Kudos to Sidwell for actually rejecting applicants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: It is bothersome that parents are attempting to steal others joy and making it seem as if the children admitted were not worthy

Op here. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend anyone and I'm sorry for being so rude and crass. It's pure juvenile jealousy that wrote part of that post. I wish though that Maret and Beauvoir did just reject us like Sidwell did. After much discussion, DH and I decided we will not write to Beauvoir or send in Maret's postcard to kept on the wait list. We have a decent public school and we will send dd to it in the fall.

Congratulations to you and everyone else who received wonderful news this weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: It is bothersome that parents are attempting to steal others joy and making it seem as if the children admitted were not worthy

Op here. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend anyone and I'm sorry for being so rude and crass. It's pure juvenile jealousy that wrote part of that post. I wish though that Maret and Beauvoir did just reject us like Sidwell did. After much discussion, DH and I decided we will not write to Beauvoir or send in Maret's postcard to kept on the wait list. We have a decent public school and we will send dd to it in the fall.

Congratulations to you and everyone else who received wonderful news this weekend.

That was an admirable post. Best of luck to you. We are in a similar position and are comfortable with the possibility (likelihood?) of sending our DC to a nice public school. If these schools won't admit our child, who is extremely sociable, had wonderful teacher recommendations, and an exceptionally high WPPSI score but whose family is far from politically connected, then there is nothing more we can do. It's the private school's loss, and the public school's gain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was an admirable post. Best of luck to you. We are in a similar position and are comfortable with the possibility (likelihood?) of sending our DC to a nice public school. If these schools won't admit our child, who is extremely sociable, had wonderful teacher recommendations, and an exceptionally high WPPSI score but whose family is far from politically connected, then there is nothing more we can do. It's the private school's loss, and the public school's gain.

Ditto. After discussions with dh this weekend, maybe we will take the cash we were going to spent on tuition next year and fund it into a program for the public school we will likely send our child to.

[Anonymous]

To the 23:30 poster, can I just say that the cash saved may not be such a bad thing? In thinking about the amount of money I would have to pay for private school, and then thinking about how I could use that same cash to enhance my child's education experiences (special camps, fabulous vacations, music lessons, athletic lessons, tutors, etc.), well, let's just say, that it gave me great pause. What is the value of a private school education if it means I can't afford to enrich my child's experience in any way? I'm sure private school would be a great academic environment, but can private school really replace all that?

Maybe some of greater means don't have to make such a choice.