Less competitive, secular middle/high schools to get in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You probably should have thought of this when you bought in Northeast.

One of your bedrock principles (diversity of neighbors! Secular! The cred of a DC address!) will necessarily give way before this is over.

Wait, there's cred? I've never felt any cred. How do I get this cred?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Field runs shuttles from various metro stations.

Very competitive for admissions. Definitely worth applying to, but maybe it’s easier to get into Burke.

Huh. Our k-8 sends lots of kids to Field and Burke. Never heard Field referred to as competitive for admissions.

[Anonymous]

Lowell has a middle school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Field runs shuttles from various metro stations.

Very competitive for admissions. Definitely worth applying to, but maybe it’s easier to get into Burke.

Huh. Our k-8 sends lots of kids to Field and Burke. Never heard Field referred to as competitive for admissions.

Not the PP but it has gotten competitive. It's not Potomac/GDS/Maret/STA/NCX competitive, but it's competitive.

[Anonymous]

Five-day boarding?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Field runs shuttles from various metro stations.

Very competitive for admissions. Definitely worth applying to, but maybe it’s easier to get into Burke.

Huh. Our k-8 sends lots of kids to Field and Burke. Never heard Field referred to as competitive for admissions.

I've heard Burke referred to as the more selective of the two, so my guess is they're comparable on average. There's likely fluctuation depending on the year, entry grade, size of the class moving middle to upper school, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Field runs shuttles from various metro stations.

Very competitive for admissions. Definitely worth applying to, but maybe it’s easier to get into Burke.

Huh. Our k-8 sends lots of kids to Field and Burke. Never heard Field referred to as competitive for admissions.

The last two years have been very different at Field. The entire eighth grade now stays for the upper school. Apparently applications are way up too and last spring a thread here on DCUM revealed the waitlist didn’t move. Probably easier to get in for 6th than 9th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sandy Spring is secular?

It is quaker, so yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sandy Spring is secular?

It is quaker, so yes.

Quakers are a Christian sect.

Quaker schools aren’t secular *because* they are Quaker, but the religious aspect is so light as to be nearly nonexistent, and they are basically secular despite being Quaker.

I have no idea whether Quaker schools consider themselves secular or religious, or if they don’t bother defining themselves either way.

[Anonymous]

Sheridan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You probably should have thought of this when you bought in Northeast.

One of your bedrock principles (diversity of neighbors! Secular! The cred of a DC address!) will necessarily give way before this is over.

Wait, there's cred? I've never felt any cred. How do I get this cred?

You in NE, boo? Or.... NW?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You probably should have thought of this when you bought in Northeast.

One of your bedrock principles (diversity of neighbors! Secular! The cred of a DC address!) will necessarily give way before this is over.

Wait, there's cred? I've never felt any cred. How do I get this cred?

You in NE, boo? Or.... NW?

NE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Five-day boarding?

McDonogh maybe?

[Anonymous]

I would look at St. Andrew's too. Yes - it has St. in the name - but it is Episcopal and very religion-lite. My Jewish husband said he'd never send our kids to a religious school and he is totally comfortable. They not only talk about but celebrate all religious holidays. And we have had a great academic experience - rigorous but not competitive.

[Anonymous]

For the amount you’d pay private, why not move to NW and go to JR or McArthur? You don’t get a real ROI on tuition, but even with the economic downturn ahead, you’ll still do well to put that money into a house in DC.