Happy Acceptance Day! (Baltimore Area)

[Anonymous]

Happy acceptance day to all those who applied to Baltimore area privates! I wish the best for you and your family!

I want to know all about your experience and what you're doing to celebrate your student!

[Anonymous]

Yes good luck to B'more folks! We were in this situation last year applying for upper schools and it was an exciting day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy acceptance day to all those who applied to Baltimore area privates! I wish the best for you and your family!

I want to know all about your experience and what you're doing to celebrate your student!

Thank you!!! My DC is pretty nervous today!

[Anonymous]

Just got our email from McDonogh. 1 in (entry year), 1 on WL (non-entry year). Got to figure out how to navigate this convo.

[Anonymous]

We got our emails- a no from Park, a yes from friends.

It is so hard to not take someone rejecting your kid personally, you know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got our emails- a no from Park, a yes from friends.

It is so hard to not take someone rejecting your kid personally, you know?

Agree, they are composing a class and these decisions are complicated, but it stings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just got our email from McDonogh. 1 in (entry year), 1 on WL (non-entry year). Got to figure out how to navigate this convo.

I guarantee McDonogh wants your non-entry child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got our email from McDonogh. 1 in (entry year), 1 on WL (non-entry year). Got to figure out how to navigate this convo.

I guarantee McDonogh wants your non-entry child.

How do you figure?

[Anonymous]

McDonogh and Gilman, we got both offers, Yeah!

[Anonymous]

Right? Idk, at least my kiddo is a PreK applicant so has no idea how decisions are made so he won’t get hurt/feel rejected. At three it’s also hard to be like, what exactly were you looking for? Whereas w older kids you think maybe sports/music/special interests play a role but then you have to tell your older kid a school didn’t want them.

I didn’t love our interview with Park and they asked for a lot of extra stuff, which we obvs did. But other than the awk interview, we loved the school.

Husband liked park enough that he thinks we shld apply again for K, but I’m apparently a scorched earth type person bc I’m like f them for not knowing how obvs perfect my child is, we will never mention this school again (I don’t actually think he’s perfect, I just think he’s great). My kiddo is sensitive and artsy, and Park just felt “right” to us in some ineffable way.

But neither myself nor husband did private school ourselves so this is all brand new to us (no rejection here til we applied to colleges).

Surprised at how strongly offended I feel, but again, asking other people to judge your 3 year old feels hard. I can’t imagine it’s any easier for other ages.

Good luck to everyone still hitting refresh on your emails!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got our email from McDonogh. 1 in (entry year), 1 on WL (non-entry year). Got to figure out how to navigate this convo.

I guarantee McDonogh wants your non-entry child.

How do you figure?

McDonogh wants whole families. It had zero wiggle room this year in some non-entry grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right? Idk, at least my kiddo is a PreK applicant so has no idea how decisions are made so he won’t get hurt/feel rejected. At three it’s also hard to be like, what exactly were you looking for? Whereas w older kids you think maybe sports/music/special interests play a role but then you have to tell your older kid a school didn’t want them.

I didn’t love our interview with Park and they asked for a lot of extra stuff, which we obvs did. But other than the awk interview, we loved the school.

Husband liked park enough that he thinks we shld apply again for K, but I’m apparently a scorched earth type person bc I’m like f them for not knowing how obvs perfect my child is, we will never mention this school again (I don’t actually think he’s perfect, I just think he’s great). My kiddo is sensitive and artsy, and Park just felt “right” to us in some ineffable way.

But neither myself nor husband did private school ourselves so this is all brand new to us (no rejection here til we applied to colleges).

Surprised at how strongly offended I feel, but again, asking other people to judge your 3 year old feels hard. I can’t imagine it’s any easier for other ages.

Good luck to everyone still hitting refresh on your emails!

Keep in mind that sometimes a 3-4yo just has a bad day during an interview. Nobody knows how these kids will turn out or what a good fit will be just one year from now.

[Anonymous]

DS is WL at Gilman!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right? Idk, at least my kiddo is a PreK applicant so has no idea how decisions are made so he won’t get hurt/feel rejected. At three it’s also hard to be like, what exactly were you looking for? Whereas w older kids you think maybe sports/music/special interests play a role but then you have to tell your older kid a school didn’t want them.

I didn’t love our interview with Park and they asked for a lot of extra stuff, which we obvs did. But other than the awk interview, we loved the school.

Husband liked park enough that he thinks we shld apply again for K, but I’m apparently a scorched earth type person bc I’m like f them for not knowing how obvs perfect my child is, we will never mention this school again (I don’t actually think he’s perfect, I just think he’s great). My kiddo is sensitive and artsy, and Park just felt “right” to us in some ineffable way.

But neither myself nor husband did private school ourselves so this is all brand new to us (no rejection here til we applied to colleges).

Surprised at how strongly offended I feel, but again, asking other people to judge your 3 year old feels hard. I can’t imagine it’s any easier for other ages.

Good luck to everyone still hitting refresh on your emails!

Keep in mind that sometimes a 3-4yo just has a bad day during an interview. Nobody knows how these kids will turn out or what a good fit will be just one year from now.

Thanks— I wish we had a non-application option for PreK, bc I agree, 3s are so fickle! And was hard to guess what school might be best longterm for him too. I know bmore is a more flexible area than NYC (& prob DC?) so we can consider applying out for 1st or 6th or whatever once he has more of a frontal cortex to work with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right? Idk, at least my kiddo is a PreK applicant so has no idea how decisions are made so he won’t get hurt/feel rejected. At three it’s also hard to be like, what exactly were you looking for? Whereas w older kids you think maybe sports/music/special interests play a role but then you have to tell your older kid a school didn’t want them.

I didn’t love our interview with Park and they asked for a lot of extra stuff, which we obvs did. But other than the awk interview, we loved the school.

Husband liked park enough that he thinks we shld apply again for K, but I’m apparently a scorched earth type person bc I’m like f them for not knowing how obvs perfect my child is, we will never mention this school again (I don’t actually think he’s perfect, I just think he’s great). My kiddo is sensitive and artsy, and Park just felt “right” to us in some ineffable way.

But neither myself nor husband did private school ourselves so this is all brand new to us (no rejection here til we applied to colleges).

Surprised at how strongly offended I feel, but again, asking other people to judge your 3 year old feels hard. I can’t imagine it’s any easier for other ages.

Good luck to everyone still hitting refresh on your emails!

Keep in mind that sometimes a 3-4yo just has a bad day during an interview. Nobody knows how these kids will turn out or what a good fit will be just one year from now.

Thanks— I wish we had a non-application option for PreK, bc I agree, 3s are so fickle! And was hard to guess what school might be best longterm for him too. I know bmore is a more flexible area than NYC (& prob DC?) so we can consider applying out for 1st or 6th or whatever once he has more of a frontal cortex to work with.

Baltimore public school parent: It's possible many of the pre-k spots were taken up by siblings of current Park students of children of teachers. Many years ago, my kid was waitlisted for K at the Greenmount school. We went the public school route (yes, truly, it can be done) and never had any regrets about missing out on GMS. Your kid will be ok! Congrats on Friends!