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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Is that your guess, or do you have first hand knowledge of these conversations?[/quote]

Well, I’m neither a K8 principal or a high school Admissions person.

But my spouse was on the staff of one of the high schools and I have seen the process work as a parent at one of the K8’s that supplies a lot of kids to the most desired Catholic high schools. Besides, how else would you expect this to work?

Do you imagine the K8’s would sell their students hard and leave it up to the high schools to figure things out (caveat emptor)?

Outplacement success to these Catholic high schools is very important to the K8’s. They aren’t going to jeopardize this long term relationships.[/quote]

This sounds about right as someone with a daughter coming out of a Catholic K-8 and just finished up with the process.  Our principal was intimately involved in the guidance in the application process.  A lot of discussion about fit and she was clearly guiding DD to specific schools -- namely the ones that were the most academically challenging.  We are assuming that she feels DD would easily be accepted at these schools.  She steered us away from the other schools but said it makes sense to apply as safeties.  So just through these discussions, you can gage your chances.[/quote]

Exactly.

The principal goes through this every year, if she has any significant tenure in the job.

They’ve seen what has happened in the past and they may have gotten a general sense of this year’s “lay of the land”. She or he not only knows what kind of applicants have been accepted or rejected in the past, but also what the high school seems to. Be most interested currently.

It really isn’t too much difference from the support or guidance experienced college counselors give. And the safety schools are a good idea because you never know what’s going to happen when the high school looks at all the applicants as a group.

This process is much more unstructured and capricious than many of the parents might think. [/quote]

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