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[quote=Anonymous]Having been through this process before and have numerous friends who’ve been through it as well, kindergarten admissions at competitive privates boils down to 2 things:

- how well connected and wealthy is your family 
- how well behaved your child is during  the play date.

Private schools don’t have the resources to deal with kids who are too far out on the edges  of the bell shaped curve. 
I remember that at the time my son was applying for kindergarten many years ago , some schools still required the WPSSI Test ( some sort of an IQ test) , I was naive enough to think that with his 99.8 percentile score, he’d be a shoe in anywhere. It was actually more of a negative than a positive. Because he was very smart, he was also very inquisitive and must have driven the teachers crazy asking questions during the play date. One admissions officer even told me that’s the reason he was waitlisted !

He ended up at a very good private ( not Big 3/5) and is thriving at an Ivy now. All goes to say that if your child doesn’t get into a top school in kindergarten, it’s not the end of the world. 
Best of luck to you! [/quote]

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