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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GDS is known nationally. Similar to Sidwell. Maret is a local school with less cache if that matters. It is not in the same category as GDS/Sidwell/Potomac. We do through this every year and every year, stats show us that this is correct.  Plus...Whittle thing is just strange.[/quote]

None of the DC schools are really known nationally. Only the New England boarding schools (Exeter, Andover, St. Paul's, Deerfield, etc.), Elite NY day schools (Horace Mann, Trinity, Dalton, Collegiate, etc.) and Harvard-Westlake have a real "national" profile.

[b]Sidwell is only known because of the Obamas/Clinton[/b]

The schools this forum obsesses over are just cute local schools for children upper-middle class lawyers, consultants, and lobbyists. The true "elites" don't live in DC unless they're in the White House. [/quote]

I’m not a Sidwell parent, but the Sidwell haters are real!

It doesn’t matter WHY a school is nationally known. It just matters that it’s nationally known—and Sidwell fits the bill. I heard about Sidwell, before I was married and had children, when I lived in Los Angeles. It’s been written about in newspapers from across the country and the world.[/quote]

DP. Actually Episcopal and Madeira are national known. Both are boarding school that have a long history of students coming from out of state. Many families from other states have a tradition of sending kids to these schools and make plans to send their kid there. So you can talk to people in Richmond, New York, Charleston, New Orleans, etc and they will know Episcopal high school. Sidwell not so much.

Sidwell is not well known outside of the DC area. The Obama and Clinton cachet was big in the DC area but it was a long time ago and few people outside of DC remember it.

Maybe you should start a thread on this? This conversation does not belong in this thread.[/quote]

Sure, Jan. 😂 [/quote]

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