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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it might be harder to get into Bishop Ireton than SSSAS. SSSAS will take pretty much anyone who can pay. They can't afford to be selective since they pool only from Alexandria. [/quote]

This is very false. Bishop Ireton takes the entire class from St Mary’s. SSSAS will have 20 spots at most. Half of those spots will go to athletes and the other half will go to top performers from ACDS, Grace, and Burgundy. SSSAS is a great school. It is not as much of a pressure cooker as other privates, but I constantly hear of kids leaving because it’s too academically strenuous in middle school. A few of the DC private schools are on another level- most are not. SSSAS is better than any private I’ve heard of in all of the Southeast. It’s better than all the Atlanta privates, better than Bolles in Jacksonville, the Asheville privates, the Nashville privates, the Memphis private schools, most North Carolina private schools. It’s a great school. It exists near some exceptional schools and people want to compare it to B.I.????? That is a joke. You are behind in this forum. A lot of these SSSAS complaints are old news. Legacy families are leaving because they “don’t prioritize sports like they used to”, “the teachers are too woke”, “they take too many kids from PG county”. These are all steps in the right direction for me. The new upper school campus is great. The kids are generally happy. They push the kids to want to succeed without creating a toxic environment. Comparing B.I . To SSSAS is like comparing apples to oranges. They are not the same at all or comparable. [/quote]

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