Sidwell throttling down college admissions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You said "every other private HS." All private schools in the DC area are competing with every other private HS too, so singling out Sidwell in this context makes no sense.

Seriously? You're mincing my words to a ridiculous degree. My point is that Sidwell competes with Andover and Exeter for college admissions, a claim you and the others fighting with me have challenged. You're arguing Sidwell recognizes it's in a tier below Andover and Exeter and isn't trying to compete with them; I seriously doubt that's the case.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please explain to us clueless ones your brilliant logical leap from "Sidwell is trying to compete with every other private HS" to "Sidwell bills/touts itself as the best of the best."

What about those two statements seem contradictory to you?

Harvard competes with Princeton and Yale, and bills itself as the best. You can consider yourself to have competition with peer institutions. These are not inconsistent statements.

Yes, but you're picking 3 colleges (HYP) that are traditionally considered at or very near the top 3 in the country. Here's a better comparison: MIT competes with HYP; but MIT does not itself as the best of the best. (In case you have trouble following, Sidwell is MIT in that particular analogy.)

Look, you just seem to be trying to create some weirdly immature and competitive contest. I send my kids to a top school in DC. For me and my family, that school is better than either Andover or Exeter for several reasons: (1) they're getting great educations, (2) I get to have my kids at home, and (3) many of the Andover/Exeter kids I met in college were immature assholes. YMMV! If you think Andover & Exeter are better, then you should send your kids there. We made the best choice for our family; you stick to your lane.

Yeah, I followed your stupid analogy, which makes no sense because MIT absolutely considers itself the best of the best.

Also, how many Andover and Exeter grads did you even meet in college?

[Anonymous]

More like, I doubt Sidwell cares or ever thinks about where it sits in some hypothetical ranking versus Andover and Exeter. My guess is that it cares way more about where it stands relative to GDS and STA/NCS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More like, I doubt Sidwell cares or ever thinks about where it sits in some hypothetical ranking versus Andover and Exeter. My guess is that it cares way more about where it stands relative to GDS and STA/NCS.

You keep telling yourself that. Obviously Sidwell's primary competitors are area schools, but they are absolutely competing against Andover and Exeter.

Also, it's not a hypothetical ranking. It's literally every ranking of private high schools you can find. Andover and Exeter are higher on every single one.

[Anonymous]

Except that national rankings of private high schools don't mean anything, as if anyone normal made decisions about where to send their kids for HS looking beyond the metropolitan area where they live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except that national rankings of private high schools don't mean anything, as if anyone normal made decisions about where to send their kids for HS looking beyond the metropolitan area where they live.

So you're calling literally everyone who sends their kid to boarding school abnormal. Really nice.

[Anonymous]

Considering 0.5 percent of students in this country attend boarding schools, it's fair to say that's out of the norm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Considering 0.5 percent of students in this country attend boarding schools, it's fair to say that's out of the norm.

And roughly 10% go to private school, so by your logic, private school parents are abnormal too.

[Anonymous]

Depends on whether you assume that "abnormal" has a negative connotation.

Would you not call geniuses or world-class athletes abnormal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You said "every other private HS." All private schools in the DC area are competing with every other private HS too, so singling out Sidwell in this context makes no sense.

Seriously? You're mincing my words to a ridiculous degree. My point is that Sidwell competes with Andover and Exeter for college admissions, a claim you and the others fighting with me have challenged. You're arguing Sidwell recognizes it's in a tier below Andover and Exeter and isn't trying to compete with them; I seriously doubt that's the case.

You're not very bright, are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You said "every other private HS." All private schools in the DC area are competing with every other private HS too, so singling out Sidwell in this context makes no sense.

Seriously? You're mincing my words to a ridiculous degree. My point is that Sidwell competes with Andover and Exeter for college admissions, a claim you and the others fighting with me have challenged. You're arguing Sidwell recognizes it's in a tier below Andover and Exeter and isn't trying to compete with them; I seriously doubt that's the case.

You're not very bright, are you?

Can you substantiate your claim, or are you just throwing insults out at me without evidence?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Considering 0.5 percent of students in this country attend boarding schools, it's fair to say that's out of the norm.

And roughly 10% go to private school, so by your logic, private school parents are abnormal too.

Yes they are. The vast majority of our country are not private school parents.This should not surprise you. If you are a private school family in this country you are not the norm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You keep telling yourself that. Obviously Sidwell's primary competitors are area schools, but they are absolutely competing against Andover and Exeter.

Also, it's not a hypothetical ranking. It's literally every ranking of private high schools you can find. Andover and Exeter are higher on every single one.

I'm thinking this Andover/Exeter poster is a frustrated parent whose son was rejected from Sidwell but was admitted to Andover/Exeter, and so she now is hell-bent on grinding her axe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on whether you assume that "abnormal" has a negative connotation.

Would you not call geniuses or world-class athletes abnormal?

Well, clearly your previous comment was meant to imply something qualitative about people who look beyond their immediate metro area for HS. Now you're trying to backtrack by claiming you were using the word "normal" to denote typical behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You keep telling yourself that. Obviously Sidwell's primary competitors are area schools, but they are absolutely competing against Andover and Exeter.

Also, it's not a hypothetical ranking. It's literally every ranking of private high schools you can find. Andover and Exeter are higher on every single one.

I'm thinking this Andover/Exeter poster is a frustrated parent whose son was rejected from Sidwell but was admitted to Andover/Exeter, and so she now is hell-bent on grinding her axe.

1. I have a daughter, not a son, but way to be sexist. You couldn't have said "kid"?

2. My daughter has not applied to Sidwell, Andover, or Exeter.