Is Sidwell really Sadwell?

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Anonymous wrote:In response to the question is Sidwell really Sadwell, I’d say it’s a bad sign if the students themselves call it Sid-hell

Sure, Jan. I wonder why almost no Sidwell US students transfer to other high schools (unless they can’t handle Sidwell’s academic workload—there’s 1-2 every year).

Other than that, this is more cope from the poors. 🤣

[Anonymous]

Seriously. These Sidwell parents and boosters on DCUM are an embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. These Sidwell parents and boosters on DCUM are an embarrassment.

Poor people (Sidwell parents) they don’t have any other outlet to express themselves and look normal at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. These Sidwell parents and boosters on DCUM are an embarrassment.

Yet I’m so not embarrassed…because my children attend Sidwell. 😊
There is literally no other school in the DMV I would want them to attend.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. These Sidwell parents and boosters on DCUM are an embarrassment.

Yet I’m so not embarrassed…because my children attend Sidwell. 😊
There is literally no other school in the DMV I would want them to attend.

I am so glad that my identity or source of happiness is not attached to the school my kids attend. My kids go to a great school, but they could have gone to another good school and I would be comfortable with that.

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Anonymous wrote:The fekkin sour grapes on this page over private schools could drown a horse. First Potomac and now Sidwell?

NEITHER OF THESE SCHOOLS ARE THAT BIG A DEAL.

Stop obsessing over them, they won't get your kid into a college that they weren't already going to get into. They are extremely unlikely to set them up with connections that they wouldn't have gotten through other avenues. They are just pretty good private schools. The NYC private school parents are chuckling about Potomac and Big 3. Go to any top school and the population of kids from the Big 3 combined wouldn't rank top 10 as a feeder school.

You guys are just Ms. Butternut Squash... the prettiest girl in your backwater town. You're embarrassing yourselves and your schools.

Does lying make you feel better because you’re unable to send your children to Sidwell?

According to Niche, the nationally known Sidwell Friends School is ranked #10 in the UNITED STATES, among “Private K-12 Schools in America.” Sidwell is ranked ahead of elite NYC schools like Dalton, Trinity, Sacred Heart, Nightingale-Bamford, etc. Please don’t let your highly biased opinion interfere with facts.

Niche rankings: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're funny.
It's ranked 10 by niche based on niche methodology. Last year Trinity was top 5.
If you have to rely on niche to tell you which schools any good, you probably don't actually know anything.
All those NY schools you named have 2 to 3 times the rate of Ivy+ admission rate of Sidwell.
You're embarrassing yourself and your school.

Since the facts don’t support your baseless claims, y’all have just decided to lie! 🤣 Dalton, Trinity, etc may have more Ivy+ admits than Sidwell, but they also have much larger student bodies (and certain undergraduate colleges at Cornell are public, so NY residents get a tremendous admissions bump there). What they don’t have is 2x-3x the rate of Ivy+ admits than Sidwell. Percentage-wise, there’s probably a 5-8% difference.

Why don’t you actually crunch the numbers and respond with facts. The only person who should be embarrassed is you.

/sigh How do you keep getting these things wrong? It's all available on google.

Trinity has just over 100 every year and a bit smaller than Sidwell and getting a lot more ivy+ admissions than Sidwell.
Dalton has about 130 students in its graduating class.

You keep embarrassing yourself.
Just take the L and move on, nobody knows who you are so the only person that knows what a provincial country bumpkin you are is you.

🤣 you are really needing to snark babe. Trinity's matriculation is a bear to read so I gave up and resorted to the HPM monitor they are using in the other chat... they do a bit better, but not enough to get your panties in a bunch about especially when you consider Ivies are are lot more local to NYC than they are to DC.

And just to be clear, I don't love this measurement system either since there are tons of amazing schools in this country and if your kid is going to a top private in DC or NYC, they are going to have great doors opened up for them to choose to walk through.

Anyway enjoy your time in wallowing in the DC muck!

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-america

I don't even know which schools count anymore. It used to be easy way back when harvard and yale were all that counted before the rest of ivy+ became more relevant, then georgetown became important for a while, now vanderbilt seems to be having a day. I just hope when our AI overlords come, they appreciate the rigor at Trinity.

