When parents are only applying to Maret, GDS and Sidwell...

[Anonymous]

Not sure where those admit percentages come from but I’m sure it’s off for GDS. They probably have the lowest now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure where those admit percentages come from but I’m sure it’s off for GDS. They probably have the lowest now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
GDS is the “easiest” to get into out of the three … but arguably, it has the most impressive alumni list. It would be easy to feel like a loser at any of these schools though …



Sidwell (7% admit rate)
"Sidwell Friends School alumni"

A
• Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
• Alida Anderson
• Damali ayo
B
• William Bayer
• Jon Bernthal
• Tom Bernthal
• David G. Bradley
C
• Setsuko, Princess Chichibu
• Sonya Clark
• Chelsea Clinton
• Tricia Nixon Cox
D
• John Dickerson (journalist)
• Giselle Donnelly
E
• Margaret Edson
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower
F
• Dan Froomkin
G
• Doug Gansler
• Ana Gasteyer
• Olivia Gentile
• Charles Gibson
• Walter Gilbert
• Anand Giridharadas
• Daniel S. Goldman
• Hanna Holborn Gray
H
• Michael Heller (law professor)
• Tony Horwitz
K
• John Katzenbach
• Philip S. Khoury
L
• Mark Lesko
• Charles Lindbergh
M
• Ellen McLaughlin
• Tracye McQuirter
• Nana Meriwether
N
• Bill Nye
O
• Malia Obama
• Sasha Obama
• Eliza Orlins
R
• Archibald Roosevelt
S
• Omar Soliman
• Steven D. Stark
• Lorin Stein
T
• Katherine Tai
• Merle Thorpe Jr.
• Walter Nathan Tobriner
V
• Gore Vidal
W
• Vanessa Wruble



Maret (10-16% admit rate)
Notable alumni

• Peter Matthew Bauer: Musician
• Sean Davis: Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Luka Garza: Professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons
• Sonja Lyubomirsky: Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The How of Happiness
• J. Lorand Matory: Anthropology Professor at Duke University
• Christof Putzel: Journalist
• Theodore Shapiro: American composer best known for film scores, including State and Main, 13 Going on 30, Along Came Polly, The Devil Wears Prada, Fun with Dick and Jane, etc.[4]
• Yeardley Smith: Actress best known for voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons
• Josh Stamberg: Actor
• Rosalind Wiseman: Author of New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, released in 2002, was the basis of the 2004 film Mean Girls.[11]


GDS (16%)
Notable alumni
• Elliot Ackerman, decorated veteran and author
• James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong
• Kelly AuCoin, actor
• Schuyler Bailar, first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer[10]
• Jake Blount, musician, scholar and activist.
• Sean Fine, documentary filmmaker, best known for the Academy Award-nominated War/Dance
• Ruben Fleischer, film director
• Franklin Foer, The New Republic editor
• Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and professor of creative writing at New York University
• Joshua Foer, freelance journalist and author of Moonwalking with Einstein
• Gina Gionfriddo, playwright and television writer. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
• Jonathan Glickman, film producer and studio executive.[16]
• Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer prize winning American author
• Matt Jackson, holder of the 5th longest winning streak on Jeopardy
• Judy Kuhn, Tony-nominated theatre actress, known for her originating roles in Les Misérables, Chess, and Fun Home, as well as being the singing voice for Pocahontas in the Disney film Pocahontas
• Ben Mankiewicz, host of Turner Classic Movies producer and actor
• Thurgood Marshall Jr., partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, chairman of the Board of the Governors USPS, Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet at Clinton Administration
• Judith Martin, journalist, author, and etiquette authority
• Sam Means, comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[24] 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation; producer on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Guy Picciotto, singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist in Fugazi and Rites of Spring
• Members of Gray Matter (band).
• Alice Randall, American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
• Jamie Raskin, elected to House of Representatives from Maryland
• David Reich, geneticist and professor in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute, whose research studies compare the human genome with those of chimpanzees, Neanderthals and Denisovans
• Noah Robbins, American actor
• Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States
• Kevin Sheekey, political operative
• Ethan Slater, actor, singer, writer, and composer, best known for his Tony nominated role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical SpongeBob SquarePants
• Sarah Stillman, journalist and winner of the 2012 George Polk Award, the 2012 Hillman Prize, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author and activist
• Olivia Wilde, film and television actress, starred in House
• Sophia Yilma, journalist and politician

