Gamble on Lowell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is at least the second very old thread that has been resuscitated about Lowell in the past couple of days.

Maybe obsessive and unhinged admin can’t let sleeping dogs lie?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, what is your public option if your only private option is Lowell?

This is the only important question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is at least the second very old thread that has been resuscitated about Lowell in the past couple of days.

Maybe obsessive and unhinged admin can’t let sleeping dogs lie?

I know which one you speak of!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is incorrect. Lowell Students have gotten into all of the "Big 3" in the past 3 years. Every Lowell Student doesn't get into those schools but some do every year. If a certain high school is where you think your child would thrive why not get in the pipeline for that school earlier. It will only get more competitive as the kids get older

This. But many of the kids at those in the past three years were younger sibs. Not all but most. Or had "hooks", like child of a board member at Lowell and that helped get them off the waitlist or what have you. Some were just lucky and they fit the Big 3 school's priorities that year. It is not a sure thing even for their best students. If you want a Big 3 get in earlier than 9th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we’d gotten in Lowell, would have taken it in a heartbeat. I think it’s a fabulous school.

Same here! We have been very happy here for years and really like warmth and the administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is at least the second very old thread that has been resuscitated about Lowell in the past couple of days.

Yes- definitely more smoke and mirrors from the admin at Lowell. It’s interesting that they have time to scour DCUM and yet there is serious and unchecked dysfunction at all levels of the school that (sadly) filters down to the students.

[Anonymous]

No don't.

[Anonymous]

I know ten kids who went to Lowell. 6 ended up at gds, 2 maret, one ncs and one holton arms

[Anonymous]

That’s like four families: two with three kids and two with two kids you are speaking of above, right? I can think of families that describe the above make up of what you listed, but not common if each kid you know above is born to different sets of parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should we gamble on Lowell even though it doesn't have an Upper School? Does it have any clout with the better Upper Schools? Is it considered prestigious? It might end up being our only private school option and we're worried about what comes next. We are full pay and wonder if we'd be spending all that money for nothing.

Don’t do it. Not for twice the tuition. Lowell School is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad JOKE.

[Anonymous]

Why would it be your only option? Full pay should give you leeway to consider several options

[Anonymous]

Hard pass...

[Anonymous]

We left a few years ago in part due to the HoS and the toxic environment that came with her arrival. It may not have been because of her but a perfect storm of other factors, that I do not know. I can't speak to the current state outside of comments made by those we still know at the school. Comments seem to be all over the place though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We left a few years ago in part due to the HoS and the toxic environment that came with her arrival. It may not have been because of her but a perfect storm of other factors, that I do not know. I can't speak to the current state outside of comments made by those we still know at the school. Comments seem to be all over the place though.

It hasn’t gotten any better. We left too because of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left a few years ago in part due to the HoS and the toxic environment that came with her arrival. It may not have been because of her but a perfect storm of other factors, that I do not know. I can't speak to the current state outside of comments made by those we still know at the school. Comments seem to be all over the place though.

It hasn’t gotten any better. We left too because of it.

Can you say more? We haven’t heard this and are considering. Thanks.