As far as the DC muck is concerned, the difference between Trinity and sidwell is much larger than the difference between sidwell and TJ. And TJ is a public school. A FREE public school. Sure they are selective but so is sidwell, allegedly. You can't trumpet and difference between sidwell and TJ without at least acknowledging a larger difference between sidwell and Trinity.

Yet Sidwell parents seem to be doing their darndest to prove they are better than a FREE public school.

Lol did you take a look at NYC because Trinity and Dalton got beaten out by several public schools 🤣 you are just as much the fool as we are babes 😉

We love Stuyvesant.
We applaud their hard work and success.
And while Stuyvesant nominally sends more kids to T20 than almost any other school its still less than 1/3 of their graduating class.
We wish them greater success in the future. Go solve fusion. Go make robots. Go fix global warming.

Trinity is much smaller and nominally send far fewer students to T20 but it sends more than half.
We have parents here that went to the Stuyvesant.
They have no interest in sending their kids to Stuyvesant.
If you have a choice, you send your kids to one of maybe a dozen private schools in NYC over Stuyvesant.

We love Stuyvesant and what it says about merit and social mobility but the competition is brutal and it doesn't really get you as much of a feeder effect as the better independent schools. And more importantly it doesn't really prepare you for college better than the top private schools outside of a very narrow range of STEM areas. If you can afford it, you can have high rigor without the trauma inducing competition and end up with better writing and speaking skills than you would get at any of the public schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fekkin sour grapes on this page over private schools could drown a horse. First Potomac and now Sidwell?

NEITHER OF THESE SCHOOLS ARE THAT BIG A DEAL.

Stop obsessing over them, they won't get your kid into a college that they weren't already going to get into. They are extremely unlikely to set them up with connections that they wouldn't have gotten through other avenues. They are just pretty good private schools. The NYC private school parents are chuckling about Potomac and Big 3. Go to any top school and the population of kids from the Big 3 combined wouldn't rank top 10 as a feeder school.

You guys are just Ms. Butternut Squash... the prettiest girl in your backwater town. You're embarrassing yourselves and your schools.

Does lying make you feel better because you’re unable to send your children to Sidwell?

According to Niche, the nationally known Sidwell Friends School is ranked #10 in the UNITED STATES, among “Private K-12 Schools in America.” Sidwell is ranked ahead of elite NYC schools like Dalton, Trinity, Sacred Heart, Nightingale-Bamford, etc. Please don’t let your highly biased opinion interfere with facts.

Niche rankings: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're funny.
It's ranked 10 by niche based on niche methodology. Last year Trinity was top 5.
If you have to rely on niche to tell you which schools any good, you probably don't actually know anything.
All those NY schools you named have 2 to 3 times the rate of Ivy+ admission rate of Sidwell.
You're embarrassing yourself and your school.

Since the facts don’t support your baseless claims, y’all have just decided to lie! 🤣 Dalton, Trinity, etc may have more Ivy+ admits than Sidwell, but they also have much larger student bodies (and certain undergraduate colleges at Cornell are public, so NY residents get a tremendous admissions bump there). What they don’t have is 2x-3x the rate of Ivy+ admits than Sidwell. Percentage-wise, there’s probably a 5-8% difference.

Why don’t you actually crunch the numbers and respond with facts. The only person who should be embarrassed is you.

/sigh How do you keep getting these things wrong? It's all available on google.

Trinity has just over 100 every year and a bit smaller than Sidwell and getting a lot more ivy+ admissions than Sidwell.
Dalton has about 130 students in its graduating class.

You keep embarrassing yourself.
Just take the L and move on, nobody knows who you are so the only person that knows what a provincial country bumpkin you are is you.

🤣 you are really needing to snark babe. Trinity's matriculation is a bear to read so I gave up and resorted to the HPM monitor they are using in the other chat... they do a bit better, but not enough to get your panties in a bunch about especially when you consider Ivies are are lot more local to NYC than they are to DC.

And just to be clear, I don't love this measurement system either since there are tons of amazing schools in this country and if your kid is going to a top private in DC or NYC, they are going to have great doors opened up for them to choose to walk through.

Anyway enjoy your time in wallowing in the DC muck!

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-america

I don't even know which schools count anymore. It used to be easy way back when harvard and yale were all that counted before the rest of ivy+ became more relevant, then georgetown became important for a while, now vanderbilt seems to be having a day. I just hope when our AI overlords come, they appreciate the rigor at Trinity.

