Anonymous
02/08/2026 20:12
Subject: What makes Potomac so great?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you stay in public, but still do the same type of investment in your child, the outcome will probably be the same. Except for kid's friend circle, etc.
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As a former Potomac parent, I agree with the the quote not the laughing/crying emojis
Anonymous
02/08/2026 19:47
Subject: What makes Potomac so great?
Anonymous wrote:If you stay in public, but still do the same type of investment in your child, the outcome will probably be the same. Except for kid's friend circle, etc.
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Anonymous
02/08/2026 15:57
Subject: What makes Potomac so great?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can someone actually answer the question about what makes this school so special? Specific examples for your child .... not social gains ...
There's nothing special about Potomac.
Your kid must have not gotten in?
It’s a great school. Nice campus, nice facilities, super smart kids, some really really good teachers. The US economy teacher has a PhD and was a college professor. The debate team is nationally ranked. Lots of things going for it.
Similar student profiles as Sideell,Maret, GDS.
If you live in NoVa, yeah, crossing the bridge every day in massive traffic is not worth it. Sorry, I’m not spending 1 hr each way to drive my kids to Maret. That campus is tiny, facilities are old. GDS is to damn liberal. Also in the middle of Tenleytown. Not a real campus. No thanks. If you live in DC, it may not be worth it to cross into Va every day for transport (even if your kid has to sit on the bus for an hour), then send you kids to GDS or Maret…
I want my kids to be able to go to a good school, and have a campus around them that is safe and lots of green space as well.
Sidwell and GDS have tons of PhDs in their faculty, especially Sidwell. And Potomac students are not at the same academic caliber as Sidwell/GDS/Maret kids and the non-athlete college matriculation + quality of students supports that.
Potomac college results are in the same general league as all of the schools you mention.
The top DMV school all have fairly analogous college matriculation with some deviation year to year. It's also hard to really see what's "behind the admits," as all manner of preferred admissions play roles: athletics, donors, legacy, etc.
Given the current landscape of the Trump admin constantly threatening funding, it's also possible that the premier price tag schools will be looking for full pay families as much as possible in the next few years to make sure they aren't stressing budgets.
To some extent, it doesn't matter where you go; if you don't have a hook of some kind, the premier schools are all rejecting more qualified kids than they admit.
Anonymous
02/08/2026 13:24
Subject: What makes Potomac so great?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can someone actually answer the question about what makes this school so special? Specific examples for your child .... not social gains ...
There's nothing special about Potomac.
Your kid must have not gotten in?
It’s a great school. Nice campus, nice facilities, super smart kids, some really really good teachers. The US economy teacher has a PhD and was a college professor. The debate team is nationally ranked. Lots of things going for it.
Similar student profiles as Sideell,Maret, GDS.
If you live in NoVa, yeah, crossing the bridge every day in massive traffic is not worth it. Sorry, I’m not spending 1 hr each way to drive my kids to Maret. That campus is tiny, facilities are old. GDS is to damn liberal. Also in the middle of Tenleytown. Not a real campus. No thanks. If you live in DC, it may not be worth it to cross into Va every day for transport (even if your kid has to sit on the bus for an hour), then send you kids to GDS or Maret…
I want my kids to be able to go to a good school, and have a campus around them that is safe and lots of green space as well.
Sidwell and GDS have tons of PhDs in their faculty, especially Sidwell. And Potomac students are not at the same academic caliber as Sidwell/GDS/Maret kids and the non-athlete college matriculation + quality of students supports that.
Potomac college results are in the same general league as all of the schools you mention.
Anonymous
02/07/2026 13:33
Subject: What makes Potomac so great?
Such a bizarre and unhelpful comment. Your kids attend "2 of the big 3." As a result, you think there's nothing special about Potomac because... what? Is it not special because they have exactly the same students, faculty, and outcomes as NCS/STA or Sidwell (or whatever school you think is a "Big 3"? Or do you have a constructive explanation of why you think Potomac is better or worse than the other options? I'm assuming that you realize that it's the same kids who gain admission to all these schools, so what about the experience differs?
