Beauvoir acceptance rate

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Anonymous wrote:Your well-known pre-school is a hook.

That's part of my point. Some of the posters saying everyone gets in to an these schools are coming from the vet select, expensive preschools. So their numbers aren't useful outside that world.

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Agreed. People in that world fail to see this.

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+1000. The acceptance rate at beauvoir (and sidwell, and gds, and Maret) for kids coming out of a couple of preschools is largely irrelevant to this thread. The acceptance rates for those kids at beauvoir, etc. is just not the same--not even close--to the acceptance rate at beauvoir, etc. in general. So by all means, if your kid goes to little folks or ncrc, your chances of getting in at any of these schools is pretty good (not guaranteed, but good). That has no bearing on the odds for the rest of us. (And don't forget we're also in the pool with siblings and legacies who have greater odds too!)

If anyone has info on the odds for full-pay, but not in that tiny preschool world, that would be helpful to know.

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Anonymous wrote:if you can pay the full tuition, you'll get it. every school is looking for full pay families and don't think beauvoir is more exclusive than that. if you can pay, your kid will get in.

Imagine thinking that being full-pay, without more, is enough to get into the most selective private schools around here.

Agreed. You need connections, hooks.

No, actually, you don't. As these selective schools creep up in price, and DCPS gets better and more acceptable to a broader spectrum of families, all of these schools - particularly at the elementary level - are becoming more, shall we say, "welcoming," to those who can pay full freight.

That’s the opposite of what I’m hearing from those well connected in the top schools and admissions staff. It’s been getting more and more competitive the past 3 years. Full pay, sibling and other connections are not what they used to be. Seems like top schools get their pick from the best of the best (whatever they perceive that to be).

For 9th grade admissions, that may be true. For PK and K, it's a different story.

if you want sources for this, contact aisgw or nais.

I didn’t look into PK or K, but I think it’s true for other entry years too at the top schools.

elementary applications are down while middle school and high school are up.

Source?

Given how competitive these schools are, how much money there is in dc, and how many families want private ultimately, there’s a lot of perceived pressure that you have to get your kid into the private system early or face the risk of not getting in later.

aisgw has this data.

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Where? Aisgw just seems to have basic profiles. ?

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Anonymous wrote:Where? Aisgw just seems to have basic profiles

It’s not public but is very much available to admins and boards.

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We applied to Beauvoir K which is pretty competitive because they only admit 21 kids that grade. We were coming from a no-name, church-based preschool. We had no connections and no hooks. We were full pay.

Our son had a great experience at Beauvoir. He loved the experiential learning and the freedom the kids were given. We were happy with Th reading differentiation, but thought there could have been more math differentiation. Bottom line, he was so happy, had awesome teachers, got incredible playtime and recess, used his imagination a lot. Learning was fun and playful.

He transitioned to STA with no issues, although he did not like the roteness of the homework in C Form. He usually finished his homework in 30-40 minutes. That was still a significant bump from the 10-15 minutes of homework at Beauvoir. I’m not counting the 20 min of reading Beauvoir assigned, because DS did not consider that homework.

STA is not playful. It’s rigorous and dry - more intensively academic. Some of the schools make this shift earlier - Sidwell, GDS, etc. i’m Grateful DS had a longer childhood. Thank you, Beauvoir, for that.

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Anonymous wrote:We applied to Beauvoir K which is pretty competitive because they only admit 21 kids that grade. We were coming from a no-name, church-based preschool. We had no connections and no hooks. We were full pay.

Our son had a great experience at Beauvoir. He loved the experiential learning and the freedom the kids were given. We were happy with Th reading differentiation, but thought there could have been more math differentiation. Bottom line, he was so happy, had awesome teachers, got incredible playtime and recess, used his imagination a lot. Learning was fun and playful.

He transitioned to STA with no issues, although he did not like the roteness of the homework in C Form. He usually finished his homework in 30-40 minutes. That was still a significant bump from the 10-15 minutes of homework at Beauvoir. I’m not counting the 20 min of reading Beauvoir assigned, because DS did not consider that homework.

STA is not playful. It’s rigorous and dry - more intensively academic. Some of the schools make this shift earlier - Sidwell, GDS, etc. i’m Grateful DS had a longer childhood. Thank you, Beauvoir, for that.

You just articulated one of the key reasons we picked beauvoir over other options. Life is long. Childhood is short.

That's not to say we don't also like the education. Reading differentiation has been great, and with one kid still there, I can speak to the fact that math differentiation has also been very good (and increasing all the time). But it’s still joyful and whimsical for the kids all the way through. Also, I know views differ on this, but our family liked that the kids are exposed to difficult issues in empowering ways, but never in ways that push a child to take on more emotionally than he or she can personally handle. So if a child is really interested in climate change, they will support that interest in every subject—right down to books the librarian suggests or projects the science teacher introduces. But if a subject scares a child or a child isn’t emotionally ready for a subject, the school is sensitive to that too, and they’re very good about looping in the families in these areas (and others). In our view, it’s a good balance.

It’s not perfect (no place is), but it’s been really good at making school and learning a happy, integral part of our kids’ childhood.

