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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell or STA for overall quality of experience and quality of life?  Kid is smart, funny, kind and sporty but not a D1 recruit-to-be.  Wants a great high school experience. 
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Very different communities. The parents and kids are very different. A family that is happy at one would not necessarily be happy at the other. There are threads on here about the communities and their differences and similarities. [/quote]

To be fair, we’ve read posts comparing the two, and one thing that is often said is “the same kinds of kids go to both.” In fact, that might actually be a quote from one of the posts in the comparison threads, and it gets a lot of +‘s. [/quote]

Big difference between the two. STA is far more conservative than Sidwell. Sidwell has to be one of the most liberal schools  in the DC area that embraces diversity, social activism, and LGBTQ. You don't see the same at STA. [/quote]
Sidwell's liberalness is overblown. Is it a place that is comfortable hiring, retaining and making Black/LGBTQ people feel welcome? Yes. Representation matters at Sidwell, but it is not otherwise a "left wing" school. In fact, it is a little conservative in that New England yankee way. If you want a school that promotes social activism, that is GDS.

To analogize these schools to Ivies, StA/NCS is Princeton, Sidwell is Yale and GDS is Brown.[/quote]

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