Awkward Admissions Event
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Anonymous
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With decisions either in the mail or ready to go out tomorrow, an admissions event on the eve of announcement mailing = AWKWARD! Despite having a gut feeling that DC will receive a rejection from the school on Sunday, we decided to attend the parent hosted event for applicants and current students. Whatever gut feelings I had before tonight's event were certainly confirmed this evening. Wow. Admissions Director was cold as ice to me and my family but gushing over others. It would have been more polite if the school had just given us a different colored name tag with a big REJECT across it so the current families could save their smiles and small talk. Glad it wasn't our first pick school or we would have left sad and insulted. Oh well. Like I said, not our first choice but it was an eye-opening experience within this crazy process of applying to private school. Live, learn and move on!
Good luck out there fellow anxious parents waiting on acceptance notices. What a long strange trip. |
Anonymous
| You must tell us which school this is!!! |
Anonymous
| Who would host an event like this right before notifications? This sounds like a very disheartening experience and I'm sincerely sorry for you. |
Anonymous
| I can't imagine a school holding an event like this, with this timing. Very weird. Sounds like you dodged a bullet op |
Anonymous
| Had you received an invitation? Actually been invited and then treated rudely? |
Anonymous
Sure as hell sounded like that.... |
Anonymous
| OP here — to say there were rude wouldn't be correct or fair. However, the air was very very cold. A very polite cold, if you know what I mean? We received the event invitation several weeks ago. Based on the information in the invite it went to all applicants for the 2015-2016 school year. I assume we were not the only family in the room who will receive the big REJECT letter within the next 48-hours or maybe the others were smart enough to stay home. But yeah, weird timing. Not sure the angle on this one. Bullet dodged indeed! |
Anonymous
| What was the point of this event? You had already applied so the next event should be something for accepted families. |
Anonymous
| What school??? |
Anonymous
| Is this the WES invitation to the K play? We received one and questioned the timing the Friday before decisions came out. |
Anonymous
| An admissions event? I am having trouble buying this. |
Anonymous
OP doesn't name the school, so no reason for her to make this up. |
Anonymous
| The timing of this event does seem rather strange - and yes, awkward. I'm sorry you had to go through this experience! |
Anonymous
| I think the event was in poor taste. What also surprised me was that the AD attended. At my DCs schools, staff/teachers don't attend parent hosted events. OP, sorry this happened. Good luck on your other schools. |
Anonymous
| Any report back OP? Were you rejected? |