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GDS is the “easiest” to get into out of the three   :lol:  … but arguably, it has the most impressive alumni list. It would be easy to feel like a loser at any of these schools though …

Sidwell (7% admit rate)
"Sidwell Friends School alumni"

A
	•	Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
	•	Alida Anderson
	•	Damali ayo
B
	•	William Bayer
	•	Jon Bernthal
	•	Tom Bernthal
	•	David G. Bradley
C
	•	Setsuko, Princess Chichibu
	•	Sonya Clark
	•	Chelsea Clinton
	•	Tricia Nixon Cox
D
	•	John Dickerson (journalist)
	•	Giselle Donnelly
E
	•	Margaret Edson
	•	Julie Nixon Eisenhower
F
	•	Dan Froomkin
G
	•	Doug Gansler
	•	Ana Gasteyer
	•	Olivia Gentile
	•	Charles Gibson
	•	Walter Gilbert
	•	Anand Giridharadas
	•	Daniel S. Goldman
	•	Hanna Holborn Gray
H
	•	Michael Heller (law professor)
	•	Tony Horwitz
K
	•	John Katzenbach
	•	Philip S. Khoury
L
	•	Mark Lesko
	•	Charles Lindbergh
M
	•	Ellen McLaughlin
	•	Tracye McQuirter
	•	Nana Meriwether
N
	•	Bill Nye
O
	•	Malia Obama
	•	Sasha Obama
	•	Eliza Orlins
R
	•	Archibald Roosevelt
S
	•	Omar Soliman
	•	Steven D. Stark
	•	Lorin Stein
T
	•	Katherine Tai
	•	Merle Thorpe Jr.
	•	Walter Nathan Tobriner
V
	•	Gore Vidal
W
	•	Vanessa Wruble

Maret  (10-16% admit rate)
Notable alumni

•	Peter Matthew Bauer: Musician
	•	Sean Davis: Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
	•	Luka Garza: Professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons
	•	Sonja Lyubomirsky: Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The How of Happiness
	•	J. Lorand Matory: Anthropology Professor at Duke University
	•	Christof Putzel: Journalist
	•	Theodore Shapiro: American composer best known for film scores, including State and Main, 13 Going on 30, Along Came Polly, The Devil Wears Prada, Fun with Dick and Jane, etc.[4]
	•	Yeardley Smith: Actress best known for voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons
	•	Josh Stamberg: Actor
	•	Rosalind Wiseman: Author of New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, released in 2002, was the basis of the 2004 film Mean Girls.[11]

GDS (16%)
Notable alumni
	•	Elliot Ackerman, decorated veteran and author
	•	James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong
	•	Kelly AuCoin, actor
	•	Schuyler Bailar, first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer[10]
	•	Jake Blount, musician, scholar and activist.
	•	Sean Fine, documentary filmmaker, best known for the Academy Award-nominated War/Dance
	•	Ruben Fleischer, film director
	•	Franklin Foer, The New Republic editor
	•	Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and professor of creative writing at New York University
	•	Joshua Foer, freelance journalist and author of Moonwalking with Einstein
	•	Gina Gionfriddo, playwright and television writer. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
	•	Jonathan Glickman, film producer and studio executive.[16]
	•	Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer prize winning American author
	•	Matt Jackson, holder of the 5th longest winning streak on Jeopardy
	•	Judy Kuhn, Tony-nominated theatre actress, known for her originating roles in Les Misérables, Chess, and Fun Home, as well as being the singing voice for Pocahontas in the Disney film Pocahontas
	•	Ben Mankiewicz, host of Turner Classic Movies producer and actor
	•	Thurgood Marshall Jr., partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, chairman of the Board of the Governors USPS, Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet at Clinton Administration
	•	Judith Martin, journalist, author, and etiquette authority
	•	Sam Means, comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[24] 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation; producer on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
	•	Guy Picciotto, singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist in Fugazi and Rites of Spring
	•	Members of Gray Matter (band).
	•	Alice Randall, American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
	•	Jamie Raskin, elected to House of Representatives from Maryland
	•	David Reich, geneticist and professor in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute, whose research studies compare the human genome with those of chimpanzees, Neanderthals and Denisovans
	•	Noah Robbins, American actor
	•	Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States
	•	Kevin Sheekey, political operative
	•	Ethan Slater, actor, singer, writer, and composer, best known for his Tony nominated role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical SpongeBob SquarePants
	•	Sarah Stillman, journalist and winner of the 2012 George Polk Award, the 2012 Hillman Prize, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
	•	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author and activist
	•	Olivia Wilde, film and television actress, starred in House
	•	Sophia Yilma, journalist and politician[/quote]

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