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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be careful..you can get more facetime but they can hurt you in the end. I would keep track of the emails that were not responded to and go to the head of the school. I would say you are concerned something has happened in this process that could hurt your daughter.[/quote]

God, this is crazy. If DD has always done well and test scores match what possible reason would anyone at the school have for "hurting" DD's application in the end as you say ? [/quote]

Schools have long-term relationships with each other and with families.  And lots of schools will want to balance their classes with a variety of different kids from a variety of different places.  So, for example, how many well-behaved white girls with corporate lawyer daddies from Beauvior does some school other than NCS want to admit in any give year.  And if Beauvoir has 4 such candidates and one set of parents is a PITA and another set of parents are major donors with other kids potentially in the pipeline, I could certainly see them being more interested in family B getting the exmission result of their dreams than family A.  And it can be rationalized as a sort of victimless crime (or even a blessing in disguise) if the decisionmaker is pretty confident that the daughter in family A will do just as well (or better) in a school that isn't her parents' first choice.

All examples are meant to be fictional, but I think it takes a certainly level of detail to understand what can happen, so I filled in the blanks with specifics.   [/quote]

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