Transferring to Sidwell at Grade 9

[Anonymous]

PP, that's not quite a perfect description of the situation. There is a lot of self selection going on. It's a brand thing right? STA attracts one crowd, Landon another, Sidwell yet another. There is overlap but there is a lot of pre-selection going on. I sincerely doubt that Sidwell is going to choose one kid over another based on his parents' political affliation. Not sure it would even be aware. I believe the same thing about other schools. If the selection process is as tough as you say, then there woud be no dems at Landon and no Republicans at Sidwell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, that's not quite a perfect description of the situation. There is a lot of self selection going on. It's a brand thing right? STA attracts one crowd, Landon another, Sidwell yet another. There is overlap but there is a lot of pre-selection going on. I sincerely doubt that Sidwell is going to choose one kid over another based on his parents' political affliation. Not sure it would even be aware. I believe the same thing about other schools. If the selection process is as tough as you say, then there woud be no dems at Landon and no Republicans at Sidwell

Actually, because all these schools are so hard to get into, I think a lot of families apply to ALL of them. Sort of like college, where you know it would be stupid to just apply to Yale, so you hedge your bets by applying to five ivies plus MIT and Stanford. Not a lot of families have the option of saying "gee, DS got into Sidwell, Potomac, Landon, Maret, St. Anselm's and St. Albans, which one of these do we choose?" Which means that, come March and April, if a family has a choice, it's because one or two schools selected their DS.

[Anonymous]

Looks like there's a new demographic for rising 9th graders as well: Incredibly talented athletes with substandard academic skills.