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[quote=baltimoreguy][quote=Anonymous][quote=baltimoreguy][quote=Anonymous][quote=baltimoreguy]For girls, Baltimore is the single most saturated private school market in the country - when you compare the number of spaces to the number of school age girls in the area.

Bryn Mawr, RPCS, SPSG, Garrison Forest, Oldfields, St. Timothy's, Friends, McDonogh, Park, Calvert, Cathedral, St. James, NDP, Maryvale, Mercy, IND, and whatever others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

For boys, it's top 3.

Since 2008-09, it's been a bit of a buyers' market - especially for those not counting on financial aid. I think that's very healthy. Instead of sending your kids wherever they can get in, you can send them to the school that's the best fit. And with so many different excellent schools, there really is a school for pretty much every kind of kid.

That's why I'm not crazy about seeing various people running down McDonogh, or Friends, or wherever. Just be thankful that with so many choices, we can all find the place that's right for us, and recognize that what's right for us might be very different from what's right

Even in my own family, what was right for my diligent Type A DS was very different from what was right for free-spirited DD. They are both thriving in two completely different environments - and I feel fortunate that we had such a wide variety of schools to choose from to ensure a great fit for both.[/quote]

Don't understand your point,  half the schools you listed as gril's schools are co ed.  There are way more than three boy's schools.   No on ever refers to a top three in baltimore and if they did, it would most likely be bryn mawr/gilman, park, and mcdonough for college placements.[/quote]

I didn't list those as girls schools, I listed them as schools that girls can attend, adding to the very sizable inventory of private school spaces available to girls. For boys, I meant it's one of the top 3 most saturated markets in the country for private schools - when you divide the number of available spaces by the number of school-age boys. [/quote]

I take it you didn't actually do this calculation, it is just your opinion.  Some of the schools you list are boarding schools and take kids from outside the Baltimore area.  Some draw from Baltimore, Howard, Harford and Carroll counties, others from some mix of those counties plus Baltimore city.  [/quote]

I didn't do this calculation, I am quoting a presentation I heard by the executive director of AIMS, the Association of Independent Maryland Schools. While some of the schools above are partially boarding, all also offer day enrollment and therefore count in the inventory of private school seats available to students in the Baltimore area.

When people talk about the Baltimore area, they are commonly referring to the Baltimore MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), which includes all the counties you mention as well as a couple others. Just like when people talk about Washington, they are also including Fairfax County, Montgomery County, etc.

Not sure why my point - that Baltimore parents and students have an exceedingly wide array of school choices, as borne out by the [u]FACT[/u] that we live in one of the nation's most saturated private school markets - is causing such contention. According to the way OMB defines our MSA vs. Washington, we have fewer than one-third the population and yet seem to have almost the same number of school choices. Which is one reason the drama surrounding private schools here seems to be so much less than in Washington (present company excluded, perhaps).

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