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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to know someone.  If you don’t, try to impress an athletic coach maybe.[/quote]

This is not true.

OP, I wonder if the individual sport was a negative for your friend. They are a small school and so they don’t want to give waivers for the sports requirements. They need students to participate in the athletics and extracurricular programs at the school, not be a fencing superstar on their own.

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A recent Potomac grad was a fencer in last summer’s Olympics, actually. [/quote]

A fencer who also goes to Princeton and was an academic superstar at Potomac - same grad class as my kid. Many (most) of the athletes at Potomac are also academic heavy hitters too. The suggestion of bitter posters that only athletes get in at the expense of academics is laughable and just comes off as bitter.  Lots of kids at Potomac from DC a d MD who chose it over GDS and Sidwell too. Those if you whose kids didn’t get in need to stop pulling down those that did and the school just yo make yourselves feel better. Potomac is absolutely the equal of the top DC privates, anyone with kids at both knows this. [/quote]

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