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Love the prior take and agree 100%: Life is long. Childhood is short.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't B's PK class sizes a bit smaller this year/last year than in the past? I think all the schools are having a tougher (though not yet "tough") time filling spots as tuition continues to creep near or above $40k and outplacement doesn't meet expectations. (This is for all schools, not just B.)

Still tough to get into these places, but you're not wrong about the tippy top schools having a tougher time filling lower schools. There are only so many full-pay families with high-wppsi score kids. the big 3 are all competing for those families.

You sound so misinformed. Beauvoir turns down many applicants. We applied the same year as many friends and we were all full pay and our child was the only friend out of 10 admitted.

What made your child stand out of the 10?

Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at Beauvoir. He has been there for 2 years and loves it. We applied from a very well knows preeschool in the area. While 99% of those kids applied to private schools, only about 10 applied to BVR. I think a Sidwell and Maret are more selective also because of the very small class size and siblings (for MareT). I would say that maybe of the 20 or so kids in the preeschool class, 50% of kids applied to BVR, Sidwell and Maret. The other 50% applied to less competitive schools (or at least had those less competitive schools on their list). Of the 50% that applied to the more competitive schools, most got in at BVR (not all) and 4 or 5 kids got in a Sidwell and 2 I believe at Maret. We had not applied to Maret because I did not like the school as much, but we did apply to Sidwell and Beauvoir and were waitlisted at Sidwell and got in at Beauvoir. We indicated that Beauvoir was our first choice and we got in. People that did not do that, were waitlisted. I am unaware of anyone that applied to beauvoir from our preschool and was denied, but plenty were waitlisted

Do you think they don't reject anyone and just waitlist those they do not accept?

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Anonymous wrote:For PK and K. Does anyone know?
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It is very low. Most people I know that applied do not get accepted. They have many many applicants and only a certain number of spots. Apply anyway because you never know and wishing you best of luck.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at Beauvoir. He has been there for 2 years and loves it. We applied from a very well knows preeschool in the area. While 99% of those kids applied to private schools, only about 10 applied to BVR. I think a Sidwell and Maret are more selective also because of the very small class size and siblings (for MareT). I would say that maybe of the 20 or so kids in the preeschool class, 50% of kids applied to BVR, Sidwell and Maret. The other 50% applied to less competitive schools (or at least had those less competitive schools on their list). Of the 50% that applied to the more competitive schools, most got in at BVR (not all) and 4 or 5 kids got in a Sidwell and 2 I believe at Maret. We had not applied to Maret because I did not like the school as much, but we did apply to Sidwell and Beauvoir and were waitlisted at Sidwell and got in at Beauvoir. We indicated that Beauvoir was our first choice and we got in. People that did not do that, were waitlisted. I am unaware of anyone that applied to beauvoir from our preschool and was denied, but plenty were waitlisted

Do you think they don't reject anyone and just waitlist those they do not accept?

Few schools outright reject. I don’t know about Bvr. The trick with most schools is figuring out whether you’re on the “real waitlist.” There’s always a real waitlist. Don’t listen to folks who say things like “omg school x never goes to waitlist.” Bunk. But often only one or so will move.

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Anonymous wrote:Your well-known pre-school is a hook.

That's part of my point. Some of the posters saying everyone gets in to an these schools are coming from the vet select, expensive preschools. So their numbers aren't useful outside that world.

I didn’t realize this until our kids were in these “big 3” schools. In the lower schools, there's so much little folks and ncrc. Kids come from other places, too, of course, it just seems like a big percentage of the kids who went to little folks and ncrc get admitted at the lower schools at bvr, Gds, Sidwell, etc. That said, the high outplacement percentage is changing at ncrc because they expanded immensely. If you're only reason for going to ncrc is outplacement, you should think hard about the new size...

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at Beauvoir. He has been there for 2 years and loves it. We applied from a very well knows preeschool in the area. While 99% of those kids applied to private schools, only about 10 applied to BVR. I think a Sidwell and Maret are more selective also because of the very small class size and siblings (for MareT). I would say that maybe of the 20 or so kids in the preeschool class, 50% of kids applied to BVR, Sidwell and Maret. The other 50% applied to less competitive schools (or at least had those less competitive schools on their list). Of the 50% that applied to the more competitive schools, most got in at BVR (not all) and 4 or 5 kids got in a Sidwell and 2 I believe at Maret. We had not applied to Maret because I did not like the school as much, but we did apply to Sidwell and Beauvoir and were waitlisted at Sidwell and got in at Beauvoir. We indicated that Beauvoir was our first choice and we got in. People that did not do that, were waitlisted. I am unaware of anyone that applied to beauvoir from our preschool and was denied, but plenty were waitlisted

Do you think they don't reject anyone and just waitlist those they do not accept?

Few schools outright reject. I don’t know about Bvr. The trick with most schools is figuring out whether you’re on the “real waitlist.” There’s always a real waitlist. Don’t listen to folks who say things like “omg school x never goes to waitlist.” Bunk. But often only one or so will move.

How do you know if you’re on the real waitlist? And if you are, what should you do to enhance your chances?