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[quote=Anonymous]No Sidwell experience here, but have GDS experience. We were happy with the CC service at GDS and think they do a great job (honestly). But much of what is being said here about Sidwell resonates and is similar to GDS. The policies around transparency (no Navience, very vague hints at what is or isn’t reasonable) always seemed designed to thwart the most unreasonable, unrealistic parents, and only served to create anxiety and resentment in everyone else. I understood why they took that approach, but it often came off as condescending. But it also served to shield the kids from the expectations of their parents, and if we are being honest, that’s not always such a bad thing.

Someone above mentioned that people should understand that going to one of these schools will not give them a leg up in college admissions. I really don’t think that’s true. It does give a leg up, just maybe not the leg up you want. If your goal is HYPSM, then yes you are correct—its a crapshoot. But if you look a the full breadth of college admissions, the outcomes to the second half of the top ten to twenty are quite good, and that is not all due to hooks. People want to believe that they could have gone to Whitman and still gotten into Cornell, Chicago, WashU, Vandy, Tufts etc. (to name a few), but you don’t know that, and you would have had to take eighteen APs in the process.  I think people need to redefine what success looks like.  Attending a top twenty school instead of a top five school is still an excellent outcome, provided that such school is right for your kid, and when the dust settles in May, these schools will be sending a lot their graduating classes to those schools.[/quote]

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