Safety Schools
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Anonymous
| How do you know (without hiring an educational consultant) which schools will be a safety school for your child/teen? |
Anonymous
| OP, what grade are you considering? Are you looking at high school, Pre-K? |
Anonymous
| Child/teen, duh. Read. |
Anonymous
There is nothing in the original message that says that. Nothing. |
Anonymous
| Ummm...it's tough for a consultant nowadays to talk about "safety schools". The schools have gotten very smart. If they think your kid's scores are too high -- they will doubt you will enroll there and then reject your kid. Mine got rejected at Burke of all places and was admitted to all of the top ones. Burke was smart enough to figure DD's scores were too high for them. |
Anonymous
We had a similar experience. In at Sidwell and Maret, waitlisted at St Patrick's. Although I think schools talk to each, and that's part of why schools are able to make these decisions to not admit kids they don't think will actually come. |
Anonymous
| OP here- I'm not 1:19. Thank you all for your thoughts on this. Are acceptance rates ever made public? |
Anonymous
Take a good hard look at OP's last word. Big as day....child/teen. |
Anonymous
| Np here. That clears up .... nothing. Since infants and adults don't apply for independent schools. |
Anonymous
| A safety school is where you are welthier than every one else in the parent body by a couple of zeroes. For some, Sidwell is a safety school. |
Anonymous
| St pats has been perceived as the safety school in the past, but has since grown in popularity. |
Anonymous
| OP, if you are looking for HS do you want same sex or co-ed? For high school there really aren't any "safety" schools but Good Counsel and St. Johns are a bit easier to get into. For girls Holy Cross. All the boy's schools turn down way more than they admit. |