Big day is Friday, but anyone else checking Ravenna "just in case"?

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Anonymous wrote:We are applying to 9th grade in a school NOT in the DC area. Yesterday (Mar 2) we got an email from a student ambassador saying hello, if your child has any questions, I'm happy to answer them. FYI, my background is XYZ (club activities, sports etc that sounded very similar to what DC wrote as interests). I am trying to not read too much into it. But, still spent a considerable amount of time wondering whether the school would have their student ambassadors send such an email on Mar 2 if they were going to reject us 3 days later. If this was in fact a blanket email sent to many applicants (inlcuidng those that will be rejected/WLed) that is almost cruel because it is making us hopeful...

Curious how it worked out? Anyone receive similar emails from student ambassadors a couple weeks before decisions are out?

We received a very similar email just the other day and we are about 2-3 weeks from decisions being announced. It's a very competitive school outside of DC so we thought all along that it would be a long shot being accepted. The student ambassador wrote directly to our child introducing himself. We noticed his profile is very similar to our child's. The ambassador ended the email saying that he is happy to answer any questions at any time. We can't help but think it might be positive sign. And it seems like they have already reviewed our child's file....

But then we don't want to set ourselves up for disappointment.... :/

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No offense but why are people outside of the dmv responding here?

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Because they can.

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Do all the schools in the county announce march 4th, otherwise again I ask why get involved with a DMV thread?

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Yes, majority of the schools across the country announce in early March.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, majority of the schools across the country announce in early March.

Philadelphia area is little earlier and down in the Deep South can be a little later.

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Anonymous wrote:My sibling didn’t get into a coveted high school that is nationally known. Went to another good private but not nationally known. My mom thought life was over! They wanted my sibling to go so badly to the that school. Ended up at MIT and Harvard so pretty sure it worked out well.

My DH went to Brown and Harvard and has an MD/ PhD. He’s a public school grad too. Do these parents think their kind can’t make it unless they attend private school? There are so many great public schools in the area.

You are in the wrong forum. If you are here, you should understand that those of us who send our kids to private are not interested in sending them to public, for many different reasons. Additionally, you may think the publics in this area are “great” but that is your opinion. I for one don’t agree with you.

Except many people have one child in private and one in public or various other combinations. I think it’s a good reminder to take a collective deep breath and your life or your child’s life is not over if they don’t get in.

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Anonymous wrote:My sibling didn’t get into a coveted high school that is nationally known. Went to another good private but not nationally known. My mom thought life was over! They wanted my sibling to go so badly to the that school. Ended up at MIT and Harvard so pretty sure it worked out well.

My DH went to Brown and Harvard and has an MD/ PhD. He’s a public school grad too. Do these parents think their kind can’t make it unless they attend private school? There are so many great public schools in the area.

You are in the wrong forum. If you are here, you should understand that those of us who send our kids to private are not interested in sending them to public, for many different reasons. Additionally, you may think the publics in this area are “great” but that is your opinion. I for one don’t agree with you.

Except many people have one child in private and one in public or various other combinations. I think it’s a good reminder to take a collective deep breath and your life or your child’s life is not over if they don’t get in.

yes.
there are two types of private school parents:
1) private at any cost; would never consider public.
2) the ones who do a hybrid of private/public--whether it be for different kids or for different years.

I think at the Big3 schools and/similar it's probably 66/33 towards the private lifers (lifers = maybe not all years at the same private but no time spent in public and often would not even consider public).

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Anonymous wrote:My sibling didn’t get into a coveted high school that is nationally known. Went to another good private but not nationally known. My mom thought life was over! They wanted my sibling to go so badly to the that school. Ended up at MIT and Harvard so pretty sure it worked out well.

My DH went to Brown and Harvard and has an MD/ PhD. He’s a public school grad too. Do these parents think their kind can’t make it unless they attend private school? There are so many great public schools in the area.

You are in the wrong forum. If you are here, you should understand that those of us who send our kids to private are not interested in sending them to public, for many different reasons. Additionally, you may think the publics in this area are “great” but that is your opinion. I for one don’t agree with you.

Except many people have one child in private and one in public or various other combinations. I think it’s a good reminder to take a collective deep breath and your life or your child’s life is not over if they don’t get in.

yes.
there are two types of private school parents:
1) private at any cost; would never consider public.
2) the ones who do a hybrid of private/public--whether it be for different kids or for different years.

I think at the Big3 schools and/similar it's probably 66/33 towards the private lifers (lifers = maybe not all years at the same private but no time spent in public and often would not even consider public).

I think your numbers are way off. My DCs are at a Big3. All of their friends have been in various private schools since kindergarten. There are definitely kids that enter from public, but not a lot and definitely not 1/3. GDS might be the exception, but I don’t have experience with GDS. I think they take a lot of Deal kids in high school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sibling didn’t get into a coveted high school that is nationally known. Went to another good private but not nationally known. My mom thought life was over! They wanted my sibling to go so badly to the that school. Ended up at MIT and Harvard so pretty sure it worked out well.

My DH went to Brown and Harvard and has an MD/ PhD. He’s a public school grad too. Do these parents think their kind can’t make it unless they attend private school? There are so many great public schools in the area.

