Take a deep breath. Parent of a Junior here. Unless your kid is getting recruited for a sport in 10th grade, you can cool your jets until 11th grade. Even then, we just wrote our parent’s note to the college advisor about our kid and where we think he will be happiest. Evidently, the advisor’s note is an important adjunct to the grades, teacher recommendations and test scores, so you have a ways to go. I was hoping to get ahead but they have it all worked out. My oldest loves his high school experience and is in no hurry to get to college. He kicked ass in his test scores and has good grades and is a 2 sport athlete. You have a year to really start worrying and get into CBT therapy. It’s going to be fine.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe figure out what FOIA is first.

Haha. Humorless.

Maybe figure out what FOIA is first.

Can we FOIA the letter?

I’m pretending to be a Sidwell parent and posting crazy things up thread to turn others off to the school so that my dear Larla will face less competition for spots when we apply. It appears to be working!

Agree this thread is repellant. Sidwell parents take crazy to a new level - hard pass

Anonymous wrote:This is a nutty thread.

Pretty much par for the course at SFS. We had no idea just how casa de crazy the place is until our youngest went to another school. Sigh -- wish we'd known earlier.

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Anonymous wrote:It wasn't "important," and it certainly wasn't intended for parents of 10th graders. MYOB, OP.

Good lord. OP, here. This is my oldest child and, from what I understand, the college process starts this spring for 10th graders. Given that, I would think that parents of 12th graders would be gracious enough to share information with others in the Sidwell community.

If you have a child in the 10th grade, I can promise you that you don't need to be worrying about the college process now. Stop before you turn into one of those parents that we all discuss.

That is stupid advice! You should start planning in the 7th grade. Mine did + got into Princeton. First in entire extended family to attend an Ivy.

I have a lot of Ivy League alums that report to me, a VA Tech grad . Some of them are drowning in student loans, can't afford an apartment w.out a roommate or get a mortgage due to debt.

Yea but at least they aren’t embarrassed when they have to say where they went to college.

My guess is that any kid would be grateful for the VT grad parent and not having to live under the yoke of financial stress all to be able to say "but I went to Harvard" before drowning in debt.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread really truly makes me want to decline Sidwell if an acceptance were offered to my child.

I am horrified by how much these are not my people.

This thread is mostly trolls and not relfective of the Sidwell community.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:This thread really truly makes me want to decline Sidwell if an acceptance were offered to my child.

I am horrified by how much these are not my people.

This thread is mostly trolls and not relfective of the Sidwell community.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread really truly makes me want to decline Sidwell if an acceptance were offered to my child.

I am horrified by how much these are not my people.

These are not Sidwell people. Just trolls.

Turn down your spot so my kid can get in is the real message

Anonymous wrote:This thread really truly makes me want to decline Sidwell if an acceptance were offered to my child.

I am horrified by how much these are not my people.

These are not Sidwell people. Just trolls.

Good point. If these are even SFS folk they’re at the table nearest the exit together with the antimask OPs