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[quote=Anonymous]There aren’t a lot of bilingual privates so you’d be giving that up.  But I’m sure you know that already.

We had a kid in a DCPS bilingual and considered private after 5th.  No, we didn’t bother with the so-called Big 3 when applying because those schools aren’t our style, especially the parent cohort, and obviously they are long shots for everyone anyway.

Our kid, who is bright and confident and accomplished but not, shall we say, extraordinary, got admitted to every private they applied to except one, where they were waitlisted.  We are talking about schools that are routinely mentioned on this board and that have good reputations.  The waitlist school basically told us that if we could full pay they’d find a spot.  The remaining offers dangled minimal aid to us, an average of maybe $10,000 each, but it wasn’t enough to make sense to us financially.  In the end, we just could not justify the tuitions for the education being offered compared to our DCPS options. So we stayed in public after being lucky enough in the lottery game.

Our general take away from the process was that there are plenty of private options out there, and many of those schools — including some highly reputed ones — are happy to make a spot for any kid whose family is willing to be full pay. That just wasn’t us. It may be you.

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