Most famous DC Private

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.

WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football.

Wrong! I’ve read articles about Sidwell in the LA Times, The NY Times, and cities across the country. I’ve even seen several articles about Sidwell in the Daily Mail! I certain little to no ink has been spent on Dematha, Gonzaga, SJC and PVI in the British press.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

The Daily Mail is basically a tabloid rag. That's a pretty weak flex, Sidwell booster.

No one said that the Daily Mail is The NY Times. The thread is about fame, and articles are being written about Sidwell in the UK. Point made. Case closed.

You might be right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/education/13sidwell.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3499099/amp/Student-says-rape-ex-boyfriend-elite-DC-prep-school-attended-daughters-presidents-including-Malia-Sasha-Obama-Chelsea-Clinton-Tricia-Nixon.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.

WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football.

Wrong! I’ve read articles about Sidwell in the LA Times, The NY Times, and cities across the country. I’ve even seen several articles about Sidwell in the Daily Mail! I certain little to no ink has been spent on Dematha, Gonzaga, SJC and PVI in the British press.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

The Daily Mail is basically a tabloid rag. That's a pretty weak flex, Sidwell booster.

No one said that the Daily Mail is The NY Times. The thread is about fame, and articles are being written about Sidwell in the UK. Point made. Case closed.

You might be right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/education/13sidwell.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3499099/amp/Student-says-rape-ex-boyfriend-elite-DC-prep-school-attended-daughters-presidents-including-Malia-Sasha-Obama-Chelsea-Clinton-Tricia-Nixon.html

To be fair though, other schools also get written up in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/sports/10dematha.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.

WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football.

Wrong! I’ve read articles about Sidwell in the LA Times, The NY Times, and cities across the country. I’ve even seen several articles about Sidwell in the Daily Mail! I certain little to no ink has been spent on Dematha, Gonzaga, SJC and PVI in the British press.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

The Daily Mail is basically a tabloid rag. That's a pretty weak flex, Sidwell booster.

No one said that the Daily Mail is The NY Times. The thread is about fame, and articles are being written about Sidwell in the UK. Point made. Case closed.

You might be right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/education/13sidwell.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3499099/amp/Student-says-rape-ex-boyfriend-elite-DC-prep-school-attended-daughters-presidents-including-Malia-Sasha-Obama-Chelsea-Clinton-Tricia-Nixon.html

To be fair though, other schools also get written up in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/sports/10dematha.html

PP here...NYT coverage is not always a metric for fame by the way, but there are many examples of many schools in the DMV getting press coverage (positive and negative): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/us/politics/georgetown-day-school-jackson.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.

WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football.

Wrong! I’ve read articles about Sidwell in the LA Times, The NY Times, and cities across the country. I’ve even seen several articles about Sidwell in the Daily Mail! I certain little to no ink has been spent on Dematha, Gonzaga, SJC and PVI in the British press.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

The Daily Mail is basically a tabloid rag. That's a pretty weak flex, Sidwell booster.

No one said that the Daily Mail is The NY Times. The thread is about fame, and articles are being written about Sidwell in the UK. Point made. Case closed.

You might be right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/education/13sidwell.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3499099/amp/Student-says-rape-ex-boyfriend-elite-DC-prep-school-attended-daughters-presidents-including-Malia-Sasha-Obama-Chelsea-Clinton-Tricia-Nixon.html

More examples of the geographic range of Sidwell’s press coverage:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/23/obama-white-house-barackobama
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-nov-23-adna-obamaschool23-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2009/08/29/obama-girls-head-back-to-high-class-classes/

https://www.inquirer.com/college-sports/villanova/saddiq-bey-villanova-basketball-jay-wright-growth-spurt-sidwell-friends-20200122.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/sports/sidwell-basketball.html

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/01/malia-obama-attend-harvard/uwal0g9N7ubOzl4qnVGSlL/story.html

