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[quote=Anonymous]DC is going to a TT for K in the fall. We don't live on UES/UWS and DC didn't go to a traditional feeder so we're odd ones out and largely navigated the process by ourselves. Our school's PSD didn't understand private exmissions whatsoever. Honestly we feel lucky we got in because we didn't discover Parents League until after we had turned in applications, so there was lots of things that we both had to figure out on the fly.

We're two working professional parents who aren't your traditional finance/law couple. Our income is good (can pay full freight comfortably), but we're just not part of the "scene" and don't want to be. No Hamptons trips, swanky vacations, second homes, etc. We like to chart our own course and largely live down to earth lives.

We just want to get along with the other parents and ensure our kid has a good time. How true is it about the flashy birthday parties, judgemental parents, group chat dramas, etc I'm reading about on this forum? Are there going to be "normal" parents?

Current parents: any survival tips here on how to be part of the community without turning into the very stereotypes we're trying to avoid becoming?

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