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[quote=Anonymous]Would agree with above poster that Potomac is more academically-diverse and less of a competitive/extremely high expectation environment than Sidwell/GDS/Cathedral schools.  Several kids my DD went to elementary school with ended up at Maret, and it seems pretty similar to Sidwell/GDS/NCS-StA in terms of the academic expectations/workload/types of colleges kids are targeting.

But really depends so much on your kid's personality, academic and study skills, and family and child expectations about achievement/grades/colleges, that is much likely to determine how much pressure a kid feels than what are going to be relatively minor differences among schools that are full of well-educated kids, well-educated and involved parents, all with quite high expectations.  Also the "feel" in our experience can also vary quite a bit from graduating class to graduating class even within a particular school.  Same school, same parents, very similar academic strengths and testing outcomes in two different kids in our family resulted in not much pressure/stress in one and quite a lot in the other, due to both personality of the two kids and differences between the make-up of their respective classes.[/quote]

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