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[quote=Anonymous]And fast forward to college and the OP will be obsessing about whether it is OK for her kid to go to Yale versus Harvard or Princeton, because Yale is only #2 in US News. This is a pretty ridiculous (worrying that GDS isn't academically strong enough?!!) and potentially damaging (to her poor kid) set of attitudes, particularly if this bad already.  If she were asking about some other aspect of the two schools that actually is different (i.e. how religious is Sidwell-will my kid/family feel weird with the Quaker stuff, or "we are pretty socially conservative, is the emphasis on gay rights/acceptance at GDS intrusive enough to make us uncomfortable", or even "will my kid end up offending my formal friends and family by calling them by their first names after learning to call teachers by their first names at GDS") that would make some sense, but truly to worry about any significant difference in the academics of the two schools in terms of NMSFs and college acceptances for a kid that is in PreK is just crazy (and as one PP said, the numbers for both those measures are not significantly different, likewise the Cathedral schools, would argue GDS/Sidwell/StA/NCS and Maret and Holton are in the same academic range and any kid is going to be challenged by HS at all of them, and have similar college admission chances, so the choices for which is the best fit is going to come down to other factors besides academics).  [/quote]

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