Sidwell tuition 2024-25

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Anonymous wrote:Maret now $51k for US. 10% increase.

A 10% increase?!? Are you sure?

Last year was $46k this year is $51k. It's actually a tad higher than 10%.

That’s a huge jump! Is that an all inclusive price (e.g., lunch, yearbook, fees (including technology/computer)?

It's tuition and lunch. There aren't any other fees other than textbooks for US. There is a one time new student fee of $1500 they've always had. They had a marginal increase last year when other schools went up pretty high. Even with a 10% jump, they appear to still be $5-7k lower than most DC independents.

Yes but Maret nickles and dimes throughout the year with additional fees that the other schools include in tuition.

What else do they charge additional fees for?

I can't think of any.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
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What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
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Regarding the number of kids that get into Ivy League schools. Do these private schools ever disaggregate their legacy Ivy league kids from the kids that gained admission without the parental/familial “in”?

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Wow, what an obnoxious post. You could have made your questionable point without dripping with contempt. If it weren’t also gauche I’d apologize on behalf of our parent community.

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To clarify, the PP is to the person who calculated the stats for W while calling out a “W grad” on page 8.

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone considering Sidwell -- the tuition increases for next year were announced today.

Grades PreK-2: $ 51,410
Grades 3-4: $ 53,920
Grades 5-8: $ 57,150
Grades 9-12: $ 57,620

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The increases makes sense. You get what you pay for.

Not always the case

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
a-holes…

What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

You clearly struggle with reading comprehension. You must be a W school graduate. 😝

Again where in the link it shows that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"?
Help me out

Did you click on the link? I’ll make it easy, just focus on Ivies. Select every W school, look at the number of applicants to each Ivy, and then look at the number of students admitted—simple math. Next, compare those numbers to Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 (about 80-85% of graduating seniors posted on Instagram). Sidwell’s posts only include matriculants to specific colleges. There are several Sidwell students who are admitted to more than one Ivy every year. Despite that fact, Sidwell sent/sends/will send a much larger percentage of students to Ivies than any of the W schools.

Yes and the link doesn't show the "fact" that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools". In fact the link doesn't have anything to do with Sidwell, much less showing your so-called facts. You clearly don't understand facts.
You're clearly not too bright.

Sticks and stones, dear.

I see those poor public W school matriculation stats have upset you. I cannot relate—lol.

Of course you cannot relate. We have more matriculations than you, without having to pay $50,000+ a year.
Like I said, you're not too bright.

Oh, I see you don’t understand how percentages work. I knew you were a W(oeful) grad—lol.

Cheer up, your children are used to public school, so they will feel right at home at Maryland state universities. It’s a good thing you didn’t “waste” your money paying for your children’s education at a W school. Based on these W(oeful) admissions stats, you would be absolutely enraged.

Let’s use Whitman as an example.
#Applications/#Admitted:

1. Brown: 41/0
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3
Total = 306/11

Whitman seniors submitted 306 applications to the Ivies, but only 11 students were admitted. That’s a 3.5% admissions rate!

On the other hand, this is how they fared at Salisbury (27/22); UMBC (148/130); and UMD (386/243).

Like I said earlier, I can’t relate. Sidwell can’t relate either because they send at LEAST 15-25% of their students to Ivies EVERY year (not to mention the total number of admits). Good luck!

But how many of the sidwell students admitted are legacies?

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Yes, the overall educational experience is superior. Plus, Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

Because it’s a completely different pool of kids (public schools educate everyone whereas Sidwell is selecting the advantaged few). Selection bias at its finest. Doesn’t make it a better school.

Yes, it does. Selection bias, well-prepared, wealthier and better resourced students (among many other reasons) are why Sidwell is a better school. Selection bias eliminates a lot of problem students, and it elevates the experience for the privileged few who remain. I know it’s not pc to say these things, but you know it’s true.

Would love to see this statement on their website rather than all that garbage about a welcoming, inclusive and diverse community of learners. Such hypocrisy.

It’s actually very diverse. Look it up

Sidwell bashers are disgruntled moms who would do the same in any school. You know the ones - incessantly bemoaning the learning gap, the principal etc. These threads are not serious or representative. There used to be a thread per week until everyone got sick of and run off the one constant complainer with a personal axe to grind.

