Suggestions for getting into sidwell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be a same sex multi racial.couple.

yep, with a child who scores 99.9% on the WPPSI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be a same sex multi racial.couple.

yep, with a child who scores 99.9% on the WPPSI.

And if one of you is an artist whose work is hanging in the Corcoran, and the other is a tenured ethnomusicology professor, it wouldn't kill ya.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be a same sex multi racial.couple.

yep, with a child who scores 99.9% on the WPPSI.

And if one of you is an artist whose work is hanging in the Corcoran, and the other is a tenured ethnomusicology professor, it wouldn't kill ya.

And it goes without saying that you should be Democrats, and preferably ones who do the occasional fundraiser.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell takes a lot of kids of journalists, too. Hope it's not too late to change careers.

[Anonymous]

Every single private or boarding school looks for a hook, not just Sidwell. If you got it, flaunt it!

[Anonymous]

Seriously though, hold your child back a year if applying for K. They prefer to admit older kids.

[Anonymous]

So Sidwell redshirts for academics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be a same sex multi racial.couple.

yep, with a child who scores 99.9% on the WPPSI.

And if one of you is an artist whose work is hanging in the Corcoran, and the other is a tenured ethnomusicology professor, it wouldn't kill ya.

And it goes without saying that you should be Democrats, and preferably ones who do the occasional fundraiser.

But you need to be "our kind of Democrats," the kind with great social skills who dress well and know how to throw a great catered fundraiser. None of your strident, frizzy-haired, Green Party supporters, please.

[Anonymous]

Some of these are tongue in cheek. But the result is it sounds just awful. Anyone actually like the school? Are the grads doing great things - setting aside the obvious famous ones.

[Anonymous]

It's a horrible school. That's why nobody wants to go there and it's so easy to get in. I don't have a kid there but a frend of a friend whose kid goes there says the facilities are terrible and the teachers are rejects from other area private schools.
PS. the food is terrible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a horrible school. That's why nobody wants to go there and it's so easy to get in. I don't have a kid there but a frend of a friend whose kid goes there says the facilities are terrible and the teachers are rejects from other area private schools.
PS. the food is terrible

You sound like a Sidwell reject.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a horrible school. That's why nobody wants to go there and it's so easy to get in. I don't have a kid there but a frend of a friend whose kid goes there says the facilities are terrible and the teachers are rejects from other area private schools.
PS. the food is terrible

You sound like a Sidwell reject.

Actually she sounds like a Sidwell parent with a sense of humor, even if she's understandably a little bitter.

[Anonymous]

The Wikipedia entry on sidwell saw fit to include the notable parents (of otherwise undistinguished offspring). The notable alumni list is fairly impressive, but can't really compare to what alumni of St. Albans have done. Flame away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Wikipedia entry on sidwell saw fit to include the notable parents (of otherwise undistinguished offspring). The notable alumni list is fairly impressive, but can't really compare to what alumni of St. Albans have done. Flame away.

Way to stay klassy, St. Albans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wikipedia entry on sidwell saw fit to include the notable parents (of otherwise undistinguished offspring). The notable alumni list is fairly impressive, but can't really compare to what alumni of St. Albans have done. Flame away.

Way to stay klassy, St. Albans.

I blame the Sidwell administrator or alum who posted the list of famous parents in the first place. It's kind of "look at how many rich and powerful people send their kids here" and makes the unfortunate comparisons with the kids pretty unavoidable. Unless the point was supposed to be, who cares about the kids because you send your kids to Sidwell if you want to network with the other parents.