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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am going to step passed the rabbit hole on Prep and special needs other than to just say - as a former Special Educator, being on the spectrum is not correlated with low IQ. In fact, many children on the spectrum are highly intelligent and become incredibly successful (see Elon Musk).

Regarding the safety school thing, this is all relative to the student. Similar to college acceptances (I worked in college admissions), a school that is a safety for one student could be a reach for another. For my family, we added St. Patricks and Bullis to our list as "safety schools" and the other schools we applied to were Sidwell, Beauvoir, Maret, and GDS. Luckily, [b]the kids are headed to Sidwell[/b]. I don't think Bullis and St. Patricks are bad schools. In fact, for some families they wouldn't be safety schools at all.

Also, Good Counsel - St. Johns - Holy Child - and Holy Cross were universally seen as safety schools when I was growing up in a k-8. [/quote]

WOW.  WOW.  WOW!!!!  Congrats!  ONE acceptance to Sidwell is nowadays  almost impossible and awesome.  You did it with TWO!

And I also agree with everything you said.[/quote]

We were incredibly fortunate. My kids are awesome (I am obviously extremely biased), but I am still in shock that we were able to pull off getting them at the same school and the school also happened to be our first choice. [/quote]

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