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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am trying to figure out why this is 300+ posts? Would other k-12s garner such wildly different and polarized opinions? What is it about this school? [/quote]

The other most active thread in this forum right now is exactly the same length and about NCS. [/quote]

For the same price and vastly superior college admissions results I’ll take NCS. I think that is the point many people  are making directly and indirectly on this thread.  [/quote]
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NCS has superior college admissions results. As an SSSAS parent, I’m not going to try to dispute that and I don’t know anyone who would!

BUT - look at this thread and then look at the thread on NCS. The NCS parents are debating the minutiae of 3.9 vs 3.8 GPAs and the effect it has on admissions. Their values are quite clear: they want their kids to attend the BEST college possible - and by best they don’t mean best for their child, but most highly ranked. They bemoan girls who worked “really, really, really hard” in high school “just to end up at Syracuse.” They share a common goal - get your girl to work crazy hard and get her to earn the reward of a name-brand university. (God knows how those girls feel if luck has it that they don’t earn a spot at a top college.)

The St Stephen’s thread is focused on what makes their kid happy and balanced. It’s focused on support and community.

It’s just a vastly different vibe.

I’m VERY familiar with the NCS vibe, and it’s what I grew up with (didn’t go to NCS but a similar school…). I understand why parents want “the best” for their kids. But there are also lots of parents (of varying backgrounds and with kids of different abilities) who want a solid, rigorous education without a parent community that is so obsessed with college outcomes that they post about it on DCUM like the girls are race horses and not humans.

That’s what makes St Stephen’s unique in the DC area. It’s a strong school that can cater to kids with a wide range of abilities and get good (even if not amazing) college results while prioritizing the well-being of kids far above anything else.[/quote]

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