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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is so hard for people to understand the point that was originally trying to be made?

Someone said that Sidwell would be the plurality #1 choice. No one said it was everyone's top choice. No one said that more applicants = unanimous #1 choice. No one said that there were no students accepted from Sidwell that turned it down for other schools.

From the admissions rate, yield, NMS, and applicant numbers posted in here, in combination with subjective factors such as cache and popularity on this forum, I think it's totally reasonable to accept the hypothesis that Sidwell would be a plurality preference.

Not a majority preference, and maybe not a plurality preference by a great margin, but a plurality preference nonetheless. You don't necessarily have to agree with that hypothesis, but the idea that Gonzaga would even be in the conversation simply because they have a bigger class is absurd.[/quote]

Makes sense to me.

Not a Sidwell or Gonzaga parent, and have no aspiration to be. But certainly seems reasonable to suggest that, if prospective parents were given the chance to apply to five private schools in the area, and believed their DC had a fighting chance of getting in to all the schools, that Sidwell would be on more lists than any other school.

It is undeniably the all purpose, high-achieving, hard-charging, co-ed, almost-nondenominational school of choice in this area -- whatever its limitations might be.

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