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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone whose oldest child goes to public school and who lives in Texas I think it's obvious why there is an "obsession" with Sidwell Friends amongst DC parents:  It is because it is the school formerly attended by Chelsea Clinton while her father was President of the United States and currently attended by the Obama sisters while their father is the sitting President of the United States.  In a country of 350 mm people, the fact that two of the last three Presidents chose to send their daughters there is extraordinary.  And it is obviously an excellent school too.  Chelsea wound up at Stanford and then became a Rhodes Scholar.  I didn't see Bill and Hill scrambling around trying to send her to Exeter for high school.  Obviously, Sidwell Friends is a great school.  If I lived in the DC area, I'd try to get my child in.  All you stand to lose is time and the application fee.  The other TT schools in the DC area have regional fame.  Sidwell Friends has national fame.  So I think that makes it more attractive.

Anyway, that's a view from an outsider with no hand in the game.  I read this Board to get information and tips on private school applicatIons and testing in a general sense.  Except for the show-offs who mistakenly think success in life is deeply connected  to where you go to school, (it's not), I really like the Board and appreciate everyone's insight.[/quote]

Chelsea went to Oxford after Stanford but was NOT a Rhodes Scholar.  Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.[/quote]

Thanks for clearing that up.  I didn't realize she was such a loser.   :lol: [/quote]

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