OK, so fine, NAME your top 3

[jsteele]

FYI, your thread is being sock puppetted by a supporter of the Cathedral School and GDS.

[Anonymous]

Elementary

Norwood
Beauvoir
British School

High School

Holton Arms
T. Jefferson
Sidwell

[Anonymous]

A-ha. I was wondering why the results were all the same.

Shame on you, Cathedral School / GDS parent. Are you that insecure? Couldn't you bear to hear others' genuine opinions? I had hoped to learn what people really thought.

[Anonymous]

not all of the posts listing a cathedral school were from that parent.

[Anonymous]

Jeff, if we started this thread completely over under a new heading, would you monitor to make sure that no one votes twice? Or are we all tired of this by now?

[Anonymous]

Elementary

Sidwell
Sheridan
GDS

High School

Sidwell
GDS
Maret

Boys Sports

St Albans
Landon
Georgetown Prep

Girls Sports

Holton
NCS
Sidwell

(Within each grouping, there is no order)

[Anonymous]

Elementary
Beauvoir
NPS
Norwood

High School
Sidwell
STA
Holton

[Anonymous]

Elementary:
St. Patrick's
Beauvoir

Highschool:
NCS/STA
Holton/Landon

[Anonymous]

Elementary: Maret
GDS
Cap City

Middle/High: Landon
St. Anselm's
St. Albans

(I have boys)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four of the 10 raters so far don't actually appear to understand the field.

Because it's hard to understand. Sorry to be dense, but I don't think the answers mean much unless we're all answering the same question.


Could you clarify:

(1) Your top three that your kid is applying to this year/has applied to in the past

or

(2) The top three schools overall in the area, after taking into account all possible measures, such as difficulty of entrance, academics, facilities, atmosphere, values and all those other intangibles

or

(3) The top three in terms of being hard to get into

or

(4 to infinity) The top three for academics, or for exmissions, or for sports teams, or for elementary, or for middle/high school, or for whatever else I want to define it to be.

or (5) the top three in terms of prestige.

[Anonymous]

Maret
Norwood
Beauvoir

RAG on upper schools 'cause we haven't looked:
NCS
Maret
Player to be named later

[Anonymous]

Cathedral Schools
GDS
Sidwell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:beauvoir
st albans
ncs

I'm not so sure on what you all are basing your top three schools on--- I have no personal bias here--- (My two sons are seven and 9 and are both enrolled in our local public elementary school)--- Recent high school poles (as of mid-September are showing that Georgetown Preparatory School is by far the most academically challenging and prestigious high school in in the entire Washington, D.C. area. In College Board's most recent release this September, Georgetown Prep holds the number one spot over St. Albans AND Landon. College Board's explanation: (Directly from the article) """Founded with Georgetown University in 1789, Georgetown Preparatory School consistently ranks among the Top 10 college preparatories in the U.S. Georgetown Prep SAT and college admission rates have always dominated the charts- most especially over the last three decades. The average SAT score of a Prep graduate is just under 2250 (out of 2400). These averages consistently rank among the highest in the nation. These scores translate in the range of 1400-1425 under the old SAT scoring system. The more popular colleges and universities of Prep's Class of 2008 include include Georgetown, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Virginia, Princeton, Duke, Notre Dame, MIT, and Columbia."""
Like I said earlier I'm just not so sure why some people consider St. Albans and Landon in the running with Prep but clearly Georgetown Prep is on a completely different level than its competition.

[Anonymous]

This is entirely absurd. Top three schools for what? The Lab School is one of the special ed schools in the country, we are incredibly fortunate to have it here in DC, yet it doesn't make the list of course. I have a child at a Cathedral school and another at McLean and the Cathedral school is fine but McLean is absolutely fantastic. For the child it serves, nobody does it better.

[Anonymous]

St Patrick's
Sidwell
Maret