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Makes sense to me.

Not a Sidwell or Gonzaga parent, and have no aspiration to be. [b]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. [/b]

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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For this to be true, it would have to be true that Gonzaga has nothing to attract parents except (a) its affordability and (b) the relatively easier (1 in 4, or 250/1000) acceptance ratios. However, we know that lots of families prefer Gonzaga for reasons like (c) getting a Catholic education, or (d) the great sports teams, or (e) location for parents who can't commute to upper NW.

Your whole theory is based on the unproven idea that parents would happily chuck Gonzaga's Catholic education or great sports teams for the chance to attend Sidwell. I can't agree with this. At the very least, you haven't proven it, and I doubt you can.

I don't have a connection with Sidwell or Gonzaga either. But I have done a lot of statistical theory.[/quote]

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