Get a life, honestly

It is not possible for private school costing $60,000 per year to be diverse.

Yes, it is. They can curate gender, race and ethnicity and then provide significant FA (which Sidwell does) to attract the kids they want, even if they cannot come close to paying full freight.

The price means some students will never even apply. And they do not recruit in poor neighborhoods. So they don’t even see those students. They don’t teach kids with disabilities, first gen, ELL. Doubt there were any Dreamers at Sidwell. Middle class plumbers kids? Doubt it. Visible diversity and enough kids on FA to make people feel good about themselves.

It’s ok. The schools are only doing what their main customers want them to do. One PP upthread came very close to owning it but most just double down. The problem is they all claim diversity, equity and inclusion when their basic model is based on exclusion and perpetuates inequity.

Claps to you

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Anonymous wrote:Maret now $51k for US. 10% increase.

A 10% increase?!? Are you sure?

Last year was $46k this year is $51k. It's actually a tad higher than 10%.

That’s a huge jump! Is that an all inclusive price (e.g., lunch, yearbook, fees (including technology/computer)?

It’s for their sstupid field that the idiot former head of school and moron former director of athletics insisted we needed before they both retired and left the parents with the bill. I hate them both.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
a-holes…

What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

You clearly struggle with reading comprehension. You must be a W school graduate. 😝

Again where in the link it shows that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"?
Help me out

Did you click on the link? I’ll make it easy, just focus on Ivies. Select every W school, look at the number of applicants to each Ivy, and then look at the number of students admitted—simple math. Next, compare those numbers to Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 (about 80-85% of graduating seniors posted on Instagram). Sidwell’s posts only include matriculants to specific colleges. There are several Sidwell students who are admitted to more than one Ivy every year. Despite that fact, Sidwell sent/sends/will send a much larger percentage of students to Ivies than any of the W schools.

Yes and the link doesn't show the "fact" that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools". In fact the link doesn't have anything to do with Sidwell, much less showing your so-called facts. You clearly don't understand facts.
You're clearly not too bright.

Sticks and stones, dear.

I see those poor public W school matriculation stats have upset you. I cannot relate—lol.

Of course you cannot relate. We have more matriculations than you, without having to pay $50,000+ a year.
Like I said, you're not too bright.

Oh, I see you don’t understand how percentages work. I knew you were a W(oeful) grad—lol.

Cheer up, your children are used to public school, so they will feel right at home at Maryland state universities. It’s a good thing you didn’t “waste” your money paying for your children’s education at a W school. Based on these W(oeful) admissions stats, you would be absolutely enraged.

Let’s use Whitman as an example.
#Applications/#Admitted:

1. Brown: 41/0
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3
Total = 306/11

Whitman seniors submitted 306 applications to the Ivies, but only 11 students were admitted. That’s a 3.5% admissions rate!

On the other hand, this is how they fared at Salisbury (27/22); UMBC (148/130); and UMD (386/243).

Like I said earlier, I can’t relate. Sidwell can’t relate either because they send at LEAST 15-25% of their students to Ivies EVERY year (not to mention the total number of admits). Good luck!

Out of curiosity, where are you getting these admissions stats? Is it online somewhere? Just curious. Please post link as would be interested in seeing.

I think public school kids have just as good a shot at Ivy's (maybe more), if you factor in the subset with same SAT range (I am guessing Sidwell kids on average higher SAT), and grades, and take out legacies.

I am sending my 3 kids to a private -- and the reason is not for the ultimate college outcome - but for the process -- there are so many activities, small class size, etc., that I myself nor did my husband have growing up in public school. However, I would only do private if it is a small fraction of your income, or if on financial aid. It is not worth siphoning off retirement security over.

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone considering Sidwell -- the tuition increases for next year were announced today.

Grades PreK-2: $ 51,410
Grades 3-4: $ 53,920
Grades 5-8: $ 57,150
Grades 9-12: $ 57,620

Sharing without judgment.

The increases makes sense. You get what you pay for.

Not always the case

Usually, though it’s the law of supply and demand

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone considering Sidwell -- the tuition increases for next year were announced today.

Grades PreK-2: $ 51,410
Grades 3-4: $ 53,920
Grades 5-8: $ 57,150
Grades 9-12: $ 57,620

Sharing without judgment.

