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Spence has not updated it's college placement posting on its website since 2006!! Their placement in 2007 and 2008 was very embarassing, that's why
51 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]But Spence graduates know how to spell and the difference between contractions and personal pronouns.
[ Reply | Options ]What are you talking about? I don't see numbers for ANY years on their site. Where are you seeing this?
[ Reply | Options ]Stop. This is absurd. It is a fabulous school. We loved and it and would have loved to send dd there. We liked it better than Brearley and BTW, she was rejected at Spence, but not at Brearley. All you people with an axe to grind. It is a fabulous school as are most of the NY privates schools, even the non-TTs.
[ Reply | Options ]Sounds like you have an axe to grind with Brearley. FWIW, when people use 'and she was rejected at Brearley' as a parting word in defense of their great school it only highlights that everyone views brearley as the gold standard. You defeat the purpose of what you are trying to do.
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np: you know what she meant and she is right. To claim that a DC was accepted at Brearley but not at another of the 'TT" girls schools it makes you all look desperate and DOES highlight that Brearley is considered the gold standard.
[ Reply | Options ]Oh please, many many people prefer other schools over B. That is just ridiculous to say, "the gold standard." It is a great school, but not everyone's FC.
[ Reply | Options ]I never said anything about choice or fit, I as talking about academic reputation. When moms like you say stupid things like 'and she was accepted t B but rejected at Spence' it makes you look pathetic, defensive, and as if you have an axe to grind against Brearleys stellar academic reputation. you would be better off not mentioning it.
[ Reply | Options ]np; omg, OR is the ONLY sane B mom I've seen on UB. You really do contribute to the crazy B mom reputation.
[ Reply | Options ]Excuse me? What are you talking about, I am not saying B is the end all be all! I am saying people who are dying to prove it is not that good would be better off not saying such silly things like OR above. Why mention whether or not a dc was rejected at a certain school and accepted at B, why not just say Spence is rerat or Chapin is great - they are and using Brearley as a comparison ruins their point and lessens people belief that S or C is really better if people feel the need to compare all the time
[ Reply | Options ]nnp. OR sounds like a sane B mom to you because she wishes her dd were going to Spence instead? lol
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Just looked at this on the Spence website. How is placement "embarrassing?" These are all great schools.
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Almost no private posts any given year, they all post 5 year rolling placements to hide the inevitable 'bad years'.
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Yes, which are always better than any other 2nd or 3rd tier or selective public. The TT do 5 years as as method to mask bas years among the TT and compete against each other
[ Reply | Options ]np. It seems to me that listing in 5 year chunks would decrease rather than promote competition.
[ Reply | Options ]No because it becomes more difficult to actually measure the consistency of those good results. All of these schools have very impressive results but the success of certain years scatter.
[ Reply | Options ]Yes, which is why if it were possible to compare all these schools' results on a year-by-year basis, it wold be even worse. Every time one school had an off year or an especially good year, people would be trying to use that as "proof" of the school's supposed inferiority or superiority.
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Sorry to be dim, but then how can you disagree with my point that the 5 year lists decrease competition? It sounds like the schools think so.
[ Reply | Options ]I am not disagreeing, I said above that publishing a 5 year list makes it more difficult for newcomers to the private schools in NYC to compare year to year.
[ Reply | Options ]^^ oh I see the confusion here, yes, in order to compete with each other - in order for each school to better mask bad single years and make it difficult for newcomers to compare year to year and levels of consistency they all publish 5 year lists. I think we are saying the same thing. I am saying they want to mask the bad in order to compete against each other better and you are saying that you feel that makes competition less but we are saying the same thing
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np. It's a big stretch to believe their exmissions were SO terrible they were too embarrassed to post them. I must agree with the OR 2 up from this one; you come across like someone with an axe to grind.
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