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WIS today -- rejection -- Pre-K

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We are

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Rejected at Sidwell
Waitlisted at GDS
(for kindergarten).

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Anonymous wrote:We are

for prek or k?

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St Patricks - waitlisted
Langley - Accepted
WIS -- Haven't heard yet???

Pre-K....

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Anonymous wrote:So sorry, not sure where you live, but have an idea. Does your current program not have Pre-K? If not, I really love St. Francis, and their Pre-K is excellent. Call them and see if they might accept a late application. They are merging with St. Andrews so may be some more flexibility in the program. Good luck to you. It will really all be ok

Thanks, I will look into it. We are in Georgetown. The pre-k program at my daughters current school is not an option for us - it was poor quality and I had already told them we are not signing up for next year as their deadline was a month ago and I really thought we would be accepted at one school, at the least. So even to send her to her current programs pre-k is not an option because they are fully committed for next year at this point. As for public, not an option from what we have seen. I have no idea what I am going to do. We are just a regular happy family with no connections and we certainly don't have a ton of money to donate. I think we might be faced with having to sell our house and move out of DC, which is heartbreaking for us as we love it here. I have no idea why she wasn't accepted at any of the schools. She's a good kid with a kind heart and she certainly tries hard. We feel it's all our fault. Maybe if we had better jobs or went to better schools she would have been accepted somewhere.

I had a very small hope for Beauvoir (which was our #1 choice) but, with that said, I saw the writing on the wall when they gave us a huge blow off 3 weeks ago by canceling a meeting we had scheduled and not offering us an opportunity to reschedule.

We just returned from lunch (as our daughter is having a play date with her cousins this afternoon) where DH and I discussed (over a nice bottle of wine) what we felt were mistakes we made in the application process. I think applying for financial aid and the SSS coming back with an insane affordability figure hurts us. Plus, it's not like we have glamorous jobs with fabulous titles and extra cash to give as gifts to the schools. We are just hard working ordinary people. In the end, we could have made the figures work (with sacrifices) without financial aid, so maybe that is where we went wrong. I really find it hard to believe that applying for it does not count against you somehow.

I don't know what we are going to do - being 0 for 4 is not something we expected. Regardless, thanks for reading, it's nice to have a place just to write down my feelings. And to the people out there who are inclined to write nasty posts to others, please refrain fro doing so, I feel bad enough as it is.

[Anonymous]

I feel for your situation, but really, the "connections", "donations" and other inference of quid pro quo for acceptance to any of these schools is simply not an across the board accurate portrayal of the situation.

In NW DC, there are simply an abundant number of very bright and talented children and because of the limitations of our public school system, a demand for these institutions. It has nothing to do with you or your child.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So sorry, not sure where you live, but have an idea. Does your current program not have Pre-K? If not, I really love St. Francis, and their Pre-K is excellent. Call them and see if they might accept a late application. They are merging with St. Andrews so may be some more flexibility in the program. Good luck to you. It will really all be ok

Thanks, I will look into it. We are in Georgetown. The pre-k program at my daughters current school is not an option for us - it was poor quality and I had already told them we are not signing up for next year as their deadline was a month ago and I really thought we would be accepted at one school, at the least. So even to send her to her current programs pre-k is not an option because they are fully committed for next year at this point. As for public, not an option from what we have seen. I have no idea what I am going to do. We are just a regular happy family with no connections and we certainly don't have a ton of money to donate. I think we might be faced with having to sell our house and move out of DC, which is heartbreaking for us as we love it here. I have no idea why she wasn't accepted at any of the schools. She's a good kid with a kind heart and she certainly tries hard. We feel it's all our fault. Maybe if we had better jobs or went to better schools she would have been accepted somewhere.

I had a very small hope for Beauvoir (which was our #1 choice) but, with that said, I saw the writing on the wall when they gave us a huge blow off 3 weeks ago by canceling a meeting we had scheduled and not offering us an opportunity to reschedule.

