If DS doesn't get into the two private preK schools we applied to...

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Anonymous wrote:When my DC went to a Bright Horizons in 2011-2012 they specifically talked to us about where kids matriculated, it was definitely a selling point at that time. I'm not sure if that center is still around - it was Covington Kids.

Covington Kids is a mini Covington and Burling. It is not your generic Bright Horizons.

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Anonymous wrote:When my DC went to a Bright Horizons in 2011-2012 they specifically talked to us about where kids matriculated, it was definitely a selling point at that time. I'm not sure if that center is still around - it was Covington Kids.

Covington Burling law firm closed their center when they moved to a new building. Covington Burling is now a primary client at Bright Horizons at East End. BH at East End, in response, added a preschool room so the center now has infants through preschool/prek. This all happened in Sept 2014
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Your kid is...what, 3? 4 at most? And you’re concerned about your “feeder” daycare? Are you worried this puts the kid on the wrong path for HYP?
People are hostile because it’s a little kid. Not even in preschool. They are still eating glue and drawing on walls at this age. It’s not a predictor of future success.

OP here. He is 4.5 and in Bright Horizons preschool and daycare. It is not about his future in an Ivy League - it is about wanting him to attend the best school possible for him. He is a bright but shy little guy.

I would ask for feedback... Did my child refuse to talk or engage at all during the assessment?

If he takes a while to warm up, and the assesor was rushing him, that's the school's loss!

Also... from what I hear, private schools interview for very few spots and will take your waitlist or application fee happily. Depending on your budget and values, a college educated nanny, or immersion preschool in ethnic area can teach him much more than a place that seems high end.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait!! There are feeder schools for Pre-K??

Yes, Country Day School in McLean for LIttle Langley & Potomac. Green Acres in Great Falls. National Presbyterian, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:When my DC went to a Bright Horizons in 2011-2012 they specifically talked to us about where kids matriculated, it was definitely a selling point at that time. I'm not sure if that center is still around - it was Covington Kids.

Matriculated? You can't be for real. Bright Horizons is a daycare. It is in business because parents work. Parents need a place to put their child while they work.

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I would say it's your own fault for not doing the research on this when your child was born. If you intended to send him to private school, then you should have figured out where to send him from birth.

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Anonymous wrote:When my DC went to a Bright Horizons in 2011-2012 they specifically talked to us about where kids matriculated, it was definitely a selling point at that time. I'm not sure if that center is still around - it was Covington Kids.

Matriculated? You can't be for real. Bright Horizons is a daycare. It is in business because parents work. Parents need a place to put their child while they work.

It would be any less ridiculous to use "matriculate" to describe someone leaving a fancy preschool; this has nothing to do with Bright Horizon or daycares.

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OP - you should repost in the private school forum. You’re getting advice and feedback from people who don’t seem familiar with private school admissions in the area

Yes, there are ‘feeder schools’, but there is no formalized connected, just ‘name’ preschools that do well with outplacement and are known to the ‘big’ private schools

Bright horizons shouldn’t help/hurt any more than any other non-name preschool. There is a definite advantage to attending a preschool where the teachers and director understand the admissions process, but plenty of people go from regular preschools to private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I see the Unkind Brigade on DCUM is out in force today.

OP, pre-K admission in this area can be quite competitive if they are the pre-K programs of the "Big 3" and other top schools. There's a limited number of slots, lots of applicants, and preference for siblings, legacies, and people who can donate a lot.

Your child's WPPSI, behavior on the playdate, and the like, affect their chance of admission. But so does the admission committee's opinion on whether your family -- which basically means you and your spouse, really -- will be a "good fit" for the school.

If your child doesn't get in, it's highly unlikely to be the fault of their daycare. It's far more likely to be you -- whether the way that you came off in your application, or the parent interview. Or your kid might just not be a good fit (which is again far more about your family than the daycare). Or they just don't have any slots.

You only applied to two schools. Those applications are incredibly competitive, and frankly, little kids just aren't that different from each other in meaningful ways. As long as your kid is reasonably well-behaved on the playdate and tests reasonably well on the WPPSI, the admissions comes down to things that have nothing to do with your kid. Maybe you came off as a bad fit. Maybe the school was trying to balance boys and girls and temperaments in the class, and there were already many other kids who filled the same "slot" as your kid. Blaming the daycare just shows that you are insane.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - you should repost in the private school forum. You’re getting advice and feedback from people who don’t seem familiar with private school admissions in the area

Yes, there are ‘feeder schools’, but there is no formalized connected, just ‘name’ preschools that do well with outplacement and are known to the ‘big’ private schools

Bright horizons shouldn’t help/hurt any more than any other non-name preschool. There is a definite advantage to attending a preschool where the teachers and director understand the admissions process, but plenty of people go from regular preschools to private schools.

Agreed, OP, this is not your crowd. However, I also think you might get laughed out of the private school forum for asking if Bright Horizons is a feeder to any of the good Pre-Ks around here (and by that I assume you are referring to the PK-12 schools, but just a preschool).

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Anonymous wrote:OP - you should repost in the private school forum. You’re getting advice and feedback from people who don’t seem familiar with private school admissions in the area

Yes, there are ‘feeder schools’, but there is no formalized connected, just ‘name’ preschools that do well with outplacement and are known to the ‘big’ private schools

Bright horizons shouldn’t help/hurt any more than any other non-name preschool. There is a definite advantage to attending a preschool where the teachers and director understand the admissions process, but plenty of people go from regular preschools to private schools.

Agreed, OP, this is not your crowd. However, I also think you might get laughed out of the private school forum for asking if Bright Horizons is a feeder to any of the good Pre-Ks around here (and by that I assume you are referring to the PK-12 schools, but just a preschool).

I wouldn't call BH a feeder school to any of the top privates, but there are plenty of kids from BH or other comparable programs who wind up at top privates.

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Could someone list the feeder preschools please?

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Anonymous wrote:We tried to get my DD into parochial school from a Bright Horizons and she was rejected. Yes, I do blame the daycare in part.

It is not about getting a child into HYPS for college. It is about wanting the best education for your child.

Why do you blame BH? What do you think would have given her a better shot at admission?

I think an actual preschool, not a daycare, would have been better.

Perhaps- although isn’t Bright Horizons - NAEYC accredited?

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I assume he is three now and PK is for four to this fall?

All daycare had to do was write a stellar and insightful recommendation and report card thing for the private school app.

Yes your child and you are competing w families whose kids are in river school and montessori since age 2.

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Anonymous wrote:I assume he is three now and PK is for four to this fall?

All daycare had to do was write a stellar and insightful recommendation and report card thing for the private school app.

Yes your child and you are competing w families whose kids are in river school and montessori since age 2.

But is there any reason to think she would be at a disadvantage compared to someone at those schools? I don't know river school well, but Montessori schools vary tremendously between individual schools, both in terms of style and quality.