As far as the DC muck is concerned, the difference between Trinity and sidwell is much larger than the difference between sidwell and TJ. And TJ is a public school. A FREE public school. Sure they are selective but so is sidwell, allegedly. You can't trumpet and difference between sidwell and TJ without at least acknowledging a larger difference between sidwell and Trinity.

Yet Sidwell parents seem to be doing their darndest to prove they are better than a FREE public school.

Sidwell is superior to most schools in the U.S., including TJ (unless you’re destined to be a socially awkward STEM major at a school with word Technology in the name). Superior college matriculations, teachers, facilities, location, national name recognition, and student body. You will simply have to deal.

If you can go to Sidwell, you should go to Sidwell over TJ unless you are hyperspiked in STEM. If you have a superspike in STEM, TJ is very hard to beat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fekkin sour grapes on this page over private schools could drown a horse. First Potomac and now Sidwell?

NEITHER OF THESE SCHOOLS ARE THAT BIG A DEAL.

Stop obsessing over them, they won't get your kid into a college that they weren't already going to get into. They are extremely unlikely to set them up with connections that they wouldn't have gotten through other avenues. They are just pretty good private schools. The NYC private school parents are chuckling about Potomac and Big 3. Go to any top school and the population of kids from the Big 3 combined wouldn't rank top 10 as a feeder school.

You guys are just Ms. Butternut Squash... the prettiest girl in your backwater town. You're embarrassing yourselves and your schools.

Does lying make you feel better because you’re unable to send your children to Sidwell?

According to Niche, the nationally known Sidwell Friends School is ranked #10 in the UNITED STATES, among “Private K-12 Schools in America.” Sidwell is ranked ahead of elite NYC schools like Dalton, Trinity, Sacred Heart, Nightingale-Bamford, etc. Please don’t let your highly biased opinion interfere with facts.

Niche rankings: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're funny.
It's ranked 10 by niche based on niche methodology. Last year Trinity was top 5.
If you have to rely on niche to tell you which schools any good, you probably don't actually know anything.
All those NY schools you named have 2 to 3 times the rate of Ivy+ admission rate of Sidwell.
You're embarrassing yourself and your school.

Since the facts don’t support your baseless claims, y’all have just decided to lie! 🤣 Dalton, Trinity, etc may have more Ivy+ admits than Sidwell, but they also have much larger student bodies (and certain undergraduate colleges at Cornell are public, so NY residents get a tremendous admissions bump there). What they don’t have is 2x-3x the rate of Ivy+ admits than Sidwell. Percentage-wise, there’s probably a 5-8% difference.

Why don’t you actually crunch the numbers and respond with facts. The only person who should be embarrassed is you.

/sigh How do you keep getting these things wrong? It's all available on google.

Trinity has just over 100 every year and a bit smaller than Sidwell and getting a lot more ivy+ admissions than Sidwell.
Dalton has about 130 students in its graduating class.

You keep embarrassing yourself.
Just take the L and move on, nobody knows who you are so the only person that knows what a provincial country bumpkin you are is you.

🤣 you are really needing to snark babe. Trinity's matriculation is a bear to read so I gave up and resorted to the HPM monitor they are using in the other chat... they do a bit better, but not enough to get your panties in a bunch about especially when you consider Ivies are are lot more local to NYC than they are to DC.

And just to be clear, I don't love this measurement system either since there are tons of amazing schools in this country and if your kid is going to a top private in DC or NYC, they are going to have great doors opened up for them to choose to walk through.

Anyway enjoy your time in wallowing in the DC muck!

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-america

I don't even know which schools count anymore. It used to be easy way back when harvard and yale were all that counted before the rest of ivy+ became more relevant, then georgetown became important for a while, now vanderbilt seems to be having a day. I just hope when our AI overlords come, they appreciate the rigor at Trinity.

As far as the DC muck is concerned, the difference between Trinity and sidwell is much larger than the difference between sidwell and TJ. And TJ is a public school. A FREE public school. Sure they are selective but so is sidwell, allegedly. You can't trumpet and difference between sidwell and TJ without at least acknowledging a larger difference between sidwell and Trinity.

Yet Sidwell parents seem to be doing their darndest to prove they are better than a FREE public school.

