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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell for the rigorous, college prep critical thinking and rigorous classes.

That said, when it comes to college, the students are competing for the same spots. So that pits students against their friends.

I would think a really good student at WALLs could get into a top IVY or a top competitive school maybe even have a better chance than going to Sidwell unless the student has a legacy or athletic hook.

It's just that there are so many good students at Sidwell, with powerful parents and connected parents and so many parents with legacy to certain schools, that no matter how good a student your child is, he or  she will be up against those kids when competing for college spots.

Whereas at WALLS, College admissions, appreciate a public school kid, plus your child can take many APs and they cannot take those at Sidwell because APs are not offered, mostly because every class is an AP level of rigor.

But said well, will better prepare your child to be successful in college, as most private DMV schools will, than public school

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This mantra by private school parents  in fact an inaccurate and somewhat fanciful view of who attends DMV schools like Walls.  The students at Walls parents also went to Harvard and Yale and Swarthmore and blah blah blah.  And you get the rich families who just, I know this is nuts to people on here, believe in public schools. I get that you will have fewer really big donors, but even schools like Sidwell have actually very few of these families (like less than five) because the $ here in the DMV just isn’t big get your kid into college level donor money.

Moreover, the notion that the Big3s elimination of APs has somewhat really hurt those kids college admissions is also belied by them schools college outcomes after that decision.  (Note: Big3 kids did not take a hit.)[/quote]

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