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[quote=Anonymous]My suspicion: I applied for DS too early. DS did not quite have the maturity the schools wanted to see. He's smart, but he doesn't have a lot of stamina yet, has a summer birthday, and was still adjusting to being a classroom. To boot, he is naturally shy. Overall, he just seemed a lot younger than many other applicants to K.

But -- all's well that ends well. We got a couple of rejections, and a couple of invitations to reapply in a year. DS was admitted to one school. We decided to go ahead and sent him on time to the school that offered admission.

Two things turned out to be true. First, he is almost the youngest in his kindergarten class, and it shows. He is struggling a bit to keep up. So the schools that recommended waiting a year did, in fact, reach reasonable conclusions. Second, we don't regret picking the school that did accept DS. He loves the school, and feels supported and happy, despite being sometimes a bit overwhelmed. That he is being challenged and yet feels happy is worth its weight in gold to me.

It is too glib to say, "things will work out for the best." But to an extent that is true. Schools are trying to find kids that match their programs, so an offer of admission probably does mean a potentially good fit. And nobody wants to discover mid-year that the school is a poor fit. Finding something that works, public or private, is the desirable endgame.

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