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3-Harvard
1-MIT
2-USC
1-UChicago
3-BU
1-Columbia
1-Duke
2-Stanford
1-Berkeley
14-UGA
1-Yale
1-Penn
9-UVa
11-Gatech
1-Brown
2-Georgetown
2-Notre Dame
7-Wake Forest
1-UCLA
1-Hopkins
3-Vanderbilt
3-UMich
3-UNC
2-Dartmouth
2-Emory
2-Northwestern
6-BC
2-WashU
2-Tufts

This forum loves to pretend southern high-schools are all horrible. 
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Yes, Sidwell did better. I’ll focus on Ivy+ universities here because: (1) they tend to be the most selective, and (2) a lot of schools on Westminster’s list are not popular with Sidwell students (e.g., UGA, GT, WF, etc).

Keep in mind that Westminster’s graduating class is nearly twice as large as Sidwell’s.

3-Harvard
1-Columbia
2-Yale
5-Penn
3-Brown
2-Dartmouth
3-Cornell
3-Princeton 
2-MIT
2-Stanford
5-UChicago[/quote]

The only reason DC private schools are perhaps an imperfect comparison is due to our lack of any reasonable in-state options.

This of course doesn't take anything away from the Sidwell kids attending the schools above, but rather what the list would look like if we had the equivalent of a UGA and a GA Tech...or any decent in-state option.

That said, I don't know the %age of Sidwell kids that are not DC residents and therefore have either UVA or UMD as options.  My sense is there are far fewer VA kids compared to MD kids.[/quote]

Most of Sidwell’s US students come from Maryland. Those students have a solid in-state option.

UPPER SCHOOL
STUDENTS
Enrollment: 508
Upper School Residency:
Maryland: 245
DC: 191
Virginia: 72[/quote]

I meant to add that when MD and VA residents are combined, ~62% of Sidwell US students have a solid in in-state option (in MD and VA). However, UVA, W&M, UMD are not super popular destinations for Sidwell students either. They typically send about 1-2 students to those schools each year. [/quote]

I know UMD is much better than it was, but you likely aren't spending all of that money to go to Sidwell to have your kid end up at UMD. Much more likely for UVA and possibly W&M. This isn't meant as a shot at UMD - great school. But not what they are hoping for.[/quote]

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