You wrote “if true”. Rather than look it up. Ya l consider that lazy. It’s not name calling. |
Roosevelts and Nixons also attended/graduated from Sidwell. |
🙄 No one cares about GDS that much. Move along. |
Not every school on this list is recognizable to the casual basketball fan, but many hardcore hoops fans are familiar with teams in the top ten, including #5. https://www.stadiumtalk.com/s/greatest-high-school-basketball-teams-de1f0baf83734149 |
BIM is the most famous. Ranked nationally. Everyone else doesn't matter. |
True. BIM was recently ranked the #1 private school in the DMV, and one of the top nationally. |
Who? What? |
Stop trying to make Prep happen. Absolutely nobody knows them outside DC/MD. |
I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.
WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football. |
Probably the most well known schools are:
Sierra Canyon (Kardashians/jenners/bronny) Crossroads (so many celebs) Beverly Hills High School (same; shout out to West Beverly too ) Andover Exeter Permian (Friday Night Lights) IMG Academy (sports factory across multiple sports) St. Vincent-St. Mary (lebron; because he didn’t play college this one has a higher profile) Lower Merion (Kobe; same) Laguna Hills (Hills, Laguna, etc. this is fading but still a fairly broad demo) Sidwell (Clintons/Obamas). Nothing else in DC is on this level of name ID. Not sure what from NYC breaks through — could see a case for Dalton, Spence, Bronx Science, Stuyvesant but none seem that famous to like an average person in the Midwest. This is macabre but the most famous are probably actually the ones with major tragedies like Columbine and the like. |
I agree. You have to really care about pedigrees to have absorbed that Gore went to St. Albans. I wouldn't have been able to name another. Pop quiz: who knows the name of Mitt Romney's high school? Easier: George W Bush? My personal test for Beltway proximity is to ask people how many Cabinet Secretaries they can name. A fun game to play with people who don't live in DC... |
DC Correctional |
Wrong! I’ve read articles about Sidwell in the LA Times, The NY Times, and cities across the country. I’ve even seen several articles about Sidwell in the Daily Mail! I certain little to no ink has been spent on Dematha, Gonzaga, SJC and PVI in the British press. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html |
Cathedral schools - always knew of them and saw the campus on tv for all state events and broadcasters would often mention the campus etc.... Plus I knew Bush, Kennedys, Gores, etc.. had sent kids to the Cathedral schools plus a lot of top business people we knew of. |
The Daily Mail is basically a tabloid rag. That's a pretty weak flex, Sidwell booster. |