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[quote=Anonymous]PP 12:02 here, responding to the question about my prior reference to "interesting international families."  Although there are indeed many international families in DC, they are not the majority of the admissions pool so an international background can still be seen as a "plus" factor from a diversity standpoint (albeit a modest one).  My word "interesting" is inexact, but remember schools are looking to bring in students that will add to the educational experience of all and there is a lot of interest in global education.  For upper school admissions, if the student had been educated abroad for some years (and looked to have the tools to do well), our admissions committee thought they might bring some interesting perspective to their classmates.  This is less of a focus for Pre-K or K admissions, of course -- there it was generally a view that a broad cross-section of families, including some with international ties, contacts, perspective, can enrich the overall composition of the class.  But there wasn't a list of "boring" countries that didn't count! ("Oh, dear me, Latvia?  How dull.")  [/quote]

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