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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GDS definitely has a chip on shoulder about Sidwell.  For our kid, the schools were quite different.  Our kid was quiet and unassuming but hard worker and Sidwell seemed like a better fit.[/quote]

I don't think GDS has a chip on its shoulder re Sidwell.  It's just a situation where most GDS parents (and older kids) will have looked closely at Sidwell as an alternative and therefore, when asked, will have reasons why they preferred GDS to Sidwell.  By contrast, there will be Sidwell parents who didn't seriously  consider GDS and, instead, saw NCS/StA or Maret as their alternatives. [b] Sidwell gets more attention, in part, because it occupies a middle ground among the "elite" DC privates -- clearly prestigious with challenging academics but not too liberal or too conservative or too small or too religious.  It's perceived as the safe/wild card/can't go wrong option for people whose preferences are such that they wouldn't apply to schools that they consider more extreme or at the other end of the spectrum from their comfort zone.[/b]

IRL, I think Sidwell and GDS kids and parents tend to see themselves as having lots in common.  And, in fact, I've known a number of families (past and present) to have kids at both schools simultaneously.[/quote]

Interesting insight.  And, of course, there's the elephant in the room.  Many, many families apply to and choose SFS at least in part b/c of the Obamas.      [/quote]

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