All this means is that someone from GDS likes to update and has a shaky sense of "notable."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GDS is the “easiest” to get into out of the three … but arguably, it has the most impressive alumni list. It would be easy to feel like a loser at any of these schools though …



Sidwell (7% admit rate)
"Sidwell Friends School alumni"

A
• Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
• Alida Anderson
• Damali ayo
B
• William Bayer
• Jon Bernthal
• Tom Bernthal
• David G. Bradley
C
• Setsuko, Princess Chichibu
• Sonya Clark
• Chelsea Clinton
• Tricia Nixon Cox
D
• John Dickerson (journalist)
• Giselle Donnelly
E
• Margaret Edson
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower
F
• Dan Froomkin
G
• Doug Gansler
• Ana Gasteyer
• Olivia Gentile
• Charles Gibson
• Walter Gilbert
• Anand Giridharadas
• Daniel S. Goldman
• Hanna Holborn Gray
H
• Michael Heller (law professor)
• Tony Horwitz
K
• John Katzenbach
• Philip S. Khoury
L
• Mark Lesko
• Charles Lindbergh
M
• Ellen McLaughlin
• Tracye McQuirter
• Nana Meriwether
N
• Bill Nye
O
• Malia Obama
• Sasha Obama
• Eliza Orlins
R
• Archibald Roosevelt
S
• Omar Soliman
• Steven D. Stark
• Lorin Stein
T
• Katherine Tai
• Merle Thorpe Jr.
• Walter Nathan Tobriner
V
• Gore Vidal
W
• Vanessa Wruble



Maret (10-16% admit rate)
Notable alumni

• Peter Matthew Bauer: Musician
• Sean Davis: Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Luka Garza: Professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons
• Sonja Lyubomirsky: Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The How of Happiness
• J. Lorand Matory: Anthropology Professor at Duke University
• Christof Putzel: Journalist
• Theodore Shapiro: American composer best known for film scores, including State and Main, 13 Going on 30, Along Came Polly, The Devil Wears Prada, Fun with Dick and Jane, etc.[4]
• Yeardley Smith: Actress best known for voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons
• Josh Stamberg: Actor
• Rosalind Wiseman: Author of New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, released in 2002, was the basis of the 2004 film Mean Girls.[11]


GDS (16%)
Notable alumni
• Elliot Ackerman, decorated veteran and author
• James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong
• Kelly AuCoin, actor
• Schuyler Bailar, first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer[10]
• Jake Blount, musician, scholar and activist.
• Sean Fine, documentary filmmaker, best known for the Academy Award-nominated War/Dance
• Ruben Fleischer, film director
• Franklin Foer, The New Republic editor
• Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and professor of creative writing at New York University
• Joshua Foer, freelance journalist and author of Moonwalking with Einstein
• Gina Gionfriddo, playwright and television writer. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
• Jonathan Glickman, film producer and studio executive.[16]
• Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer prize winning American author
• Matt Jackson, holder of the 5th longest winning streak on Jeopardy
• Judy Kuhn, Tony-nominated theatre actress, known for her originating roles in Les Misérables, Chess, and Fun Home, as well as being the singing voice for Pocahontas in the Disney film Pocahontas
• Ben Mankiewicz, host of Turner Classic Movies producer and actor
• Thurgood Marshall Jr., partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, chairman of the Board of the Governors USPS, Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet at Clinton Administration
• Judith Martin, journalist, author, and etiquette authority
• Sam Means, comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[24] 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation; producer on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Guy Picciotto, singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist in Fugazi and Rites of Spring
• Members of Gray Matter (band).
• Alice Randall, American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
• Jamie Raskin, elected to House of Representatives from Maryland
• David Reich, geneticist and professor in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute, whose research studies compare the human genome with those of chimpanzees, Neanderthals and Denisovans
• Noah Robbins, American actor
• Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States
• Kevin Sheekey, political operative
• Ethan Slater, actor, singer, writer, and composer, best known for his Tony nominated role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical SpongeBob SquarePants
• Sarah Stillman, journalist and winner of the 2012 George Polk Award, the 2012 Hillman Prize, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author and activist
• Olivia Wilde, film and television actress, starred in House
• Sophia Yilma, journalist and politician