You are in the wrong forum. If you are here, you should understand that those of us who send our kids to private are not interested in sending them to public, for many different reasons. Additionally, you may think the publics in this area are “great” but that is your opinion. I for one don’t agree with you.

Except many people have one child in private and one in public or various other combinations. I think it’s a good reminder to take a collective deep breath and your life or your child’s life is not over if they don’t get in.

yes.
there are two types of private school parents:
1) private at any cost; would never consider public.
2) the ones who do a hybrid of private/public--whether it be for different kids or for different years.

I think at the Big3 schools and/similar it's probably 66/33 towards the private lifers (lifers = maybe not all years at the same private but no time spent in public and often would not even consider public).

I think your numbers are way off. My DCs are at a Big3. All of their friends have been in various private schools since kindergarten. There are definitely kids that enter from public, but not a lot and definitely not 1/3. GDS might be the exception, but I don’t have experience with GDS. I think they take a lot of Deal kids in high school.

you're right. Maybe 85/15. I'm a public-->private school parent so I tend to know more of them. GDS barely took anyone from Deal this year. So they're probably 90/10 for 9th grade.
STA is probably 95/5. NCS 80/20. Sidwell 80/20.
I could be way off but remember my estimate includes all kids in a family.

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Anonymous wrote:My sibling didn’t get into a coveted high school that is nationally known. Went to another good private but not nationally known. My mom thought life was over! They wanted my sibling to go so badly to the that school. Ended up at MIT and Harvard so pretty sure it worked out well.

My DH went to Brown and Harvard and has an MD/ PhD. He’s a public school grad too. Do these parents think their kind can’t make it unless they attend private school? There are so many great public schools in the area.

You are in the wrong forum. If you are here, you should understand that those of us who send our kids to private are not interested in sending them to public, for many different reasons. Additionally, you may think the publics in this area are “great” but that is your opinion. I for one don’t agree with you.

Except many people have one child in private and one in public or various other combinations. I think it’s a good reminder to take a collective deep breath and your life or your child’s life is not over if they don’t get in.

yes.
there are two types of private school parents:
1) private at any cost; would never consider public.
2) the ones who do a hybrid of private/public--whether it be for different kids or for different years.

I think at the Big3 schools and/similar it's probably 66/33 towards the private lifers (lifers = maybe not all years at the same private but no time spent in public and often would not even consider public).

I think your numbers are way off. My DCs are at a Big3. All of their friends have been in various private schools since kindergarten. There are definitely kids that enter from public, but not a lot and definitely not 1/3. GDS might be the exception, but I don’t have experience with GDS. I think they take a lot of Deal kids in high school.

They take public kids from VA and MD too… as do all the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:My sibling didn’t get into a coveted high school that is nationally known. Went to another good private but not nationally known. My mom thought life was over! They wanted my sibling to go so badly to the that school. Ended up at MIT and Harvard so pretty sure it worked out well.

My DH went to Brown and Harvard and has an MD/ PhD. He’s a public school grad too. Do these parents think their kind can’t make it unless they attend private school? There are so many great public schools in the area.

You are in the wrong forum. If you are here, you should understand that those of us who send our kids to private are not interested in sending them to public, for many different reasons. Additionally, you may think the publics in this area are “great” but that is your opinion. I for one don’t agree with you.

Except many people have one child in private and one in public or various other combinations. I think it’s a good reminder to take a collective deep breath and your life or your child’s life is not over if they don’t get in.

yes.
there are two types of private school parents:
1) private at any cost; would never consider public.
2) the ones who do a hybrid of private/public--whether it be for different kids or for different years.

I think at the Big3 schools and/similar it's probably 66/33 towards the private lifers (lifers = maybe not all years at the same private but no time spent in public and often would not even consider public).

I think your numbers are way off. My DCs are at a Big3. All of their friends have been in various private schools since kindergarten. There are definitely kids that enter from public, but not a lot and definitely not 1/3. GDS might be the exception, but I don’t have experience with GDS. I think they take a lot of Deal kids in high school.

They take public kids from VA and MD too… as do all the schools.

Of course they do, but not 1/3 of the class.

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The privates do not have even close to a third of students from public. Most kids, especially at the well-known competitive privates (Sidwell, Potomac, STA, NCS, Maret, Holton, GDS), are private school lifers. A PP attempts above to give a likely percentage breakdown per a few of these schools but it’s generous at best.

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Anonymous wrote:The privates do not have even close to a third of students from public. Most kids, especially at the well-known competitive privates (Sidwell, Potomac, STA, NCS, Maret, Holton, GDS), are private school lifers. A PP attempts above to give a likely percentage breakdown per a few of these schools but it’s generous at best.

+100 Also, a very small percentage of the graduating class enters at 9th grade. The exception is GDS, which admits a lot more kids at 9th than the other top schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The privates do not have even close to a third of students from public. Most kids, especially at the well-known competitive privates (Sidwell, Potomac, STA, NCS, Maret, Holton, GDS), are private school lifers. A PP attempts above to give a likely percentage breakdown per a few of these schools but it’s generous at best.

+100 Also, a very small percentage of the graduating class enters at 9th grade. The exception is GDS, which admits a lot more kids at 9th than the other top schools.

But if you include the kids who entered at earlier grades before 9th(but after K, such as 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th which for many schools are entry points) plus those coming into 9th that is a larger percentage.