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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yup, 30 to 40 % admit rate is quite distinct from 10 to 20 %.[/quote]

But what school in the area has a 10-20% admit rate?  I think you need to compare apples to apples.  If you live in DC and you don't want to send your child to boarding, what schools completely overshadow St. Albans?  Are there a lot of them?[/quote]

I am a big STA fan, but have seen some numbers in past years and Sidwell is numerically fairly significantly more competitive.  It is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, however, because Sidwell gets huge application numbers for Pre-K and K, and there are more spots for those grade levels at Beauvoir, the STA feeder elementary school.  By the high school application stage, Sidwell does still get proportionally more applicants for every available space, in large part because an additional 50% of the population is eligible to apply there as opposed to single sex St. Albans, but I cannot remember the numbers.  My sense is that there is some self-selection into different pools -- some families don't want STA because of the Episcopalian religious component or single-sex, while others seek it out for those elements or for its more traditional structure in some ways (dress code, family style lunch), and that although Sidwell is more competitive on paper, the "qualifications" of the graduating classes at STA and Sidwell end up pretty much in the same place.  [/quote]

Hey, you sound pretty fair and balanced.  What are you doing on this site?  [/quote]

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