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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent here with two Sidwell alum.  College counselor is a miserable job.  They're the last one in the food chain of a 4-year program and held overly responsible for getting every student into the college of his/her (his/her parents') dream.  They do their best to match the students and their achievements with the schools they believe would be a good fit.  Then the students and/or parents lean in with, "What?!!!!  Not Harvard/Yale/Stanford/Penn/etc.?  We didn't spend $175,000 to only go to Muhlenberg/Elon/Franklin & Marshall/etc."

Combine the student population of all the seniors at all the DMV private AND public schools and that's the number who are competing for the small # of slots that a college/university will allocate to the DMV area.[/quote]

umm, i'd be pissed if my private school kid ended up at Elon. [/quote]

That is why none of the DC privates including sidwell discloses year by year college placement stats. So you can guess how many ends up at Elon after paying nearly 200k for 4 years. [/quote]

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