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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SSSAS is second tier private at best.  Ireton is better.[/quote]

NP. Looking at both because we don’t want to drive into DC for school. Why is BI better? Honestly, I thought they are both considered second tier? [/quote]

Ireton is third tier at best as far as Catholic high schools.  Good choice if in Alexandria.  That is all.  Not sure they should be throwing stones at others.[/quote]
SSSAS is 2nd tier.  Ireton, 3rd or 4th tier.[/quote]

It's really hard to compare them though, they're so different with different reasons for existing. My DD and her friends from their Catholic parochial K-8 are really excited to apply to Ireton, PVI and O'Connell for next year. But I know we would never apply to SSSAS and we live close by, and I've never heard of anyone from their school even mentioning it. Visitation and Stone Ridge yes, and we would consider them if we could find a way to make the commute work. But not SSSAS.

OP, did you go to the Ireton Open House this past weekend? My DD is a lot like yours -- very artsy, not so much a sports person --  and she's putting Ireton as her first choice on the HSPT.[/quote]
SSSAS isn’t Catholic [/quote]

I’m pretty sure PP knows SSSA is not a Catholic school.

The graduates of Catholic K8s in NW DC and Montgomery County also rarely apply to secular private schools for high school. They go to Catholic high schools and sometimes public schools. These non-Catholic private schools just aren’t on their radar. And the few that do might be non-Catholics who are going to Catholic K8’s to escape the local public school they are zoned to.

Only on this forum do we hear of parents trying to decide between BI and SSSA, Prep vs Landon, Visitation vs Sidwell, etc. These requests for opinions or insights cause many to scratch their heads and wonder, “Who are these people and how did they come up with these alternatives?”[/quote]

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