List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?

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Anonymous wrote:I know two kids declining Sidwell for 9th; two declining STA. All going to top 5 boarding schools.

It will be interesting to see how well they predicted their yields. They probably have these declines built into their estimates but time will tell.

I don’t know if I could ever send my children totally boarding school regardless of how good it is even if it was 100% free. No judgments I get the benefits it’s just not for me in particular.

We felt the same way until our DC went. She loves it, and she gets to come home for visits every 4 - 5 weeks.

We didn't send my two DCs to boarding school but I think of their friends who attended BS, their parents spent more time with their BS kids than I spent with my DCs. My DCs didn't want to spend time with me on the weekends, yet their BS friends would come home and spend time with the family. They would facetime regularly. The parents would visit and take the kids out to dinner. I opened my eyes that it might be a closer relationship than I had.

No, it sounds like your children just don’t want to spend time with you. My teens attend a private school in DC (where we live), and we’ve maintained a close relationship throughout high school. I see them 7 days/week, and they usually hang out with their friends for a few hours on Saturday. It’s a pretty balanced life.

Amazing! Can you provide some pointers on how I can become just like you? Sounds like you've got it all figured out

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Anonymous wrote:Turning down St Pats and NPS for K.

Enrolling at Beauvoir.

WL at SFS and GDS but will not stay on.

How did you get into Beauvoir for K? We were waitlisted.

They only have about 20 spots each year. I bet most go to subs and affiliations.

We got in to Beauvoir for pre-K. It’s much tougher for K. We were told that siblings preference is at prek when we asked about our 2nd child who is 1. Not sure if it’s siblings at K but it’s fewer slots for sure 20 compared to 68 in pre-K.

I don’t believe it’s 68 in prek. There are three classes of about 18. And virtually all (but not absolutely all) of prek is siblings, faculty kids, alum kids, and elc. K is when they take a small number of new families.

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Anonymous wrote:Turning down St Pats and NPS for K.

Enrolling at Beauvoir.

WL at SFS and GDS but will not stay on.

How did you get into Beauvoir for K? We were waitlisted.

They only have about 20 spots each year. I bet most go to subs and affiliations.

We got in to Beauvoir for pre-K. It’s much tougher for K. We were told that siblings preference is at prek when we asked about our 2nd child who is 1. Not sure if it’s siblings at K but it’s fewer slots for sure 20 compared to 68 in pre-K.

I don’t believe it’s 68 in prek. There are three classes of about 18. And virtually all (but not absolutely all) of prek is siblings, faculty kids, alum kids, and elc. K is when they take a small number of new families.

The website says about 60 in pre-K and 20 in K. We were admitted for pre-K and everyone we met at the welcome event was unhooked - no sibs, faculty or alum kids. We have none of those things. Our consultant told us the best chance of getting in is pre-K.

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Anonymous wrote:turned down BVR - too woke.

Ugh aren’t they ALL woke??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Turning down St Pats and NPS for K.

Enrolling at Beauvoir.

WL at SFS and GDS but will not stay on.

How did you get into Beauvoir for K? We were waitlisted.

They only have about 20 spots each year. I bet most go to subs and affiliations.

We got in to Beauvoir for pre-K. It’s much tougher for K. We were told that siblings preference is at prek when we asked about our 2nd child who is 1. Not sure if it’s siblings at K but it’s fewer slots for sure 20 compared to 68 in pre-K.

I don’t believe it’s 68 in prek. There are three classes of about 18. And virtually all (but not absolutely all) of prek is siblings, faculty kids, alum kids, and elc. K is when they take a small number of new families.

The website says about 60 in pre-K and 20 in K. We were admitted for pre-K and everyone we met at the welcome event was unhooked - no sibs, faculty or alum kids. We have none of those things. Our consultant told us the best chance of getting in is pre-K.

There's a separate welcome event for those new to the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Turned down GDS for Maret for 9th!!!!!

Nice!

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Anonymous wrote:Turning down St Pats and NPS for K.

Enrolling at Beauvoir.

WL at SFS and GDS but will not stay on.

How did you get into Beauvoir for K? We were waitlisted.