All this means is that someone from GDS likes to update and has a shaky sense of "notable."

I recognized way more people from GDS list than Maret’s except for the voice of Lisa from the Simpsons

Probably would recognize more famous parents from all of them …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Maybe more like lack of imagination/ intellectual laziness Coupled with rigid ideas of what high quality education looks like.

There are so many good options in this area and there is no guarantee that all bright, wealthy (or poorer) students will be happy or thrive at schools with the highest snob value.

Enjoy St Pat's

Ha ha … never set foot there but we probably would have considered it after hearing good things from friends.

Enjoy your overrated pressure cookers where heavy homework load is mistaken for intellectual rigor. Maret sounds less Crazy but our kids’ excellent schools attract many burned out refugees from other top 5 schools.

The point is at some stage in the value-proposition game, you go public.

In the words of my neighbor, if you can't go to a top 3 school, might as well go public. Lesser privates have a disproportionate number of kids who couldn't function well in a public school classroom for a variety of reasons.

People who say things like this and who believe in the words "lesser privates" are the social climbers. Buying into the "big 3" nonsense is telling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regular UMC people aren't going to pay $$$ for an education/school experience if they can get a comparable one at public school for free. So they only apply to privates that they think offer some real advantage over the good publics in the area. That might just be those 3

Paying $100k for a middling private is only worth it if you have a kid that needs more individualized attention or wants to play a specific sport or something like that (unless you are so rich that it's not a stretch)[/quote

So if the price tag isn't $50K per year the education is "middling"? lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
GDS is the “easiest” to get into out of the three … but arguably, it has the most impressive alumni list. It would be easy to feel like a loser at any of these schools though …



Sidwell (7% admit rate)
"Sidwell Friends School alumni"

A
• Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
• Alida Anderson
• Damali ayo
B
• William Bayer
• Jon Bernthal
• Tom Bernthal
• David G. Bradley
C
• Setsuko, Princess Chichibu
• Sonya Clark
• Chelsea Clinton
• Tricia Nixon Cox
D
• John Dickerson (journalist)
• Giselle Donnelly
E
• Margaret Edson
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower
F
• Dan Froomkin
G
• Doug Gansler
• Ana Gasteyer
• Olivia Gentile
• Charles Gibson
• Walter Gilbert
• Anand Giridharadas
• Daniel S. Goldman
• Hanna Holborn Gray
H
• Michael Heller (law professor)
• Tony Horwitz
K
• John Katzenbach
• Philip S. Khoury
L
• Mark Lesko
• Charles Lindbergh
M
• Ellen McLaughlin
• Tracye McQuirter
• Nana Meriwether
N
• Bill Nye
O
• Malia Obama
• Sasha Obama
• Eliza Orlins
R
• Archibald Roosevelt
S
• Omar Soliman
• Steven D. Stark
• Lorin Stein
T
• Katherine Tai
• Merle Thorpe Jr.
• Walter Nathan Tobriner
V
• Gore Vidal
W
• Vanessa Wruble



