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[quote=Anonymous]Not sure I agree. The pressure and randomness of the process at preK and K seems extreme, and frankly at that point you really have no idea if your child will end up being a good fit for the private you send them to, even if it is a preK-12 school.  A prior poster said the "lifers" sometimes clearly got in early and never would have gotten in later, in terms of their academic talents, however, I really wonder if those kids are well served by being in a place that they are not academically-successful at, and being at the very bottom of the class.  I agree that the pressure of getting out of public for 6th can be stressful, but many kids have reasonable or very good experiences at Deal or at charters, and the expansion for most of the top private schools for 9th is quite large, and by then can really tell what schools makes the most sense for your child in terms of an academic, social, athletic fit. My kids were in privates throughout but were I to do it again I would have done charter or public for lower school and possibly middle.  Both did change schools one during lower school and one between lower and middle, and it just didn't seem that bad a process, compared to the preK/K when feeling like the parents and not the child are being assessed, or the child but based on no reliable information. 
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