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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are Sidwell parents so insecure? Seriously.[/quote]

They have spent so much money on SFS that they need to reassure themselves it was money well spent.

Reality is that any school, any, will be a good fit for some students and not a good fit for others. Folks should have their DC in schools which are best fit.

And an unhooked child's T20/Ivy admissions chances will be better from a lower-ranked public where they can be top 5% and which has few (if any) hooked students applying to the same college. Not that DCUM wants to hear this.[/quote]

Facts:

1. Public schools in this area have more hooked students (legacies) than any of the top privates, based on sheer numbers; and

2. All of the MoCo publics combined sent six (6) students to Harvard in 2023 (out of >300 applicants). [b]GDS alone sent 6 students to Harvard last year.[/b] GDS only has about 130 students per grade. They didn’t all apply to Harvard.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

I’m sure you don’t want to hear that, huh?
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And Sidwell sent 4 c/o 2024 students to Harvard. That means that two schools (GDS and Sidwell) sent nearly twice the number of students to Harvard than the 8 listed MoCo publics combined (including the storied Blair Magnets).

Please stop pushing the false narrative that students stand a better chance at Ivies coming from public schools. The facts say otherwise. [/quote]

Yep, and the STA and NCS valedictorians last year both went to Harvard, unhooked.  The STA one got in SCEA and the NCS one got into 5+ Ivies, including H, Y and P.  These kids didn't have a long resume outside of doing extraordinarily well in high school.  You don't see this in public school. [/quote]

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