Reply to Parent Interview

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "Parent Interview"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make sure you can speak strongly about why this school's mission appeals to you.

It is rumored that if you can't speak about why progressive education is important to you then you won't get in to Green Acres.

But I think it is just as important to smile and relax.  And remember it is all a crap shoot. [/quote]

It is and it isn't all a crap shoot.

Look, the numbers are stacked against everyone.  The kids are all 99 percenters, and apart from 1 or 2 uber-wealthy or uber-powerful families, everyone else looks alike.  So how to start distinguishing between these masses - the parent interview helps the AD.  Not so much as a positive, but as a negative.  In other words I doubt seriously you could be so charming at such an interview as to move the application ball forward.  Most of us are on our best behaviour and can mask our crazy for a half hour or so.  It's really a negative - if you say something odd, as pp's DH apparently did, or look odd, or just stand out in a negative way, that's one less application the AD really has to think about.

Good luck.  As you can tell, I hated the entire process and was stressed out throughout.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics