Waiting is hard

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Anonymous wrote:Neither is Landon, and they're the school PP mentioned as putting out videos of their admissions office sending swag via UPS

To be fair, PP never said anything about DC. Someone asked about DC and I assume the PP responded regarding the schools to which they were referring, but they never said anything about DC.

DC privates includes the ones in Nova & Bethesda/Potomac. I think anyone literally thinking DC privates reference on the ones in DC proper here on DCUM is the type of pretentious parent living in DC and dying to be in the social circle of their neighbor that sends their kid to the local in DC private

No, DC privates ONLY mean those schools that are located in Washington, DC. Potomac, Landon, Holton, etc are NOT DC privates. Period.

But no one said anything about DC privates only in this post...

Incorrect. Someone asked, “what DC schools do X” and the next poster answered Potomac.

Do you realize you’re really annoying? I hope you are not like this irl.

For the record, there are two people speaking about this. I was just clearing up what was said as a PP said DC school was never mentioned.

Yes, this is DC Urban Moms etc, but even Jeff recognizes the need to separate the school threads by state. If someone asks for feedback on private schools for DC, they usually mean DC. Not McLean, not Potomac. Why is that such a hard standard to stick by? Why must someone be called annoying to point that out?

When someone refers to the city, they’re not asking for suburban responses. When I ask for restaurant recommendations in NYC, I’m not asking for a place in Hoboken, NJ.

What’s more annoying is people that live in Burbank that claim to live in LA. 😂

My god. That’s not what’s happening here. The private school forum is for the DC AREA. Give it up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I seem to recall SAES sending swag via USPS last year, which some posters “saw” (I believe indication that they were getting a package from that zip code?) on informed consent the morning decisions came out. Sorry that the details are fuzzy, but I did take note of it because our child is applying to SAES for HS this year.

I’ll try to dig up the old thread. . .

Yes, Landon also went swag and people knew it advance

How far in advance did they give the accepted kids the swag?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neither is Landon, and they're the school PP mentioned as putting out videos of their admissions office sending swag via UPS

To be fair, PP never said anything about DC. Someone asked about DC and I assume the PP responded regarding the schools to which they were referring, but they never said anything about DC.

DC privates includes the ones in Nova & Bethesda/Potomac. I think anyone literally thinking DC privates reference on the ones in DC proper here on DCUM is the type of pretentious parent living in DC and dying to be in the social circle of their neighbor that sends their kid to the local in DC private

No, DC privates ONLY mean those schools that are located in Washington, DC. Potomac, Landon, Holton, etc are NOT DC privates. Period.

But no one said anything about DC privates only in this post...

Incorrect. Someone asked, “what DC schools do X” and the next poster answered Potomac.

Do you realize you’re really annoying? I hope you are not like this irl.

For the record, there are two people speaking about this. I was just clearing up what was said as a PP said DC school was never mentioned.

Yes, this is DC Urban Moms etc, but even Jeff recognizes the need to separate the school threads by state. If someone asks for feedback on private schools for DC, they usually mean DC. Not McLean, not Potomac. Why is that such a hard standard to stick by? Why must someone be called annoying to point that out?

When someone refers to the city, they’re not asking for suburban responses. When I ask for restaurant recommendations in NYC, I’m not asking for a place in Hoboken, NJ.

What’s more annoying is people that live in Burbank that claim to live in LA. 😂

My god. That’s not what’s happening here. The private school forum is for the DC AREA. Give it up.

Then people wouldn’t ask for DC schools since you know, this is DCUM. People wouldn’t have to say DC schools as it’s already implied every school on this thread would be DC area school if not otherwise noted. So if someone on here is asking for a DC school, they’re looking for DC proper. If someone ask for MD school, they’re asking for MD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neither is Landon, and they're the school PP mentioned as putting out videos of their admissions office sending swag via UPS

To be fair, PP never said anything about DC. Someone asked about DC and I assume the PP responded regarding the schools to which they were referring, but they never said anything about DC.

DC privates includes the ones in Nova & Bethesda/Potomac. I think anyone literally thinking DC privates reference on the ones in DC proper here on DCUM is the type of pretentious parent living in DC and dying to be in the social circle of their neighbor that sends their kid to the local in DC private

No, DC privates ONLY mean those schools that are located in Washington, DC. Potomac, Landon, Holton, etc are NOT DC privates. Period.

But no one said anything about DC privates only in this post...

Incorrect. Someone asked, “what DC schools do X” and the next poster answered Potomac.

Do you realize you’re really annoying? I hope you are not like this irl.

For the record, there are two people speaking about this. I was just clearing up what was said as a PP said DC school was never mentioned.

Yes, this is DC Urban Moms etc, but even Jeff recognizes the need to separate the school threads by state. If someone asks for feedback on private schools for DC, they usually mean DC. Not McLean, not Potomac. Why is that such a hard standard to stick by? Why must someone be called annoying to point that out?

When someone refers to the city, they’re not asking for suburban responses. When I ask for restaurant recommendations in NYC, I’m not asking for a place in Hoboken, NJ.

What’s more annoying is people that live in Burbank that claim to live in LA. 😂

My god. That’s not what’s happening here. The private school forum is for the DC AREA. Give it up.

Then people wouldn’t ask for DC schools since you know, this is DCUM. People wouldn’t have to say DC schools as it’s already implied every school on this thread would be DC area school if not otherwise noted. So if someone on here is asking for a DC school, they’re looking for DC proper. If someone ask for MD school, they’re asking for MD.

You’re only making it worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neither is Landon, and they're the school PP mentioned as putting out videos of their admissions office sending swag via UPS

To be fair, PP never said anything about DC. Someone asked about DC and I assume the PP responded regarding the schools to which they were referring, but they never said anything about DC.

DC privates includes the ones in Nova & Bethesda/Potomac. I think anyone literally thinking DC privates reference on the ones in DC proper here on DCUM is the type of pretentious parent living in DC and dying to be in the social circle of their neighbor that sends their kid to the local in DC private

No, DC privates ONLY mean those schools that are located in Washington, DC. Potomac, Landon, Holton, etc are NOT DC privates. Period.

But no one said anything about DC privates only in this post...

Incorrect. Someone asked, “what DC schools do X” and the next poster answered Potomac.

Do you realize you’re really annoying? I hope you are not like this irl.

For the record, there are two people speaking about this. I was just clearing up what was said as a PP said DC school was never mentioned.

Yes, this is DC Urban Moms etc, but even Jeff recognizes the need to separate the school threads by state. If someone asks for feedback on private schools for DC, they usually mean DC. Not McLean, not Potomac. Why is that such a hard standard to stick by? Why must someone be called annoying to point that out?

When someone refers to the city, they’re not asking for suburban responses. When I ask for restaurant recommendations in NYC, I’m not asking for a place in Hoboken, NJ.

What’s more annoying is people that live in Burbank that claim to live in LA. 😂

I’ll bet many people here were interested in what the Potomac poster had to say. What was the point of complaining it wasn’t DC proper? Would anyone really get confused by this info? If you’re not interested in that info, move along. The complaints were so nitpicky beyond belief. Can we please drop it and let the thread get back to the main point?

[Anonymous]

You are all tedious.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neither is Landon, and they're the school PP mentioned as putting out videos of their admissions office sending swag via UPS

To be fair, PP never said anything about DC. Someone asked about DC and I assume the PP responded regarding the schools to which they were referring, but they never said anything about DC.

DC privates includes the ones in Nova & Bethesda/Potomac. I think anyone literally thinking DC privates reference on the ones in DC proper here on DCUM is the type of pretentious parent living in DC and dying to be in the social circle of their neighbor that sends their kid to the local in DC private

No, DC privates ONLY mean those schools that are located in Washington, DC. Potomac, Landon, Holton, etc are NOT DC privates. Period.

But no one said anything about DC privates only in this post...

Incorrect. Someone asked, “what DC schools do X” and the next poster answered Potomac.

Do you realize you’re really annoying? I hope you are not like this irl.

For the record, there are two people speaking about this. I was just clearing up what was said as a PP said DC school was never mentioned.

Yes, this is DC Urban Moms etc, but even Jeff recognizes the need to separate the school threads by state. If someone asks for feedback on private schools for DC, they usually mean DC. Not McLean, not Potomac. Why is that such a hard standard to stick by? Why must someone be called annoying to point that out?

When someone refers to the city, they’re not asking for suburban responses. When I ask for restaurant recommendations in NYC, I’m not asking for a place in Hoboken, NJ.

What’s more annoying is people that live in Burbank that claim to live in LA. 😂

I’ll bet many people here were interested in what the Potomac poster had to say. What was the point of complaining it wasn’t DC proper? Would anyone really get confused by this info? If you’re not interested in that info, move along. The complaints were so nitpicky beyond belief. Can we please drop it and let the thread get back to the main point?

Then just say what schools. Period.

[Anonymous]

There are so many people applying....many schools have mentioned it’s a record year. We are hoping for at least one option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are so many people applying....many schools have mentioned it’s a record year. We are hoping for at least one option.

Which schools?

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Anonymous wrote:There are so many people applying....many schools have mentioned it’s a record year. We are hoping for at least one option.

This is actually not accurate. Washington DC was one of the major cities with steepest declined in yield this year.

“The five metro areas with the largest decrease were San Francisco, Stamford, Houston, Washington, DC, and Seattle.”

Source: https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/fall-2022/5-independent-school-market-trends-to-watch-in-2022-2023/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are so many people applying....many schools have mentioned it’s a record year. We are hoping for at least one option.

Which schools?

None. There’s been a decline in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I seem to recall SAES sending swag via USPS last year, which some posters “saw” (I believe indication that they were getting a package from that zip code?) on informed consent the morning decisions came out. Sorry that the details are fuzzy, but I did take note of it because our child is applying to SAES for HS this year.

I’ll try to dig up the old thread. . .

Yes, Landon also went swag and people knew it advance

How far in advance did they give the accepted kids the swag?

I believe notifications were on Friday last year. They posted themselves mailing stuff the Thursday afternoon before, so just the day before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are so many people applying....many schools have mentioned it’s a record year. We are hoping for at least one option.

My MIL was an admissions director. She said they somehow tell people that every year, and she was in admissions for 20+ years.

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Anonymous wrote:There are so many people applying....many schools have mentioned it’s a record year. We are hoping for at least one option.

My MIL was an admissions director. She said they somehow tell people that every year, and she was in admissions for 20+ years.

Also, it appears with lower birth rate and rising private school cost if you were people are sending children to private. I’m afraid specifically to children born 2017+.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are so many people applying....many schools have mentioned it’s a record year. We are hoping for at least one option.

My MIL was an admissions director. She said they somehow tell people that every year, and she was in admissions for 20+ years.

Also, it appears with lower birth rate and rising private school cost if you were people are sending children to private. I’m afraid specifically to children born 2017+.

OK let me correct those typos 👆. I’m getting used to the voice dictation update on iPhone.

Also, it appears with lower birth rate and rising private school costs fewer people are sending children to private. I’m referring specifically to children born 2017 plus.