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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not that those type of people do not qualify as "DC Celebrities" (note to the Industry, if you are looking for your next reality flop), they certainly do.  The original post posited that this "DC Celebrity" status is enough to merit special admissions consideration and success in the Big 3, but it certainly does not.[/quote]

A number of posters, including former students at those schools, feel otherwise. [/quote]

Really?

So you are saying that current and former parents and students at the Big 3 Schools feel that their certain students who are the children of prominent (if not celebrity) Washington appointees, journalists, politicos, politicians, lawyers, lobbyists, and businesswomen are given preferential admissions (admitted without the qualifications?) and in-school treatment (better grades or priority class placement?) at those schools, by virtue of the fact that their parent(s) are well-known inside the Beltway?

It is good to know that this is your opinion, but it is not mine.  I believe that it is easier for a school to turn down an unqualified candidate during the admissions process, with the true and polite, "we had a very large number of excellent applicants this year", than to have to uncomfortably counsel the child of prominent Washingtonian out of the school several years later because they are not doing well.

Please assume that the 5 percent of "DC celebrity" children at your Big 3 schools are there for the same reason that every other student is, because they earned the right to be there on their own merits.[/quote]

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