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Ironic the increase is so high for the division with the absolute worst leadership. The ms principle has run the division through the ground, driven away so many good teachers, even before the pandemic.

Could not agree more re principal.

+1,000

Couldn’t agree more. Middle School used to be wonderful. Current principal has slowly but surely drained any fun or life out of the place.

Maybe she is a GDS plant! 😂

Anonymous wrote:I am appalled by most of the posters on this board, and even more so appalled that they would be trolls trying to drag Sidwell through the mud, but most appalled by the just one or two who might be Sidwell parents.

This is not Sidwell.

You mean the same Sidwell that have parents calling admission counselors to bad mouth other kids in the same class to give their kids a better chance!

Sidwell hide behind quaker values that everyone is equal but in the end, the claws come out around college application times.

Many parents have very influential and powerful jobs can usually get what they want........connection & power will give you a better chance at elite college.

Anonymous wrote:But the amount of racism and questionable language use might suggest a more sinister scenario — paid undercover mom type trolls

Because no one who would say that would eeeeverrr be at sidwell. Wake up.

But the amount of racism and questionable language use might suggest a more sinister scenario — paid undercover mom type trolls

If she is, she’s like the one comparing high school kids eating outside to the homeless under a bridge. These are the same two who claim they are not just two small-minded perennially aggrieved ace-grinders and that they have legitimate issues which include anti-mask, anti-teacher, anti-scholarship, anti-athlete attitudes because the admin won’t listen, the learning standards have slipped and the liberals are running amok

All a big steaming pile of … weekly turd on dcum. It’s pathological

I’d be shocked if she were but that’s why no one hangs with these two. They only find company on dcum

Elite education for elite families to advance their offspring.

What on earth else is SIDWELL or any prep school?

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell does not practice Quaker values

Real Quakers are not as nakedly strivey

You’re back. Don’t you have a Khan to get to since our learning standards have slipped too? You are honestly better outlet than therapy, and cheap (in more ways than one).

Bwahahaha

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Anonymous wrote:Thats the tuition for most elite private colleges. Let me let you into a secret. Unless your child is first to go to college, URM, poor and/or recruited athlete - it will not matter that you went to Sidwell AT ALL.

Legacy would have gotten in from any school.

Sidwell screens for the legacy admits - so they stack the admissions outcomes in their favor. Uncanny how many parents went to elite schools so they get the legacy tip. Confusing cause and effect - that Sidwell had a hand in admissions to an elite school. ITS A SCAM.

Could you explain this? I am not following.

I think the poster is saying that Sidwell admits kids who have legacy connections because they know that these students will get into those schools and boost Sidwell’s admission stats. But the reality is that non legacy kids don’t have nearly the same chances.

Spot on and true. Sidwell screens the parents. Top 20 school parents = top 20 admits. Sidwell has a smart game it is playing. Those same kids would have been admitted from public schools because of legacy.

You clearly have not had a kid go through the college process in the last 5 years, because for most schools, the bolded is no longer true.

Sidwell does not practice Quaker values

Real Quakers are not as nakedly strivey

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Ironic the increase is so high for the division with the absolute worst leadership. The ms principle has run the division through the ground, driven away so many good teachers, even before the pandemic.

Could not agree more re principal.

+1,000

Couldn’t agree more. Middle School used to be wonderful. Current principal has slowly but surely drained any fun or life out of the place.

I am appalled by most of the posters on this board, and even more so appalled that they would be trolls trying to drag Sidwell through the mud, but most appalled by the just one or two who might be Sidwell parents.

This is not Sidwell.

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Anonymous wrote:Thats the tuition for most elite private colleges. Let me let you into a secret. Unless your child is first to go to college, URM, poor and/or recruited athlete - it will not matter that you went to Sidwell AT ALL.

Legacy would have gotten in from any school.

Sidwell screens for the legacy admits - so they stack the admissions outcomes in their favor. Uncanny how many parents went to elite schools so they get the legacy tip. Confusing cause and effect - that Sidwell had a hand in admissions to an elite school. ITS A SCAM.

Could you explain this? I am not following.

I think the poster is saying that Sidwell admits kids who have legacy connections because they know that these students will get into those schools and boost Sidwell’s admission stats. But the reality is that non legacy kids don’t have nearly the same chances.

Spot on and true. Sidwell screens the parents. Top 20 school parents = top 20 admits. Sidwell has a smart game it is playing. Those same kids would have been admitted from public schools because of legacy.

DP: You say it like legacy is *the* reason these kids get in. Legacy is a bit of a boost, but far from sufficient. There are way more legacy applicants than legacy admits — probably more legacy applicants than total admits.

It’s not that smart. Alumni support and donations are going To continue to suffer in the coming years.

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Anonymous wrote:Thats the tuition for most elite private colleges. Let me let you into a secret. Unless your child is first to go to college, URM, poor and/or recruited athlete - it will not matter that you went to Sidwell AT ALL.

Legacy would have gotten in from any school.

Sidwell screens for the legacy admits - so they stack the admissions outcomes in their favor. Uncanny how many parents went to elite schools so they get the legacy tip. Confusing cause and effect - that Sidwell had a hand in admissions to an elite school. ITS A SCAM.

Could you explain this? I am not following.

I think the poster is saying that Sidwell admits kids who have legacy connections because they know that these students will get into those schools and boost Sidwell’s admission stats. But the reality is that non legacy kids don’t have nearly the same chances.

Spot on and true. Sidwell screens the parents. Top 20 school parents = top 20 admits. Sidwell has a smart game it is playing. Those same kids would have been admitted from public schools because of legacy.