Honestly, many of the people who were rejected or waitlisted from SFS would pay 100k a year to go if they could

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Anonymous wrote:How do people pay this and save for college?

Rich mofers like multiple millions.

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Anonymous wrote:Maret now $51k for US. 10% increase.

A 10% increase?!? Are you sure?

Last year was $46k this year is $51k. It's actually a tad higher than 10%.

That’s a huge jump! Is that an all inclusive price (e.g., lunch, yearbook, fees (including technology/computer)?

It's tuition and lunch. There aren't any other fees other than textbooks for US. There is a one time new student fee of $1500 they've always had. They had a marginal increase last year when other schools went up pretty high. Even with a 10% jump, they appear to still be $5-7k lower than most DC independents.

Yes but Maret nickles and dimes throughout the year with additional fees that the other schools include in tuition.

What else do they charge additional fees for?

I can't think of any.

Aren’t “donations” expected? Doesn’t the school expect you to donate to the school various times and occasions throughout the year? For example, if you donate a few thousand dollars then your tipping 60 K.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
a-holes…

What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

You clearly struggle with reading comprehension. You must be a W school graduate. 😝

Again where in the link it shows that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"?
Help me out

Did you click on the link? I’ll make it easy, just focus on Ivies. Select every W school, look at the number of applicants to each Ivy, and then look at the number of students admitted—simple math. Next, compare those numbers to Sidwell’s c/o ‘23 (about 80-85% of graduating seniors posted on Instagram). Sidwell’s posts only include matriculants to specific colleges. There are several Sidwell students who are admitted to more than one Ivy every year. Despite that fact, Sidwell sent/sends/will send a much larger percentage of students to Ivies than any of the W schools.

Yes and the link doesn't show the "fact" that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools". In fact the link doesn't have anything to do with Sidwell, much less showing your so-called facts. You clearly don't understand facts.
You're clearly not too bright.

Sticks and stones, dear.

I see those poor public W school matriculation stats have upset you. I cannot relate—lol.

Of course you cannot relate. We have more matriculations than you, without having to pay $50,000+ a year.
Like I said, you're not too bright.

Oh, I see you don’t understand how percentages work. I knew you were a W(oeful) grad—lol.

Cheer up, your children are used to public school, so they will feel right at home at Maryland state universities. It’s a good thing you didn’t “waste” your money paying for your children’s education at a W school. Based on these W(oeful) admissions stats, you would be absolutely enraged.

Let’s use Whitman as an example.
#Applications/#Admitted:

1. Brown: 41/0
2. Columbia: 29/0
3. Cornell: 67/3
4. Dartmouth: 20/0
5. Harvard: 28/0
6. Princeton: 25/2
7. UPenn: 63/3
8. Yale: 33/3
Total = 306/11

Whitman seniors submitted 306 applications to the Ivies, but only 11 students were admitted. That’s a 3.5% admissions rate!

On the other hand, this is how they fared at Salisbury (27/22); UMBC (148/130); and UMD (386/243).

Like I said earlier, I can’t relate. Sidwell can’t relate either because they send at LEAST 15-25% of their students to Ivies EVERY year (not to mention the total number of admits). Good luck!

1. Where's the admission stats for Sidwell? How can we compare? Goodness
2. Going by percentage is irrelevant and pointless because schools are Limited by the number of admittance.
Once again, you showed that you are not very bright.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the education that much better than Whitman?

Not at all.

Yes, it’s a much better educational experience.

It's an inferior academic product

That’s your baseless opinion. What’s important is that colleges agree with me. As posted upthread, “Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools.”

https://moco360.media/202...o-college/

Facts are facts, and opinions are like
a-holes…

What facts did you just show with your link? Did it show that "Sidwell consistently sends a higher percentage of graduates to Ivy+ colleges than the W schools"? Do you know what fact is, a-hole?
Idiot

Regarding the number of kids that get into Ivy League schools. Do these private schools ever disaggregate their legacy Ivy league kids from the kids that gained admission without the parental/familial “in”?

I don’t know. Do these PUBLIC schools ever disaggregate their legacy Ivy league kids from the kids that gained admission without the parental/familial “in”?