Lol did you take a look at NYC because Trinity and Dalton got beaten out by several public schools 🤣 you are just as much the fool as we are babes 😉

We love Stuyvesant.
We applaud their hard work and success.
And while Stuyvesant nominally sends more kids to T20 than almost any other school its still less than 1/3 of their graduating class.
We wish them greater success in the future. Go solve fusion. Go make robots. Go fix global warming.

Trinity is much smaller and nominally send far fewer students to T20 but it sends more than half.
We have parents here that went to the Stuyvesant.
They have no interest in sending their kids to Stuyvesant.
If you have a choice, you send your kids to one of maybe a dozen private schools in NYC over Stuyvesant.

We love Stuyvesant and what it says about merit and social mobility but the competition is brutal and it doesn't really get you as much of a feeder effect as the better independent schools. And more importantly it doesn't really prepare you for college better than the top private schools outside of a very narrow range of STEM areas. If you can afford it, you can have high rigor without the trauma inducing competition and end up with better writing and speaking skills than you would get at any of the public schools.

Omg, amazingly, you could swap out the schools for DC ones and see the exact same argument made over here!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fekkin sour grapes on this page over private schools could drown a horse. First Potomac and now Sidwell?

NEITHER OF THESE SCHOOLS ARE THAT BIG A DEAL.

Stop obsessing over them, they won't get your kid into a college that they weren't already going to get into. They are extremely unlikely to set them up with connections that they wouldn't have gotten through other avenues. They are just pretty good private schools. The NYC private school parents are chuckling about Potomac and Big 3. Go to any top school and the population of kids from the Big 3 combined wouldn't rank top 10 as a feeder school.

You guys are just Ms. Butternut Squash... the prettiest girl in your backwater town. You're embarrassing yourselves and your schools.

Does lying make you feel better because you’re unable to send your children to Sidwell?

According to Niche, the nationally known Sidwell Friends School is ranked #10 in the UNITED STATES, among “Private K-12 Schools in America.” Sidwell is ranked ahead of elite NYC schools like Dalton, Trinity, Sacred Heart, Nightingale-Bamford, etc. Please don’t let your highly biased opinion interfere with facts.

Niche rankings: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're funny.
It's ranked 10 by niche based on niche methodology. Last year Trinity was top 5.
If you have to rely on niche to tell you which schools any good, you probably don't actually know anything.
All those NY schools you named have 2 to 3 times the rate of Ivy+ admission rate of Sidwell.
You're embarrassing yourself and your school.

Since the facts don’t support your baseless claims, y’all have just decided to lie! 🤣 Dalton, Trinity, etc may have more Ivy+ admits than Sidwell, but they also have much larger student bodies (and certain undergraduate colleges at Cornell are public, so NY residents get a tremendous admissions bump there). What they don’t have is 2x-3x the rate of Ivy+ admits than Sidwell. Percentage-wise, there’s probably a 5-8% difference.

Why don’t you actually crunch the numbers and respond with facts. The only person who should be embarrassed is you.

/sigh How do you keep getting these things wrong? It's all available on google.

Trinity has just over 100 every year and a bit smaller than Sidwell and getting a lot more ivy+ admissions than Sidwell.
Dalton has about 130 students in its graduating class.

You keep embarrassing yourself.
Just take the L and move on, nobody knows who you are so the only person that knows what a provincial country bumpkin you are is you.

🤣 you are really needing to snark babe. Trinity's matriculation is a bear to read so I gave up and resorted to the HPM monitor they are using in the other chat... they do a bit better, but not enough to get your panties in a bunch about especially when you consider Ivies are are lot more local to NYC than they are to DC.

And just to be clear, I don't love this measurement system either since there are tons of amazing schools in this country and if your kid is going to a top private in DC or NYC, they are going to have great doors opened up for them to choose to walk through.

Anyway enjoy your time in wallowing in the DC muck!

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-america

I don't even know which schools count anymore. It used to be easy way back when harvard and yale were all that counted before the rest of ivy+ became more relevant, then georgetown became important for a while, now vanderbilt seems to be having a day. I just hope when our AI overlords come, they appreciate the rigor at Trinity.

As far as the DC muck is concerned, the difference between Trinity and sidwell is much larger than the difference between sidwell and TJ. And TJ is a public school. A FREE public school. Sure they are selective but so is sidwell, allegedly. You can't trumpet and difference between sidwell and TJ without at least acknowledging a larger difference between sidwell and Trinity.

