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[quote=Anonymous]Since we are poking fun at ourselves I’ll share my own story. The year was 1978, maybe 1970 and my mother and grandmother took me for an interview at Sidwell for first grade. I was beyond annoyed and could not have cared less about getting in because I liked my current school. The interviewer asked me what I liked to do for fun and I said ‘pick my nose’ (I was not actually a nose picker). I can still hear/see my mother saying WHAT?! and practically running off the road when she asked me how things went and I told her. I did not get in. Fast forward 8 yrs land I am back at Sidwell to apply for high school, against my will because I wanted to stay at my current school for high school (why my parents force-applied me to schools across the DMV is another story). I have little memory of that interview but whatever I said must not have been compelling enough to overcome my earlier transgression because I was rejected again. I’m pretty sure the nose picking comment was still in my file. I also wrote on one of my college applications that I liked to read Cosmopolitan magazine in the ‘Interests’ section.[/quote]

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