Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
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Anonymous
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school. |
Anonymous
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in. |
Anonymous
| Anyone hear about any waitpool movement yet? |
Anonymous
This is a silly statement, and you have no reason to post this. Just because a wait list is VERY real, does not mean that any one child has a likelihood of getting in. The majority will not. |
Anonymous
It must be real. The year our kid applied to private schools, Sidwell kept asking us throughout the summer whether we still wanted our kid to remain on it despite several attempts to tell them that we no longer wanted our kid on the waitlist (or whatever you want to call it). They were very nice, but just weird. |
Anonymous
Interesting! Why do you think they did that? |
Anonymous
I imagine nothing more than it was hard to keep track of everyone. But the fact that they were trying tells me that the list was something the school expected it might actually need. |
Anonymous
Absolutely. |
Anonymous
| Some schools have real wait pools, and yet the chances of admission from them are still quite low. Both can be true. |
Anonymous
Yes but the chances are likely higher at the schools that also reject. |
Anonymous
+1 the year our child applied, we knew three families who got off the waitlist in one weekend for k. three. |
Anonymous
I'm just throwing numbers out there but if by higher you mean 5-10 percent chance of getting off a wait pool vs. 1 percent, then yes. Both are still very low. |
Anonymous
What do you mean by "asking"? We got a lot of mass emails with no real information. I wouldn't equate that with an individual person reaching out to ask. |
Anonymous
What year was this? |
Anonymous
A direct email to us from the admissions person we (as parents) interviewed with asking whether we wanted our kid to remain on their list. |