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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We chose NPS instead as well.[/quote]

[b]We got turned off by the NPS admissions reps this year[/b].  We really like Beauvoir, so that's our first choice.[/quote]
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NPS admissions rep was an hour late for our meeting (never sent word by way of update on timing). When she finally did connect she came off as cold. Let me know in a none too subtle way that religious diversity wasn't their "thing". Thing was, I didn't even initially ask about such diversity. She just picked up on my foreign name and then launched into that spiel complete with assumptions about my background, rattling off the number of Christian and Jewish kids and said she doubted there were families from other faiths. This was all within the first ten minutes of the conversation. 
I got the message and didn't apply for my kid.
The new HOS is great and came from a diverse school. Maybe things will change on the admissions front in terms of diversity once he's in place at NPS.  [/quote]

I'm so surprised to hear this story, as an NPS parent with both a foreign last name and a non-Christian background.  I help out with admissions events and Katy and Robin are both extremely thoughtful and sensitive about questions of diversity, faith etc., even to the point where it's a topic covered during the volunteer training.  Nobody even remotely involved in the admissions process at NPS would ever dream of saying anything like "religious diversity isn't [our] "thing", much less those two highly professional admissions people.

Next time you want to smear a school or its representatives, come up with a more believable story.  And, yes, the new HOS seems really great.  We're excited to have him.

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