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Anonymous wrote:Or spouting nonsense relying on Niche, the Yelp of school rankings.

Yeah, kinda sad that Sidwell boosters are left trying to manipulate Nicbe numbers to make the case that the school isn't passe.

They're all just sitting around waiting for a campus construction project that will likely never happen. We toured Sidwell EIGHT YEARS AGO and admissions explained the whole project to us like our child would be moving into a new space the following year. He's now halfway through college and nothing has changed other than the Obamas are gone and even more deferred maintenance.

It's good that they've wrapped plastic around the baseball field fence. Saves everyone on Wisconsin Avenue from having to look at the mess.

You sound incredibly bitter that your child didn’t get into Sidwell. There’s absolutely nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise. Now, wipe the spittle off your computer screen and go rest your fingers that you’ve been pounding on your keyboard. No one is interested in reading your multiple paragraph screeds about a school your child had no chance of being admitted to.

DP. Wow Sidwell has really gone down hill. These posters sound really low class on this and other threads. It used to be a much more classy place.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is famous because of the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Aside from that, no one outside the area would have ever heard of it. It’s no different than Sierra Canyon. It’s had a couple children of very famous people (Obama/Clinton) or (Lebron/extended Kardashians).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
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No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

“PG country Sports factory” you are either racist, classist or classless

Are your feelings hurt that you attended and/or your child attends a PG country Sports factory? Too bad, so sad. 😞

My child is in prek. I actually attended a high school in a state that does not border any part of the DMV. However I did know about DeMatha sports even back then. I had never heard of Sidwell.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is famous because of the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Aside from that, no one outside the area would have ever heard of it. It’s no different than Sierra Canyon. It’s had a couple children of very famous people (Obama/Clinton) or (Lebron/extended Kardashians).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
NP

No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

“PG country Sports factory” you are either racist, classist or classless

Are your feelings hurt that you attended and/or your child attends a PG country Sports factory? Too bad, so sad. 😞

Using PG county as a supposed dig is racist. You’re making Sidwell look really bad, and I’m pretty sure the obamas would be disgusted with being used to advance your little narrative.

Seriously. You can boost up Sidwell without ignorantly putting others down. DeMatha is a great school for athletics, arts and (believe it or not) academics. Nobody was trying to claim it was more prestigious or rigorous than Sidwell, but it is more famous.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is famous because of the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Aside from that, no one outside the area would have ever heard of it. It’s no different than Sierra Canyon. It’s had a couple children of very famous people (Obama/Clinton) or (Lebron/extended Kardashians).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
NP

No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

“PG country Sports factory” you are either racist, classist or classless

Are your feelings hurt that you attended and/or your child attends a PG country Sports factory? Too bad, so sad. 😞

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is famous because of the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Aside from that, no one outside the area would have ever heard of it. It’s no different than Sierra Canyon. It’s had a couple children of very famous people (Obama/Clinton) or (Lebron/extended Kardashians).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
NP

No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

“PG country Sports factory” you are either racist, classist or classless

Are your feelings hurt that you attended and/or your child attends a PG country Sports factory? Too bad, so sad. 😞

Using PG county as a supposed dig is racist. You’re making Sidwell look really bad, and I’m pretty sure the obamas would be disgusted with being used to advance your little narrative.

It sounds like PG County residents are sensitive about living in PG County. Who knew?

You’ll be the same one sending your kid to UMD in PG county in a few years, if they can even get in, calling it the new Ivy after they get rejected from an actual Ivy, which you’ll say is because they didn’t have a hook. Then you’ll say they should’ve gone to public school or a “sports factory” like Dematha so they could increase their chance of being an athletic recruit. Somehow you’ll manage to walk the line between snobbery and victimhood without ever seeing the contradiction. Best of luck to you.

I have nothing against UMD. It’s is a fine school for those students that want that experience. That said, go to IG and count the number of Sidwell students who are attending UMD (from the past 3 years).
You can count them on one hand and have fingers left over.

UMD is proudly bolded on Sidwell 's college matriculation rate as one of the few institutions currently enrolling 4 or more Sidwell alums. Get your narrative straight: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Did you skip over the bolded sentence above? There is ONE Sidwell student, within the past 3 years, who went to Maryland (with a guaranteed transfer to Cornell).
The link you provided is for classes 2020 to 2023. Prove that there are more than four Sidwell students at UMD, from the past three graduating classes (including 2024). If there are, the students are NOT proudly showcasing that information on IG. It doesn’t appear that UMD is a hot ticket for Sidwell students. Are you angry about that too?

