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[quote=Anonymous]The Sidwell threads are getting so tired. I've read most of them in recent months and they all seem to devolve into these same  themes:

**Price of tuition, which incidentally is at or comparable to all the other elite privates like sta, ncs, g. prep, gds, landon, holton

**Perception of unbridled privilege given  the relatively high concentration of household name parents, even though the other aforementioned schools'' parent bodies could probably each buy and sell sidwell's collective parent body three times over. Yes, there is plenty of wealth at all these schools, but my understanding is that Sidwell admits a much higher proportion of non wealthy students

**Of course, you can't forget to mention the lousy sports program, even though none of the other aforementioned big privates except for landon or prep in lacrosse have been ranked first in any washington post poll in the past ten years like Sidwell was for soccer last year.

I really don't have a  dog in this fight, but it all stinks of bitterness and sour grapes from parents of kids who weren't admitted as well  parents and perhaps students at other schools who want to take down the area's best known private a few notches every chance they can.

Yawn.  [/quote]

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