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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know. I'm not particularly impressed by what I've seen.[/quote]

Agree. Similar results at our local publics. [/quote]

Same reaction. I've looked at similar instagrams for a few MCPS HS (including several non-W ones) and Sidwell seems fine but not better by any measure. A few of the other privates are more eye-popping. Maybe the Sidwell kids are still deciding, maybe the high flyers are too cool to post (my MCPS kid is very happy about his enrollment plans but flat out refuses to post to his HS instagram site.) Or maybe despite the White House kids who go there, Sidwell is just a good private school with normal kids at a wide range of levels.[/quote]

The bethesda mag annual compilation of college destinations says you’re wrong, however. Plus that annual data dump is broken down by school,  so you can’t even claim that thing that Moco parents do when 1/2 the school goes to UMD, sputtering that it’s about financial aid.  Not in Potomac, it isn’t. [/quote]

PP here. You're absolutely right that tons of MCPS kids go to UMD (a great and competitive school) as well as other local publics like Towson & St. Marys. But at least some of those publics currently show more admits to very very top schools than Sidwell. Obviously that's drawing from a much bigger class size, but my point is that there's nothing particularly impressive about the Sidwell list. Which btw is completely fine! There are tons of great schools beyond the T-whatever and like I said above, maybe some kids aren't into the boast post. But the list posted doesn't live up to the OP's hype.[/quote]

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