We just returned from lunch (as our daughter is having a play date with her cousins this afternoon) where DH and I discussed (over a nice bottle of wine) what we felt were mistakes we made in the application process. I think applying for financial aid and the SSS coming back with an insane affordability figure hurts us. Plus, it's not like we have glamorous jobs with fabulous titles and extra cash to give as gifts to the schools. We are just hard working ordinary people. In the end, we could have made the figures work (with sacrifices) without financial aid, so maybe that is where we went wrong. I really find it hard to believe that applying for it does not count against you somehow.

I don't know what we are going to do - being 0 for 4 is not something we expected. Regardless, thanks for reading, it's nice to have a place just to write down my feelings. And to the people out there who are inclined to write nasty posts to others, please refrain fro doing so, I feel bad enough as it is.

I think your chances of finding a good pre-K spot for your daughter are actually really good, since many 4 year olds leave great preschools to enroll in a pre-K/elementary. There are a ton of terrific preschools in the are so don't throw your hands up about that. I applied to preschool last year for my son, only got one spot and then got calls from 4 schools over the summer about spots opening. And it sounds like lots of people had luck applying to private schools for K on a second go around. I can imagine it is disheartening, but I don't think you should second guess what you did this year or try to figure out why you didn't get in. It really does seem like there is alot of luck involved in getting into these schools...sounds like there are simply too few spots for all the qualified applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So sorry, not sure where you live, but have an idea. Does your current program not have Pre-K? If not, I really love St. Francis, and their Pre-K is excellent. Call them and see if they might accept a late application. They are merging with St. Andrews so may be some more flexibility in the program. Good luck to you. It will really all be ok

Thanks, I will look into it. We are in Georgetown. The pre-k program at my daughters current school is not an option for us - it was poor quality and I had already told them we are not signing up for next year as their deadline was a month ago and I really thought we would be accepted at one school, at the least. So even to send her to her current programs pre-k is not an option because they are fully committed for next year at this point. As for public, not an option from what we have seen. I have no idea what I am going to do. We are just a regular happy family with no connections and we certainly don't have a ton of money to donate. I think we might be faced with having to sell our house and move out of DC, which is heartbreaking for us as we love it here. I have no idea why she wasn't accepted at any of the schools. She's a good kid with a kind heart and she certainly tries hard. We feel it's all our fault. Maybe if we had better jobs or went to better schools she would have been accepted somewhere.

I had a very small hope for Beauvoir (which was our #1 choice) but, with that said, I saw the writing on the wall when they gave us a huge blow off 3 weeks ago by canceling a meeting we had scheduled and not offering us an opportunity to reschedule.

We just returned from lunch (as our daughter is having a play date with her cousins this afternoon) where DH and I discussed (over a nice bottle of wine) what we felt were mistakes we made in the application process. I think applying for financial aid and the SSS coming back with an insane affordability figure hurts us. Plus, it's not like we have glamorous jobs with fabulous titles and extra cash to give as gifts to the schools. We are just hard working ordinary people. In the end, we could have made the figures work (with sacrifices) without financial aid, so maybe that is where we went wrong. I really find it hard to believe that applying for it does not count against you somehow.

I don't know what we are going to do - being 0 for 4 is not something we expected. Regardless, thanks for reading, it's nice to have a place just to write down my feelings. And to the people out there who are inclined to write nasty posts to others, please refrain fro doing so, I feel bad enough as it is.

I think your chances of finding a good pre-K spot for your daughter are actually really good, since many 4 year olds leave great preschools to enroll in a pre-K/elementary. There are a ton of terrific preschools in the are so don't throw your hands up about that. I applied to preschool last year for my son, only got one spot and then got calls from 4 schools over the summer about spots opening. And it sounds like lots of people had luck applying to private schools for K on a second go around. I can imagine it is disheartening, but I don't think you should second guess what you did this year or try to figure out why you didn't get in. It really does seem like there is alot of luck involved in getting into these schools...sounds like there are simply too few spots for all the qualified applicants.

try metropolitan methodist school...they prob have openings next year for the pre-k and mrs. swaggert is FABULOUS. i'd give them a call and see if you can get on their waitlist or they may even have spots. many people are thrilled with mrs swaggert.

