Do schools give hints before March 1?

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Anonymous wrote:The only hint we got was more of eh, very unlikely, said in the most kind and friendly way.🤦🏻‍♀️

I’m sorry, PP.

We were not told anything directly, but the woman who did our parent interview at Maret could not have seemed less interested in talking to us. She went down her check list of questions, not really responding to what we said or engaging in a back and forth conversation. It was so unlike the interviews we had at other schools. We’re taking that as a hint.

We must have had the same woman at Maret as same experience for us too.

Was it the African American admissions director?

Yes.

She gave us our tour. Did not like her or her response about bullying being dealt with using restorative justice. That was enough for me. Trust me, you missed a bullet.

[Anonymous]

My daughter received a postcard from a school after her interview. I’m not sure if this is standard and she received another postcard for Valentine’s Day. Maybe they send them out to all applicants…

[Anonymous]

Yes. And if you get one, you'll know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter received a postcard from a school after her interview. I’m not sure if this is standard and she received another postcard for Valentine’s Day. Maybe they send them out to all applicants…

If this was Sidwell, they send the postcard to everyone. And it's mass produced (made to look handwritten).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter received a postcard from a school after her interview. I’m not sure if this is standard and she received another postcard for Valentine’s Day. Maybe they send them out to all applicants…

We got these too from all of the all girls schools we applied to and where my DD shadowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only hint we got was more of eh, very unlikely, said in the most kind and friendly way.🤦🏻‍♀️

I’m sorry, PP.

We were not told anything directly, but the woman who did our parent interview at Maret could not have seemed less interested in talking to us. She went down her check list of questions, not really responding to what we said or engaging in a back and forth conversation. It was so unlike the interviews we had at other schools. We’re taking that as a hint.

Same for us at Maret! Clear hint they don’t want our kid.

We had a similarly blah parent interview at a Baltimore area school. Thought it would be like the others for kindergarten- laid back, conversational etc. Instead they mentioned a few points about our CVs and asked q’s about that, hardly anything about our kiddo except to ask why he moved schools (we moved states). Bummer bc I’d previously liked that school quite a lot, but it certainly tempered my expectations and dampened my enthusiasm for the school.

[Anonymous]

I think everyone is reading too much into their interviews and the enthusiasm of the person doing the interview. They have a list of items to cover and it's just one piece of the process.

We had a perfectly dull interview at a school where our DC was accepted. The person seemed to care only about talking about themselves and about the school and then when asking questions of our child, loading them with statements filled with assumptions about our child that were not on target (it was joint parent/student interview). We had to help out our child in speaking up so they could dispell the interviewer of their assumptions.

Anyway - it sounds like sour grapes when you point at a specific identifiable person and trash their interest in you at an interview. There are loads of reasons why your child may not be given an offer to a highly selective school - that's just the way it goes when there are so many applications for so few spots.

Get used to it. College admissions is much worse.

[Anonymous]

Not sour grapes. Just an observation that the interview was different from the others, so it was striking. I did not identify the person. Just the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter received a postcard from a school after her interview. I’m not sure if this is standard and she received another postcard for Valentine’s Day. Maybe they send them out to all applicants…

We got these too from all of the all girls schools we applied to and where my DD shadowed.

Don’t read into the postcards. They are standard procedure for some schools after certain things. Our DC had them from the student hosts after shadow days from some schools, for example.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter received a postcard from a school after her interview. I’m not sure if this is standard and she received another postcard for Valentine’s Day. Maybe they send them out to all applicants…

We got these too from all of the all girls schools we applied to and where my DD shadowed.

Don’t read into the postcards. They are standard procedure for some schools after certain things. Our DC had them from the student hosts after shadow days from some schools, for example.

I’m not. I was posting to show PP that it’s just a run of the mill thing they send to all interested candidates . Even never having gone through this process, I never perceived the receipt of these post cards as anything other than a polite universal gesture to all who shadowed.

[Anonymous]

To bide my time, I'm going to look at this as an interesting experiment. I have 2 kids applying to a variety of schools and we've gotten responses from total radio silence to "we really love your kid and think they will be an excellent fit!". It will be interesting to see how it shakes out vis a vis these responses but overall I agree--school reps say what they're going to say (or don't) but it's not necessarily indicative of the outcome. Unless your kid is an athlete and that's a whole other thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sour grapes. Just an observation that the interview was different from the others, so it was striking. I did not identify the person. Just the school.

Yeah, you only identified them by race, position, and school. I guess you should be congratulated for withholding their name?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sour grapes. Just an observation that the interview was different from the others, so it was striking. I did not identify the person. Just the school.

Yeah, you only identified them by race, position, and school. I guess you should be congratulated for withholding their name?

That wasn’t me. That was one of the other posters piling on to the original comment. Seems like more than one person had this same experience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sour grapes. Just an observation that the interview was different from the others, so it was striking. I did not identify the person. Just the school.

Yeah, you only identified them by race, position, and school. I guess you should be congratulated for withholding their name?

That wasn’t me. That was one of the other posters piling on to the original comment. Seems like more than one person had this same experience.

You gave the name of the school and the gender and it's a tiny admissions team...so....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter received a postcard from a school after her interview. I’m not sure if this is standard and she received another postcard for Valentine’s Day. Maybe they send them out to all applicants…

If this was Sidwell, they send the postcard to everyone. And it's mass produced (made to look handwritten).

Did Sidwell send postcards this year too for the lower school? We did not receive one.