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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Independently verify everything said during a tour to be sure it's accurate and up to date.  if your questions are important/vital to your decision to enroll your child, send an email to be sure the answer you got is accurate (just wanted to be sure I heard this correctly, right?). Do not assume that confidence in stating something implies accuracy.  Verify everything with more than one source even if your gut tells you you don't need to.  There may even be different realities operating at a school.

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Yup, get every bit of curricular and extracurricular stuff you care about in writing. I was an admissions tour guide for years and it was shocking how badly they prepared us. There were definitely years when I shared incorrect information about programs that had changed or been discontinued because no one bothered to inform parents outside of the grades that were affected by the changes.

Also ask during admissions, “are there any schedule or curricular changes going into effect for next year that you are planning or considering?”. Our school has a lot of uncertainty around several subjects and a new sequence for arts electives, but they’re not set in stone so they’re not proactively sharing it with parents. We also have a schedule change coming- you do not want to end up at a school that’s switching to block scheduling, letting out 30 minutes later, removing a zero period, etc. without knowing in advance.[/quote]
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When we were looking at high schools a couple years ago, Flint Hill was in transition with its schedule coming out of covid. DC has a learning difference and some schedules work better than others, and at least FH admin were upfront when asked, but they couldn’t actually give an answer - decisions were going to be made over the summer. That was definitely a point in the “con” column for us. [/quote]

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