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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on DCUM it seems like they are looking for kids with obnoxious parents?  [/quote]

This isn’t exactly true but it kinda is.  Potomac admissions are a total mystery.  Kids get in who most think don’t have the same credentials or better than kids who dont get it.  But start with the proposition that in most instances, everyone who applies is qualified based on prior admissions at Potomac. Potomac doesn’t always take the best grades.  It doesn’t always take the athlete. It doesn’t always take the class president.  But then sometimes it does.  This leaves everyone who gets in feeling like they really deserved it and everyone who gets rejected feeling like they got screwed.  I noted above some parents in my NoVa private school social circle will not even have their kids apply there (or didn’t).  And that is because it can be a sad and cruel process for no really good reason.  The kids are mystified, the parents are mystified, and it does nothing to help Potomac’s reputation because for every A plus stellar athlete that gets in, there is a totally average kid who also got in and 5 amazing top notch kids who didn’t.  So then people look to money or connections or sibling or whatever.  It feels rigged. But for the parents whose kids got in, they want to believe (and probably should) that their kid got in because he or she was just a tiny bit better.  And the smugness cannot be hidden.  What they don’t know is how many people know the reality and how the bloom is way off the rose and has been for a while. But no one will say this the parent of a Potomac kid.  It has a great campus and good location for already wealthy people or people going to DC.  And that is kind of the sum total of why it became desirable.  But its reputation in NoVA is about equal now.  People who want it and people who would never.  For what it’s worth.  [/quote]

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