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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading about all the recent admission decisions and seeing lots of people posting about waitlists. 
Was wondering are you coming from public to private for 9th?  Or from a K-8 private?
We’re waiting for next week admission results for lower elementary school and our first two choices are a k-8 and a k-12.  My child isn’t super strong academically (yet) and has some learning challenges so I’m thinking out loud reading these posts that we might want to prioritize the K-12. 
Thoughts, regrets if you did a k-8?
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People who tend to be disappointed in k-8 are the ones that have always had Big3 (BigX) aspirations. If this is the main goal (which is not particularly healthy) then there are kids who get shut out at 9th.  And for some - they get shut out of their top choice Big 3 but into another.  If you truly care about meeting your child's needs and you go to a strong k-8 program - and keep a level head (don't let other strivers suck you into their vortex) - the k-8 will be great.[/quote]

We are not looking at a big3 or any pressure cooker school. But I keep reading about all these kids getting waitlisted at the catholic schools who have just released their admissions and I didn’t really consider most of those schools to be super competitive (I’m not familiar with the catholic schools and we’re not applying to them). Maybe they’re more competitive than I think but to have 1300 applicants for 300 spots at SJC seems very competitive. [/quote]

Is Catholic HS your endgoal? [/quote]

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