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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]... Since the Clinton's chose Sidwell over Cathedral in the 90's Sidwell has made a fortune off of that perceived exclusivity both in terms of what families are willing to donate , and just the haul from thousands of applicatios ....[/quote]
You seem to be mistakenly thinking that Sidwell was suddenly plucked from obscurity in 1992 when the Clintons sent their daughter there.  A quick search of Google News pre-1992 shows it received lots of attention long before then as an exclusive school.

On a side note, here is an interesting article from 1978, which discusses the mad scramble among parents for admission to private schools in DC.  The story it tells sounds surprisingly familiar 35 years later.  http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cm8aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lCkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6954%2C5156880  Choice quotes:

"... for the nameless numbers of the Capital's middle class citizens, deciding where to send a child to school becomes a nightmare of dollar-signs and intelligence tests ... And politics.  Many parents will pull all the social and professional strings they can to improve their children's chances of being accepted ..."

"... otherwise sane parents become frantic when their children hit school age ..."[/quote]

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