2014 Admissions Results

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[Post New]02/27/2014 14:53
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SAM2
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Below are links to a tool for counting 2014 admissions results. The counting tool is live now, so please enter only real data. If you want to wait to enter your child's results all at one time next week, that's probably most accurate. But if you want to enter results piecemeal as you receive them, that's fine too, but try not to double-count since that just makes things confusing. As is probably obvious, this counting process is pretty free-form. Since you are the ones entering the data, it's up to you to control the accuracy of your responses.

Here is a link to a simple survey tool, so people can log their admission results for 2014. http://goo.gl/oLtFU1
Here is a direct link to a summary of the current results. http://goo.gl/t6o16D
Here is a link to a summary of last year's (2013) results. http://goo.gl/R1h6L

You will see that I listed only a limited number of schools, and dropped some from last time. This is due to a lack of many results for those schools. If there are schools you want me to add back next year, there is a spot at the end of the form to list them. At the end of the form, there is a spot to identify waitlist spots that might open. Please use it to let other waitlisted people know what might open up.

Also, as is DCUM tradition, people of course should feel free to bypass the survey, and just post results to this thread free form.

Good luck to everyone. May all your envelopes be fat.
[Post New]02/27/2014 14:57
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Anonymous
Thanks for doing this! It will be interesting to see results - soon!
[Post New]02/27/2014 15:08
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Anonymous
lol@ may all your envelopes be fat.
[Post New]02/27/2014 15:09
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SAM2
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Anonymous wrote:lol@ may all your envelopes be fat.

I can't take credit -- I stole that from someone else.
[Post New]02/27/2014 15:41
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Anonymous
I now that parents are anxious, and I want to offer my perspective as a parent who once went through this process as well.

Many years ago, when my DC was a five-year old, we applied to the Big 3, and another private school, for kindergarten. DC is/was a wonderful person, intelligent, kind, caring, independent, funny, etc., etc. Their WPPSI score was in the 99%, and the visit days appeared to go well.

All of the Big 3 rejected DC, but the fourth school to which we had applied, accepted DC. DH and I did not dwell on it, except for a very brief day of disappointment, and we decided not to share the rejections or our momentary disappointment with DC at all. The school DC attended was a wonderful choice not only for DC, but for our family.

Fast-forward nine years. DC applied to only two high schools/upper schools, and both of them were Big 3. DC was admitted to both.

DC is a lovely and accomplished young adult, loved by their teachers, respected by their peers, one of the top 5 in their class. We are very grateful not only to the wonderful school DC attends now, but also to the wonderful school that accepted DC so many years ago and deserves great credit for the person they are.

When DC was admitted to high school, they mentioned for the first time since the k application process, "I applied to these schools for kindergarten and was not admitted?" I was surprised that DC remembered.
[Post New]02/27/2014 15:42
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I know that parents are anxious, and I want to offer my perspective as a parent who once went through this process as well.

Many years ago, when my DC was a five-year old, we applied to the Big 3, and another private school, for kindergarten. DC is/was a wonderful person, intelligent, kind, caring, independent, funny, etc., etc. Their WPPSI score was in the 99%, and the visit days appeared to go well.

All of the Big 3 rejected DC, but the fourth school to which we had applied, accepted DC. DH and I did not dwell on it, except for a very brief day of disappointment, and we decided not to share the rejections or our momentary disappointment with DC at all. The school DC attended was a wonderful choice not only for DC, but for our family.

Fast-forward nine years. DC applied to only two high schools/upper schools, and both of them were Big 3. DC was admitted to both.

DC is a lovely and accomplished young adult, loved by their teachers, respected by their peers, one of the top 5 in their class. We are very grateful not only to the wonderful school DC attends now, but also to the wonderful school that accepted DC so many years ago and deserves great credit for the person they are.

When DC was admitted to high school, they mentioned for the first time since the k application process, "I applied to these schools for kindergarten and was not admitted?" I was surprised that DC remembered.


I meant "I [k]now that parents are . . . "
[Post New]02/27/2014 15:46
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I now that parents are anxious, and I want to offer my perspective as a parent who once went through this process as well.

Many years ago, when my DC was a five-year old, we applied to the Big 3, and another private school, for kindergarten. DC is/was a wonderful person, intelligent, kind, caring, independent, funny, etc., etc. Their WPPSI score was in the 99%, and the visit days appeared to go well.

All of the Big 3 rejected DC, but the fourth school to which we had applied, accepted DC. DH and I did not dwell on it, except for a very brief day of disappointment, and we decided not to share the rejections or our momentary disappointment with DC at all. The school DC attended was a wonderful choice not only for DC, but for our family.

Fast-forward nine years. DC applied to only two high schools/upper schools, and both of them were Big 3. DC was admitted to both.

DC is a lovely and accomplished young adult, loved by their teachers, respected by their peers, one of the top 5 in their class. We are very grateful not only to the wonderful school DC attends now, but also to the wonderful school that accepted DC so many years ago and deserves great credit for the person they are.

When DC was admitted to high school, they mentioned for the first time since the k application process, "I applied to these schools for kindergarten and was not admitted?" I was surprised that DC remembered.


I just wanted to drop a little note and say that this was a kind thing to write with so many anxious people on the forum these days. Mark your random act of kindness as done for the day.
[Post New]02/27/2014 18:50
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I now that parents are anxious, and I want to offer my perspective as a parent who once went through this process as well.

