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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, it might be informative if you shaed with readers of this forum why you asked this question.

Personally, I have heard that Sidwell will call a family and ask, " if offered admission will you accept" in the days before letters are mailed. When I heard this I assumed that Sidwell had done this because they do not like to not get a 100% yield return on their 1st choice admit roster. IOW, Sidwell does not like to "waste" an offer of admission.

I would imagine that many AD's in this town feel similarly about that and, out of courtesy, would engage in some back door frank discussions with each other.

More probably, outplacement directors are asked, and do provide "odds" to AD's who ask, if they have the info. At times, parents use this very back door: " please tell the Maret AD, Maret is our 1st choice and we will accept if offered there".

Duplicate first choice rosters would be a waste of 6 months of teh AD's work, imho.

Now, where the intel is week: parents do not share with outplacement director or deliberately fake them , then you may have soem ruffled feathers. Hence, the Sidwell AD or their representative calls the family directly, skirting the outplacement director.

As for 2nd and 3rd round admit lists ( schools who don't get their full class as a result of first round of familes they offer spots to) , there is probably less motivation for sharing this intel and less exchange of info and just a "up for grabs"[/quote]

+1. This is similar to our experience. The outplacement director at our K-6 was very insistent that families identify a first choice school, and very open that this was going to be shared with the schools families were applying to. [/quote]

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