Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you living? These schools are not close to each other. Also, schools like Bryn Mawr are not as conservative as they used to be. They might be more "conservative" in relation to Sidwell, but not by much.

LOL, my daughter attends Bryn Mawr and is about as liberal as you can get. Traditional in educational style, but not in politics. It's also the most intellectually rigorous school in the Baltimore area. Son is at Gilman, which is more conservative, but still left of center, especially with respect to inclusion and diversity.

McDonogh and Gilman are the most academic rigorous in the area, and one accepts girls : ) Bryn Mawr is surfing on an imagined superiority that disappeared when most institutions desegregated the genders. If Gilman accepted girls, I would have considered it for my daughter. Bryn Mawr is falling apart - literally, financially, socially, and academically.

McDonough is middle of the road for academic rigor but the sports are top notch and it does have the advantage of being coed.

BM is thriving, has waitlists for every grade this year. Also, just opened a brand new student center/cafeteria this year. It was the top choice of girls from Calvert last year, enrolling more than any other upper school.

You want all girls, rigorous and conservative? Visitation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Specifically, compare/rank the following schools:

Bryn Mawr
Calvert School
Langley School
Nysmith
Potomac

Are any of these standouts that are clearly a cut about the others? Are there any that would be considered less prestigious or lower tier? My family has younger children (girls) and some options in the coming years about where we might live between DC and Baltimore. Any of these are realistic possibilities for a commute. Not interested in various other schools like Sidwell, GDS, Park, Friends Baltimore, etc. because they seem too "progressive".

Strange question.

No one outside Baltimore even thinks about Baltimore.

And those of us in Baltimore, do not think about you.

Logic is not your forte.

Go to a private school in Baltimore?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Specifically, compare/rank the following schools:

Bryn Mawr
Calvert School
Langley School
Nysmith
Potomac

Are any of these standouts that are clearly a cut about the others? Are there any that would be considered less prestigious or lower tier? My family has younger children (girls) and some options in the coming years about where we might live between DC and Baltimore. Any of these are realistic possibilities for a commute. Not interested in various other schools like Sidwell, GDS, Park, Friends Baltimore, etc. because they seem too "progressive".

Strange question.

No one outside Baltimore even thinks about Baltimore.

And those of us in Baltimore, do not think about you.

Anonymous wrote:Specifically, compare/rank the following schools:

Bryn Mawr
Calvert School
Langley School
Nysmith
Potomac

Are any of these standouts that are clearly a cut about the others? Are there any that would be considered less prestigious or lower tier? My family has younger children (girls) and some options in the coming years about where we might live between DC and Baltimore. Any of these are realistic possibilities for a commute. Not interested in various other schools like Sidwell, GDS, Park, Friends Baltimore, etc. because they seem too "progressive".

Strange question.

No one outside Baltimore even thinks about Baltimore.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you living? These schools are not close to each other. Also, schools like Bryn Mawr are not as conservative as they used to be. They might be more "conservative" in relation to Sidwell, but not by much.

LOL, my daughter attends Bryn Mawr and is about as liberal as you can get. Traditional in educational style, but not in politics. It's also the most intellectually rigorous school in the Baltimore area. Son is at Gilman, which is more conservative, but still left of center, especially with respect to inclusion and diversity.

McDonogh and Gilman are the most academic rigorous in the area, and one accepts girls : ) Bryn Mawr is surfing on an imagined superiority that disappeared when most institutions desegregated the genders. If Gilman accepted girls, I would have considered it for my daughter. Bryn Mawr is falling apart - literally, financially, socially, and academically.

Hmm. Are you a kid?

McDonogh is solid but arguing it's one of the two most rigorous doesn't hold up well. How do you prove this, in the first place? Park and Bryn Mawr are both top notch.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you living? These schools are not close to each other. Also, schools like Bryn Mawr are not as conservative as they used to be. They might be more "conservative" in relation to Sidwell, but not by much.

LOL, my daughter attends Bryn Mawr and is about as liberal as you can get. Traditional in educational style, but not in politics. It's also the most intellectually rigorous school in the Baltimore area. Son is at Gilman, which is more conservative, but still left of center, especially with respect to inclusion and diversity.

