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[quote=Anonymous]The problem is that people are claiming that everyone gets in therefore they assume the quality of the program is not good and/or that the kids are not smart enough to get into schools with supposedly more selective admissions. Facts can prove this incorrect on all levels.

The school attracts families looking for specific traits in a school. It will not attract the number of applicants that schools like Sidwell and Beauvoir attract. It is not trying to attract those numbers. So yes, the admissions are not as selective as some other schools that go up to 12 grade or that feed into these schools. However, there are kids that get waitlisted and rejected every year from PDS. The numbers have no relationship to the quality of the program.

As kids graduate after 2nd grade, they go to a variety of schools afterward, including some of the most selective schools in the area. If the program was not high quality and the students were not smart enough, they would not get accepted to top private schools after leaving PDS.

Two years ago, there were 6-7 kids from PDS accepted to Sidwell for 3rd grade. There are only 12-15 new spots available for incoming 3rd graders at Sidwell. I would say a 50% + yield rate from a single school is excellent outplacement results.  But those type of facts are always ignored by people who want to attack the school.

Why can’t we all just stick to providing perspectives on schools we have actual experience with rather than bad mouthing schools we don’t actually know anything about. [/quote]

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