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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a GDS parent, I am so frustrated by the feedback I hear year after year about the admissions department. They are not organized and  in some cases not even friendly to prospective families. I hear this all the time from friends applying across the different grades. In particular, the head of admisssions for the HS has been there forever and seems burned out.

There is an arrogance to it that makes me furious. It seems GDS's attitude is like - take us or leave us - we have a million applicants.

My kids love GDS and are getting a great education but I do not want ANY potential family with a great kid turned pff by the process!!

We should be marketing to every family and cultivating every potential applicant.  Russell please listen to this feedback and make some changes![/quote]

I would definitely share your feedback directly with the school. We also had a terrible experience, with two different interviewers: one for lower school and the other for middle. I definitely got the impression they were not interested in getting to know us at all. Definitely felt very snobby and elitist. We left wondering if the interview would have been better if we were wealthier or more well-connected. It was ironic for a school with a social justice mission. We are not-white and I am the first generation to have a college eduction. Lots of different kinds of diversity in our family but at the end of the day, we felt like they weren't interested in any of that.  Curious to know what their DEI focus is re: recruiting students?[/quote]
I felt that way too and we are white and wealthy, so they treat everyone badly. It had nothing to do with who you are as a person or your situation. I was turned off. [/quote]

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