FAQ for Private School Admissions
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Anonymous
| SAM2, now you know, no good deed goes unpunished . . . . . Thanks for trying, though. |
Anonymous
| Thanks for putting this FAQ together, SAM2. This has been very helpful! |
Anonymous
| This is really basic, but when people say "DC" "DD" or "DS" on this forum, what does the "D" stand for? "Dear"? "Darling"? |
Anonymous
| DS is Dear Son, DD is Dear Daughter, DC is Dear Child |
Anonymous
| Thank you for your FAQ! I have found this to be extremely helpful! |
Anonymous
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/2750.page |
SAM2
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Many thanks. If you can think of other topics that would be helpful to include, please let me know. Thanks again. Good luck with your school search. |
Anonymous
I'd love to see a table of entry years (PS all the way through HS) and available slots, at least for the 20-30 schools that get the most play on these boards. |
SAM2
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That's a good idea. I started a tracking list here: http://fwd4.me/Jes ("Entry Grades" tab). I'll fill it in as I come across data. Once I have some data, I'll put it into the main body of the FAQ somewhere. In the meantime, it would be a big help if others who are more familiar with particular schools' entry years/numbers can post links to those years. I don't know where to find that stuff without digging through each school's website. Thanks for the good idea. |
Anonymous
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reply - landon
3 - 30 4 15-19 6 18 7 18 9 15-25 depending on the attrition |
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If you look up the school on the NCES website it's pretty easy to see the enrollment by grade. If they're a Big-whatever, they're likely fully enrolled. So if enrollment jumps from one grade to another, that's likely an entry year. Obviously that method doesn't work for non-fully-enrolled schools.
http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/ |
SAM2
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| Many thanks to the PPs for the info on entry dates. I've incorporated various entry year numbers. I looked at the NCES data on class sizes, and was able to use it for some schools. But for others, the numbers jump around so much that I was uncomfortable relying too heavily. Maybe the jumps were the result of under enrollment. I can't really tell for sure. If others who actually have kids at those schools can look at the numbers and say whether they're generally accurate, it would help a lot. Thanks for the info. Have a nice summer. |
Anonymous
| Just a short note. The two admissions test required by the independent schools are the WPPSI-III (children 2yrs, 6monts to 7 years, 3 months) and the WISC-IV (ages 6 to 16) The ERB is an achievement test not an intelligence test and it is generally administered by the schools not an outside psychologist like the two other test. All reports should include the Composite scores Verbal IQ(VIQ) Performance IQ (PIQ) Full Scale IQ (FSIQ) as well as the corresponding percentiles. The WPPSI-III also includes a General Language Composite (GLC) and the WISC-IV includes a Working Memory Index (WMI) and Processing Speed Index (PSI). |
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| Have just pressed the "Submit" button on DS's application to STA (Year 6). Now what? |