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Anonymous
| Why so little coverage on DCUM? Seems like a nurturing school. We were happy with what we saw on the visit. Given it's location, I would imagine it's populated by some pretty well off and successful parents. So why so little chatter? |
Anonymous
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first, let me say I like Sheridan. my thoughts on your question:
- ends in 8th grade, not 12 - doesn't have the 90 yr history like a few schools - it's a different kind of well-off/successful parent; hard to describe |
Anonymous
| Sheesh! It's been around since 1927 or 81 years. How long has your school been around? |
Anonymous
Yeah but has it been rejecting the best and the brightest for 81 years? If not, people on these boards aren't interested. |
Anonymous
21:40 clearly you do not get it so go ahead and apply to DCUM posters' top 3. Sheridan neither needs nor wants y-o-u. 
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Anonymous
LOL. |
Anonymous
That was a stab at the kooks on these boards who just don't get it. The more students these schools turn down for admission, the more these people want their kids to get in. I just don't get it. Grandma always said "Do you want to go to a __________ where they don't want you?" But yet these parents keep applying over and over again??? |
Anonymous
| Sheridan is a wonderful school, beloved by many, but not for everyone. There is only one class per grade and there are often a lot of kids in that class, sometimes far more kids per class than the other privates, or public school for that matter. There is simply no room to expand and add an additional classroom if they end up with too many kids as happens every once in a while at all schools. |
Anonymous
Can you take a stab at a description? The fit between the school we choose and our child and family is the most important criterion for me, or certainly one of the most important criteria. I'm interested in what I know of Sheridan. Anything you can add would be really helpful. |
Anonymous
Okay, here's my slightly snarky, but intended to be responsive theory - many of the parents did not choose Sheridan as a first choice. But when Beauvoir/GDS said no (or more precisely, wait list), it was a humbling experience for many of these otherwise successful parents. That experience taught them that you cannot always get what you want, that their inability to land a spot at the top 2 or 3 had nothing to do with them or DC, and that in the end, Sheridan, a family of similarly humbled parents turned out to be the best spot for DC and the family. They started out by trying to make the best of a disappointing situation, and in the end realized I nuts they were in the first place by all the private school hysteria, and after they relaxed a bit, they fell in love, deservedly so, with Sheridan. |
Anonymous
Thanks. I feel weird when I read DCUM sometimes, because I'm not interested in applying to Beauvoir or Sidwell or even GDS for our child. Many other schools offer a great education and status isn't important to me in choosing a school. Down-to-earth families are important, though. |
Anonymous
That's how I feel too. I can stretch and make the tuition at the more expensive schools, but even assuming my child could get it, I'm not sure if our family as a whole would be a fit with them. I just "feel" solidly (albeit geeky) middle class. However, I'm just starting looking at private schools. We'll see what (if any) is a good fit for my son and his strengths. |
Anonymous
| What are exmissions like at Sheridan? |