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We understand admissions aren’t a meritocracy and they have more applicants who can do the work than space.  While I acknowledge “fit” may be a part of it, I think it’s really more numbers/hooks.  Our child who scored very high is also a high level athlete in a sport.   Potomac never expressed any interest in our child for that sport.   They could have had, for example, sibling applicants who played that same sport who were already preferred or a kid who is much better at the sport than my child or they already had too many kids playing the sport in the existing class.  I just think it’s a numbers game at all the schools.   And we never really pushed at Potomac too because we never got any response from the coach during the process.  No hard feelings at all and seemed like a fine place.   
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Don’t feel bad about not having gotten a response from the coach. Our DC is a good athlete and got a letter of recommendation from the Varsity Potomac coach to submit with his application, A+ student, extremely high SSAT scores, interviewed very well ( interviewer came out telling us how well the interview went), very active in student government at his former private and was still waitlisted.

Perhaps there were more siblings or big donor kids applying that year but the more I hear about the school, the more I believe that there is some particular type of kid/ fit that they are looking for. 
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