Bi-racial child and elite schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top elite schools in DC are very diverse and have many biracial children, are diverse economically, religiously, and ethnically.

Wrong. Compared to a regular public school, dc private schools are extremely homogeneous. Are you on crack?

+1. There's racial diversity, but the economic diversity at our private school was pretty pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top elite schools in DC are very diverse and have many biracial children, are diverse economically, religiously, and ethnically.

Wrong. Compared to a regular public school, dc private schools are extremely homogeneous. Are you on crack?

Absolutely not true. depends on where the public is. The public we're zoned for is very racially homogenous. Our private is much more diverse.

[Anonymous]

OP, you do sound clueless and incredibly stupid to the point where I wonder whether ou're a troll.

If you aren't however, please note that parents are also assessed by ADs, and frankly I can't see any AD excited about having someone like you as meme of their community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're very new to this and are curious if our 1 month old bi-racial baby has a shot an the Washington elite privates due to her heritage? She is half white/half middle eastern and her grampa was an ambassador.

Do these things make a difference in admissions?

Last I read, semites aren't " another race" so you supposed DC is not "bi-racial" .

Secondly, this is Washington and nearly everyone is half something

I find it odd that someone claiming to have been raised in a diplomatic family would need to come on this forum and ask these questions.

I suspect this is a troll posting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top elite schools in DC are very diverse and have many biracial children, are diverse economically, religiously, and ethnically.

Wrong. Compared to a regular public school, dc private schools are extremely homogeneous. Are you on crack?

Absolutely not true. depends on where the public is. The public we're zoned for is very racially homogenous. Our private is much more diverse.

I second this.DC 's private is by the book diversified. The only thing is the little darlings aren't " bussed in " they are driven in by Nannies in Land Rovers with their parents droping $$$$ into the annual fund.

[Anonymous]

Not sure if she's a troll, which live under bridges. OP is more like a worm, because only someone living under a rock would ask this. The elite DC area schools my kids have attended WELCOME mixed race kids. Heck, you may even get a scholarship. Now, would a half-African / half-Caucasian Jew or Christian get into an elite school in OP's home country? Not that would be an interesting question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your child will be fine. Step onto an elite private campus and you will see how amazingly diverse the student body is; culturally, ethnically, racially, socio-economically, etc. as long as they are qualified academically, your child will fit right in.

Are you saying with a straight face that DC private schools are diverse culturally, ethnically and socio-economically?

Are you serious?

why, yes, just the other day I saw an AA mother putting her Burberry wearing half AA, half Middle Eastern 4 year old child into the family mercedes at our private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a gay couple, that will be considered a plus.

I want OP to be a M to F Hindu, married to a Jewish mercedes dealer from Bethesda who's GF was on the board of a " Big 3" and I want them to come in the car pool line in a self driving car

[Anonymous]

At many privates, the middle, middle class is becoming the "diversity."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your child will be fine. Step onto an elite private campus and you will see how amazingly diverse the student body is; culturally, ethnically, racially, socio-economically, etc. as long as they are qualified academically, your child will fit right in.

Are you saying with a straight face that DC private schools are diverse culturally, ethnically and socio-economically?

Are you serious?

Compared to Langley HS? Are YOU serious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

Let me be more specific. I am South Asian and DH is white. I used "middle eastern" casually as most people don't know who South Asians are.

I'm pretty sure south asian/white kids count as bi-racial.

We are also a mixed-faith, multicultural, multilingual family.

I'm sure it will help that our child won't be a cookie cutter applicant.

This is what the OP said earlier. No one is middle eastern or Jewish in her family. She was using middle eastern "casually" thinking that no one knows what South Asian means.

[Anonymous]

OP, I think your kid will be fine with admissions. There is a thread around here about % of asian kids in DC privates that I found interesting. Seems like there isn't the kind of competition that happens with Asian American kids in university admissions. I did read on another site that the most competitive group for boarding school admission is the asian female category. But your baby is very young, I don't think you need to worry about boarding school admissions just yet.

[Anonymous]

OP, you must first secure a place in a top preschool and you are already behind on that front. Tomorrow when you wake up, you need to start calling them for informational interviews. Make sure that you mention your child is biracial and that you also have significant donor potential.

This should have been done before birth.

[Anonymous]

Do these top schools even ask race/ethnicity on applications? If not, are they trying to figure it out by looking at the student and their parents or by last name? How does this work? Also, what is considered an URM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you must first secure a place in a top preschool and you are already behind on that front. Tomorrow when you wake up, you need to start calling them for informational interviews. Make sure that you mention your child is biracial and that you also have significant donor potential.

This should have been done before birth.

+1. DH and I went to the NCRC open house around the time I first became pregnant, to gather information and share our hopes for our child's education.










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