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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can only enroll in one school. If you get into your first choice school, why do you need multiple offers?[/quote]

You don't, but I don't know why people are obsessing about this first choice process when it seems like other people who don't bother first-choicing are getting into multiple TT schools.[/quote]

We had one of the least impressive girls (also without legacy/family weight) in our class receive a TT acceptance to everyones shock. And the most impressive girl (also from a family that was equivalently so) get waitlisted at eight schools. This is where the preschool director came in, they worked to get her a spot for next year, though it was not TT.[/quote]

Impressive and not impressive in what ways? Can’t imagine how impressiveness is determined at 4 years old…[/quote]

Lagging in social and verbal skills. Highly doubtful that the parents were the deciding factor unless they were looking for something extremely particular to round out the class.[/quote]

This cracks me up. My son was an early summer boy at a fairly competitive pre-school. He was "lagging" socially and very average verbally, particularly compared to a class full of boys 8-9 months older, which is a lot at that age. The school subtly recommended that he repeat pre-k. We ignored them and sent him to our very good neighborhood public where he was in the older half of the grade. It took him a little while to get his footing but he did and 10+ years later is at the top of his class at a very competitive HS and a very well-adjusted, happy teenager with plenty of friends and better social skills than most of the superstars from his pre-k class. Some kids just take longer to get going and need to be removed from the obnoxious NYC private ecosystem for a while.

The fact that life-influencing decisions are being based on brief interactions with 4-5 year olds, and more importantly, that parents put so much of their self-worth in how their child performs on these evaluations, is really amazing and sad.[/quote]

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