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anyone's child who has sibling at sidwell rejected for K?
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Anonymous
| M/F, scores if you don't mind |
Anonymous
| No, but Quaker denied for K..with wppsi in 90's (no up or downs in subsets, etc). Also AA but we don't have a lot of money although did not ask for financial aid. Hope this doesn't give me away! |
Anonymous
| No, but Quaker denied for K..with wppsi in 90's (no up or downs in subsets, etc). Also AA but we don't have a lot of money although did not ask for financial aid. Hope this doesn't give me away! |
Anonymous
| PP here again..needless to say we are very hurt! We didn't get a personalized letter or anything just the standard deny. |
Anonymous
| I am sorry to hear that, OP. We do not have a child at Sidwell, but are starting to look at schools for next year. The weak sibling policy really bothers me. Having my children at the same school (if all comparable academically) is more important to me that the school, especially since they are others that are comparable. I am also pretty surprised that they didn't handle it more personally. Good luck with your decision. Just sorry you have to make it. |
Anonymous
| We have several family friends, all of whom did not get their second child admitted. |
Anonymous
| a number got accepted this year, some who were wl for pk last year, some siblings got in for pk as well this year... |
Anonymous
| We were admitted for pre-K and have other kids and this is one of my concerns. |
Anonymous
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I know one family with 5 kids. The youngest was denied admission. She had no learning issues. I might add the youngest ended up at GDS and went to a top college just like her siblings.
For years the mother rants about what the school did to her youngest who was just one year younger than her closest sibling. It all worked out... but let's just say Sidwell is not receiving any alumni donations from that family. I really think schools need to personally contact current families in advance and give full disclosure as to why they are not offering a space to a sibling. It's the least they could do. Makes you wonder about the school's values. |
Anonymous
| I understand the dilemma because it really isn't that big a school and they could probably fill almost every spot with a sib/leg/donor etc and don't want to do that. That said, it seems strangely disloyal to the current families and the desire to keep kids together if only for the convenience factor for the family. I have three kids in three different schools now and it's really a burden. I think it reflects badly on them in the end. Although I'm sure if you're trying to get in that it would be frustrating if you had to have a connection in order to be admitted. |
Anonymous
| This is just another in a long line of stories we've heard over the past couple of months that turned us off to Sidwell. Application withdrawn after vising and being greeted with the "if you are fortunate to be among us" attitude. We grew up privileged but are not snobs. There is enough entitlement in the world without it being taught at school. |
Anonymous
| Yes - the sense of entitlement at Sidwell is shameful, especially since its a Quaker school. We withdrew our app since we did not think we fit in with the privledge few attitude. |
Anonymous
I want to make sure I understand your story correctly. You're describing a family where the youngest of five was rejected at Sidwell, but ended up at GDS, and ultimately went to a top college. So that means that the child was rejected (presumably at the K/PK level) and is now in college? So all this happened 15+ years ago? |
Anonymous
That's all we got too - for what would have been a 3rd generation legacy. |
Anonymous
Yes it was. It happened back then... and I gather it still goes on today. |