Yet Sidwell parents seem to be doing their darndest to prove they are better than a FREE public school.

Sidwell is superior to most schools in the U.S., including TJ (unless you’re destined to be a socially awkward STEM major at a school with word Technology in the name). Superior college matriculations, teachers, facilities, location, national name recognition, and student body. You will simply have to deal.

If you can go to Sidwell, you should go to Sidwell over TJ unless you are hyperspiked in STEM. If you have a superspike in STEM, TJ is very hard to beat.

I agree. If you are hardcore “STEM or bust” (and you must attend a top 10 tech school), then you should definitely pick TJ over Sidwell. Otherwise, nope.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fekkin sour grapes on this page over private schools could drown a horse. First Potomac and now Sidwell?

NEITHER OF THESE SCHOOLS ARE THAT BIG A DEAL.

Stop obsessing over them, they won't get your kid into a college that they weren't already going to get into. They are extremely unlikely to set them up with connections that they wouldn't have gotten through other avenues. They are just pretty good private schools. The NYC private school parents are chuckling about Potomac and Big 3. Go to any top school and the population of kids from the Big 3 combined wouldn't rank top 10 as a feeder school.

You guys are just Ms. Butternut Squash... the prettiest girl in your backwater town. You're embarrassing yourselves and your schools.

Does lying make you feel better because you’re unable to send your children to Sidwell?

According to Niche, the nationally known Sidwell Friends School is ranked #10 in the UNITED STATES, among “Private K-12 Schools in America.” Sidwell is ranked ahead of elite NYC schools like Dalton, Trinity, Sacred Heart, Nightingale-Bamford, etc. Please don’t let your highly biased opinion interfere with facts.

Niche rankings: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're funny.
It's ranked 10 by niche based on niche methodology. Last year Trinity was top 5.
If you have to rely on niche to tell you which schools any good, you probably don't actually know anything.
All those NY schools you named have 2 to 3 times the rate of Ivy+ admission rate of Sidwell.
You're embarrassing yourself and your school.

Since the facts don’t support your baseless claims, y’all have just decided to lie! 🤣 Dalton, Trinity, etc may have more Ivy+ admits than Sidwell, but they also have much larger student bodies (and certain undergraduate colleges at Cornell are public, so NY residents get a tremendous admissions bump there). What they don’t have is 2x-3x the rate of Ivy+ admits than Sidwell. Percentage-wise, there’s probably a 5-8% difference.

Why don’t you actually crunch the numbers and respond with facts. The only person who should be embarrassed is you.

/sigh How do you keep getting these things wrong? It's all available on google.

Trinity has just over 100 every year and a bit smaller than Sidwell and getting a lot more ivy+ admissions than Sidwell.
Dalton has about 130 students in its graduating class.

You keep embarrassing yourself.
Just take the L and move on, nobody knows who you are so the only person that knows what a provincial country bumpkin you are is you.

🤣 you are really needing to snark babe. Trinity's matriculation is a bear to read so I gave up and resorted to the HPM monitor they are using in the other chat... they do a bit better, but not enough to get your panties in a bunch about especially when you consider Ivies are are lot more local to NYC than they are to DC.

And just to be clear, I don't love this measurement system either since there are tons of amazing schools in this country and if your kid is going to a top private in DC or NYC, they are going to have great doors opened up for them to choose to walk through.

Anyway enjoy your time in wallowing in the DC muck!

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-america

I don't even know which schools count anymore. It used to be easy way back when harvard and yale were all that counted before the rest of ivy+ became more relevant, then georgetown became important for a while, now vanderbilt seems to be having a day. I just hope when our AI overlords come, they appreciate the rigor at Trinity.

As far as the DC muck is concerned, the difference between Trinity and sidwell is much larger than the difference between sidwell and TJ. And TJ is a public school. A FREE public school. Sure they are selective but so is sidwell, allegedly. You can't trumpet and difference between sidwell and TJ without at least acknowledging a larger difference between sidwell and Trinity.

Yet Sidwell parents seem to be doing their darndest to prove they are better than a FREE public school.

