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[quote=Anonymous]The 7/30/2013 post strikes me as the most accurate. I also attended during the Walsh era, so can't say whether the new head of school has changed things, but he worked under Ms. Walsh at that time, they seemed to be close, and I think most of what gives the school its characteristics is structural (i.e. who their model appeals to).

When I went, it was maybe 25 percent brilliant youngsters who needed the accelerated model that Emerson offered to pursue other callings. There were a couple of very promising professional ballet artists, a very bright young man who was likely to go into semi-professional basketball as soon as he graduated, a child actor, and so on. You get the idea.

Then maybe 50 percent of the students had indeed had some trouble fitting in at other schools. Their reasons varied widely, and in some cases overlapped with their brilliance. Although some of them were the spoiled bad egg children of the wealthy, some of them were just kids who were too smart to buy into DC's competitive private school environment. I would not be at all surprised if the upper quintile of Emerson students would outtest the upper quintile of students at other private schools in terms of IQ.

As for the remaining 25 percent - it varies: in age, in background, in reason for being there.

So: Mix of brilliant misfits and not so brilliant misfits. Administration seems sincere about carrying out their admission and making the most of the peer atmosphere that creates.[/quote]

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