McDonogh and Gilman are the most academic rigorous in the area, and one accepts girls : ) Bryn Mawr is surfing on an imagined superiority that disappeared when most institutions desegregated the genders. If Gilman accepted girls, I would have considered it for my daughter. Bryn Mawr is falling apart - literally, financially, socially, and academically.

Anonymous wrote:Specifically, compare/rank the following schools:

Bryn Mawr
Calvert School
Langley School
Nysmith
Potomac

Are any of these standouts that are clearly a cut about the others? Are there any that would be considered less prestigious or lower tier? My family has younger children (girls) and some options in the coming years about where we might live between DC and Baltimore. Any of these are realistic possibilities for a commute. Not interested in various other schools like Sidwell, GDS, Park, Friends Baltimore, etc. because they seem too "progressive".

oh good grief. Who cares? If you are in DC/Nova, the DC/Nova privates are best. If you are in Baltimore, the MD privates are best. Similarly, if you are in Chicago, the Chicago privates are best. And so on.

Anonymous wrote:Where are you living? These schools are not close to each other. Also, schools like Bryn Mawr are not as conservative as they used to be. They might be more "conservative" in relation to Sidwell, but not by much.

LOL, my daughter attends Bryn Mawr and is about as liberal as you can get. Traditional in educational style, but not in politics. It's also the most intellectually rigorous school in the Baltimore area. Son is at Gilman, which is more conservative, but still left of center, especially with respect to inclusion and diversity.

This is an odd post.

My first thought is that my bored SIL is trying to prove, for the 100th time, that her kid’s DC private school is “so much” better, rigorous, enlightened, (you name it!) than our baltimore private is.

OP, your kids will be fine at any of the schools you mentioned, and many more. It’s about fit for your kid and your family. Also, if you enroll in a school and it does, In fact, turn out to be terrible, you change schools!

You actually have to go and visit the schools, learn about their philosophy and approach, meet teachers and students, let your kid have a shadow day, and try and meet other families who go to the school.

Also, the populations of dc and Baltimore are really different (I’ve lived in both). The upper and middle schools of the big private schools in Baltimore have a really broad geographic base, but the lower schools do not (especially Calvert).


Posting here is a pretty useless exercise.

Ducks, please keep your DC in DC where they belong. We're old money in Baltimore and unless you're willing to lax, sport some espidrilles, and stop talking about your dreary sojourns to Sea Island just don't bother.

We know your type: lulu wearing Range Rover driving bleached and tucked. Bmore? Frosted pink lipstick, decades old diesel Benz driving grande dame and we wear our liver spots with honor.

It's an odd list.

Potomac compares well to McDonogh in Baltimore.

Bryn Mawr to NCS.

I'm not sure if DC has a true comparison to Calvert, other than perhaps Beauvoir.

None of the Baltimore schools have the degree of wokeness found at GDS. Not even Park, although it would come closest. Friends Baltimore is is milquetoast by the standards of GDS. Friends Baltimore is a milquetoast school all around.

Academically, neither city is better when comparing par for par schools.

Nobody can answer this. Schools aren’t die cutters. The experience is variable based on teachers, kid, commute, grade and chance. Also, the Baltimore schools aren’t conservative. Calvert (discussed in another thread) is traditional In curriculum but all the adults I’ve known who have gone there are liberal and so are their families. Slightly milquetoast types from WASP families, though politically left.

Where are you living? These schools are not close to each other. Also, schools like Bryn Mawr are not as conservative as they used to be. They might be more "conservative" in relation to Sidwell, but not by much.

Specifically, compare/rank the following schools:

Bryn Mawr
Calvert School
Langley School
Nysmith
Potomac

Are any of these standouts that are clearly a cut about the others? Are there any that would be considered less prestigious or lower tier? My family has younger children (girls) and some options in the coming years about where we might live between DC and Baltimore. Any of these are realistic possibilities for a commute. Not interested in various other schools like Sidwell, GDS, Park, Friends Baltimore, etc. because they seem too "progressive".