Lol did you take a look at NYC because Trinity and Dalton got beaten out by several public schools 🤣 you are just as much the fool as we are babes 😉

We love Stuyvesant.
We applaud their hard work and success.
And while Stuyvesant nominally sends more kids to T20 than almost any other school its still less than 1/3 of their graduating class.
We wish them greater success in the future. Go solve fusion. Go make robots. Go fix global warming.

Trinity is much smaller and nominally send far fewer students to T20 but it sends more than half.
We have parents here that went to the Stuyvesant.
They have no interest in sending their kids to Stuyvesant.
If you have a choice, you send your kids to one of maybe a dozen private schools in NYC over Stuyvesant.

We love Stuyvesant and what it says about merit and social mobility but the competition is brutal and it doesn't really get you as much of a feeder effect as the better independent schools. And more importantly it doesn't really prepare you for college better than the top private schools outside of a very narrow range of STEM areas. If you can afford it, you can have high rigor without the trauma inducing competition and end up with better writing and speaking skills than you would get at any of the public schools.

Omg, amazingly, you could swap out the schools for DC ones and see the exact same argument made over here!

I think both of you are neglecting to account for differences in preferences.
Nobody is turning up their nose at Yale, Brown or even Dartmouth but a lot of people from the TJs and Stuyvesants of the world are more eager to attend CMU, GA Tech, or UIUC.
Most private school kids don't have the same interest in STEM that the magnet school kids have.

Also NYC is not DC
Sidwell/NCS/STA/GDA doesn't have NYC affluence.
TJ doesn't have NYC poverty.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fekkin sour grapes on this page over private schools could drown a horse. First Potomac and now Sidwell?

NEITHER OF THESE SCHOOLS ARE THAT BIG A DEAL.

Stop obsessing over them, they won't get your kid into a college that they weren't already going to get into. They are extremely unlikely to set them up with connections that they wouldn't have gotten through other avenues. They are just pretty good private schools. The NYC private school parents are chuckling about Potomac and Big 3. Go to any top school and the population of kids from the Big 3 combined wouldn't rank top 10 as a feeder school.

You guys are just Ms. Butternut Squash... the prettiest girl in your backwater town. You're embarrassing yourselves and your schools.

Does lying make you feel better because you’re unable to send your children to Sidwell?

According to Niche, the nationally known Sidwell Friends School is ranked #10 in the UNITED STATES, among “Private K-12 Schools in America.” Sidwell is ranked ahead of elite NYC schools like Dalton, Trinity, Sacred Heart, Nightingale-Bamford, etc. Please don’t let your highly biased opinion interfere with facts.

Niche rankings: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're funny.
It's ranked 10 by niche based on niche methodology. Last year Trinity was top 5.
If you have to rely on niche to tell you which schools any good, you probably don't actually know anything.
All those NY schools you named have 2 to 3 times the rate of Ivy+ admission rate of Sidwell.
You're embarrassing yourself and your school.

Since the facts don’t support your baseless claims, y’all have just decided to lie! 🤣 Dalton, Trinity, etc may have more Ivy+ admits than Sidwell, but they also have much larger student bodies (and certain undergraduate colleges at Cornell are public, so NY residents get a tremendous admissions bump there). What they don’t have is 2x-3x the rate of Ivy+ admits than Sidwell. Percentage-wise, there’s probably a 5-8% difference.

Why don’t you actually crunch the numbers and respond with facts. The only person who should be embarrassed is you.

/sigh How do you keep getting these things wrong? It's all available on google.

Trinity has just over 100 every year and a bit smaller than Sidwell and getting a lot more ivy+ admissions than Sidwell.
Dalton has about 130 students in its graduating class.

You keep embarrassing yourself.
Just take the L and move on, nobody knows who you are so the only person that knows what a provincial country bumpkin you are is you.

🤣 you are really needing to snark babe. Trinity's matriculation is a bear to read so I gave up and resorted to the HPM monitor they are using in the other chat... they do a bit better, but not enough to get your panties in a bunch about especially when you consider Ivies are are lot more local to NYC than they are to DC.

And just to be clear, I don't love this measurement system either since there are tons of amazing schools in this country and if your kid is going to a top private in DC or NYC, they are going to have great doors opened up for them to choose to walk through.

Anyway enjoy your time in wallowing in the DC muck!

