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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell seems to get the most impressive college acceptance results out of any DMV private school.
So if that is very important to you, you are better off sending your kids to Sidwell for HS rather than NCS [/quote]

Just not true.  Not to say they are not fine results but they don’t really stand out against the other great schools.  [/quote]

All they almost all had hooks, 
3 Northwestern admits but all URM. 
most Ivy admits had 2 hooks: legacy plus child of a VIP, URM plus legacy. 
These kids were born on third base--Ivy is in their DNA; it didn't take Sidwell to get them there. [/quote]

Too bad for the unhooked non URMs.  Their ancestors (and parents) should have used their hook (white skin) when non URMs couldn’t.  Then their children would also be legacies at these schools (shrug).[/quote]

Being an urm minority is not a hook. Stop this narrative. If it were such a hook, these groups wouldn’t be underrepresented. Find someone else to blame and start with yourself.[/quote]

It's a hook in that the standards are lower. [/quote]

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