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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the same thread every year on DCUM, and I always offer the same story and advice.

My child was rejected from Beauvoir (NCS/STA), Georgetown Day School (GDS), and Sidwell -- from all three(!) -- when we applied for them in kindergarten.  They enrolled in the only school to admit them, one further down the list, and it was the perfect school for them.

Fast forward nine years and that same child was accepted to all of those schools for upper school.  Of course, by eighth grade they had the benefit of years of excellent grades, strong ERB testing, and a 99th %ile standardized test score.  They currently attend Harvard.

Do not worry, as things have a way of working out.  In our child's case, the non-Big 3 school they attended from kinder-8th was the perfect school for them. [/quote]

So [b]clearly the kid was not a legacy at Harvard. [/b] "They" is plural.  He or she attends.  Furthermore, if you are so proud of the K-8 school, why not post it?  And[b] which Big 3 did he/she (sorry "they") attend?[/b][/quote]

Not a not legacy (also admitted to Stanford).  (Do you always ask people if their children were admitted as legacies, minority applicants, or athletes?)  In an irony of sorts, my child had to politely decline admissions to the Big 3 (as opposed to the first time, when the schools politely declined), because I was assigned a posting abroad.  S/he applied last minute (the week of decisions) to a boarding school in the U.S., which s/he attended instead.  I will not specifically name the school they attended because my point is simply that any school outside of the Big 3 might be the right one for your child -- not one in particular.  Also, I notice that people tend to jump in and criticize any school that is singled out for particular praise, and I would prefer not to subject this lovely school to that sort of criticism.     [/quote]

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