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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like Potomac is trying to position itself as an elite school. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great school but it’s not a top three (NCS/STA, GDS or Sidwell) and it has a chip on his shoulder because of that.[/quote]

Soon to be new family at Potomac. I think of Potomac as a neighborhood private school. Lots of people in McLean send their kids there. I would not expect anyone not in McLean to know or care about this school.

I certainly wouldn’t expect or think anyone from dc or md would care.[/quote]

Potomac is dealing with a lot of moving targets at once. 
They are definitely a big fish in a small pond but by many metrics competitive with big 3.
And I think this is a fairly recent development.  They're still getting used to it

Potomac decided maybe a couple of decades ago to almost abandon some of it's legacy preferences because it had started drawing an applicant pool that was far more competitive than it had seen in the past.
This is just conjecture but I think the legacy parents got very loud and proud about Potomac and the newcomers thought that was what they were supposed to do.  The Potomac pride was not understated.  Some people liked that.

The 9th grade admits are so much more competitive than the kids that got in 10 years ago that they almost belong in different schools.  Potomac is getting more and more competitive by the year.  I think it's the location.  McLean didn't used to be like this.[/quote]

[b]A couple of decades ago Potomac didn’t even have a high school.[/b] Question- do people really not know about the teacher that r*ped a dozen girls? The school knew something was up but failed to report him. Then he went off to teach at another private before finally a victim who was also a mother at that private spoke up. [/quote]

Huh, what?  They had an upper since the 1980s.  They opened a new upper school building about 20 years ago.  maybe that is what you are thinking of.
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