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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Admission rates wouldn’t be useful even if they were public. I would guess that the rates for 9th at the fancy schools aren’t as low as people would guess because they get fewer applications. For example, at our well known K-8 only a couple of kids applied to Sidwell. I bet their application volume for ninth is nowhere near as high as people would guess and its admissions rate is higher. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to get into. Just the applicant pool is self selecting. [b]For K and elementary it would be a different story.[/b] [/quote]

Why would it be a different story for K and elementary? I am asking because we are applying for K[/quote]

NP. For Sidwell's Upper School, it is a very self-selecting group that will apply: kids who can handle the workload and rigor, who have academic accolades, and are the very highest performing kids in their middle schools. Sidwell is a fit for a very specific sort of student, so many families decide it is not worth their time applying there. A kid who is unlikely to get in and/or a kid who is not going to thrive in that environment is much better off applying to schools that are a better fit.

The lower school is different. Many many many more people apply because of the name, because it's not as academically intense as the upper school yet will still prepare their children for success if they go to a different school later, and because securing a spot at Sidwell for lower school means not having to go through the admissions wringer for upper school if they stay at Sidwell. When going through the K application process for DS, we found a K-8 school we [i]loved[/i], and a K-12 school which was great but we didn't love as much. We spent a lot of time weighing the fact that we'll have to go through the admission process again for upper school if we went with the K-8, vs. having a clear path all the way through 12th grade. Ultimately, we went K-8 because we felt its a better fit but I know a number of people who went K-12 [i]because[/i] they wanted that locked-in high school option.[/quote]

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