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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Got into GDS and Maret at 9th.  Chose Maret.  GDS seemed too disorganized and kind of frumpy.  Clear focus on kids at the tip top but the next level of kids seemed to be ignored, and I mean that GDS admissions/parent open house for admits indicated that certain things are reserved for top students.  My kid would actually be closer to top i suspect but it was off putting.  Maret seemed like a community that is inclusive and as a small school it needs to allow a lot of flexibility in participating in activities -- sports, theater, music, debate, model UN etc.[/quote]

Congratulations on being admitted to both schools and on selecting Maret.  I am sorry that you got the wrong impression of GDS at the open house.  I am a GDS parent, as well as a parent at other top private schools, so I can compare and speak to this a bit.  As I posted above, Georgetown Day School is a community of many students with very different talents, strengths, interests, and abilities. Yes the school is very strong in its advanced math and science courses and electives.  But it is also rich in the Arts, Music, and Theater, in English and Writing, college-type seminar courses in History, Humanities, Language, and the Social Sciences. GDS, more so than any of the other private schools my children have attended, does not put its students on the same road.  GDS encourages its students to make independent decisions and to forge their own path that is true to who they are.  Not every student wants to, or clearly needs to, pursue the most rigorous classes in any one area. The school does an excellent job in serving a very diversely-talented student body, and GDS recognizes that there are multiple paths open to its students -- sometimes to very same goals (e.g., top colleges can be entered by being an awarded writer, a strong mathematician, or a talented actor and director), and sometimes to very different ones.[/quote]

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