Parent Intensity at Sidwell vs. STA

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Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Who said anything about the admissions office breaching confidentiality? Women talks to powerful people at school about not wanting someone to be admitted. It may not work, but she still tries - that's the offensive action.

A lot of people do offensive things and maybe she knows something about the family and feels she is validated in letting the school know. Honestly there’s a father at another school that has a history of threatening people and no one ever said it to the school he was applying to and his child got into the school and he has had issues already with threatening another mother very publicly. So, sometimes if you know something about someone it can be a good thing to tell.

Actually, you have it all wrong. Woman trying to prevent child from getting into school is the offensive one. She is unstable and many people have pulled away after experiencing her crazy behavior, although it takes time to figure it out so not everyone knows. Trying to prevent a lovely child from being admitted because you harbor irrational disdain towards the parents is just wrong, period.

You clearly don’t know how admissions to these schools work. Sounds like you are blaming people for your kid not getting accepted somewhere. No one has that kind of power except heads of schools. Admissions offices have committees that vote on candidates so no one in admissions even has that power either. Sounds like you may be the one that is a bit unstable instead of accepting that you along with 90% of applicants did not get into their first choice school.

This. Most applicants didn’t get into to their first, second, or third choice this year. Many people I know got completely shut out. You sound a bit entitled and placing blame.

Most applicants from where got shut out?

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Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Who said anything about the admissions office breaching confidentiality? Women talks to powerful people at school about not wanting someone to be admitted. It may not work, but she still tries - that's the offensive action.

A lot of people do offensive things and maybe she knows something about the family and feels she is validated in letting the school know. Honestly there’s a father at another school that has a history of threatening people and no one ever said it to the school he was applying to and his child got into the school and he has had issues already with threatening another mother very publicly. So, sometimes if you know something about someone it can be a good thing to tell.

Actually, you have it all wrong. Woman trying to prevent child from getting into school is the offensive one. She is unstable and many people have pulled away after experiencing her crazy behavior, although it takes time to figure it out so not everyone knows. Trying to prevent a lovely child from being admitted because you harbor irrational disdain towards the parents is just wrong, period.

You clearly don’t know how admissions to these schools work. Sounds like you are blaming people for your kid not getting accepted somewhere. No one has that kind of power except heads of schools. Admissions offices have committees that vote on candidates so no one in admissions even has that power either. Sounds like you may be the one that is a bit unstable instead of accepting that you along with 90% of applicants did not get into their first choice school.

This. Most applicants didn’t get into to their first, second, or third choice this year. Many people I know got completely shut out. You sound a bit entitled and placing blame.

Most applicants from where got shut out?

Friends from schools all over the area.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking as a Sidwell parent, there is peer pressure, but at least we, and most of the parents we know, keep a pretty hands off approach. Certainly if it were up to the school, the parents only involvement would be to send checks and attend performances and sporting events.

Pressure comes from parents on their own kids and won’t affect your child. Not all parents put pressure on kids. It varies.

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Anonymous wrote:DS fortunate enough to have been admitted to both. We know that both are very rigorous academically, but we are trying to get a sense of how much of the academic intensity comes from the boys/students, the school, and the parents. At the STA open house, it seemed like the school really wanted parents to let the boys develop independence and discipline without much parental involvement. We have heard more mixed things about the parent community and their intensity and involvement regarding student performance at Sidwell. It’s a tough question to ask directly, so taking a little bit of a chance indirectly here.

Op what sport does your son play? What did you decide?

I'd rather not give details in case it outs Ds. We went with sta, though I confess I remain conflicted. Both had so much to offer, and ds didn't end up with a strong preference, surprisingly (guess he's indecisive like his parents). Perhaps what tipped the scales was the close interaction between faculty and students. We are hopeful, but the schools are both just too good to feel as if there was an obvious choice.

Have a lot of friends there. I think your son will be happy. Both schools are great options.

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Anonymous wrote:When a "top 20" college admissions office with a staff of 15-20 people get 60,000 applications for a thousand spots they are not going to have time nor bandwidth to "evaluate and adjust for grading nuances" at top privates. They will first eliminate applications that fall below a certain test score/GPA threshold...The remaining apps will get a closer look...

The reputation advantage of "top DC privates" get wiped out when there are too many applicants...

This year is going to be tough if you were "aiming high."

If this were actually the case, then the top DC privates wouldn't be eliminating AP courses from their curriculums.

Students still take the AP exams though correct?

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Anonymous wrote:Affluence is not a factor in popularity——

Can be at any school. It depends.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you had a shadow day yet at the two schools? Your son will be able to get a better feel of where he feels comfortable.

She chose STA.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you had a shadow day yet at the two schools? Your son will be able to get a better feel of where he feels comfortable.

She chose STA.

That was pages ago. Probably time to close thread. A lot of Sidwell threads right now.