Stop gaslighting. The school’s list is far more authoritative than IG. Also even what you’re claiming were true, it’s not the flex you think it is, as there are many schools on that IG ranked lower than UMD.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is famous because of the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Aside from that, no one outside the area would have ever heard of it. It’s no different than Sierra Canyon. It’s had a couple children of very famous people (Obama/Clinton) or (Lebron/extended Kardashians).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
NP

No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

“PG country Sports factory” you are either racist, classist or classless

Are your feelings hurt that you attended and/or your child attends a PG country Sports factory? Too bad, so sad. 😞

Using PG county as a supposed dig is racist. You’re making Sidwell look really bad, and I’m pretty sure the obamas would be disgusted with being used to advance your little narrative.

It sounds like PG County residents are sensitive about living in PG County. Who knew?

You’ll be the same one sending your kid to UMD in PG county in a few years, if they can even get in, calling it the new Ivy after they get rejected from an actual Ivy, which you’ll say is because they didn’t have a hook. Then you’ll say they should’ve gone to public school or a “sports factory” like Dematha so they could increase their chance of being an athletic recruit. Somehow you’ll manage to walk the line between snobbery and victimhood without ever seeing the contradiction. Best of luck to you.

I have nothing against UMD. It’s is a fine school for those students that want that experience. That said, go to IG and count the number of Sidwell students who are attending UMD (from the past 3 years).
You can count them on one hand and have fingers left over.

UMD is proudly bolded on Sidwell 's college matriculation rate as one of the few institutions currently enrolling 4 or more Sidwell alums. Get your narrative straight: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Did you skip over the bolded sentence above? There is ONE Sidwell student, within the past 3 years, who went to Maryland (with a guaranteed transfer to Cornell).
The link you provided is for classes 2020 to 2023. Prove that there are more than four Sidwell students at UMD, from the past three graduating classes (including 2024). If there are, the students are NOT proudly showcasing that information on IG. It doesn’t appear that UMD is a hot ticket for Sidwell students. Are you angry about that too?

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Anonymous wrote:Or spouting nonsense relying on Niche, the Yelp of school rankings.

Yeah, kinda sad that Sidwell boosters are left trying to manipulate Nicbe numbers to make the case that the school isn't passe.

They're all just sitting around waiting for a campus construction project that will likely never happen. We toured Sidwell EIGHT YEARS AGO and admissions explained the whole project to us like our child would be moving into a new space the following year. He's now halfway through college and nothing has changed other than the Obamas are gone and even more deferred maintenance.

It's good that they've wrapped plastic around the baseball field fence. Saves everyone on Wisconsin Avenue from having to look at the mess.

You sound incredibly bitter that your child didn’t get into Sidwell. There’s absolutely nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise. Now, wipe the spittle off your computer screen and go rest your fingers that you’ve been pounding on your keyboard. No one is interested in reading your multiple paragraph screeds about a school your child had no chance of being admitted to.

DP. Wow Sidwell has really gone down hill. These posters sound really low class on this and other threads. It used to be a much more classy place.

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Anonymous wrote:Or spouting nonsense relying on Niche, the Yelp of school rankings.

Yeah, kinda sad that Sidwell boosters are left trying to manipulate Nicbe numbers to make the case that the school isn't passe.

They're all just sitting around waiting for a campus construction project that will likely never happen. We toured Sidwell EIGHT YEARS AGO and admissions explained the whole project to us like our child would be moving into a new space the following year. He's now halfway through college and nothing has changed other than the Obamas are gone and even more deferred maintenance.

It's good that they've wrapped plastic around the baseball field fence. Saves everyone on Wisconsin Avenue from having to look at the mess.

You sound incredibly bitter that your child didn’t get into Sidwell. There’s absolutely nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise. Now, wipe the spittle off your computer screen and go rest your fingers that you’ve been pounding on your keyboard. No one is interested in reading your multiple paragraph screeds about a school your child had no chance of being admitted to.

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Anonymous wrote:Or spouting nonsense relying on Niche, the Yelp of school rankings.

