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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the above poster - were there kids who were the top 3 kids in the class grade-wise who did not get in to their first choice for lack of the sibling/parent connections or athletics?[/quote]

Not the original poster, but answer in our school (which is a well known K-8) was yes. School would report higher, but since we just went through the process and I know the class very well since we’ve been there a long time, I’d say about 50% matched with their true first choice. At least for our class, kids near the top were actually much less likely to get into their top choice than kids lower in the pecking order academically (because the first choice was often more difficult to get into).

For Sidwell, NCS, GDS, Potomac, Maret, and STA, we had kids near the very top of the class grades wise get shut out and then had some kids that didn’t have a traditional hook (money, sports, sibling, legacy, URM (not sure that one matters much in our grades experience)) that were more middle of the road students get it. It’s was all very unpredictable for those six schools.

For schools that are probably the next rung down in terms of difficulty of admission: Holton, Madeira, etc. (I don’t want to start a war about who all would be included in this group), the admissions were very predictable.  The better students or students with hooks got in, others did not. Same was true for the less competitive schools.

So just because your kid has really good grades or recommendations, I wouldn’t assume they will get into the above six. For most other schools, it’s a pretty good assumption that the top 10-20 of the well known K-8s will get it (at least it was true at our school). [/quote]

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