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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a snob school for climbers.  I find nothing interesting about it whatsoever.  The Madeira girls have made ZERO impact on the community in the 25 years I have lived here which tells you a lot.  It's almost as if they live on an island off G'town Pike that no one knows about.  Are they in parades? no.  Local service projects, no.  Have i ever seen them do ANY community service in McLean. NEVER.

For the most part it is a boarding school where mommy and daddy on their second marriage dump their daughters for boarding (read the history of the schools, esp. the Atkins diet scandal).  For locals, you are only a fill-in because the school needs the money from the boarder for boarding and meal fees.  The only way to get in (if you are white and boring and have xlnt test scores) is to apply as a boarder even though your family lives in Mclean, MD or DC.  Madeira got wise to that ruse a few years back and now exacts a promise that you will stay as a boarder for X years if you apply as a boarder but live in Mclean, Md or D.C.   Nice facilities but really only if you are a SERIOUS rider.  Not a dilettante.

Not impressed.  Would never even consider it for DD.[/quote]Wow!  Very bitter.[/quote]

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