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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]Being surrounded by the correct peer group so one can marry well is one of the desired outcomes. The number of inter-SFS marriages is substantial[/quote]
How boring? Almost as boring as those who are homeless, in jail, or Trump. [/quote]

It may be boring for you, but many people aren’t interested in exploring the adventures of struggle and poverty. [/quote]

They are missing out in life. They are missing out figuring out what matters to them.  Or they will become Luigi who murdered the CEO. [/quote]

Lol—using an exception to try to prove a rule. The number of people born into poverty who turn to a life of violent crime dwarfs the Luigi’s of the world many times over. [/quote]

Good. Go to sidwell and pay $55K then. Good luck and hope your kids go to Harvard. So what?  Still have a possibility to live a boring life.  [/quote]

The irony is that even at $55K/year only a handful of SFS kids in any given class will end up at an Ivy+ and vast majority of them are legacies.

It's a great education with an excellent peer group. But vast majority of SFS kids have no shot at an Ivy+. If that's really important to a family/kid, there are other ways to get in that will yield higher odds. [/quote]

I know tons of Sidwell alums who didn’t attend Ivy+ universities. Instead, they graduated from T15 to T50 universities (true for the majority of Sidwell alums). Their Sidwell education helped them to excel academically at these institutions, so they ended up attending and graduating from law/med/business school Ivies. Then onto highly successful careers in their chosen fields.

I’d say an undergraduate degree from Emory/NYU/BC, then a JD, MBA, or MD from Harvard/Yale/Stanford/etc is the objective success most Sidwell parents and students are seeking.[/quote]

This "an undergraduate degree from Emory/NYU/BC, then a JD, MBA, or MD from Harvard/Yale/Stanford/et" seems achievable by a school without walls students or a Winston Churchill students. Typical american upper middle class life. Most Chevy Chase/NW DC children have a good chance for this. No need for Sidwell. [/quote]

It may “seem” achievable by those public school students, but they often do not make it to Ivy+ graduate programs. That’s often due to a lack of money for graduate school and/or poorer academic performance at schools like Emory/NYU/BC because they’re not as academically prepared as the Sidwell students. That’s when Sidwell’s value becomes readily apparent. [/quote]

Really? I teach in a non-Ivy college and every year we have students enroll in Ivy graduate programs including law and medicine.  I graduated myself from an Ivy Grad program in science and most of my classmates graduated from public colleges and most do not grow up in very expensive high schools.

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Same. I went to an SEC school and then went Ivy for grad school. [/quote]

**Sigh**
It’s unfortunate that I have to explain the obvious (to public school graduates), but here goes. Approximately 10% of high school students attend/graduate from private high schools. That means that about NINETY PERCENT (90%) of high school graduates graduated from public schools. Based on sheer numbers, there are more public school graduates.

That said, private school graduates (especially those from elite private high schools) are over represented at highly selective universities (both undergraduate and graduate). That means that Big 3 graduates and the like at T5/10/15/20 universities and Ivy+ graduate schools are over represented (based on PERCENTAGES).

Do not argue this point with me. Argue with the social scientists/researchers who have established this as fact. [/quote]

Sidwell’s value never becomes apparent if you don’t have the funds for it or for Ivy tuition.  The over representation of private school kids in larger more expensive private schools is self fulfilling ideal.  It has very little to do with student intelligence or capability.[/quote]

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