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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have thoughts on the other part of OP's question?  Do the high schools call the K-8 principals and say, Principal Jones, 5 kids applied who are qualified to attend our school, how would you prioritize them?[/quote]

It's not that formal and it is more likely to occur in years where the number of applicants is much higher than usual. And, it depends on the relationship between the schools, including the personal relationships between the players.

What the K-8's do not want to happen is to have the high schools coming back them asking them why didn't the K-8 warn them about academic, behavioral or family problems.

Conversely, the high schools do go back and tell the K-8's how pleased they are with some of the kids the K-8 school recommended.

That's part of how the long-term relationship of trust between the schools is built.[/quote]

OP here -- Thanks very much to everyone for your thoughts.  Yes, that is what concerns me -- I don't know the relationship between my K-8 and the high schools.  Do the K-8 schools get any feed back from the Catholic high schools about the strength of their applicants BEFORE decisions are released?  Or are the K-8 schools learning about the decisions at the same time as the applicants?

Not as a matter of course. If there is any discussion around particular candidates, the K8 people may have a clue as to what’s going to which applicants the high school is particularly interested in or have concerns about. But the high school’s process for selecting a class is complex and sometimes produces surprises as they fill the needs and concerns of the various constituencies on campus.

You might want to ask your high school about the admissions history to the high schools you are particularly interested in. They might be willing to give you an assessment of you DCs chances based on history and even the conversations they have had with them. You may even want to look at the archives of the Parish Times in May and see what schools are represented and how many go to each from your K8.

All of the above is influenced by the number of students from the various K8’s that attend each of these high schools. A school that send one boy a year to Prep isn’t the same as BS which send a large group of girls every year to Visitation.

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