Big 3 Schools and Celebrities

[Anonymous]

It is always amazing how Big 3 schools can always find room for the children of celebrities. Why are these schools so interested in having these celebrity families?

[Anonymous]

Yo, don't be trolling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yo, don't be trolling

This.

I'll also add, we are at a big three and I have zero issue with making room for special circumstances. Its not the child's fault their parents are in the limelight or "important" and they need to be in a safe shielded environment, so they focus on school.

[Anonymous]

I agree. For example, Sidwell was able to offer more of a cocoon for the Obama girls than most public schools could offer.

[Anonymous]

Celebrity kids can definitely help raise the profile of a school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Celebrity kids can definitely help raise the profile of a school.

Applications go up when celebrity children attend.

[Anonymous]

Maybe Donald Trump can have some more kids when he becomes president and send them to private school. I'm not sure he would choose Sidwell though ??

[Anonymous]

LOL. Probably not GDS either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL. Probably not GDS either.

Nor Maret.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Donald Trump can have some more kids when he becomes president and send them to private school. I'm not sure he would choose Sidwell though ??

probably not.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps he would choose a Virginia school so he could keep an eye on his vineyard.

[Anonymous]

Celebrities live in New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, not here.

Really, except for the "Major" political offices and appointments -- President, or Vice President, Supreme Court Justices, or Senators -- no one here truly possesses sufficient "celebrity" status to make a whit of difference in admissions.

With most of the parents you must consider "celebrities" at your school (note to you, that journalist or deputy such-and-such, isn't a celebrity by any other city's measure), their very limited and inconsequential "influence" and "pull" is not worth an admissions office bending backwards to admit an unqualified candidate -- so their child is certainly their on their merit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Celebrities live in New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, not here.

Really, except for the "Major" political offices and appointments -- President, or Vice President, Supreme Court Justices, or Senators -- no one here truly possesses sufficient "celebrity" status to make a whit of difference in admissions.

With most of the parents you must consider "celebrities" at your school (note to you, that journalist or deputy such-and-such, isn't a celebrity by any other city's measure), their very limited and inconsequential "influence" and "pull" is not worth an admissions office bending backwards to admit an unqualified candidate -- so their child is certainly their on their merit.

Sports figures / coaches are definitely celebrities, at least while the teams are winning. And some do live in area year round.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Celebrities live in New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, not here.

Really, except for the "Major" political offices and appointments -- President, or Vice President, Supreme Court Justices, or Senators -- no one here truly possesses sufficient "celebrity" status to make a whit of difference in admissions.

With most of the parents you must consider "celebrities" at your school (note to you, that journalist or deputy such-and-such, isn't a celebrity by any other city's measure), their very limited and inconsequential "influence" and "pull" is not worth an admissions office bending backwards to admit an unqualified candidate -- so their child is certainly their on their merit.

+1

OP, please tell me that you do not consider the child of some random, unheard of cabinet secretary or senator to be a "celebrity." Truly, you need to get out of Washington more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Celebrities live in New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, not here.

Really, except for the "Major" political offices and appointments -- President, or Vice President, Supreme Court Justices, or Senators -- no one here truly possesses sufficient "celebrity" status to make a whit of difference in admissions.

With most of the parents you must consider "celebrities" at your school (note to you, that journalist or deputy such-and-such, isn't a celebrity by any other city's measure), their very limited and inconsequential "influence" and "pull" is not worth an admissions office bending backwards to admit an unqualified candidate -- so their child is certainly their on their merit.

The bolded is flat-out wrong. Did you recently arrive in DC, perhaps from NYC, I'm guessing? You have that immediate "this backwater town sucks, compared to Real Cities" vibe going on.

Schools like St. Albans, Sidwell, Holton and GDS have so many 'Washington famous' progeny precisely because of their parents' Face the Nation, CNN or Rep. Georgia Texas (R) status. Their apps go in a separate pile of qualified applicants, which is a much smaller pile (with better odds) than the pile of general population of qualified applicants.

[I do agree with PP that a "celebrity" in the Merriam Webster sense is someone like Jennifer Garner, and she and her kids live in LA, not DC. The US Attorney General or Secretary of State, or Chuck Todd is not the same as Kanye West; thanks, Capt. Obvious!]