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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The top students at any of these schools will do the best with college admissions. I guess you could argue maybe the tippy top student at GDS or Sidwell might do slightly better than the same kid from Potomac, but if you look at other threads that have students in both schools, most Cathedral parents will tell you that the curriculum is very similar if not identical at both schools even though others would like to argue that they are Sooo different. It could also just be a difference in legacy status at one school versus another. Bottom line-[b]if your kid would be at the top of SSSAS and towards the middle or bottom at Cathedral/GDS/Sidwell/Potomac-guess where your kid should go?? [/b]Assuming college admission is the end game rather than the school experience and atmosphere.[/quote]
That wasn't my question.  If you compare apples to apples, is it your contention that the (top/middle/bottom) SSSAS students will end up with similar college admissions as those at the (top/middle/bottom) from Sidwell or GDS?[/quote]

In general, I'd say the middle at Sidwell or GDS does better than the top at SSSAS.  And to add insult to injury, the top at T.C. does better than the top at SSSAS.  [/quote]

This is not really true.  The class size at TC is HUGE, and at SSSAS it's like 100 kids.  If you compare the top 20 students at TC to SSAS, yes, TC "does better."  But if you compare the top 5%, they both do well.  And if you compare the bottom 25%, well, of course SSAS is significantly better than TC![/quote]

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