Is there a waitlist for every grade at The Heights?

[Anonymous]

Is there a waitlist at every grade for The Heights?
I saw the other thread about only taking 5 new boys at an intake grade. Ouch! (Almost all places go to siblings, children of alumni and faculty.)
It’s discouraging that they offer a great but inaccessible school. Why get unhooked families excited just to reject them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a waitlist at every grade for The Heights?
I saw the other thread about only taking 5 new boys at an intake grade. Ouch! (Almost all places go to siblings, children of alumni and faculty.)
It’s discouraging that they offer a great but inaccessible school. Why get unhooked families excited just to reject them?

Exciting families and driving applications is what Admissions people and schools do.

The more applicants, the better. The Admissions department is assessed against this metric. And more applications means the school can be more selective.

This isn’t just The Heights. It’s every school.

[Anonymous]

+1 - most schools have waitlists these days. Hope it works out for you and DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a waitlist at every grade for The Heights?
I saw the other thread about only taking 5 new boys at an intake grade. Ouch! (Almost all places go to siblings, children of alumni and faculty.)
It’s discouraging that they offer a great but inaccessible school. Why get unhooked families excited just to reject them?

If God wills it, it will be so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a waitlist at every grade for The Heights?
I saw the other thread about only taking 5 new boys at an intake grade. Ouch! (Almost all places go to siblings, children of alumni and faculty.)
It’s discouraging that they offer a great but inaccessible school. Why get unhooked families excited just to reject them?

Yes.Yes. The house is extremely popular because it is the only ultra conservatives left. The Heights is extremely popular because it is the only ultra conservative school in the DMV. The school is extremely popular because it is the only ultra conservative school so people have few extra conservative choices. For that reason, people who want an ultra conservative, ultra Catholic, old fashioned style upbringing for their children will pick the Heights and if they get in, they will accept they have an excellent yield!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a waitlist at every grade for The Heights?
I saw the other thread about only taking 5 new boys at an intake grade. Ouch! (Almost all places go to siblings, children of alumni and faculty.)
It’s discouraging that they offer a great but inaccessible school. Why get unhooked families excited just to reject them?

Yes.Yes. The house is extremely popular because it is the only ultra conservatives left. The Heights is extremely popular because it is the only ultra conservative school in the DMV. The school is extremely popular because it is the only ultra conservative school so people have few extra conservative choices. For that reason, people who want an ultra conservative, ultra Catholic, old fashioned style upbringing for their children will pick the Heights and if they get in, they will accept they have an excellent yield!

It’s a school for the good old boys? PP is incorrect in stating there is a shortage of those. There are plenty in the DMV. Maybe the Heights is more open about it, but we have plenty institutions around here that are “ultra conservative”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a waitlist at every grade for The Heights?
I saw the other thread about only taking 5 new boys at an intake grade. Ouch! (Almost all places go to siblings, children of alumni and faculty.)
It’s discouraging that they offer a great but inaccessible school. Why get unhooked families excited just to reject them?

Yes.Yes. The house is extremely popular because it is the only ultra conservatives left. The Heights is extremely popular because it is the only ultra conservative school in the DMV. The school is extremely popular because it is the only ultra conservative school so people have few extra conservative choices. For that reason, people who want an ultra conservative, ultra Catholic, old fashioned style upbringing for their children will pick the Heights and if they get in, they will accept they have an excellent yield!

It’s a school for the good old boys? PP is incorrect in stating there is a shortage of those. There are plenty in the DMV. Maybe the Heights is more open about it, but we have plenty institutions around here that are “ultra conservative”.

Yes, but none of them are as conservative is the Heights. The Heights is unapologetically Opus Dei . And a literal translation of the old and new testaments is not only taught but also intertwined in the curriculum. It’s very likely that you will hear Heights mom’s saying “boys will be boys. “

[Anonymous]

Only if God says so.

[Anonymous]

yep it is completely up to God.

[Anonymous]

Something that I really like about the school is the fostering of reasoned discourse. They intentionally cultivate the ability to communicate about a hard topic in a thoughtful way. (Isn’t this much needed in our society?) In the case of the middle school unit on Roman history, for example, hard topics are not emotionally charged because the people, events, and society are in the past. If only present day topics were discussed then emotions would get hot in a hurry …like on DCUM!

My criticism of the school is not with their thoughtful and intelligent faculty, nor with their belief in objective truth, but rather with the lack of access to this excellence. Catholic educators are called not to be elitist. They are called to be a light unto the world, not just an inner circle. To my mind, it’s an act of intellectual charity to bring the education they offer to more boys beyond siblings or the sons of alumni and teachers. Seems like there’s no room in the inn for the stranger!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something that I really like about the school is the fostering of reasoned discourse. They intentionally cultivate the ability to communicate about a hard topic in a thoughtful way. (Isn’t this much needed in our society?) In the case of the middle school unit on Roman history, for example, hard topics are not emotionally charged because the people, events, and society are in the past. If only present day topics were discussed then emotions would get hot in a hurry …like on DCUM!

My criticism of the school is not with their thoughtful and intelligent faculty, nor with their belief in objective truth, but rather with the lack of access to this excellence. Catholic educators are called not to be elitist. They are called to be a light unto the world, not just an inner circle. To my mind, it’s an act of intellectual charity to bring the education they offer to more boys beyond siblings or the sons of alumni and teachers. Seems like there’s no room in the inn for the stranger!

They have a vast library of pod casts and share their teachings/methods all around the world.

[Anonymous]

Amusing how this board both dumps on the school and expects that they let everyone in. Unclear why the heights would be different from any competitive and in-demand school…?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something that I really like about the school is the fostering of reasoned discourse. They intentionally cultivate the ability to communicate about a hard topic in a thoughtful way. (Isn’t this much needed in our society?) In the case of the middle school unit on Roman history, for example, hard topics are not emotionally charged because the people, events, and society are in the past. If only present day topics were discussed then emotions would get hot in a hurry …like on DCUM!

My criticism of the school is not with their thoughtful and intelligent faculty, nor with their belief in objective truth, but rather with the lack of access to this excellence. Catholic educators are called not to be elitist. They are called to be a light unto the world, not just an inner circle. To my mind, it’s an act of intellectual charity to bring the education they offer to more boys beyond siblings or the sons of alumni and teachers. Seems like there’s no room in the inn for the stranger!

The "Catholics" that run the Heights are different form the Catholics who run schools that are genuinely a light unto the world. For those Catholic schools, check out schools like Sisters Academy in Baltimore, or Chicago Jesuit Academy. They are truly changing lives at those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something that I really like about the school is the fostering of reasoned discourse. They intentionally cultivate the ability to communicate about a hard topic in a thoughtful way. (Isn’t this much needed in our society?) In the case of the middle school unit on Roman history, for example, hard topics are not emotionally charged because the people, events, and society are in the past. If only present day topics were discussed then emotions would get hot in a hurry …like on DCUM!

My criticism of the school is not with their thoughtful and intelligent faculty, nor with their belief in objective truth, but rather with the lack of access to this excellence. Catholic educators are called not to be elitist. They are called to be a light unto the world, not just an inner circle. To my mind, it’s an act of intellectual charity to bring the education they offer to more boys beyond siblings or the sons of alumni and teachers. Seems like there’s no room in the inn for the stranger!

The county sets a student limit and they are at max capacity. What else can the school do?