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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Top creativity and intellect = physics professor; playwrite; investigative journalist; principal investigator at NIH, etc etc. None of those generally make enough to send kids to private (maybe with the right spouse you could). The kind of jobs that give throw-away private school tuition money are lobbyist, investment banker, law partner ... none of those are very intellectual. Smart, motivated, bright, sure. But not creative & intellectual.[/quote]

I get the sense that there aren't many (if any) Sidwell upper school parents posting today.

I am one, and I can assure the PP quoted above that all of these professions are represented among the parent body.  That's also true at GDS.  Lots of journalists, scientists (inventors), nonprofit lawyers with jobs at nonprofits (think Southern Poverty Law Center, Guttmacher Inst.), CDC types, economists — [u]so [/u]many economists — federal employees and so on.  Classical musicians, forgot that one.

Are there as many NIH rank-and-file scientists as you'd find among the Wooton parent body? Nope.  More law partners than you'd find at Wooton? Yes.   But to suggest that we're all DNC donors and big pharma lobbyists confirms that you don't actually know what you're talking about.  Sidwell awards a ton of financial aid, btw.

— U/S parent who makes $65K a year [/quote]

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