They only have about 20 spots each year. I bet most go to subs and affiliations.

We got in to Beauvoir for pre-K. It’s much tougher for K. We were told that siblings preference is at prek when we asked about our 2nd child who is 1. Not sure if it’s siblings at K but it’s fewer slots for sure 20 compared to 68 in pre-K.

I don’t believe it’s 68 in prek. There are three classes of about 18. And virtually all (but not absolutely all) of prek is siblings, faculty kids, alum kids, and elc. K is when they take a small number of new families.

The website says about 60 in pre-K and 20 in K. We were admitted for pre-K and everyone we met at the welcome event was unhooked - no sibs, faculty or alum kids. We have none of those things. Our consultant told us the best chance of getting in is pre-K.

There's a separate welcome event for those new to the school.

There is a separate welcome event for the hooked.

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Anonymous wrote:Every adult I know who went to boarding school is damaged in a unique way. Essentially, they were rejected by their parents at a young age and list a part of their soul.

This is BS. I went to a competitive day school but had a lot of friends in college who went boarding and have a good number of friends in adulthood who did. There’s not a statistically significant difference in mental health. I think the boarding school kids excelled in college, not especially academically as their academics weren’t too superior to a lot of the schools other kids went to, but they were so much more prepared for the school/life balance and being away from home. 9/11 was my freshman year, we were all from the north east. The boarding school kids kept it together and the rest of us were at a borderline melt down unable to contact parents, friends, etc all 2 weeks into the year. That’s just one example though - there are upsides and downsides to growing up too quickly - but in terms of life skills I can’t imagine a better situation that boarding.

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Anonymous wrote:Every adult I know who went to boarding school is damaged in a unique way. Essentially, they were rejected by their parents at a young age and list a part of their soul.

This is BS. I went to a competitive day school but had a lot of friends in college who went boarding and have a good number of friends in adulthood who did. There’s not a statistically significant difference in mental health. I think the boarding school kids excelled in college, not especially academically as their academics weren’t too superior to a lot of the schools other kids went to, but they were so much more prepared for the school/life balance and being away from home. 9/11 was my freshman year, we were all from the north east. The boarding school kids kept it together and the rest of us were at a borderline melt down unable to contact parents, friends, etc all 2 weeks into the year. That’s just one example though - there are upsides and downsides to growing up too quickly - but in terms of life skills I can’t imagine a better situation that boarding.

Umm, so an example of how nonplussed the boarding school kids were about 9-11 compared to the rest of the kids who were worried sick about their parents and friends isn’t the best example to refute PP’s claim that the boarding school kids felt rejected by their parents and had no soul. Just sayin

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BIM!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Turning down St Pats and NPS for K.

Enrolling at Beauvoir.

WL at SFS and GDS but will not stay on.

How did you get into Beauvoir for K? We were waitlisted.

They only have about 20 spots each year. I bet most go to subs and affiliations.

We got in to Beauvoir for pre-K. It’s much tougher for K. We were told that siblings preference is at prek when we asked about our 2nd child who is 1. Not sure if it’s siblings at K but it’s fewer slots for sure 20 compared to 68 in pre-K.

I don’t believe it’s 68 in prek. There are three classes of about 18. And virtually all (but not absolutely all) of prek is siblings, faculty kids, alum kids, and elc. K is when they take a small number of new families.

The website says about 60 in pre-K and 20 in K. We were admitted for pre-K and everyone we met at the welcome event was unhooked - no sibs, faculty or alum kids. We have none of those things. Our consultant told us the best chance of getting in is pre-K.

There's a separate welcome event for those new to the school.

There is a separate welcome event for the hooked.

Is that not stating the same in different terms... or is this missed sarcasm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:turned down BVR - too woke.

BVR dodged a bullet there! I’m sure they’re delighted by your choice.

[Anonymous]

Turned down Maret for WIS, we speak French so wanted DC to learn it well

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Anonymous wrote:Turned down Maret for WIS, we speak French so wanted DC to learn it well

Wow …

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Anonymous wrote:Turned down Maret for WIS, we speak French so wanted DC to learn it well

No way, why??