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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the OP: Please discount the posts that gripe about Visi taking legacies. It's not some third-rate boarding school. Some of us actually want our kids to grow up together going to the same school and if you have more than one daughter who can handle rigorous academics, you may find it the perfect place, as we did -- and we're not Visi caricatures by any stretch. Don't let the same old tedious Catholic-school stereotypes on DCUM influence your search. The top Catholic schools in the area do have different personalities (though pretty comparable academics) and it takes some legwork to get to know them and decide which ones fit. Good luck. [/quote]

The reality expressed about the Visi legacy albatross strike a nerve? 
No one said Visi is a third-rate boarding school, but Visi is a multi-generation in-bred institution.  
The catholic elementary schools broadly generate intense social pressure to promote Visi propaganda of Visi's 'specialness'.  Only a few girls from each catholic elementary are admitted to Visi. Few are admitted on merit.  Those admitted are encouraged to develop an incredibly inflated sense of superiority, whereby previous elementary school friends not admitted to Visi become invisible to the Visi girls.    Stop feeding the beast by refusing to even apply, lest you contribute to the perpetuation of the myth of Visi's specialness.   
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