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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It happens. Of course, you are burning some bridges with the person who went to bat for your kid. [/quote]

Why would it be a burned bridge? Anyone in the world understands that sometimes another school is the better option for a kid.[/quote]

Then why did you go to that person in the first place if the other school was a better option?

We've been through this a total of six times. We asked people to put in words for our kids for PreK/K, 6th, and college. For the 6th grade round, one person, a friend of friend, asked, "Is this the top choice?" and DH said something to effect of "It's the top two and DC would be so lucky to get into one of them." DC got into both of the top two and chose the other. It truly was a better fit but getting in was lucky.

With the exception of that person, we were friends or friendly with all the PreK/K requests. The 6th grade folks were fairly transactional types - willing to put in a word/write a letter/make a call, but no expectations more than that. One of the college ones was friend of a friend with a very strong connection to the school, but it was for ED, so no worries there. For the other DC, they met with a board member, who took a liking to DC, but at the last minute, DC pivoted back to their original ED but also thanked the board member for their time, suggestions, insights. [/quote]

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