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Ok, so please educate me as to how this list helps inform anything for your child.[/quote]

A list like this would actually tell me a lot and provide my student with a lot of helpful contextual information. But all the explaining in this discussion appears to be one way. So please educate me as to why Sidwell should not provide such a list and why it would be a bad thing for them to do so.[/quote]

You haven’t explained how this list helps.  What contextual info are you talking about?[/quote]

Explanations have been provided repeatedly over the course of this discussion. You just don’t agree with them or think it would be helpful.

On the other hand, you haven’t explained why Sidwell shouldn’t provide such a list, or why it would be a bad thing for them to do so. Can you do so?[/quote]

i'm not the PP, I think the list is marginally interesting from the standpoint of how the school is doing. It's probably a loose proxy for the effectiveness of the college office as well.

However, it seems that this list, absent any context is potentially misleading. They can't tell you what student got in where, so if someone was an athletic recruit, say, you have no way of knowing. It seems very easy to draw the wrong conclusions from a list like this. Then the college office is trying to steer someone towards a more realistic set of schools but they're constantly having the list thrust in their faces.

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