Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are the locks and known outside of the DMV
Cathedral Schools
Maret
Sidwell

Your local neighborhood schools
Holton Arms
Potomac
St. Anselm's School
Visi
Bullis
Prep
Burke
WIS
Madiera
Field

Nobody knows any DMV schools outside the DMV. Maybe Sidwell, not because of academic prowess but because of the Obama girls

And the Clinton girl.

Anonymous wrote:Who are you kidding? No one knows Maret.

Yes, no one (outside of the DMV). No one!

Anonymous wrote:A list as in prestige?

STA

SIDWELL
NCS

GDS

POTOMAC
MARET
HOLTON

ETC

Prestige Worldwide?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:absurd DCUM bias. actual list

Tier A
BASIS

Tier B
Sidwell
Potomac
St Albans
Holton Arms
NCS
GDS


Tier C-F List
St. Anselm's School
Georgetown Visitation
Bullis
Maret
Prep
Burke
WIS
Madiera
Field

Oh, and HUGE drop off between tier A and tier B.

Is this the weird racist Basis dad again?
I'd rather send my child to Jackson-Reed over Basis any day.- private school parent/public school teacher

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looked at 4 data sources to come up with this list in this order:

A List
Sidwell
Potomac
St Albans
Holton Arms
NCS
GDS

B-C List
St. Anselm's School
Georgetown Visitation
Bullis
Maret
Prep
Burke
WIS
Madiera
Field

This isn't a bad list and it's mostly ranked on academics. I think St. Anselm's is just as good academically but doesn't make the cut for A because it's so small and the non-academic offerings aren't as well rounded.

I don't disagree but Bullis is not an academically "better" school than Maret by any stretch. Check all the SAT score averages and NMSF data. College matriculation lists are skewed by athletic acceptances, remember. Even still, Maret is a really strong school.

Anonymous wrote:Looked at 4 data sources to come up with this list in this order:

A List
Sidwell
Potomac
St Albans
Holton Arms
NCS
GDS

B-C List
St. Anselm's School
Georgetown Visitation
Bullis
Maret
Prep
Burke
WIS
Madiera
Field

This isn't a bad list and it's mostly ranked on academics. I think St. Anselm's is just as good academically but doesn't make the cut for A because it's so small and the non-academic offerings aren't as well rounded.

What a stupid thread.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my ivy I heard of Saint Albans, Sidwell, GDS. The rest of my classmates were from a mix of public and boarding school.

Misogyny reigns. Of course you heard of St. Albans but not NCS.

Get over yourself.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is Episcopal, Landon, SSSAS, Bullis, SAES, Flint Hill? Guess we aren’t including the schools in the suburbs huh?

On DCUM, outside the beltway often does not exist…

Those first three schools are inside the beltway.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are the locks and known outside of the DMV
Cathedral Schools
Maret
Sidwell

Your local neighborhood schools
Holton Arms
Potomac
St. Anselm's School
Visi
Bullis
Prep
Burke
WIS
Madiera
Field

Nobody knows any DMV schools outside the DMV. Maybe Sidwell, not because of academic prowess but because of the Obama girls

+1. No one knows and no one cares. And most people in DC don’t care either.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our child was accepted to "tier A", and we are turning them down while agonizing over schools that are not listed Not for financial reasons, but for pedagogical. Not for learning differences, but for philosophy. Basically, we sense better educational offerings at DMV schools that are not listed here at all.

Then why did you apply?

Because we were still in the learning phase, and it was not that difficult to apply to one more school. The application gets you in the door to open houses etc. We were also curious--is our child competitive on that level? Apparently, yes. We are looking at DMV schools that are not on the original list OP posted because we don't seek the "we create diamonds through pressure" approach, though it works for some children (not a judgment).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looked at 4 data sources to come up with this list in this order:

A List
Sidwell
Potomac
St Albans
Holton Arms
NCS
GDS

B-C List
St. Anselm's School
Georgetown Visitation
Bullis
Maret
Prep
Burke
WIS
Madiera
Field

Potomac Holton are not the a list

neither is GDS

Yes GDS parents are such tryhards.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looked at 4 data sources to come up with this list in this order:

A List
Sidwell
Potomac
St Albans
Holton Arms
NCS
GDS

B-C List
St. Anselm's School
Georgetown Visitation
Bullis
Maret
Prep
Burke
WIS
Madiera
Field

Potomac Holton are not the a list

neither is GDS

Anonymous wrote:Looked at 4 data sources to come up with this list in this order:

A List
Sidwell
Potomac
St Albans
Holton Arms
NCS
GDS

B-C List
St. Anselm's School
Georgetown Visitation
Bullis
Maret
Prep
Burke
WIS
Madiera
Field

Potomac Holton are not the a list

Anonymous wrote:absurd DCUM bias. actual list

Tier A
BASIS

Tier B
Sidwell
Potomac
St Albans
Holton Arms
NCS
GDS


Tier C-F List
St. Anselm's School
Georgetown Visitation
Bullis
Maret
Prep
Burke
WIS
Madiera
Field

Oh, and HUGE drop off between tier A and tier B.