Maret (10-16% admit rate)
Notable alumni

• Peter Matthew Bauer: Musician
• Sean Davis: Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Luka Garza: Professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons
• Sonja Lyubomirsky: Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The How of Happiness
• J. Lorand Matory: Anthropology Professor at Duke University
• Christof Putzel: Journalist
• Theodore Shapiro: American composer best known for film scores, including State and Main, 13 Going on 30, Along Came Polly, The Devil Wears Prada, Fun with Dick and Jane, etc.[4]
• Yeardley Smith: Actress best known for voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons
• Josh Stamberg: Actor
• Rosalind Wiseman: Author of New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, released in 2002, was the basis of the 2004 film Mean Girls.[11]


GDS (16%)
Notable alumni
• Elliot Ackerman, decorated veteran and author
• James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong
• Kelly AuCoin, actor
• Schuyler Bailar, first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer[10]
• Jake Blount, musician, scholar and activist.
• Sean Fine, documentary filmmaker, best known for the Academy Award-nominated War/Dance
• Ruben Fleischer, film director
• Franklin Foer, The New Republic editor
• Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and professor of creative writing at New York University
• Joshua Foer, freelance journalist and author of Moonwalking with Einstein
• Gina Gionfriddo, playwright and television writer. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
• Jonathan Glickman, film producer and studio executive.[16]
• Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer prize winning American author
• Matt Jackson, holder of the 5th longest winning streak on Jeopardy
• Judy Kuhn, Tony-nominated theatre actress, known for her originating roles in Les Misérables, Chess, and Fun Home, as well as being the singing voice for Pocahontas in the Disney film Pocahontas
• Ben Mankiewicz, host of Turner Classic Movies producer and actor
• Thurgood Marshall Jr., partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, chairman of the Board of the Governors USPS, Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet at Clinton Administration
• Judith Martin, journalist, author, and etiquette authority
• Sam Means, comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[24] 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation; producer on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Guy Picciotto, singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist in Fugazi and Rites of Spring
• Members of Gray Matter (band).
• Alice Randall, American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
• Jamie Raskin, elected to House of Representatives from Maryland
• David Reich, geneticist and professor in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute, whose research studies compare the human genome with those of chimpanzees, Neanderthals and Denisovans
• Noah Robbins, American actor
• Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States
• Kevin Sheekey, political operative
• Ethan Slater, actor, singer, writer, and composer, best known for his Tony nominated role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical SpongeBob SquarePants
• Sarah Stillman, journalist and winner of the 2012 George Polk Award, the 2012 Hillman Prize, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author and activist
• Olivia Wilde, film and television actress, starred in House
• Sophia Yilma, journalist and politician

This post is scary. This is the kind of thinking that makes sane parents run from private schools.

[Anonymous]

Maybe a troll - but I'd pay for other two but would not pay for Maret. Value just isn't there - YMMV.

GDS is unarguably now clear #2 in area (<10% admit) followed by STA/NCS safe at #3.

Sidwell "7%" admit rate is massive overestimate. Take away admissions for children of alumni and politicians, siblings and quakers and it is probably more like a 1% chance for well-qualified but "unhooked" applicants if that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe a troll - but I'd pay for other two but would not pay for Maret. Value just isn't there - YMMV.

GDS is unarguably now clear #2 in area (<10% admit) followed by STA/NCS safe at #3.

Sidwell "7%" admit rate is massive overestimate. Take away admissions for children of alumni and politicians, siblings and quakers and it is probably more like a 1% chance for well-qualified but "unhooked" applicants if that.

Again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe a troll - but I'd pay for other two but would not pay for Maret. Value just isn't there - YMMV.

GDS is unarguably now clear #2 in area (<10% admit) followed by STA/NCS safe at #3.

Sidwell "7%" admit rate is massive overestimate. Take away admissions for children of alumni and politicians, siblings and quakers and it is probably more like a 1% chance for well-qualified but "unhooked" applicants if that.

STA is actually the hardest admit in the DMV. They also had a 100% yield this year for 9th (not sure about the other grades). Almost all successful applicants (after 4th grade) are "hooked".
Sidwell is a bit easier.
NCS is much easier than STA.
GDS is traditionally easier than the others but this year was really difficult too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe a troll - but I'd pay for other two but would not pay for Maret. Value just isn't there - YMMV.

