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GDS is a great school, and definitely is "top tier" in DC (for what it's worth) in this generation, but it still generally does not match Sidwell and St. Albans for the percentage of National Merit Semifinalists (although a couple of years ago they had a bonanza crop at GDS and topped the list).  This seems to be the same GDS person trying to get people riled up and I wouldn't worry about it.

This is a pretty fruitless argument because there is less than full information, but I'll say that (1) the matriculationstats.org website is quite well done in my opinion, and [b]the creator always explains where he got his data so you can judge the relative reliability of the source (school website vs. anonymous post of matriculation list on College Confidential or DCUM, for example); [/b]and (2) as an active alum of one school who sees the numbers from the various schools, I think that maybe STA pips Sidwell at the post more years than not based on (i) comparable percentages of top-scoring NMSF students (usually Sidwell is ahead by a small factor); (ii) comparable legacy advantage in the student body; and (iii) a little bit of an advantage in the Ivy athletics pipeine, mainly from one sport: boys' rowing.

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+1 on the merits of matriculationstats.org. I do quantitative research for a living, and reputatable researchers post their data sources and methods so that everybody can see and evaluate for themselves.

Much research is based on incomplete data or survey results, that's just the way it is. But it doesn't prevent  us from using the data that is available to form some conclusions, with caveats as necessary. He puts his sources and methods out there, and that's the very best he can do.[/quote]

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