Anonymous wrote:It's difficult to draw conclusions from prior admissions data because it doesn't account for URMs, athletes, big donors, and kids whose essays made them stand out.

Sidwell’s not a huge school. It’s fairly easy to match SCOIR data to students if you’ve been at the school a few years. Most students can figure out which URMs and recruited athletes (and legacies to a certain extent) land at which colleges. Big donors and effective essays are not easy to discern. That’s true at any school—public or private.