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Good luck! Note that privates come out first so your kid might get into a private they really like and that influences their mindset when they find out about publics. Be sure to revisit any private they are remotely considering - once you are in you can ask a lot more questions than when you have to be polite and not ruffle feathers during the application process - you are now the buyer.

Also note that you can accept the private and you have to put down a deposit but full tuition isn't committed for a while so you don't have to make an absolute decision in that one week or so between when publics announce and privates require a decision - worst case you lose a deposit but if you end up at public that is a drop in the bucket.[/quote]
Thank you, this is all helpful.  I am impressed you were able to meet your child's prospective classmates - is that something that the schools accommodate for or did you have to seek them out on your own?[/quote]

We didn't meet many. But we asked around and part of it was honestly dumb luck. My kid knew one kid at one of the schools they were accepted to and worked through that. At another school we knew a kid who was a year ahead so met kids in that class - not a guarantee but we hoped for the best. And we knew a few kids who were friends of friends who were accepted and definitely going to one school so spent time with them - one of them ended up becoming one of my kid's closest friends.

After my child was accepted we had specific questions about specific parts of different schools and we specifically reached out to either people we already sort of knew at the schools (we were not well connected at any school) or at one school asked admissions to connect us with people who could answer the questions. Again - you are now the buyer so within reason (and being respectful of other people's time), ask away if it is truly important to you. When applying you don't want to rock the boat so might hold back on some questions. Now it is your turn. Very different from when you visit public schools where you are free to say whatever you want (and unfortunately, we hated so many of the public school tours where people went on and on with absolutely ridiculous questions, though unfortunately, this also sometimes happened at privates, which likely didn't bode well for the applicant getting in).[/quote]

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