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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My facts are all listed in this thread. It is obvious that most posters here do not have firsthand experience with Sidwell's college admissions office, and are just offering opinions based one second-hand, conflicting, and biased comments from anonymous posters who may (or may not) have firsthand experience. People are perfectly entitled to do that; everyone can have an opinion. But I find it a little ridiculous when some posters without firsthand knowledge express outrage and other strong views, based on weak info.

Seems to me that some posters here have preconceived views about Sidwell (they want to hate it), and are just using this topic and the limited facts available as an opportunity to express those preconceived views.

Personally, I don't have firsthand experience with Sidwell's college counseling office - and this thread has not taught me much - so I don't feel comfortable offering opinions about it. YMMV. Have a nice day. [/quote]
Thank you for that. Are you saying that the posters who claim to have kids at Sidwell, and there are at least two of them, are lying? [/quote]
The posters who claim to have firsthand knowledge offer opposing and inconsistent viewpoints.  One poster (6/21@18:05) has peppered this thread with comments critical of Sidwell's college counseling, and does not explicitly say she is a Sidwell parent but seems to imply she is.  Another (6/23@14:20) says "[i]Having gone through the college process twice in the past several years with my kids at Sidwell, much of what is being purported in this thread is completely wrong in our experience....[/i]"

But unfortunately, most posts on this thread are unsolicited opinions about how the school should operate from people like you without any firsthand knowledge about how the school actually operates.  I'd really like to hear more from people with actual knowledge, rather than people offering uninformed opinions.  More light, less heat.

[quote=Anonymous]If not, then you must be saying that other people who have opinions about these facts are either wrong, or not entitled to have opinions. So why don't you go ahead and explain your own views, because while your lectures leave us cold, we're interested in opposing views, I promise.[/quote]
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to develop any views on the quality of Sidwell's college counseling program, because all the people providing actual firsthand knowledge about the program have been drowned out by the opinions of posters who have an axe to grind, but no firsthand knowledge.

But I guess that's just how DCUM goes sometimes.  So alright ... you win ... post all the opinions you want.  I'll search for actual info somewhere else, because this thread doesn't have any.[/quote]

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