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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you obviously have a personal bone to pick with Potomac.  This thread is absurd, divisive, and one-sided.  Having gone through private school admissions twice with kids, including Potomac, and being an involved parent volunteer in a DC private, I don't see Potomac as being better or worse than any of the others in terms of administration or student diversity.  The top DC metro area private schools such as Potomac, Sidwell, STA/NCS, Maret, Landon, etc. -- they all had gender and racial diversity among students and faculty that is generally reflective of the population of the DC metro area (which includes DC suburban counties, such as Mont. Co., PG County, Charles County, Arlington, Alexandria, etc.).  At the school I'm familiar with, the non-white diverse percentage (black/Asian/Hispanic/Middle Eastern, etc.) is over 40%; the black student population makes up about half of that -- @20%.  In my experience, the racial/ethnic group that might feel underrepresented (students or faculty) is Hispanics -- there seem to be very few Hispanics in the student or admin of DC private schools.  By the way, in the DC metro area, according to the most recent census, the black population is 25% of the total population; Hispanics 15%; Asians 10%.  Whites are 46% of the DC metro population.[/quote]

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