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Wrong.  If you are looking at applications, Gonzaga (which I have no affiliation with) is far and away the most popular private school in the area, even though it is single sex.  The school had well over 1,000 application for about 250 spots last year.[/quote]

I would recommend that you look up what a revealed preference ranking is.

I'm not saying it's your first choice, but, all else equal, Sidwell is the top choice locally.[/quote]

NP here, and an economist. The Gonzaga numbers somebody provided above above give a pretty clear indication about a preference for Gonzaga, unless you can provide Sidwell figures that exceed the Gonzaga numbers. If you're trying to make some sort of point about revealed preference as measured by total money spent by parents (Sidwell is way more expensive than Gonzaga), then you need to remember that utility is maximized subject to a budget constraint, and Sidwell is not in most families' budgets.[/quote]

I've seen some admissions numbers.

In general, the DC independent co-ed schools outstrip the all-boys' schools in application numbers.  Schools such as St. Albans/NCS are pretty candid that their yield (percentage of those accepted who come to the school) is higher for lower school applicants than for upper school -- the reason is that the typical parent allows a 9th grade applicant more input into the process than a 4th grade applicant, and by 9th grade a fair amount of kids do not want the single-sex option.  This may be different for the Catholic schools, as there are no co-ed options in DC proper, and perhaps the parents seeking a Catholic education retain more control over the process?

Gonzaga's numbers as reported here (4 applicants for every one slot) are quite good, but the most recent numbers I've seen -- and it was a couple of years ago, so I suppose it could have changed (although it's hard for me to imagine fewer applications with the presidents' kids attending) -- had about 14 students applying for every one slot at Sidwell (this included all age levels, so pre-K, K, all the way up to applications for 9th grade).  Sidwell had significantly more applications than any of the other local schools.

(I can't give a link because it was something I saw, and I'm cool with people not believing my post, given anonymity and lack of documentation.  For what it's worth, however, that's what the data I saw reflected.)[/quote]

To add on to this -- if Gonzaga has 1000 applicants for ninth grade, that is more than Sidwell has for ninth grade, although Sidwell had more total applicants for all grades combined (pre-K through 12).  The odds of admission overall at Sidwell was about 1 in 14 -- I think for 9th grade it was more like 1 in 8 or 1 in 9.

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