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[quote=Anonymous]I can understand why someone would call it a cattle call.  I also do think they try to put some type of limit on applications by requiring people to schedule a tour.  The part that I felt needed work was the Saturday morning meet and greet with the pre-K and K applicants.  When I toured the school, I found one of the K teachers I met to be very low energy and not very friendly.  I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and thought that maybe she was tired or feeling a bit under the weather.  Guess who was assigned to assess my DC at the Saturday morning play date?  She was still very low energy and not very warm--including with the kids.  My kid gets along with pretty much anyone so she still had a good time at the playdate but I was struck by the teacher's aloofness.  I would have liked to have seen a little more warmth expressed towards the children she was evaluating (and, yes, she wasn't warm with any of the children).  We also met with someone from the school for the optional Q &A and I found her to be pretty aloof as well.  I felt like getting information from her was like pulling teeth and we were asking relevant questions trying to get a better feel for the school.  The reason I found this person's aloofness so striking was that I saw Josh Wolman interacting with another applicant and their family (my guess is they were applying to 3rd grade) and he was very warm and engaged.  His demeanor and behavior was almost the complete opposite of what we experienced.  Our experience made it easier when our daughter wasn't accepted.  In the end she was accepted at a school that where all of our interactions during the admissions process were warm and where we felt like our child was really wanted.  Our daughter is happy where she is and we are thrilled with the school.  I now think that our experiences at Sidwell were clues that Sidwell, despite being a great school, wasn't the right place for our child.  We had a similar experience applying to preschools where the teacher doing our child's evaluation was very aloof and low energy.  We chose a different preschool because of that encounter and our child wound up at a preschool that was a great fit for her.  These experiences have taught me to go with my gut.  If you get a feeling when you are meeting with people that things aren't clicking as well as they should, they probably aren't.[/quote]

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