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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Celebrities live in New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, not here.

[b]Really, except for the "Major" political offices and appointments  -- President, or Vice President, Supreme Court Justices, or Senators -- no one here truly possesses sufficient "celebrity" status to make a whit of difference in admissions.  [/b]

With most of the parents you must consider "celebrities" at your school (note to you, that journalist or deputy such-and-such, isn't a celebrity by any other city's measure), their very limited and inconsequential "influence" and "pull" is not worth an admissions office bending backwards to admit an unqualified candidate -- so their child is certainly their on their merit. [/quote]

The bolded is flat-out wrong.   Did you recently arrive in DC, perhaps from NYC, I'm guessing?  You have that immediate "this backwater town sucks, compared to Real Cities" vibe going on.

Schools like St. Albans, Sidwell, Holton and GDS have so many 'Washington famous' progeny [i]precisely because[/i] of their parents' Face the Nation, CNN or Rep. Georgia Texas (R) status.  Their apps go in a separate pile of qualified applicants, which is a much smaller pile (with better odds) than the pile of general population of qualified applicants.

[I do agree with PP that a "celebrity" in the Merriam Webster sense is someone like Jennifer Garner, and she and her kids live in LA, not DC.  The US Attorney General or Secretary of State, or Chuck Todd is not the same as Kanye West; thanks, Capt. Obvious!]
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Occasional appearances as a policy wonk on Face The Nation and CNN, being a Congresswoman or Congressman (except for Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker type), writing for the Washington Post, or serving as Undersecretary of This-And-That, do not make one famous -- by any definition (nice putdown of those rubes in the rest of the country who - can you imagine(!) - still rely on a good, old-fashioned Dictionary), except that of the Inside-The-Beltway crowd.

I have lived in Washington for over twenty years, and my children have attended two of the Big 3 schools.  Washington is no backwater town, but you certainly sound like a provincial who needs to get out into the real world a bit more if you consider the Big 3 schools to be full of "Celebrity" children.[/quote]

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