote her college apps for ehr and started a foundation in her daughter's name to add to her community service. LOL

You seem like quite the bitch. Let me guess, you're upper school admin or faculty.

1. I thought it was funny.
2. I didn't think it sounded at all like a faculty member or admin member, but rather your paranoia at work.
3. I think YOU sound like quite the nasty bit of baggage, as the Brits would say. Pip pip cheerio!

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Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by accountability?

Sounds like she thinks the Head should be fired if her DD didn't get into her 1st , 2nd or 3rd choice Ivy. And, that was after she wrote her college apps for ehr and started a foundation in her daughter's name to add to her community service. LOL

You seem like quite the bitch. Let me guess, you're upper school admin or faculty.