Many years ago, when my DC was a five-year old, we applied to the Big 3, and another private school, for kindergarten. DC is/was a wonderful person, intelligent, kind, caring, independent, funny, etc., etc. Their WPPSI score was in the 99%, and the visit days appeared to go well.

All of the Big 3 rejected DC, but the fourth school to which we had applied, accepted DC. DH and I did not dwell on it, except for a very brief day of disappointment, and we decided not to share the rejections or our momentary disappointment with DC at all. The school DC attended was a wonderful choice not only for DC, but for our family.

Fast-forward nine years. DC applied to only two high schools/upper schools, and both of them were Big 3. DC was admitted to both.

DC is a lovely and accomplished young adult, loved by their teachers, respected by their peers, one of the top 5 in their class. We are very grateful not only to the wonderful school DC attends now, but also to the wonderful school that accepted DC so many years ago and deserves great credit for the person they are.

When DC was admitted to high school, they mentioned for the first time since the k application process, "I applied to these schools for kindergarten and was not admitted?" I was surprised that DC remembered.


PP with all due respect, what parent in their right mind would ever even CONSIDER "sharing their disappointment" with a freaking KINDERGARTENER over something like this???
[Post New]02/27/2014 19:50
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know that parents are anxious, and I want to offer my perspective as a parent who once went through this process as well.

Many years ago, when my DC was a five-year old, we applied to the Big 3, and another private school, for kindergarten. DC is/was a wonderful person, intelligent, kind, caring, independent, funny, etc., etc. Their WPPSI score was in the 99%, and the visit days appeared to go well.

All of the Big 3 rejected DC, but the fourth school to which we had applied, accepted DC. DH and I did not dwell on it, except for a very brief day of disappointment, and we decided not to share the rejections or our momentary disappointment with DC at all. The school DC attended was a wonderful choice not only for DC, but for our family.

Fast-forward nine years. DC applied to only two high schools/upper schools, and both of them were Big 3. DC was admitted to both.

DC is a lovely and accomplished young adult, loved by their teachers, respected by their peers, one of the top 5 in their class. We are very grateful not only to the wonderful school DC attends now, but also to the wonderful school that accepted DC so many years ago and deserves great credit for the person they are.

When DC was admitted to high school, they mentioned for the first time since the k application process, "I applied to these schools for kindergarten and was not admitted?" I was surprised that DC remembered.


PP with all due respect, what parent in their right mind would ever even CONSIDER "sharing their disappointment" with a freaking KINDERGARTENER over something like this???


Previous poster, I understand your outrage, and we did not actually "decide[] not to share the rejections or our momentary disappointment". In fact, like you, we never "even consider[ed] sharing" the admissions decisions, or our natural and brief reactions to those.

I simply expressed myself in that "decided" language to convey the way we handled the news, versus the alternative, the choice to inform a child of the admissions decisions -- good or bad.

I personally did not and do not judge other parents, similarly situated, who decide to inform their child of the admissions decisions. And in fact, as you can ascertain from my post, a child can, or may, figure it out for themselves even when the parents say nothing.
[Post New]02/27/2014 19:55
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Anonymous
How are there responses to survey already?
[Post New]02/27/2014 19:58
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Anonymous
Someone posted a SSSAS admit. They have not done notifications yet.
[Post New]02/27/2014 20:22
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:How are there responses to survey already?


I will guess that some applicants, for one good reason or another, may receive a courtesy call to inform them of the admissions decisions as the letters are being mailed out.
[Post New]02/27/2014 20:27
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know that parents are anxious, and I want to offer my perspective as a parent who once went through this process as well.

Many years ago, when my DC was a five-year old, we applied to the Big 3, and another private school, for kindergarten. DC is/was a wonderful person, intelligent, kind, caring, independent, funny, etc., etc. Their WPPSI score was in the 99%, and the visit days appeared to go well.

All of the Big 3 rejected DC, but the fourth school to which we had applied, accepted DC. DH and I did not dwell on it, except for a very brief day of disappointment, and we decided not to share the rejections or our momentary disappointment with DC at all. The school DC attended was a wonderful choice not only for DC, but for our family.

Fast-forward nine years. DC applied to only two high schools/upper schools, and both of them were Big 3. DC was admitted to both.

DC is a lovely and accomplished young adult, loved by their teachers, respected by their peers, one of the top 5 in their class. We are very grateful not only to the wonderful school DC attends now, but also to the wonderful school that accepted DC so many years ago and deserves great credit for the person they are.

When DC was admitted to high school, they mentioned for the first time since the k application process, "I applied to these schools for kindergarten and was not admitted?" I was surprised that DC remembered.


PP with all due respect, what parent in their right mind would ever even CONSIDER "sharing their disappointment" with a freaking KINDERGARTENER over something like this???


Previous poster, I understand your outrage, and we did not actually "decide[] not to share the rejections or our momentary disappointment". In fact, like you, we never "even consider[ed] sharing" the admissions decisions, or our natural and brief reactions to those.

I simply expressed myself in that "decided" language to convey the way we handled the news, versus the alternative, the choice to inform a child of the admissions decisions -- good or bad.

I personally did not and do not judge other parents, similarly situated, who decide to inform their child of the admissions decisions. And in fact, as you can ascertain from my post, a child can, or may, figure it out for themselves even when the parents say nothing.


All I can say is, you've forgotten what it's like to have a five year old in the house.
[Post New]02/27/2014 20:30
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:How are there responses to survey already?


Read the original post - OP asked for people to test the links to see if they work properly.
[Post New]02/28/2014 10:43
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Anonymous
is it time to clear out the fake results and make way for the actual ones?
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