Yeah, kinda sad that Sidwell boosters are left trying to manipulate Nicbe numbers to make the case that the school isn't passe.

They're all just sitting around waiting for a campus construction project that will likely never happen. We toured Sidwell EIGHT YEARS AGO and admissions explained the whole project to us like our child would be moving into a new space the following year. He's now halfway through college and nothing has changed other than the Obamas are gone and even more deferred maintenance.

It's good that they've wrapped plastic around the baseball field fence. Saves everyone on Wisconsin Avenue from having to look at the mess.

You sound incredibly bitter that your child didn’t get into Sidwell. There’s absolutely nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise. Now, wipe the spittle off your computer screen and go rest your fingers that you’ve been pounding on your keyboard. No one is interested in reading your multiple paragraph screeds about a school your child had no chance of being admitted to.

Haha. He did get in. We made the great decision to go to another school (one mentioned here dozens of times). With my daughter, we saved ourselves time and didn't apply.

BTW, Sidwell certainly is a good school. It needs a refresh and an overall mood/vibe/spiritual makeover. But it's still a good school. You should feel good about yourself. Not everyone has a child at a #2 school!!!

Not everyone has a daughter at a #3 school (even though it’s a miserable grind), or a son at a #4 school (covered up football scandals aside). Congratulations to you too!

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Anonymous wrote:Or spouting nonsense relying on Niche, the Yelp of school rankings.

Yeah, kinda sad that Sidwell boosters are left trying to manipulate Nicbe numbers to make the case that the school isn't passe.

They're all just sitting around waiting for a campus construction project that will likely never happen. We toured Sidwell EIGHT YEARS AGO and admissions explained the whole project to us like our child would be moving into a new space the following year. He's now halfway through college and nothing has changed other than the Obamas are gone and even more deferred maintenance.

It's good that they've wrapped plastic around the baseball field fence. Saves everyone on Wisconsin Avenue from having to look at the mess.

You sound incredibly bitter that your child didn’t get into Sidwell. There’s absolutely nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise. Now, wipe the spittle off your computer screen and go rest your fingers that you’ve been pounding on your keyboard. No one is interested in reading your multiple paragraph screeds about a school your child had no chance of being admitted to.

Haha. He did get in. We made the great decision to go to another school (one mentioned here dozens of times). With my daughter, we saved ourselves time and didn't apply.

BTW, Sidwell certainly is a good school. It needs a refresh and an overall mood/vibe/spiritual makeover. But it's still a good school. You should feel good about yourself. Not everyone has a child at a #2 school!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Or spouting nonsense relying on Niche, the Yelp of school rankings.

Yeah, kinda sad that Sidwell boosters are left trying to manipulate Nicbe numbers to make the case that the school isn't passe.

They're all just sitting around waiting for a campus construction project that will likely never happen. We toured Sidwell EIGHT YEARS AGO and admissions explained the whole project to us like our child would be moving into a new space the following year. He's now halfway through college and nothing has changed other than the Obamas are gone and even more deferred maintenance.

It's good that they've wrapped plastic around the baseball field fence. Saves everyone on Wisconsin Avenue from having to look at the mess.

You sound incredibly bitter that your child didn’t get into Sidwell. There’s absolutely nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise. Now, wipe the spittle off your computer screen and go rest your fingers that you’ve been pounding on your keyboard. No one is interested in reading your multiple paragraph screeds about a school your child had no chance of being admitted to.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is famous because of the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Aside from that, no one outside the area would have ever heard of it. It’s no different than Sierra Canyon. It’s had a couple children of very famous people (Obama/Clinton) or (Lebron/extended Kardashians).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
NP

No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

“PG country Sports factory” you are either racist, classist or classless

Are your feelings hurt that you attended and/or your child attends a PG country Sports factory? Too bad, so sad. 😞

Using PG county as a supposed dig is racist. You’re making Sidwell look really bad, and I’m pretty sure the obamas would be disgusted with being used to advance your little narrative.

It sounds like PG County residents are sensitive about living in PG County. Who knew?

You’ll be the same one sending your kid to UMD in PG county in a few years, if they can even get in, calling it the new Ivy after they get rejected from an actual Ivy, which you’ll say is because they didn’t have a hook. Then you’ll say they should’ve gone to public school or a “sports factory” like Dematha so they could increase their chance of being an athletic recruit. Somehow you’ll manage to walk the line between snobbery and victimhood without ever seeing the contradiction. Best of luck to you.

