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[quote=Anonymous]There is a great deal less of the connections thing once you are talking about middle and high school.  In PK, K, yes, it is much more about the parents or connections.  By 6th, 7th, etc... It is more about the kid's record and character.  Yes, connections can still help but generally only if they are at the very very top of power and wealth and legacy.

I have seen people in this town who think they are super wealthy, super powerful, and believe their kid is therefore a shoe-in to say, STA or Sidwell, only to be denied by both, as well as at their "back up" choices of Landon and Potomac (these schools are not, to my mind, back-ups at all by the way, ergo my use if quotations).

I have also seen the well connected old Washingtonian type,  legacy Dad use every ounce of power and influence he has to get his kid into some "top school" only to have to pull that child out the next year because the child was completely academically incapable of keeping up.  All I can think in the second scenario, is "POOR KID.  Who does that that to their child?"[/quote]

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