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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cold, hard truth is that Sidwell as an institution does not pay much attention to college rankings either.  It is not a priority for the administration to get kids into Ivys or comparable schools.  Parents may disagree with that, but they should know what they are getting into.  Tom Farquhar flat out says this to newly accepted students each year.  For me, the jury is still out on whether the education at Sidwell is worth the college trade-off, but make no mistake, there is a trade-off.[/quote]

This is one reason Tom is on his way out.

More fundamentally, though, of course "the school" -- the kids, parents, and teachers -- care; the administration has just been saying this to cover its collective butt.  The cold, hard truth is that Sidwell college counseling sucks.[/quote]

Multiple choice quiz:

The quoted poster is:
(a) nasty
(b) a know-it-all
(c) pressures their child about college
(d) still brags about where s/he went to college
(e) all of the above[/quote]

Maybe -- or she's just not as naive and inexperienced as you are.[/quote]

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