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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To do an apples-to-apples comparison, a NMSF/Student Body % provides is better.[/quote]

There's a good chart like that in the FAQs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnukIDABt_JKdDdZYXlQbnFUQ0VfMHRpTFp1SUIxS2c&pli=1&hl=en_US#gid=0

% for the period from 2009 - 2013:

Maret: 3.59%
GDS: 7.73%
Sidwell: 11.24%
St. Albans: 11.53%
NCS: 6.97%
St. Anselm's: 9.41%

Maret does come in at the low end of the most competitive DC schools.  If you include schools outside DC (you can see the chart), the Maret percentage is close to, but below, Potomac and Holton, and close to, but just above, Landon.  As others have said, where schools have lifers it can be hard to predict how they'll do academically with pre-K or K admissions.  It may be that Sidwell (true pre-K - 12) and St. Albans (modified pre-K - 12 if you include the Beauvoir feeder system) put a higher premium on high test scorers with their 9th grade admits than Maret does.

On the other hand, people do often say on DCUM that the environment is less fast-paced/stressful at Maret (although other posters have said it is plenty competitive).
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