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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nice school for kids who don't get in elsewhere[/quote]

I think this is a good thing and assume you did not intend to be negative.  All the kids I know who went there got into good colleges and are doing well.  There are many distinguished alums in our community who did fine coming out of SJC.[/quote]

My thinking on people's reason for choosing SJC may be mainly the fact that it is coed. If you think about the alternatives in the DC metro area, they are mainly single sex institutions like Gonzaga, Georgetown Prep, Visitation, Holy Cross.  I am talking closer in schools...not places like Good Counsel, etc., which are too far out and not worth the commute. [/quote]

There are over 50 elementary schools feeding into ADW/Catholic high schools in the area. For many the commute to Gonzaga is much worse than to SJC or GC.

While some kids are okay sitting the bench on a nationally ranked team, others want to play. Also, many kids want to "get away from" some kids in their K-8th grade class and may simply choose to not go to the school the stronger personalities chose, some kids follow a few friends, some pick their parents school, or the one their cousins attend, or the one their cousins don't attend, some want to be with a sibling (who needs the Binilde program), some don't like city schools, some love the city, some like the diversity, some are scared by the diversity, some want an ipad and technology, some like books/lecture and memorization, often it comes down to which shadow day was better.... you really can't boil it down to one reason.

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