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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Sidwell parent here -- can I ask what you're basing this on? I know the kids claim to know what everyone else scored, but do you really think those reports are credible beyond your child's circle of very close friends? I sure don't.''

Like I said, I read it somewhere here on a spreadsheet. That said, my recent grad had a score in that range that was average for the school. Sidwell kids tend to do extremely well in verbal and reading- writing sections of the SAT which brings up averages. As to your snarky tone about whether or not the reports are credible, the scores and grades were consistent with the colleges kids got in to. You get to know the families pretty well and I don't think there was any misinformation about grades and scores. That hasn't been my experience at the school.[/quote]

I don't mean to be snarky, but I am trying to understand the basis for your statement.  If it's a spreadsheet that was posted on DCUM, I'd question where that information came from.  I just don't think anybody knows this other than the college counselors.

I'd also say that your experience with respect to discussions about grades and scores seems quite different from my own with 2 kids who've graduated from the school.  I can't recall ever having a conversation with another parent about our kids' SAT scores, and only a very few conversations about grades -- in fact, I can count them on the fingers of one hand.  In any case, my gut just says 700 sounds too high -- certainly for the median, though it might be an average -- even that, however, sounds a little improbable to me.  There are kids who don't test well and there are kids who don't take the prep seriously.  And, yes, there are kids who go to schools that are pretty far down in the rankings as far as selectivity.  That doesn't mean I'm judging those kids or those schools ill, but Sidwell is not Lake Wobegone -- all the children are not above average.    [/quote]

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