What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will thrown my hat in the ring-

Kid, family, I - whoever- was rejected in Pk. We applied to several schools that year but only wanted this one school. Went to a public PK instead. Reapplied the following year to this one school for kinder. Chances were slim but kid got in.

Got the acceptance email during a work meeting. I kept checking my email alllll day long. Was freaking excited for my kid- virtual Pk sucked. Dcps was just sucking so bad at the time and we were looking for some kind of hope (please don’t mock me- last year was awful).

We didn’t do anything special to “celebrate” but the school sent a sweet welcoming package on Saturday.

I know this thread is mostly meant to mock but I get it. Waiting for any kind of result/response can be nerve wracking. Hang in there!

Congratulations but this is a joke thread.

*leaving thread before someone kicks me out for saying this is a joke thread out loud...*

[Anonymous]

Mine didnt get in. I remember refreshing the computer while DS was at a church function. It was so sad because so many people had just found out they got in. I was very bitter.

[Anonymous]

What’s the big 3 acceptance rate? Which school is the hardest to get into?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schtupping the head of school, what else?

You too!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still remember:

Pre-K: It was a cold day. I lived in an apartment and the fat envelope was jammed inside the box. At first I thought it was a magazine, but when I pulled it out, I saw the logo of green children holding hands.

St. Albans: I was having a Christmas open house and my son ran out to get the mail for me. I was holding a tray of stuffed mushrooms when I saw the envelope in his hand...

Twelve years later, I'm dying to know how OP's kids turned out.

[Anonymous]

I love when this thread gets a bump!

I was working… and I’ve been working weekends ever since to pay for the privilege of private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schtupping the head of school, what else?

You too!!

Thought I recognized you . . . .

[Anonymous]

Was carpooling home with the family when the email ding came!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy days...I admit when one has won the gold medal one never forgets.

Pre-K: It was a balmy spring evening. I was drinking a small gin and tonic and stuffing larks' cheeks with jamon iberico when my butler brought me the letter on a silver tray.

St. Albans: It was cold. I was upstairs having my anus bleached. I snorted a little Bolivian marching powder in celebration.

Yale: I was whipping the new maid a rolled-up copy of Horse and Hounds - there had been an unforgivable incident with a Ming Vase. Weather: overcast, light rain later.

Harvard Law School: the butler found me asleep in the stables after a large dose of ketamine. In my drug-induced fog I could barely take in the good news. I must have slept with half of Mclean in the course of the next week.

A dozen years later, and IMO this is still the greatest post in the history of DCUM. PP, I hope you are still here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happy days...I admit when one has won the gold medal one never forgets.

Pre-K: It was a balmy spring evening. I was drinking a small gin and tonic and stuffing larks' cheeks with jamon iberico when my butler brought me the letter on a silver tray.

St. Albans: It was cold. I was upstairs having my anus bleached. I snorted a little Bolivian marching powder in celebration.

Yale: I was whipping the new maid a rolled-up copy of Horse and Hounds - there had been an unforgivable incident with a Ming Vase. Weather: overcast, light rain later.

Harvard Law School: the butler found me asleep in the stables after a large dose of ketamine. In my drug-induced fog I could barely take in the good news. I must have slept with half of Mclean in the course of the next week.

A dozen years later, and IMO this is still the greatest post in the history of DCUM. PP, I hope you are still here.

To this day, "I was drinking a small gin and tonic and stuffing larks' cheeks with jamon iberico when my butler brought me the letter on a silver tray" is still the funniest sentence in the English language that I have ever read.

[Anonymous]

Agree about this whole thread being amazing. Let’s hope it never gets locked.

[Anonymous]

I was in the bathroom using my plastic knife.

[Anonymous]

I was online watching my savings account catch fire…

[Anonymous]

Hey!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the big 3 acceptance rate? Which school is the hardest to get into?

EY, Deloitte, PwC