Anonymous
02/07/2026 11:23
Subject: What makes Potomac so great?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can someone actually answer the question about what makes this school so special? Specific examples for your child .... not social gains ...
There's nothing special about Potomac.
Your kid must have not gotten in?
It’s a great school. Nice campus, nice facilities, super smart kids, some really really good teachers. The US economy teacher has a PhD and was a college professor. The debate team is nationally ranked. Lots of things going for it.
Similar student profiles as Sideell,Maret, GDS.
If you live in NoVa, yeah, crossing the bridge every day in massive traffic is not worth it. Sorry, I’m not spending 1 hr each way to drive my kids to Maret. That campus is tiny, facilities are old. GDS is to damn liberal. Also in the middle of Tenleytown. Not a real campus. No thanks. If you live in DC, it may not be worth it to cross into Va every day for transport (even if your kid has to sit on the bus for an hour), then send you kids to GDS or Maret…
I want my kids to be able to go to a good school, and have a campus around them that is safe and lots of green space as well.
My kids attend 2 of the Big 3.
There's nothing special about Potomac, nothing!
Anonymous
02/06/2026 23:13
Subject: What makes Potomac so great?
Sidwell and GDS have tons of PhDs in their faculty, especially Sidwell. And Potomac students are not at the same academic caliber as Sidwell/GDS/Maret kids and the non-athlete college matriculation + quality of students supports that.
This is such a bizarre take. Don’t feel like arguing too much with strangers, but my kid got into 2 out of the 3 of Sidwell/GDS/Maret and we picked Potomac (for many of the reasons previously mentioned).
Anonymous
02/06/2026 20:37
Subject: What makes Potomac so great?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can someone actually answer the question about what makes this school so special? Specific examples for your child .... not social gains ...
There's nothing special about Potomac.
Your kid must have not gotten in?
It’s a great school. Nice campus, nice facilities, super smart kids, some really really good teachers. The US economy teacher has a PhD and was a college professor. The debate team is nationally ranked. Lots of things going for it.
Similar student profiles as Sideell,Maret, GDS.
If you live in NoVa, yeah, crossing the bridge every day in massive traffic is not worth it. Sorry, I’m not spending 1 hr each way to drive my kids to Maret. That campus is tiny, facilities are old. GDS is to damn liberal. Also in the middle of Tenleytown. Not a real campus. No thanks. If you live in DC, it may not be worth it to cross into Va every day for transport (even if your kid has to sit on the bus for an hour), then send you kids to GDS or Maret…
I want my kids to be able to go to a good school, and have a campus around them that is safe and lots of green space as well.
You have some grammar challenges.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 20:29
Subject: What makes Potomac so great?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can someone actually answer the question about what makes this school so special? Specific examples for your child .... not social gains ...
There's nothing special about Potomac.
Your kid must have not gotten in?
It’s a great school. Nice campus, nice facilities, super smart kids, some really really good teachers. The US economy teacher has a PhD and was a college professor. The debate team is nationally ranked. Lots of things going for it.
Similar student profiles as Sideell,Maret, GDS.
If you live in NoVa, yeah, crossing the bridge every day in massive traffic is not worth it. Sorry, I’m not spending 1 hr each way to drive my kids to Maret. That campus is tiny, facilities are old. GDS is to damn liberal. Also in the middle of Tenleytown. Not a real campus. No thanks. If you live in DC, it may not be worth it to cross into Va every day for transport (even if your kid has to sit on the bus for an hour), then send you kids to GDS or Maret…
I want my kids to be able to go to a good school, and have a campus around them that is safe and lots of green space as well.
Sidwell and GDS have tons of PhDs in their faculty, especially Sidwell. And Potomac students are not at the same academic caliber as Sidwell/GDS/Maret kids and the non-athlete college matriculation + quality of students supports that.