GDS is unarguably now clear #2 in area (<10% admit) followed by STA/NCS safe at #3.

Sidwell "7%" admit rate is massive overestimate. Take away admissions for children of alumni and politicians, siblings and quakers and it is probably more like a 1% chance for well-qualified but "unhooked" applicants if that.

STA is actually the hardest admit in the DMV. They also had a 100% yield this year for 9th (not sure about the other grades). Almost all successful applicants (after 4th grade) are "hooked".
Sidwell is a bit easier.
NCS is much easier than STA.
GDS is traditionally easier than the others but this year was really difficult too.

Can't verify these claims. Sure it bounces around year to year though.
I think the point was OP tried to shoe-horn Maret into this group .... and is being called out on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GDS is the “easiest” to get into out of the three … but arguably, it has the most impressive alumni list. It would be easy to feel like a loser at any of these schools though …



Sidwell (7% admit rate)
"Sidwell Friends School alumni"

A
• Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
• Alida Anderson
• Damali ayo
B
• William Bayer
• Jon Bernthal
• Tom Bernthal
• David G. Bradley
C
• Setsuko, Princess Chichibu
• Sonya Clark
• Chelsea Clinton
• Tricia Nixon Cox
D
• John Dickerson (journalist)
• Giselle Donnelly
E
• Margaret Edson
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower
F
• Dan Froomkin
G
• Doug Gansler
• Ana Gasteyer
• Olivia Gentile
• Charles Gibson
• Walter Gilbert
• Anand Giridharadas
• Daniel S. Goldman
• Hanna Holborn Gray
H
• Michael Heller (law professor)
• Tony Horwitz
K
• John Katzenbach
• Philip S. Khoury
L
• Mark Lesko
• Charles Lindbergh
M
• Ellen McLaughlin
• Tracye McQuirter
• Nana Meriwether
N
• Bill Nye
O
• Malia Obama
• Sasha Obama
• Eliza Orlins
R
• Archibald Roosevelt
S
• Omar Soliman
• Steven D. Stark
• Lorin Stein
T
• Katherine Tai
• Merle Thorpe Jr.
• Walter Nathan Tobriner
V
• Gore Vidal
W
• Vanessa Wruble



Maret (10-16% admit rate)
Notable alumni

• Peter Matthew Bauer: Musician
• Sean Davis: Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Luka Garza: Professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons
• Sonja Lyubomirsky: Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The How of Happiness
• J. Lorand Matory: Anthropology Professor at Duke University
• Christof Putzel: Journalist
• Theodore Shapiro: American composer best known for film scores, including State and Main, 13 Going on 30, Along Came Polly, The Devil Wears Prada, Fun with Dick and Jane, etc.[4]
• Yeardley Smith: Actress best known for voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons
• Josh Stamberg: Actor
• Rosalind Wiseman: Author of New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, released in 2002, was the basis of the 2004 film Mean Girls.[11]


GDS (16%)
Notable alumni
• Elliot Ackerman, decorated veteran and author
• James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong
• Kelly AuCoin, actor
• Schuyler Bailar, first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer[10]
• Jake Blount, musician, scholar and activist.
• Sean Fine, documentary filmmaker, best known for the Academy Award-nominated War/Dance
• Ruben Fleischer, film director
• Franklin Foer, The New Republic editor
• Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and professor of creative writing at New York University
• Joshua Foer, freelance journalist and author of Moonwalking with Einstein
• Gina Gionfriddo, playwright and television writer. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
• Jonathan Glickman, film producer and studio executive.[16]
• Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer prize winning American author
• Matt Jackson, holder of the 5th longest winning streak on Jeopardy
• Judy Kuhn, Tony-nominated theatre actress, known for her originating roles in Les Misérables, Chess, and Fun Home, as well as being the singing voice for Pocahontas in the Disney film Pocahontas
• Ben Mankiewicz, host of Turner Classic Movies producer and actor
• Thurgood Marshall Jr., partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, chairman of the Board of the Governors USPS, Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet at Clinton Administration
• Judith Martin, journalist, author, and etiquette authority
• Sam Means, comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[24] 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation; producer on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Guy Picciotto, singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist in Fugazi and Rites of Spring
• Members of Gray Matter (band).
• Alice Randall, American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
• Jamie Raskin, elected to House of Representatives from Maryland
• David Reich, geneticist and professor in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute, whose research studies compare the human genome with those of chimpanzees, Neanderthals and Denisovans
• Noah Robbins, American actor
• Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States
• Kevin Sheekey, political operative
• Ethan Slater, actor, singer, writer, and composer, best known for his Tony nominated role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical SpongeBob SquarePants
• Sarah Stillman, journalist and winner of the 2012 George Polk Award, the 2012 Hillman Prize, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author and activist
• Olivia Wilde, film and television actress, starred in House
• Sophia Yilma, journalist and politician

