does everyone who applied to flint hill get in

[Anonymous]

is there any waitlist at flint hill or do they accept everyone? did anyone get rejected?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:is there any waitlist at flint hill or do they accept everyone? did anyone get rejected?

None of my children applied this year. In the past FH has acceptances, waitlists, and rejections just like any other school. It is also in an area without many privates in all directions except for Paul iv, a high school.

[Anonymous]

I know of two kids, one who got rejected (6th) and another who got waitlisted (9th).

[Anonymous]

There is a firm class size limit of 18/class, at least in the lower school. So if a class is already full, applicants will be rejected.

[Anonymous]

Current parent at FHS. Low standards, awful school. Don;t send your kids there.

[Anonymous]

3:54, are you the same parent who said terrible things about FH recently on another thread, or a different person? Just wondering if this is a common complaint or if your view is anomalous.

[Anonymous]

are there any parents who have positive things to say about flint hill school?
just gave deposit for two kids there, now i'm getting confused

[Anonymous]

need help about this school. like other parent i too gave deposit, now i'm also getting confused?
can someone honestly describe the bad and good experiences with this school, not just what they heard. TIA

[Anonymous]

There have been many threads about Flint Hill. You can start with this one:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/62732.page

The bottom line is that FHS is a good school for many students but as at any school, you will always have parents who love a school and parents who are frustrated and need to leave.

[Anonymous]

To those who just put down a deposit, I don't have children there, but I have friends who do and are very involved (including on the board) and very happy, and others whose kids have recently graduated and done very well. So go with your gut -- if you liked the school well enough to accept admission, don't listen to the naysayers. Not all schools work for everyone. It may work very well for you.

[Anonymous]

I'm not 3:54 and I can tell you there are both good and bad things about this school. Read all these posts and then make your own decision.

Upper admin staff are very polite, kind, and very professional. Some teachers, however, are no better than public school teachers but just have bigger attitudes. They don't want suggestions from parents at all because they want to appear as though they've got it all under control.
Parents there range from the snooty (like the parent who likes to talk about her country club and the other parent who says she works hard playing tennis every day) and the humble (those that never let on how much money they have). A good number of parents are also middle class but scrape to put their kids in this school.

Many kids there are really just average in academics but their parents want a better education than a public school one.

They value independence in children quite a bit (so they say) but many of their kids have all kinds of learning issues. So how can they possibly be that independent if they are dependent on getting extra help for their issues just to get through school?

The positive things about this school are that they truly do try to do a good job in providing a sound education for your kids. DC has learned quite a bit this year. And the upper staff (head of school of uppper and lower school) are very knowledgeable, open to suggestions, take time out for you, and are wonderful. Their facility is fantastic - grounds for sports and for children to play.

[Anonymous]

My child does not go to this school, but I feel that their exmissions do not even come close to the other good privates in the area. Whether or not this is an indication of poor quality ... I don't know. Not every kid can do well at Sidwell (just to pull a random example ... not to start an argument) and are not bound for "top" colleges, no matter how great the teachers and high school experience. My child certainly is not. BUT I cannot fathom spending that much money on FH and then having my child attend Radford, Virginia Tech, James Madison, or George Mason. But again, maybe those schools would not have been attained without good individualized teaching for those particular students ... still mulling it over!!!

[Anonymous]

The reason their exmissions list is mediocre or even dismal is because, like I said, the pool of students they begin with from JK on is merely average. Even if you don't look at any of the children with learning issues, the average kid at FH is...well...average in academics. So when they turn 18 and start college, how can you expect them to suddenly be Georgetown, Duke, or Princeton material? The other schools Sidwell, Potomac, etc..have stringent admissions criteria to begin with so they'll only accept very bright kids. So no big surprise when they turn 18 and are going to great colleges.

[Anonymous]

8:54 again. Admitting "merely average" children is not in and of itself a bad thing ... all children benefit from having a good school to go to if publics are not meeting their needs. The question in whether the teaching and program are meeting needs that publics are not ... at such a high tuition rate, I think it is a fair question. Surely an average child could gain admission to Radford coming from nearly ANY school!!!

I think we are sort of on the same page, but I don't like the tone of 22:25's comment ... seems very disparaging of average kids. Hate to break it to you, but their are a lot of such kids around and they are adorable even if they don't belong at super elite schools.

[Anonymous]

Nicely put, 10:32.

I would add that Flint Hill has a range of kids, from average to well above average, and seem able to challenge (at least) most of them. I also would not think of them as a school for kids with LDs which require remediation or a slower-moving curriculum, although they may be more willing than some to offer basic accommodations.