Reply to Lottery results are up

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Lottery results are up"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My rising 9th grader also marked "ineligible" at Banneker (but decent waitlist at Walls, go figure!) even though she has stellar grades and had a good interview and has a sibling at the top of her class at Banneker. Must have been a really competitive year. Congrats to everyone who got what they hoped for!  For those who didn't, hope your kids don't take it personally. The system is complete and total crapshoot even for the competitive schools. [/quote]

Interesting.  I have to say, I didn't think Banneker was all that tough of an admit.  I honestly thought they accepted nearly all their applicants and weren't like Walls.[/quote]

DCUM certainly pushes that narrative.[/quote]

I think it's harder than it used to be. My DD 7th is pining to go.[/quote]

I actually think it's just that people used to say whatever they wanted about Banneker with zero first-hand information and it was mostly informed by racism.  Now that the "DCUM" kind of people are priced out of privates and running out of spots at J-R and SWW, all of a sudden they're "taking a chance" on the school they considered themselves benevolent pioneers for even considering, only to find out . . . it's not a cakewalk just because it's full of black kids.[/quote]

DCUM kind of people would never be priced out of privates. The problem is people who don't belong on DCUM are now on here.[/quote]

omg what.

"people who don't belong" -- care to spell this out for us? race, class? Say what you mean (and take the consequences).[/quote]

The people who are now priced out of privates.[/quote]

Financial aid is so generous at DMV private schools I wonder who is actually priced out. [/quote]

Not at the best independent schools.  $7k discount off $61k generally does not make this workable for most people who need to ask.

Catholic “privates” are, of course a different category and have bigger gifts, due to their mission[/quote]

Someone just posted on another thread that they are getting 45k of aid at a Big 3 with a HHI of 300k[/quote]

We have a HHI less than that and got $0 in aid from a local Catholic HS. According to the financial aid office, our assets (home equality, savings, Roth/IRA etc.) worked against us in their formula. So specific circumstances matter.[/quote]

+1.  HHI 200k and got into well known private discussed here and absolutely no FA.  If you have any assets, they work against you.

I suspect PP above kid plays some type of sport school wanted.[/quote]

Yep. We had not appreciated how much our savings would hurt us here. I get that the schools see it as money we could spend but we definitely see it as retirement or college only. It was an unpleasant surprise. [/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