This post is scary. This is the kind of thinking that makes sane parents run from private schools.

Yeah you are right! It is having that effect on me! Dang the Pandemic though! Have to see if they get their acts together with virtual/ hybrid learning …

I posted above notable alumni for a lark to see who folks could actually recognize for all the hoo haaing. Have no skin on the game as DC not at any of these schools. The defensive responses from Sidwell and GDS parents over who had lower admit rates and critiquing the alumni lists was hysterical. One of their wiki pages actually draws attention to the famous parents! Hmmm, some of these students are going to need therapy for life.

For those who prefer local public - Celebrities who grew up in our area seem to mostly pull from local publics - especially Whitman.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/maria-shriver/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GDS is the “easiest” to get into out of the three … but arguably, it has the most impressive alumni list. It would be easy to feel like a loser at any of these schools though …



Sidwell (7% admit rate)
"Sidwell Friends School alumni"

A
• Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
• Alida Anderson
• Damali ayo
B
• William Bayer
• Jon Bernthal
• Tom Bernthal
• David G. Bradley
C
• Setsuko, Princess Chichibu
• Sonya Clark
• Chelsea Clinton
• Tricia Nixon Cox
D
• John Dickerson (journalist)
• Giselle Donnelly
E
• Margaret Edson
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower
F
• Dan Froomkin
G
• Doug Gansler
• Ana Gasteyer
• Olivia Gentile
• Charles Gibson
• Walter Gilbert
• Anand Giridharadas
• Daniel S. Goldman
• Hanna Holborn Gray
H
• Michael Heller (law professor)
• Tony Horwitz
K
• John Katzenbach
• Philip S. Khoury
L
• Mark Lesko
• Charles Lindbergh
M
• Ellen McLaughlin
• Tracye McQuirter
• Nana Meriwether
N
• Bill Nye
O
• Malia Obama
• Sasha Obama
• Eliza Orlins
R
• Archibald Roosevelt
S
• Omar Soliman
• Steven D. Stark
• Lorin Stein
T
• Katherine Tai
• Merle Thorpe Jr.
• Walter Nathan Tobriner
V
• Gore Vidal
W
• Vanessa Wruble



Maret (10-16% admit rate)
Notable alumni

• Peter Matthew Bauer: Musician
• Sean Davis: Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Luka Garza: Professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons
• Sonja Lyubomirsky: Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The How of Happiness
• J. Lorand Matory: Anthropology Professor at Duke University
• Christof Putzel: Journalist
• Theodore Shapiro: American composer best known for film scores, including State and Main, 13 Going on 30, Along Came Polly, The Devil Wears Prada, Fun with Dick and Jane, etc.[4]
• Yeardley Smith: Actress best known for voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons
• Josh Stamberg: Actor
• Rosalind Wiseman: Author of New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, released in 2002, was the basis of the 2004 film Mean Girls.[11]


