No connections, not from NCRC or other "feeder schools"...

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Anonymous wrote:Are we fooling ourselves that our wonderful Dc who is a great kid with very high WPPSI, great school readiness and good recommendations but not at a feeder school but rather a small no name school would be considered to have any chance of gettng into a Top 3 Pre-K? No financial aid needed, no siblings, no almuni wha are friends, etc. From reading these threads, it seems like we're wasting our time and money.

What do you/DH do for a living? We were in the same boat. We've been told that our interesting jobs helped separate us from the pack. We're at Beauvoir now, and love it. Good luck.

DH is a senior director for a finance company in NYC and travels twice a week to NYC. I'm a physician who works and teaches medical students and residents at Georgetown University Medical Center as well as in private practice. Unfortunately, not all that interesting.

At least you're not lawyers. That will help (really).

Good luck.

OP: Thanks. OK so I was looking on the Beauvoir thread and they mentioned the Washington Post article which lists the who's who of the Sidwell.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103579.html

Yikes. Reading this makes you hope the other schools are not looking so much for these high power parents.