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/president-obama-won-speak-daughter-graduation-plans-cry/O8IV5QBCkW26FtzUeL3yYK/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/06/sidwell-friends-college-admissions-varsity-blues/591124/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-23999

https://www.usatoday.com/story/preps/2022/08/01/sidwell-friends-tamika-dudley-usa-today-national-hssa-girls-team-coach-year/10179240002/

[Anonymous]

Oh my, I can’t believe how much time people have on their hands…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably the most well known schools are:

Sierra Canyon (Kardashians/jenners/bronny)
Crossroads (so many celebs)
Beverly Hills High School (same; shout out to West Beverly too )
Andover
Exeter
Permian (Friday Night Lights)
IMG Academy (sports factory across multiple sports)
St. Vincent-St. Mary (lebron; because he didn’t play college this one has a higher profile)
Lower Merion (Kobe; same)
Laguna Hills (Hills, Laguna, etc. this is fading but still a fairly broad demo)
Sidwell (Clintons/Obamas). Nothing else in DC is on this level of name ID.
Not sure what from NYC breaks through — could see a case for Dalton, Spence, Bronx Science, Stuyvesant but none seem that famous to like an average person in the Midwest.

This is macabre but the most famous are probably actually the ones with major tragedies like Columbine and the like.

Laguna Hills? Kardashians? Friday Night Lights? Lol! When is the last time you read a book? Only reality tv watchers know those schools or people.

Further more OP said DC schools.

I think we're getting to the heart of this pointless conversation.

98 percent of people don't think about famous private schools. If you're in the 2 percent who do, you can probably be broadly split into three categories:

1. those who are close to major population areas who think about the traditional definition of education eliteness. These are the people who think of and definitely have heard of St. Albans, Sidwell, Madeira, Exeter, Andover, Deerfield, St. Paul's, Choate, Hotchkiss, Dalton, Chicago Latin, Lawrenceville, et al

2. those who watch a lot of TV and care about things like where the Kardashians send their kids, and I guess then you know about Laguna High School or whatever it is

3. people who follow sports closely, who are likely to know all kinds of batshit no-name highschools that play national sports schedules, and a handful of famous jock schools (St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale, IMG Academy etc) and on that list are several notable DC area schools... If you're the kind of person who knows anything about where NBA players come from, you definitely know DeMatha... And, I had to look this up, but apparently, the school that has sent the most kids to the NBA is Oak Hill Academy, in Dulles. Love it or hate it, Gonzaga has moved onto that list of private schools that are well known by people who pay attention to sports highschool hotspots.

Either way, tldr, almost nobody knows of any highschools. In the select world of nerds/freaks and weirdos who do, DMV does okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.

WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football.

Wrong! I’ve read articles about Sidwell in the LA Times, The NY Times, and cities across the country. I’ve even seen several articles about Sidwell in the Daily Mail! I certain little to no ink has been spent on Dematha, Gonzaga, SJC and PVI in the British press.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

The Daily Mail is basically a tabloid rag. That's a pretty weak flex, Sidwell booster.

No one said that the Daily Mail is The NY Times. The thread is about fame, and articles are being written about Sidwell in the UK. Point made. Case closed.

You might be right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/education/13sidwell.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3499099/amp/Student-says-rape-ex-boyfriend-elite-DC-prep-school-attended-daughters-presidents-including-Malia-Sasha-Obama-Chelsea-Clinton-Tricia-Nixon.html

More examples of the geographic range of Sidwell’s press coverage:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/23/obama-white-house-barackobama
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-nov-23-adna-obamaschool23-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2009/08/29/obama-girls-head-back-to-high-class-classes/

https://www.inquirer.com/college-sports/villanova/saddiq-bey-villanova-basketball-jay-wright-growth-spurt-sidwell-friends-20200122.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/sports/sidwell-basketball.html

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/01/malia-obama-attend-harvard/uwal0g9N7ubOzl4qnVGSlL/story.html

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/president-obama-won-speak-daughter-graduation-plans-cry/O8IV5QBCkW26FtzUeL3yYK/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/06/sidwell-friends-college-admissions-varsity-blues/591124/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-23999

https://www.usatoday.com/story/preps/2022/08/01/sidwell-friends-tamika-dudley-usa-today-national-hssa-girls-team-coach-year/10179240002/

