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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honest question -- Is GP a glorified Gonzaga or is it really I top independent school in the same league as STA, Sidwell and Landon.[/quote]

It's more complicated than that.

GP and Gonzaga are similar and increasingly compete for some of the same students. But Gonzaga is twice the size of GP, is much more diverse and offers an urban setting/experience. Gonzaga location offers a challenge that GP's does not. But Gonzaga students learn things about city life that few other schools can offer. Both schools do a very good job with their top students.

Landon, STA and Sidwell all have different target markets and different personalities. People who send their boys to GP or Gonzaga rarely consider these other Independnets.[/quote]

[b]Not true at least for probably most native Washingtonians that attended DC private school themselves.[/b]  We consider all of the Independents and make our choice based on what we think is the best fit for our DC.  [/quote]

Sorry but it is true. If you are considering Sidwell, the chances you are also looking at GP or Gonzaga is minuscule. You can't possibly consider every independent. If you are looking for all boys and non religious, there are 2 choices in the DC area, St Albans and Landon. Religious boys, GP, Gonzaaga, St Anselms, and the Heights.

If you want a religious experience, why would you even look at Landon, Sidwell or st Albans? It makes no sense.[/quote]

Maybe for you.  I am only considering Gonzaga and STA. Don't want Sidwell because it is coed. Not very impressed with the academics at the others except St. Anselms.  Not considering St. Anselms based on the experiences of several boys I know that matriculated there recently.  And yes I have considered almost all of them  in MD and DC.  Only considered the Congressional School and Potomoc School in VA. BTW - STA is Episcopal and Sidwell is Quaker.  All of my friends and relatives here have or are doing the same.[/quote]

I was thrown by the statement "Not true at least for probably most native Washingtonians that attended DC private school themselves"

You must --- as a native Washingtonian --- understand who sends their sons to Gonzaga and how vastly different this group is from those that send their kids to St Albans? And as a result, who your son would be surrounded by at one school versus another.

I have been close to Gonzaga and GP for many years and I have never met a parent at either who had attended a private school that wasn't Catholic.  If there are graduates of these other Independent schools that are considering the school that is the best fit for their sons the answer must never be "Gonzaga" or GP because their sons aren't at either.

You surely know that Gonzaga is the one of the choices of the largely-Irish Catholic community in and around DC. Those who choose to Gonzaga may also have considered Prep or St Johns and maybe even Good Counsel, but very rarely St Albans or Landon or Sidwell. A large percentage of the Gonzaga students attended their local parish schools for grades 1 - 8 and they come from families that are practicing Catholics. But its not that they practice the Religion, its that this is part of their cultural identity.

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