GDS (16%)
Notable alumni
• Elliot Ackerman, decorated veteran and author
• James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong
• Kelly AuCoin, actor
• Schuyler Bailar, first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer[10]
• Jake Blount, musician, scholar and activist.
• Sean Fine, documentary filmmaker, best known for the Academy Award-nominated War/Dance
• Ruben Fleischer, film director
• Franklin Foer, The New Republic editor
• Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and professor of creative writing at New York University
• Joshua Foer, freelance journalist and author of Moonwalking with Einstein
• Gina Gionfriddo, playwright and television writer. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
• Jonathan Glickman, film producer and studio executive.[16]
• Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer prize winning American author
• Matt Jackson, holder of the 5th longest winning streak on Jeopardy
• Judy Kuhn, Tony-nominated theatre actress, known for her originating roles in Les Misérables, Chess, and Fun Home, as well as being the singing voice for Pocahontas in the Disney film Pocahontas
• Ben Mankiewicz, host of Turner Classic Movies producer and actor
• Thurgood Marshall Jr., partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, chairman of the Board of the Governors USPS, Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet at Clinton Administration
• Judith Martin, journalist, author, and etiquette authority
• Sam Means, comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[24] 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation; producer on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Guy Picciotto, singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist in Fugazi and Rites of Spring
• Members of Gray Matter (band).
• Alice Randall, American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
• Jamie Raskin, elected to House of Representatives from Maryland
• David Reich, geneticist and professor in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute, whose research studies compare the human genome with those of chimpanzees, Neanderthals and Denisovans
• Noah Robbins, American actor
• Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States
• Kevin Sheekey, political operative
• Ethan Slater, actor, singer, writer, and composer, best known for his Tony nominated role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical SpongeBob SquarePants
• Sarah Stillman, journalist and winner of the 2012 George Polk Award, the 2012 Hillman Prize, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author and activist
• Olivia Wilde, film and television actress, starred in House
• Sophia Yilma, journalist and politician

This post is scary. This is the kind of thinking that makes sane parents run from private schools.

Yeah you are right! It is having that effect on me! Dang the Pandemic though! Have to see if they get their acts together with virtual/ hybrid learning …

I posted above notable alumni for a lark to see who folks could actually recognize for all the hoo haaing. Have no skin on the game as DC not at any of these schools. The defensive responses from Sidwell and GDS parents over who had lower admit rates and critiquing the alumni lists was hysterical. One of their wiki pages actually draws attention to the famous parents! Hmmm, some of these students are going to need therapy for life.

For those who prefer local public - Celebrities who grew up in our area seem to mostly pull from local publics - especially Whitman.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/maria-shriver/

Were the posts with "defensive responses from Sidwell and GDS parents over who had lower admit rates and critiquing the alumni lists" deleted already? I don't seem them in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GDS is the “easiest” to get into out of the three … but arguably, it has the most impressive alumni list. It would be easy to feel like a loser at any of these schools though …



Sidwell (7% admit rate)
"Sidwell Friends School alumni"

A
• Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
• Alida Anderson
• Damali ayo
B
• William Bayer
• Jon Bernthal
• Tom Bernthal
• David G. Bradley
C
• Setsuko, Princess Chichibu
• Sonya Clark
• Chelsea Clinton
• Tricia Nixon Cox
D
• John Dickerson (journalist)
• Giselle Donnelly
E
• Margaret Edson
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower
F
• Dan Froomkin
G
• Doug Gansler
• Ana Gasteyer
• Olivia Gentile
• Charles Gibson
• Walter Gilbert
• Anand Giridharadas
• Daniel S. Goldman
• Hanna Holborn Gray
H
• Michael Heller (law professor)
• Tony Horwitz
K
• John Katzenbach
• Philip S. Khoury
L
• Mark Lesko
• Charles Lindbergh
M
• Ellen McLaughlin
• Tracye McQuirter
• Nana Meriwether
N
• Bill Nye
O
• Malia Obama
• Sasha Obama
• Eliza Orlins
R
• Archibald Roosevelt
S
• Omar Soliman
• Steven D. Stark
• Lorin Stein
T
• Katherine Tai
• Merle Thorpe Jr.
• Walter Nathan Tobriner
V
• Gore Vidal
W
• Vanessa Wruble



