You might wait till you hear from Sidwell, Lots of folks have it as their first choice by far and their children don't get in.

You should join the club that you want - and to meet new people outside of your school circle. why would you want to see the same people ALL the time? A strange question.

Anonymous wrote:Chevy is a St Albans/Landon kind of place. If you live in Chevy Chase or DC you would know the people that go there.

Yep. NCS too, of course.

There's a very good reason why Sidwell and GDS families choose not to belong to CCC. Look into the history and the current ethnic make-up of the club.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few Sidwell families at CC.

yes there are - i can think of 2 that i know of (we don't belong). If you like the club and like Sidwell - its ok.

Certainly, but OP is hesitant to join unless other Sidwell families are there.

Anonymous wrote:There are a few Sidwell families at CC.

yes there are - i can think of 2 that i know of (we don't belong). If you like the club and like Sidwell - its ok.

There are a few Sidwell families at CC.

I went to Sidwell years ago and none of my friends were CC members. One exception was Woodmont in Rockville. I recall for some it was considered not PC since country clubs were still discriminatory about membership.

The families I know now at Sidwell are a little more relaxed about it but tend to belong, quietly, to Kenwood and Congressional, not CCC.

Do you live in DC, OP? If so, I'm surprised you don't know this already.
Sidwell families aren't CCC types.
Off the top of my head, the families we know at CCC send their kids to Beauvoir, St Pats, St Albans, Landon, NPS and one to NCS.

If you want the WASP country club culture, Sidwell, GDS and Sheridan (to name some others) will not be for you at all.

My kids are at Sidwell. Most of the families I know do not belong to a country club (lots of people with summer/weekend homes though). It is not a very "clubby" culture in my experience.

Agree with the PPs. Sidwell families don't tend to be the country club types. There are lots of families from NCS/STA, NPS, St. Patrick's, Landon and Holton at Chevy. Not so for Sidwell and GDS. If country clubs are your thing, you probably won't fit in, or even like, the Sidwell culture very much. The one somewhat conservative family I know who sent their kids to Sidwell hated it and transferred them out after two years.

I know many families who have kids at Sidwell and none of them belong to the Chevy Chase Club. The families who I know belong to CCC have kids who attend NCS/St. A's and Landon.

Chevy is a St Albans/Landon kind of place. If you live in Chevy Chase or DC you would know the people that go there.

Is this really your biggest concern on a Sunday morning?

Do many families with kids at Sidwell belong to Chevy?

If so, does your family go to the club much? I'd be especially interested in knowing whether families with kids I'm middle and high school use the club. Is it mostly a summer thing, or do any kids at Sidwell play on their hockey team or play winter tennis?

We don't know if our kids will go to Sidwell, but it's our first choice by far and we're hesitant to move forward with joining Chevy if there really isn't anyone from Sidwell there. The bays we know from STA who go to Chevy seem to have a nice group of friends there. I'd hate to invest the time and money only to realize two years later that nobody from our kids' school goes there.

I know, very first world problem.

Thanks for your responses, even the funny snarky ones I'm guessing are on their way!