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OP here.  Interesting insights -- thanks to all PPs.

Can we now forget about the co-ed vs. non co-ed, athletics vs. nerd, campus facilities vs. community, quaker vs. ... stuff and focus on ACADEMICS only?

DS has been accepted to both Sidwell and Landon and likes both schools.  (Yes, the schools are very different, but that does not mean that only one may be the "right fit"... the "right fit" can mean so many things that the "right fit" argumentation is just an endlessly repeated cliche...)

Regardless of all the other stuff, the question we are grappling with is: 
How different is the academic environment?  
Is there a difference in the possibility and in the way to achieve academic excellence in these schools?

Thanks!

P.S. Although both DH and I have graduate degrees from the Ivies, we seem unable to conclude as easily as some posters suggest that one of these schools is so clearly academically better than the other.   :wink:

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The types of kids at Landon [athletes] slammed by many on these boards can be just as intellectual.   Did you apply to STA?   It has some of the neighborhood cool types commonly found at Sidwell, the hardest academics, etc.    Why don't you spend time at these schools?  Go to the spring sport games - get an idea of the student body in middle and high school.    See the parents in action.  Sit in on upper school classes.  Then make the decision.  [/quote]

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