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-america

I don't even know which schools count anymore. It used to be easy way back when harvard and yale were all that counted before the rest of ivy+ became more relevant, then georgetown became important for a while, now vanderbilt seems to be having a day. I just hope when our AI overlords come, they appreciate the rigor at Trinity.

As far as the DC muck is concerned, the difference between Trinity and sidwell is much larger than the difference between sidwell and TJ. And TJ is a public school. A FREE public school. Sure they are selective but so is sidwell, allegedly. You can't trumpet and difference between sidwell and TJ without at least acknowledging a larger difference between sidwell and Trinity.

Yet Sidwell parents seem to be doing their darndest to prove they are better than a FREE public school.

Lol did you take a look at NYC because Trinity and Dalton got beaten out by several public schools 🤣 you are just as much the fool as we are babes 😉

We love Stuyvesant.
We applaud their hard work and success.
And while Stuyvesant nominally sends more kids to T20 than almost any other school its still less than 1/3 of their graduating class.
We wish them greater success in the future. Go solve fusion. Go make robots. Go fix global warming.

Trinity is much smaller and nominally send far fewer students to T20 but it sends more than half.
We have parents here that went to the Stuyvesant.
They have no interest in sending their kids to Stuyvesant.
If you have a choice, you send your kids to one of maybe a dozen private schools in NYC over Stuyvesant.

We love Stuyvesant and what it says about merit and social mobility but the competition is brutal and it doesn't really get you as much of a feeder effect as the better independent schools. And more importantly it doesn't really prepare you for college better than the top private schools outside of a very narrow range of STEM areas. If you can afford it, you can have high rigor without the trauma inducing competition and end up with better writing and speaking skills than you would get at any of the public schools.

Omg, amazingly, you could swap out the schools for DC ones and see the exact same argument made over here!

I think both of you are neglecting to account for differences in preferences.
Nobody is turning up their nose at Yale, Brown or even Dartmouth but a lot of people from the TJs and Stuyvesants of the world are more eager to attend CMU, GA Tech, or UIUC.
Most private school kids don't have the same interest in STEM that the magnet school kids have.

Also NYC is not DC
Sidwell/NCS/STA/GDA doesn't have NYC affluence.
TJ doesn't have NYC poverty.

What are you talking about that TJ doesn't have NYC poverty??? That made no sense especially when paired with a lack of affluences in the privates. Yes, there is more extreme wealth in NYC than there is in DC, but there isn't a significant difference in the amount of poverty. Further there is still some extreme wealth in DC that specifically sends its kids to private school.

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Sadwell No Friends!

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Anonymous wrote:Sadwell No Friends!

We’re on page 19 talking about a school’s nickname that was created by some haters.

As Beyonce said, you know you’re that b when you cause all this conversation.
Sidwell, you’re that b! 🤣

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Anonymous wrote:Sadwell No Friends!

We’re on page 19 talking about a school’s nickname that was created by some haters.

As Beyonce said, you know you’re that b when you cause all this conversation.
Sidwell, you’re that b! 🤣

Specially the parents.

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Anonymous wrote:The fekkin sour grapes on this page over private schools could drown a horse. First Potomac and now Sidwell?

NEITHER OF THESE SCHOOLS ARE THAT BIG A DEAL.

Stop obsessing over them, they won't get your kid into a college that they weren't already going to get into. They are extremely unlikely to set them up with connections that they wouldn't have gotten through other avenues. They are just pretty good private schools. The NYC private school parents are chuckling about Potomac and Big 3. Go to any top school and the population of kids from the Big 3 combined wouldn't rank top 10 as a feeder school.

You guys are just Ms. Butternut Squash... the prettiest girl in your backwater town. You're embarrassing yourselves and your schools.

Does lying make you feel better because you’re unable to send your children to Sidwell?

According to Niche, the nationally known Sidwell Friends School is ranked #10 in the UNITED STATES, among “Private K-12 Schools in America.” Sidwell is ranked ahead of elite NYC schools like Dalton, Trinity, Sacred Heart, Nightingale-Bamford, etc. Please don’t let your highly biased opinion interfere with facts.

Niche rankings: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/

You're funny.
It's ranked 10 by niche based on niche methodology. Last year Trinity was top 5.
If you have to rely on niche to tell you which schools any good, you probably don't actually know anything.
All those NY schools you named have 2 to 3 times the rate of Ivy+ admission rate of Sidwell.
You're embarrassing yourself and your school.