Congratulations on learning how to use Google.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably the most well known schools are:

Sierra Canyon (Kardashians/jenners/bronny)
Crossroads (so many celebs)
Beverly Hills High School (same; shout out to West Beverly too )
Andover
Exeter
Permian (Friday Night Lights)
IMG Academy (sports factory across multiple sports)
St. Vincent-St. Mary (lebron; because he didn’t play college this one has a higher profile)
Lower Merion (Kobe; same)
Laguna Hills (Hills, Laguna, etc. this is fading but still a fairly broad demo)
Sidwell (Clintons/Obamas). Nothing else in DC is on this level of name ID.
Not sure what from NYC breaks through — could see a case for Dalton, Spence, Bronx Science, Stuyvesant but none seem that famous to like an average person in the Midwest.

This is macabre but the most famous are probably actually the ones with major tragedies like Columbine and the like.

Laguna Hills? Kardashians? Friday Night Lights? Lol! When is the last time you read a book? Only reality tv watchers know those schools or people.

Further more OP said DC schools.

I think we're getting to the heart of this pointless conversation.

98 percent of people don't think about famous private schools. If you're in the 2 percent who do, you can probably be broadly split into three categories:

1. those who are close to major population areas who think about the traditional definition of education eliteness. These are the people who think of and definitely have heard of St. Albans, Sidwell, Madeira, Exeter, Andover, Deerfield, St. Paul's, Choate, Hotchkiss, Dalton, Chicago Latin, Lawrenceville, et al

2. those who watch a lot of TV and care about things like where the Kardashians send their kids, and I guess then you know about Laguna High School or whatever it is

3. people who follow sports closely, who are likely to know all kinds of batshit no-name highschools that play national sports schedules, and a handful of famous jock schools (St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale, IMG Academy etc) and on that list are several notable DC area schools... If you're the kind of person who knows anything about where NBA players come from, you definitely know DeMatha... And, I had to look this up, but apparently, the school that has sent the most kids to the NBA is Oak Hill Academy, in Dulles. Love it or hate it, Gonzaga has moved onto that list of private schools that are well known by people who pay attention to sports highschool hotspots.

Either way, tldr, almost nobody knows of any highschools. In the select world of nerds/freaks and weirdos who do, DMV does okay.

+1 but also inane debates are fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.

WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football.

Wrong! I’ve read articles about Sidwell in the LA Times, The NY Times, and cities across the country. I’ve even seen several articles about Sidwell in the Daily Mail! I certain little to no ink has been spent on Dematha, Gonzaga, SJC and PVI in the British press.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

The Daily Mail is basically a tabloid rag. That's a pretty weak flex, Sidwell booster.

No one said that the Daily Mail is The NY Times. The thread is about fame, and articles are being written about Sidwell in the UK. Point made. Case closed.

You might be right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/education/13sidwell.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3499099/amp/Student-says-rape-ex-boyfriend-elite-DC-prep-school-attended-daughters-presidents-including-Malia-Sasha-Obama-Chelsea-Clinton-Tricia-Nixon.html

More examples of the geographic range of Sidwell’s press coverage:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/23/obama-white-house-barackobama
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-nov-23-adna-obamaschool23-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2009/08/29/obama-girls-head-back-to-high-class-classes/

https://www.inquirer.com/college-sports/villanova/saddiq-bey-villanova-basketball-jay-wright-growth-spurt-sidwell-friends-20200122.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/sports/sidwell-basketball.html

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/01/malia-obama-attend-harvard/uwal0g9N7ubOzl4qnVGSlL/story.html

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/president-obama-won-speak-daughter-graduation-plans-cry/O8IV5QBCkW26FtzUeL3yYK/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/06/sidwell-friends-college-admissions-varsity-blues/591124/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-23999

https://www.usatoday.com/story/preps/2022/08/01/sidwell-friends-tamika-dudley-usa-today-national-hssa-girls-team-coach-year/10179240002/

Congratulations on learning how to use Google.

