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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's getting increasingly difficult for top private schools to get anyone admitted to top colleges outside of legacies and athletes.  I honestly wonder what the future holds about the relevance of these schools when this is the case.
They're very much on their way to becoming irrelevant and obsolete and it's a shame because the actual education is so superior to public. But honestly the skill sets they are so good at teaching (reading, thinking, writing) are also becoming pretty irrelevant in the job market thanks to AI, etc.

I say this as a private school mom who sent her first two kids through public. The ED results from our private this year are horrible, outside of legacy kids as this is a class with very few parents who went to elite colleges (random chance). When people look at a school (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, Holton etc) and say "oh they're doing exceptionally well" or "20XX was a great year!"--it's ALL about the legacy and VIP percentage(s). NO, not every elite admit is a legacy but if you look at the performance of a class as a whole this will definitely ring true.

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I’m an US Sidwell parent, and that’s not true for Sidwell. Most of Sidwell’s non-recruited athletic admits this year are not legacies at these Ivy+/T15 universities. [/quote]

I'm not even a Sidwell parent based on who I know in the class. Two of three Stanford admits are rowing.  Princeton, Brown, Penn and at least one Cornell are legacies or siblings.  Come on.  You need to be honest.  [/quote]

Does Sidwell have more legacies and athletic recruits than other top privates around here? Sidwell is doing noticeably better than the other schools right now! Its results rival Harvard-Westlake’s. Can anyone come up with other excuses for Sidwell’s admissions results?[/quote]

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