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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Potomac is by far the easiest to get into.[/quote]

Really? From what our consultant has told us, NCS will probably be the hardest and then Sidwell/Potomac followed by Holton.  Is this legitimate?[/quote]

Don’t you trust your consultant?

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For certain services yes.  However, everything is pay to play so what I've learned is information is asymmetric. Take that how you want but I try to gather as much info as I can from multiple sources[/quote]

Why did you hire a consultant coming from a K-8? I say this very genuinely curious. We have a current 7th grader (who will be applying to that exact list) and I assumed the school did a sufficient job such that we don't need external help. [/quote]

Keep in mind your child is competing mainly against the other kids at their school. Your k-8 will definitely help you, but they have to look at the desired schools of all the kids in the grade and sort of advocate based on who is applying to which schools so as many kids as possible get in somewhere thats generally in their top 3 schools, not necessarily prioritizing your child getting into their first choice.  The consultant will look out for your kid's best interest. We found our k-8 was less nuanced when describing schools than our consultant which helped us to better finalize a list of where to apply.[/quote]

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