Thanks! Try it with your favorite, Dematha. 😊

[Anonymous]

Can someone tell me what TJ is? It can't be too famous because I can't find the answer on google.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me what TJ is? It can't be too famous because I can't find the answer on google.

It’s not nationally famous, but you should be able to Google it. TJ is especially popular among striver, first-generation immigrant families in VA who are seeking a free, academically rigorous education for their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm also from LA. People over estimate that anyone can even name Obama's daughters yet alone can name who the current VP is. I'm a politically active upper middle class person. People are far more likely to follow sports than politics. It's a fact. You all are forgetting that hardly like than 1/3 Americans can name 3 branches of govt or anyone in Supreme Court. Sidwell is not more famous than Dematha, Gonzaga, or St John's. I'd also now add in PVI in the last 2 years.

WCAC is the most dominant basketball league in the country. They also are very strong in many other sports including football.

Wrong! I’ve read articles about Sidwell in the LA Times, The NY Times, and cities across the country. I’ve even seen several articles about Sidwell in the Daily Mail! I certain little to no ink has been spent on Dematha, Gonzaga, SJC and PVI in the British press.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

The Daily Mail is basically a tabloid rag. That's a pretty weak flex, Sidwell booster.

No one said that the Daily Mail is The NY Times. The thread is about fame, and articles are being written about Sidwell in the UK. Point made. Case closed.

You might be right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/education/13sidwell.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7111939/amp/Inside-DCs-elite-Sidwell-school-pushy-parents-obsessed-getting-kids-college.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3499099/amp/Student-says-rape-ex-boyfriend-elite-DC-prep-school-attended-daughters-presidents-including-Malia-Sasha-Obama-Chelsea-Clinton-Tricia-Nixon.html

More examples of the geographic range of Sidwell’s press coverage:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/23/obama-white-house-barackobama
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-nov-23-adna-obamaschool23-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2009/08/29/obama-girls-head-back-to-high-class-classes/

https://www.inquirer.com/college-sports/villanova/saddiq-bey-villanova-basketball-jay-wright-growth-spurt-sidwell-friends-20200122.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/sports/sidwell-basketball.html

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/01/malia-obama-attend-harvard/uwal0g9N7ubOzl4qnVGSlL/story.html

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/president-obama-won-speak-daughter-graduation-plans-cry/O8IV5QBCkW26FtzUeL3yYK/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/06/sidwell-friends-college-admissions-varsity-blues/591124/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-23999

https://www.usatoday.com/story/preps/2022/08/01/sidwell-friends-tamika-dudley-usa-today-national-hssa-girls-team-coach-year/10179240002/

Congratulations on learning how to use Google.

Let me make it clearer:

UK: https://amp.theguardian.c...arackobama

Los Angeles: https://www.latimes.com/a...story.html

Chicago: https://www.chicagotribun...s-classes/

Philadelphia: https://www.inquirer.com/...00122.html

NYC: https://www.nytimes.com/2...tball.html

Boston: https://www.bostonglobe.c...story.html

Atlanta: https://www.ajc.com/news/...tzUeL3yYK/

National: https://www.theatlantic.c...es/591124/

National:
https://www.wsj.com/artic...L-WB-23999

National: https://www.usatoday.com/...179240002/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me what TJ is? It can't be too famous because I can't find the answer on google.

It’s not nationally famous, but you should be able to Google it. TJ is especially popular among striver, first-generation immigrant families in VA who are seeking a free, academically rigorous education for their children.

Are we talking about the Thomas Jefferson public school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me what TJ is? It can't be too famous because I can't find the answer on google.

It’s not nationally famous, but you should be able to Google it. TJ is especially popular among striver, first-generation immigrant families in VA who are seeking a free, academically rigorous education for their children.

Are we talking about the Thomas Jefferson public school?

Yes, the public school in VA.

[Anonymous]

Dematha by a lot. You people live in a bubble. This documentary original aired on showtime I believe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_County:_In_The_Water