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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The objective of a K-12 school isn't to create the smartest cohort of 9th graders possible.  They're building a community.  
They can hit their "academic"/SAT/college admissions goals by having 80% or 90% (or whatever) of academically focused, driven kids.  The final 10-20% can be filled with less academically qualified kids who are admitted for other reasons.  The schools expect this and function just fine with it.  Maybe these kids are siblings.  It isn't Thomas Jefferson where every last kid is driven.  So Sidwell has an average SAT of 1450 and Thomas Jefferson's is 1530. Big deal. But for this tradeoff Sidwell is able to pay their teachers ($$) and make the experience more enjoyable for their students (good athletes for competitive teams).  Their academic identify and mission continues unscathed.[/quote]

No. The 9th grade admission class at Sidwell is definitely not 20% George Bush / Hunter Biden gentleman’s C type kids.

Those VIP kids exist, but they don’t arrive in 9th. They’re already there by 9th and will be graduating together with the new admits. Which is why the 9th grade admit cohort skews hard toward intrinsic merit (which increasingly includes athletes…)[/quote]

Unless the VIP kids arrive in DC at ninth.

But, yes, a lot of the VIP and big donor lifers are the ones who are admitted early, before merit is a factor. [/quote]

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