Maret (10-16% admit rate)
Notable alumni

• Peter Matthew Bauer: Musician
• Sean Davis: Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Luka Garza: Professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons
• Sonja Lyubomirsky: Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The How of Happiness
• J. Lorand Matory: Anthropology Professor at Duke University
• Christof Putzel: Journalist
• Theodore Shapiro: American composer best known for film scores, including State and Main, 13 Going on 30, Along Came Polly, The Devil Wears Prada, Fun with Dick and Jane, etc.[4]
• Yeardley Smith: Actress best known for voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons
• Josh Stamberg: Actor
• Rosalind Wiseman: Author of New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, released in 2002, was the basis of the 2004 film Mean Girls.[11]


GDS (16%)
Notable alumni
• Elliot Ackerman, decorated veteran and author
• James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong
• Kelly AuCoin, actor
• Schuyler Bailar, first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer[10]
• Jake Blount, musician, scholar and activist.
• Sean Fine, documentary filmmaker, best known for the Academy Award-nominated War/Dance
• Ruben Fleischer, film director
• Franklin Foer, The New Republic editor
• Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and professor of creative writing at New York University
• Joshua Foer, freelance journalist and author of Moonwalking with Einstein
• Gina Gionfriddo, playwright and television writer. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
• Jonathan Glickman, film producer and studio executive.[16]
• Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer prize winning American author
• Matt Jackson, holder of the 5th longest winning streak on Jeopardy
• Judy Kuhn, Tony-nominated theatre actress, known for her originating roles in Les Misérables, Chess, and Fun Home, as well as being the singing voice for Pocahontas in the Disney film Pocahontas
• Ben Mankiewicz, host of Turner Classic Movies producer and actor
• Thurgood Marshall Jr., partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, chairman of the Board of the Governors USPS, Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet at Clinton Administration
• Judith Martin, journalist, author, and etiquette authority
• Sam Means, comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[24] 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation; producer on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Guy Picciotto, singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist in Fugazi and Rites of Spring
• Members of Gray Matter (band).
• Alice Randall, American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
• Jamie Raskin, elected to House of Representatives from Maryland
• David Reich, geneticist and professor in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute, whose research studies compare the human genome with those of chimpanzees, Neanderthals and Denisovans
• Noah Robbins, American actor
• Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States
• Kevin Sheekey, political operative
• Ethan Slater, actor, singer, writer, and composer, best known for his Tony nominated role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical SpongeBob SquarePants
• Sarah Stillman, journalist and winner of the 2012 George Polk Award, the 2012 Hillman Prize, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author and activist
• Olivia Wilde, film and television actress, starred in House
• Sophia Yilma, journalist and politician

This post is scary. This is the kind of thinking that makes sane parents run from private schools.

Yeah you are right! It is having that effect on me! Dang the Pandemic though! Have to see if they get their acts together with virtual/ hybrid learning …

I posted above notable alumni for a lark to see who folks could actually recognize for all the hoo haaing. Have no skin on the game as DC not at any of these schools. The defensive responses from Sidwell and GDS parents over who had lower admit rates and critiquing the alumni lists was hysterical. One of their wiki pages actually draws attention to the famous parents! Hmmm, some of these students are going to need therapy for life.

For those who prefer local public - Celebrities who grew up in our area seem to mostly pull from local publics - especially Whitman.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/maria-shriver/

Were the posts with "defensive responses from Sidwell and GDS parents over who had lower admit rates and critiquing the alumni lists" deleted already? I don't seem them in this thread.

Look for the eye rolls (not mine btw) but well punctuated …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We applied to only those three schools for our kids because we wanted a secular, co-ed, K-12 school that was convenient for our location, and those three have the best reputations within that small set of criteria.

Sidwell is not secular.

It’s not Quaker.

My Sidwell enrolled kids would disagree with you, based on their lived experience. Do you attend?