I have nothing against UMD. It’s is a fine school for those students that want that experience. That said, go to IG and count the number of Sidwell students who are attending UMD (from the past 3 years).
You can count them on one hand and have fingers left over.

UMD is proudly bolded on Sidwell 's college matriculation rate as one of the few institutions currently enrolling 4 or more Sidwell alums. Get your narrative straight: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Did you skip over the bolded sentence above? There is ONE Sidwell student, within the past 3 years, who went to Maryland (with a guaranteed transfer to Cornell).
The link you provided is for classes 2020 to 2023. Prove that there are more than four Sidwell students at UMD, from the past three graduating classes (including 2024). If there are, the students are NOT proudly showcasing that information on IG. It doesn’t appear that UMD is a hot ticket for Sidwell students. Are you angry about that too?

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is famous because of the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Aside from that, no one outside the area would have ever heard of it. It’s no different than Sierra Canyon. It’s had a couple children of very famous people (Obama/Clinton) or (Lebron/extended Kardashians).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
NP

No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

“PG country Sports factory” you are either racist, classist or classless

Are your feelings hurt that you attended and/or your child attends a PG country Sports factory? Too bad, so sad. 😞

Using PG county as a supposed dig is racist. You’re making Sidwell look really bad, and I’m pretty sure the obamas would be disgusted with being used to advance your little narrative.

It sounds like PG County residents are sensitive about living in PG County. Who knew?

You’ll be the same one sending your kid to UMD in PG county in a few years, if they can even get in, calling it the new Ivy after they get rejected from an actual Ivy, which you’ll say is because they didn’t have a hook. Then you’ll say they should’ve gone to public school or a “sports factory” like Dematha so they could increase their chance of being an athletic recruit. Somehow you’ll manage to walk the line between snobbery and victimhood without ever seeing the contradiction. Best of luck to you.

I have nothing against UMD. It’s is a fine school for those students that want that experience. That said, go to IG and count the number of Sidwell students who are attending UMD (from the past 3 years).
You can count them on one hand and have fingers left over.

UMD is proudly bolded on Sidwell 's college matriculation rate as one of the few institutions currently enrolling 4 or more Sidwell alums. Get your narrative straight: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is famous because of the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Aside from that, no one outside the area would have ever heard of it. It’s no different than Sierra Canyon. It’s had a couple children of very famous people (Obama/Clinton) or (Lebron/extended Kardashians).

It doesn’t really matter why Sidwell is famous. It just is. The fact remains that no other DC school is more famous.

OP, that’s your answer.

No, Dematha is more famous, more well-known.
NP

No it isn’t. Most Americans don’t know the names of the vast majority of college/professional athletes’ high schools. Dematha’s location doesn’t help either. I live in DC, and I have no idea where Dematha is located (somewhere in PG?). I never think of Dematha when I think of good high schools.

More Americans know the name Dematha than they know Sidwell.
It is what it is.

Nope. Most people know where President Obama’s daughters graduated from high school, compared to some PG County sports factory that has produced athletes I can’t name off the top of my head. It is what it is.

“PG country Sports factory” you are either racist, classist or classless

Are your feelings hurt that you attended and/or your child attends a PG country Sports factory? Too bad, so sad. 😞

Using PG county as a supposed dig is racist. You’re making Sidwell look really bad, and I’m pretty sure the obamas would be disgusted with being used to advance your little narrative.

It sounds like PG County residents are sensitive about living in PG County. Who knew?

You’ll be the same one sending your kid to UMD in PG county in a few years, if they can even get in, calling it the new Ivy after they get rejected from an actual Ivy, which you’ll say is because they didn’t have a hook. Then you’ll say they should’ve gone to public school or a “sports factory” like Dematha so they could increase their chance of being an athletic recruit. Somehow you’ll manage to walk the line between snobbery and victimhood without ever seeing the contradiction. Best of luck to you.

I have nothing against UMD. It’s is a fine school for those students that want that experience. That said, go to IG and count the number of Sidwell students who are attending UMD (from the past 3 years).
You can count them on one hand and have fingers left over.