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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it was popular WELL BEFORE Chelsea went there.  In the 80s, it was very sought after as well, and i'm sure before that too.  it's a good school.  [/quote]
yes, it was.  But as PP said, the parent community has changed ENORMOUSLY.  And not for the better.[/quote]
NP.  How would you know "the parent community has changed enormously ... and not for the better"?  Surely you weren't a parent there in both the 1980s and now 30 years later, were you?  Sounds to me like you're making shit up.[/quote]

Everyone knows this.  I'm among many who have posted about it on this thread. I was a student there in the 80s and 90s and am now a parent who knows MANY people who send their kids there.  Seriously, you're arguing the sky is not blue.[/quote]

Before you get too nostalgic for the 80s and 90s, I remind you that, at that time, the teachers were paid below the 50th percentile as compared to peer schools, the facilities were shabby, less than 10% of students were supported by FA (versus 25% today) and the endowment was de minimis.  If a strong recession had come along in the late 90s, like the one we had in 2007-2010, who knows how the school would have fared.

I also can't shake the hypocrisy of community members who conveniently forget the fact that the school had an explicit policy of only allowing one AA child per grade after Brown v. Ed and only started graduating Black children in the 70s.

Yes, the school has changed ENORMOUSLY, and for the better![/quote]

Student body: URM UMC and URM subsidized are a couple large components of each class in addition to brilliant Academic Scholarship middle class/immigrant kids, the socialites, the faculty kids, the legacy UMC kids, and then the UMC white collar families.  A normal, average intelligence UMC kid with no genius angle or athletic talent faces a tough application pool.[/quote]

Wrong on several fronts:

1.  The majority of URM students are not on FA
2.  Less than 50% of the FA budget goes to URMs
3.  There are fewer faculty children at the school proportionately than there were 30 years ago
4.  Average intelligence kids of any income / ethnicity have a pretty tough time keeping their noses above water at Sidwell
5.  The odds of getting in for a child of any ethnic group are long
6.  There are plenty of brilliant non-immigrant kids at the school[/quote]

You both said the exact same thing. Hug it out. [/quote]

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