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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact that GDS is constantly comparing itself to SFS says a lot. I never hear it the other way around. [/quote]

Correct.  GDS has always been for wannabe Sidwell kids / families.
* cue the, "We turned down Sidwell for GDS!!"[/quote]

Neither one sends very many to the Ivy league, especially given how many legacies there are. So maybe both are perfectly fine, but nothing special schools. [/quote]

Citation with respect to GDS?  Not surprising you don’t have one because you don’t know what your talking about.  GDS has an enviable Ivy record among the Big 3.[/quote]

Look unless your school is sending large numbers of kids to the Ivy League, it's not that different from hundreds if not thousands of public schools across this country (let alone the Big 3). If only one or two kids are getting into Harvard each year, then, well, you're not spectacular. Good? Yes. Spectacular? No. (And, again, we should expect private schools to send lots of kids to the Ivy league, if only because so many of their parents are alumni, which, we all know, is a very big advantage in the admissions process). [/quote]

Exactly. DC parents need to broaden their worldview. There are schools in Boston and New York who send 15-17 kids out of 50 to Harvard...every single year. I've lived in all three of these cities (DC, NY, Boston), and DC has to have the most insecure parents of them all. And that's saying something. [/quote]

Which school(s) send 15 of 50 (i.e., 30%) of kids to Harvard each year?[/quote]

meant to say Ivy League (sorry, about to board a plane). Roxbury latin, for example, sends 36% to Ivy League. last year sent 8 to Harvard alone. and they have a very small graduating class. its sister school, Windsor, sends around 30% to Ivy League every year. Milton Academy sent something like 30 to Ivy League last year, again with 7 to Harvard alone. Sent 12 to Yale in two years. it's about 160 in the graduating class at milton--not much larger than Sidwell. Trinity in New York sends about 40% to Ivy League every year, and so does collegiate. lots of schools. [/quote]

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