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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sorry, but this is ridiculous. I personally think my DC was accepted at our "big 3" because he went to a totally random co-op preschool that was about 60 percent outdoors, basically zero academics. His two best friends, one went to NO preschool, the other to a church preschool. Choose a preschool you like. [/quote]

Yes, and your child and his two friends were probably the only children from those schools who got in.  Conversely, multiple children from CDS, etc. got it.  You might have been the only ones who applied, so your schools technically had a 100% success rate, but I seriously doubt that if the entirely of these three schools applied to Potomac they would have the same success rate as somewhere like CDS.  (And my kids didn't/don't go to CDS, so I am not bragging about that school in particular).  I also went to a church preschool and got one of two slots out of 200 applicants in K for a PK-12 school that's the equivalent of Sidwell.  Am I awesome?  Nope.  Lucky?  Probably.  We had no ties to the school and my parents knew no one.  I colored within the lines, so maybe it was that.  So a lot of it is a total crap shoot, but there are definitely certain schools that get more kids into Potomac than others, so I don't think it's a ridiculous question to ask.  (Although I do think believing that you've guaranteed your child's acceptance into Potomac because you've sent them to CDS is ridiculous, and if it's too far away, like it was for us, then I wouldn't bother).[/quote]

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