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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell is the best school in the area.  All the haters on DCUM are just pissed because they were either waitlisted and rejected by
the school.  I believe about less than 4% of applicants are accepted.  Congrats to all who made it in and those who couldn’t make it in are just sour grapes.[/quote]

It is a good school, particularly for those who have not shot at the Cathedral schools.[/quote]

What a ludicrous statement. They pull from totally different audiences. Sidwell’s moderately progressive curriculum results in a liberal appeal and the cathedral schools traditional, rigid approach pulls from a more conservative base. Any overlap results from chasing the elite monicker with perceptions of influence and access, nothing else. [/quote]

We are a family that turned Sidwell down for one child. We accepted for another. It may be the best school in the area for some, but it is not the best school for all children.

Two of our other children attend STA. The school is traditional, but no more rigid than Sidwell.  We are not conservative nor are we influence and access chasers. We chose STA because it was the right school for our two very different boys.

These posts are written by people who lack any real knowledge of these schools and whose thought processes rely on cartoonishly simple caricatures.

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+1. Both are great schools, and the same sorts of kids go to each. Some might fit better in one versus the other, though, and in our experience that has little to do with PP's over-broad stereotypes. I don't think pp knows either school, much less the many families who have kids in both communities. [/quote]

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