Deerfield vs Top DC Privates

[Anonymous]

My kid has a grandparent on the board at Deerfield and we also have some family members at the top DC private schools. If he has a choice between both, which would you recommend? He wants to play football and also have a balanced high school experience.

[Anonymous]

Depends, OP. Are you ready to ship him off at the age of 14?

[Anonymous]

Troll

[Anonymous]

My Big3 kid is best friends with 2 Deerfield kids at any Ivy. they have told us several times that they have felt better prepared for college than the Deerfield kids.

I mention this because posters on here love to say that DC privates are academically so inferior to elite boarding schools. Not at all our experience. Make the decision on the boarding aspect but not on the education!

[Anonymous]

This post is giving troll. The Deerfield Board currently has very few people of grandparent age. And their adult children would know better than to dox them, or post something this presumptuous, or put an admissions advantage (admission is not guaranteed) at risk.

Nonetheless, while we’re here… Let’s congratulate their men’s varsity rowing team. They won Youth Nationals just this morning! Fastest boat in the entire country. Given that they have a very small student body relative to the massive pool of students from which regional clubs can construct a team, it is a huge accomplishment. Well done!

Maybe the football team will go on a winning streak next?

[Anonymous]

How is this a question? There is a pretty big difference. One is a boarding school, the other option, your son stays at home and attends a good school.
All are good schools. Does your child want to go to a boarding school or a day school?

[Anonymous]

This is at least the third post in the last several months by an OP claiming their kid’s grandparent is on the board of a boarding school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is at least the third post in the last several months by an OP claiming their kid’s grandparent is on the board of a boarding school.

Every single one is a troll. The real children/children-in-law of board members would not post about it here, nor would they need to ask any questions about the school. Patently absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Big3 kid is best friends with 2 Deerfield kids at any Ivy. they have told us several times that they have felt better prepared for college than the Deerfield kids.

I mention this because posters on here love to say that DC privates are academically so inferior to elite boarding schools. Not at all our experience. Make the decision on the boarding aspect but not on the education!

They are! Your Big3 kid will not have the same opportunities or network after college. Your kid will move to New York, Boston, LA, or Chicago and no one will have heard of the school unless it’s Sidwell. Not so for the Deerfield kid.

And your child was not more prepared- maybe equally prepared. Your kid is engaging in the same behavior you exhibit- putting down a clearly more superior educational background because he or she feels inferior. Maybe you should’ve put your ignorance aside and applied for boarding schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is at least the third post in the last several months by an OP claiming their kid’s grandparent is on the board of a boarding school.

Every single one is a troll. The real children/children-in-law of board members would not post about it here, nor would they need to ask any questions about the school. Patently absurd.

absolutely agree these are some kind of weirdo trolling here. Literally 3 posts about different boarding schools over the last few days, all sounding similar themes.

Seriously, troll, get some psychiatric help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This post is giving troll. The Deerfield Board currently has very few people of grandparent age. And their adult children would know better than to dox them, or post something this presumptuous, or put an admissions advantage (admission is not guaranteed) at risk.

Nonetheless, while we’re here… Let’s congratulate their men’s varsity rowing team. They won Youth Nationals just this morning! Fastest boat in the entire country. Given that they have a very small student body relative to the massive pool of students from which regional clubs can construct a team, it is a huge accomplishment. Well done!

Maybe the football team will go on a winning streak next?

They can recruit from around the world, so that is a perk.

As for preparedness, Deerfield is a NE boarding school and kids get in for academics as well as legacy and athletic prowess. PP’s kid’s friends may not have gotten in solely for their intellectual prowess and may not have been at the tippy top. It doesn’t mean Deerfield didn’t prepare them as well as possible.