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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be a same sex multi racial.couple.[/quote]

This one doesn't make any sense. These people usually face discrimination.[/quote]

Not in DC. Unlike other parts of the US, the ultra-educated crowd couldn't: care a wit who someone loves or who they are sleeping with. It is a status symbol to have those types of friends in the NWDC crowd. [/quote]

I totally know what you mean. But I live on a nice street in upper nw and no one is like that. Pretty much all of my neighbors are basic couples many with kids of all ages, a deal of diversity, AA, a few Asians, but mostly white lawyers and finance or business types. I always wonder where the fascinating people live. Closer to downtown? What do you think?[/quote]

I think the point was, it's the relative scarcity of same-sex multi-racial couples, in combination with the fact that school admission staff see them as really desirable, that makes them such a shoe-in for admission.[/quote]

Did no one see that episode of Modern Family where cam and Mitch became aware they could get into the elite private preschool b/c they were a gay couple with an Asian adopted child?  Elite schools love all that "diversity".  They were a shoo-in...until the adopted African boy with the lesbian parents (one of which was in a wheelchair) showed up.  One up-ed on the diversity![/quote]

Forgot to mention the lesbian couple was racially mixed as well.[/quote]All of this is become a major bore (eye rolling). Let's just say no AA or other minorities, gays, disabled, etc, were interested in applying to Sidwell and assume that it was all white (WASP) with all white (WASP) applicants and your white DC didn't get in.  Then who in the hell would you blame?  Of course, I'm sure some would far reach to assess blame.  This thread has had enough (eye rolling).[/quote]

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