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16:40 poster here...I should add that for a place like Sidwell, there were probably 400 applications for ~44 spots in PreK and K, and that includes all of the various constituencies - Siblings, Alumni, Quakers, etc....I would be willing to venture that there are a large number of those who were not accepted who fill these constituencies as well.

Spread those kinds of numbers across all of the schools with so many bright kids, and you can see the dilemma that both the schools and the parents have.

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Some hope for the 0 for 4 person....I know people who got off the Beauvoir wait list.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So sorry, not sure where you live, but have an idea. Does your current program not have Pre-K? If not, I really love St. Francis, and their Pre-K is excellent. Call them and see if they might accept a late application. They are merging with St. Andrews so may be some more flexibility in the program. Good luck to you. It will really all be ok

Thanks, I will look into it. We are in Georgetown. The pre-k program at my daughters current school is not an option for us - it was poor quality and I had already told them we are not signing up for next year as their deadline was a month ago and I really thought we would be accepted at one school, at the least. So even to send her to her current programs pre-k is not an option because they are fully committed for next year at this point. As for public, not an option from what we have seen. I have no idea what I am going to do. We are just a regular happy family with no connections and we certainly don't have a ton of money to donate. I think we might be faced with having to sell our house and move out of DC, which is heartbreaking for us as we love it here. I have no idea why she wasn't accepted at any of the schools. She's a good kid with a kind heart and she certainly tries hard. We feel it's all our fault. Maybe if we had better jobs or went to better schools she would have been accepted somewhere.

I had a very small hope for Beauvoir (which was our #1 choice) but, with that said, I saw the writing on the wall when they gave us a huge blow off 3 weeks ago by canceling a meeting we had scheduled and not offering us an opportunity to reschedule.

We just returned from lunch (as our daughter is having a play date with her cousins this afternoon) where DH and I discussed (over a nice bottle of wine) what we felt were mistakes we made in the application process. I think applying for financial aid and the SSS coming back with an insane affordability figure hurts us. Plus, it's not like we have glamorous jobs with fabulous titles and extra cash to give as gifts to the schools. We are just hard working ordinary people. In the end, we could have made the figures work (with sacrifices) without financial aid, so maybe that is where we went wrong. I really find it hard to believe that applying for it does not count against you somehow.

I don't know what we are going to do - being 0 for 4 is not something we expected. Regardless, thanks for reading, it's nice to have a place just to write down my feelings. And to the people out there who are inclined to write nasty posts to others, please refrain fro doing so, I feel bad enough as it is.

I am very sorry for your situation and thank you for your thoughts about the impact of applying for financial aid on your results.

Since this is anonymous, would you be open to sharing your approximate HHI and your daughter's test scores to give a more complete overall picture?

We encountered similar results in applying to preschool programs in a neighborhood of NYC, so you have my empathy.

[Anonymous]

We did not apply to any of the "Big 3". However, our DD was rejected from 2 Mont Co private school Pre-K programs and each letter mentioned she would benefit from waiting another year. She is a summer BDay, but that wasn't really on my radar - maybe because she's very verbal? Anyway, do people actually hold July BDays back for pre-K? I don't really want to do that - we'll she how she is next year come application time, but this feedback surprised me and I wondered if others have had similar experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:We did not apply to any of the "Big 3". However, our DD was rejected from 2 Mont Co private school Pre-K programs and each letter mentioned she would benefit from waiting another year. She is a summer BDay, but that wasn't really on my radar - maybe because she's very verbal? Anyway, do people actually hold July BDays back for pre-K? I don't really want to do that - we'll she how she is next year come application time, but this feedback surprised me and I wondered if others have had similar experiences.

Not sure about DC - but I can tell you for certain that it is very, very common in NYC for late summer birthdays to be rejected. Particularly boys, who are perceived as maturing later anyway. There are "official" birthday cut-offs of September 1st in most cases, with unofficial cutoffs of as early as June and before.