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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I don't really see a non-Potomac parent considering Potomac comparable to the Big 3...[/quote]

The whole idea of a Big 3 is silly.  We were a non Potomac parent , but then our DS had the choice between a supposed Big 3 and Potomac  and he wound up choosing Potomac. It’s about fit. Potomac has a very good academic reputation even if many DC-centric DCUMers don’t want to admit that. [/quote]

I don't disagree that school is about fit, but claiming you were a non-potomac parent before ultimately choosing Potomac doesn't make you a non-potomac parent comparing to the Big 3 😂 [/quote]

I’m guessing you’re a teenager that is posting on a parent forum for some reason. I’m not “claiming” anything.   Technically I am still not a Potomac parent since DS doesn’t start there until the fall. I’m also not comparing it to the Big 3.  I am saying it has an excellent reputation. [/quote]

Excellent reputation according to whom? What is the reputation you have in mind? [/quote]

According to their college admits for 2026 -take a look. [/quote]

College admits equates to solid reputation? Didn’t know that was the sum of a person. [/quote]

Oh come on. It’s not and you know it but my response is directed to the posters on this thread who insist they are right on which schools qualify as “ big 3” or “big 5” and anyone using that term is presumably talking about academic rigor which is generally measured ( for better or worse) by a school’s ability to send their students to top colleges and universities. By that measure, anyone suggesting that Potomac isn’t in that running should look at their college admits for at least the past decade, with this year being particularly impressive. [/quote]

Hard to disagree and I think that is why Potomac parents get so upset and bothered.  The Big 3 represents a choice set of equal value, but different child personality that DC families decide between.  Frankly, Potomac just is not part of that set and statistics don't change that fact.[/quote]

The only true “set” I can ascertain from years of reading DCUM posts ( yea I shouldn’t admit that) anout the big 3 or big 5 is that the school be located in NW DC. That isn’t much of a value set imo. And having been in the independent school world with two kids ( one who is about to graduate) for a decade plus,  it’s obvious that ALL of these schools are similar and so are the parents. Some are annoying, some flaunt their wealth, some are down to earth and some are not. Anyone targeting Potomac as somehow attracting a different kind of parent likely has some other axe to grind. [/quote]

Look you walk on the campus of Sidwell/GDS/the close and try to claim Potomac is Big 3 you are gonna get sideways looks.  You claim any of those 3 as a parent of one of the others and claim Big 3 they say "oh yea" because there is a shared understanding.  That's what makes them the Big 3.  It isn't me claiming, it is self recognizing group.[/quote]

Shared understanding of what exactly?  I know parents at every single school you’ve mentioned, including Potomac. Literally every single one. And I also sent a child to one of these NW schools. The only people I’ve ever heard even use the term big 3 are from this board. Everyone out in the real world, you know those without some weird hang up about Potomac being in VA ( you know the NW DC crowd who don’t “do” VA) include Potomac in any critical discussion of top schools in the area. [/quote]

You don’t need to lie. I couldn’t care less about VA, and none of the parents at our Big3 ever mention Potomac’s name when talking about schools. I definitely can’t remember the last time I heard someone say the name “Potomac” out loud to refer to the school. From what I’ve read on this board, it seems like Potomac parents are desperate to prove something about themselves/their kids and desperately want to be included in NW DC and MoCo discussions. It’s not happening - and it turns everyone off from the school.[/quote]

For someone who couldn’t care less about Potomac, you seem to have spent  a lot of time in this thread espousing your opinions about the school. Why is that?  What need in your life is going unmet? [/quote]

Dear Potomac mom,

That PP was shutting down the other poster’s fallacy that everyone groups Potomac with the top DC private schools. In reality, Potomac only occupies the headspace of NOVA families, unless the Potomac moms force the rest of us to remember their existence by boosting it on DCUM.

Hope this helps.[/quote]

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