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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fekkin sour grapes on this page over private schools could drown a horse.  First Potomac and now Sidwell?

NEITHER OF THESE SCHOOLS ARE THAT BIG A DEAL.

Stop obsessing over them, they won't get your kid into a college that they weren't already going to get into.  They are extremely unlikely to set them up with connections that they wouldn't have gotten through other avenues.  They are just pretty good private schools.  The NYC private school parents are chuckling about Potomac and Big 3.  Go to any top school and the population of kids from the Big 3 combined wouldn't rank top 10 as a feeder school.

You guys are just Ms. Butternut Squash... the prettiest girl in your backwater town.  You're embarrassing yourselves and your schools.

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Does lying make you feel better because you’re unable to send your children to Sidwell?

According to Niche, the nationally known Sidwell Friends School is ranked #10 in the UNITED STATES, among “Private K-12 Schools in America.” Sidwell is ranked ahead of elite NYC schools like Dalton, Trinity, Sacred Heart, Nightingale-Bamford, etc. Please don’t let your highly biased opinion interfere with facts.

Niche rankings: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-k12-schools/[/quote]

You're funny.
It's ranked 10 by niche based on niche methodology.  Last year Trinity was top 5.
If you have to rely on niche to tell you which schools any good, you probably don't actually know anything.
All those NY schools you named have 2 to 3 times the rate of Ivy+ admission rate of Sidwell.  
You're embarrassing yourself and your school.[/quote]

Since the facts don’t support your baseless claims, y’all have just decided to lie! 🤣 Dalton, Trinity, etc  may have more Ivy+ admits than Sidwell, but they also have much larger student bodies (and certain undergraduate colleges at Cornell are public, so NY residents get a tremendous admissions bump there). What they don’t have is 2x-3x the rate of Ivy+ admits than Sidwell. Percentage-wise, there’s probably a 5-8% difference.

Why don’t you actually crunch the numbers and respond with facts. The only person who should be embarrassed is you. [/quote]

/sigh How do you keep getting these things wrong?  It's all available on google.

Trinity has just over 100 every year and a bit smaller than Sidwell and getting a lot more ivy+ admissions than Sidwell.
Dalton has about 130 students in its graduating class.

You keep embarrassing yourself.  
Just take the L and move on, nobody knows who you are so the only person that knows what a provincial country bumpkin you are is you.[/quote]

🤣 you are really needing to snark babe.  Trinity's matriculation is a bear to read so I gave up and resorted to the HPM monitor they are using in the other chat... they do a bit better, but not enough to get your panties in a bunch about especially when you consider Ivies are are lot more local to NYC than they are to DC.

And just to be clear, I don't love this measurement system either since there are tons of amazing schools in this country and if your kid is going to a top private in DC or NYC, they are going to have great doors opened up for them to choose to walk through.

Anyway enjoy your time in wallowing in the DC muck!

https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-america[/quote]

I don't even know which schools count anymore.  It used to be easy way back when harvard and yale were all that counted before the rest of ivy+ became more relevant, then georgetown became important for a while, now vanderbilt seems to be having a day.  I just hope when our AI overlords come, they appreciate the rigor at Trinity.

As far as the DC muck is concerned, the difference between Trinity and sidwell is much larger than the difference between sidwell and TJ.  And TJ is a public school.  A FREE public school.  Sure they are selective but so is sidwell, allegedly.  You can't trumpet and difference between sidwell and TJ without at least acknowledging a larger difference between sidwell and Trinity.

Yet Sidwell parents seem to be doing their darndest to prove they are better than a FREE public school.[/quote]

Sidwell is superior to most schools in the U.S., including TJ (unless you’re destined to be a socially awkward STEM major at a school with word Technology in the name). Superior college matriculations, teachers, facilities, location, national name recognition, and student body. You will simply have to deal. [/quote]

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