Since the facts don’t support your baseless claims, y’all have just decided to lie! 🤣 Dalton, Trinity, etc may have more Ivy+ admits than Sidwell, but they also have much larger student bodies (and certain undergraduate colleges at Cornell are public, so NY residents get a tremendous admissions bump there). What they don’t have is 2x-3x the rate of Ivy+ admits than Sidwell. Percentage-wise, there’s probably a 5-8% difference.

Why don’t you actually crunch the numbers and respond with facts. The only person who should be embarrassed is you.

/sigh How do you keep getting these things wrong? It's all available on google.

Trinity has just over 100 every year and a bit smaller than Sidwell and getting a lot more ivy+ admissions than Sidwell.
Dalton has about 130 students in its graduating class.

You keep embarrassing yourself.
Just take the L and move on, nobody knows who you are so the only person that knows what a provincial country bumpkin you are is you.

🤣 you are really needing to snark babe. Trinity's matriculation is a bear to read so I gave up and resorted to the HPM monitor they are using in the other chat... they do a bit better, but not enough to get your panties in a bunch about especially when you consider Ivies are are lot more local to NYC than they are to DC.

And just to be clear, I don't love this measurement system either since there are tons of amazing schools in this country and if your kid is going to a top private in DC or NYC, they are going to have great doors opened up for them to choose to walk through.

Anyway enjoy your time in wallowing in the DC muck!

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-america

I don't even know which schools count anymore. It used to be easy way back when harvard and yale were all that counted before the rest of ivy+ became more relevant, then georgetown became important for a while, now vanderbilt seems to be having a day. I just hope when our AI overlords come, they appreciate the rigor at Trinity.

As far as the DC muck is concerned, the difference between Trinity and sidwell is much larger than the difference between sidwell and TJ. And TJ is a public school. A FREE public school. Sure they are selective but so is sidwell, allegedly. You can't trumpet and difference between sidwell and TJ without at least acknowledging a larger difference between sidwell and Trinity.

Yet Sidwell parents seem to be doing their darndest to prove they are better than a FREE public school.

Lol did you take a look at NYC because Trinity and Dalton got beaten out by several public schools 🤣 you are just as much the fool as we are babes 😉

We love Stuyvesant.
We applaud their hard work and success.
And while Stuyvesant nominally sends more kids to T20 than almost any other school its still less than 1/3 of their graduating class.
We wish them greater success in the future. Go solve fusion. Go make robots. Go fix global warming.

Trinity is much smaller and nominally send far fewer students to T20 but it sends more than half.
We have parents here that went to the Stuyvesant.
They have no interest in sending their kids to Stuyvesant.
If you have a choice, you send your kids to one of maybe a dozen private schools in NYC over Stuyvesant.

We love Stuyvesant and what it says about merit and social mobility but the competition is brutal and it doesn't really get you as much of a feeder effect as the better independent schools. And more importantly it doesn't really prepare you for college better than the top private schools outside of a very narrow range of STEM areas. If you can afford it, you can have high rigor without the trauma inducing competition and end up with better writing and speaking skills than you would get at any of the public schools.

Omg, amazingly, you could swap out the schools for DC ones and see the exact same argument made over here!

I think both of you are neglecting to account for differences in preferences.
Nobody is turning up their nose at Yale, Brown or even Dartmouth but a lot of people from the TJs and Stuyvesants of the world are more eager to attend CMU, GA Tech, or UIUC.
Most private school kids don't have the same interest in STEM that the magnet school kids have.

Also NYC is not DC
Sidwell/NCS/STA/GDA doesn't have NYC affluence.
TJ doesn't have NYC poverty.

What are you talking about that TJ doesn't have NYC poverty??? That made no sense especially when paired with a lack of affluences in the privates. Yes, there is more extreme wealth in NYC than there is in DC, but there isn't a significant difference in the amount of poverty. Further there is still some extreme wealth in DC that specifically sends its kids to private school.

Something like 10% of TJ is on free/reduced school lunch.
Something like 50% of Stuyvesant is on free/reduced school lunch.
TJ doesn't have NYC poverty.

The median family income at Big 3 does not really compare to the median family incomes at top NYC privates.
Big 3 do not have NYC affluence.