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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More on the letter....and role of parents vs students

https://www.today.com/parents/college-counselor-warns-parents-stop-sabotaging-other-kids-t151612[/quote]

This letter makes me think of the classic salesman who overpromises and the poor operations person who has to tell the customer the salesman overpromised.

All these schools market on ivy league dreams, and then guidance is the one that gets arrows for delivery the truth.

Caveat emptor.[/quote]

Not a Sidwell parent, but Sidwell and other schools absolutely DO NOT market on ivy league dreams.  It is supposed to be about the secondary school experience and skills developed for the future.  If families are viewing these schools as a way into certain colleges, that is their assumption and their problem if it doesn't pan out.  Sidwell doesn't even publish college placement results and other schools give broad brush strokes.  They do this for a reason - some accuse them of lack of transparency but it has more to do with not setting up false expectations or "marketing on ivy league dreams."[/quote]

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