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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the apology, and I'm sorry if I get brittle sometimes.  As you've seen there's another poster who distorts/insults without engaging.

OK, the 2nd quote you cited (not mine originally) was the quote I was referring to.  So we're on the same page in the sense of talking to each other, instead of talking past each other like with that other irritating poster....

I think we've agreed that, logically, schools have their own long-term interests.  They want to send kids to the next school that the next school will appreciate.  I think you may have written this yourself a page or two ago, but correct me if I'm wrong.

What comes next is just logic too, or it seems so to me.  It follows (to me at least) that the school is not going to promote equally every single kid who wants to apply to Sidwell.  It is going to tell some families that Sidwell "is not a good fit for you."  But it can't stop determined families from applying to Sidwell anyway, and then what does it do?  It knows that if family X gets in, with the PITA dad and the kid who looks good on paper but is probably a budding drug addict, Sidwell is going to look askance at future applicants from your school.  The question is, what does your school do next, to make sure Sidwell doesn't take the 12-year-old pot experimenter? My answer is, I think your school gives a tepid promotion.

But if you have a better explanation of what your school will do in this case, I'm (sincerely) interested and might even be relieved.  (I think you're use of the word "fear" is appropriate, and probably describes where OP is right now.  As I said, my kid went from a K-6 to an elite school, so we didn't experience this particular emotion.)[/quote]

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