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Why can't I seem to find the Dalton college placement list on their website?
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02.07.09, 12:56 PM [ Flag ]
- They don't publish it, but here's some gossipy fodder provided by the post: http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20080629/Private+School+Rejects. Not that a sample size of 1 school (aleit Harvard) and 1 year means anything at all. By all accounts, last year was an off year for most privates due to the numbers and the change of policy by the ivies (no tuition for HHI under 60K).
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  02.07.09, 01:03 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I find this on the website: http://www.dalton.org/program/high/counseling.asp
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  02.07.09, 01:04 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- This is interesting. So if you allow for class size, these are basically Ethical Culture/ Nightingale NBS statistics. These are way below S. C ,Trinity and HM on a per capita basis ? Am i missing something here?
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  02.07.09, 01:10 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - No - you're not. Think schools like Riverdale, Fieldston and St. Anne's also had stats like or better than these as far as pct. matriculating to the ivies.
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    02.07.09, 01:48 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - St Anne I know is basically same as S and C
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      02.07.09, 01:57 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Are all the dalton fanatics aware of this? has baby's beauty blinded them?
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  02.07.09, 02:59 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- You people know that stellar college placement is largely about how many mediocre kids they counsel out (yes, this could be your 99 ERB a few years down the line) and how many new kids they take in high school, right? A school with stellar college placement could be very good news for your dc or very bad news, and you won't know for many years to come.
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  02.07.09, 02:59 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - lol; people here refuse to believe that 99X3 (!) is not a recipe for guaranteed stellar academic success through high school. not at all. it means very little in that regard, but those 99ers just desperately cling to their little scores. it is a joke. i have seen the burn-out, peaked before age ten factor a few times now -- those highest-testing scores often had flashcard-happy helicopter parents whose perfectly bright kids were just not the geniuses they wanted them to be, and they pushed them too hard too soon. they consequently reared underachieving school-haters. 99erb is more indicative of a kind of early development and in truth, almost all kids will catch up by grade 2 or 4, and those earlier-developing kids are not stand-outs; THEN the real fun begins.
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    02.09.09, 08:41 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]