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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious what school? We are solidly upper middle class and applying to places like Friends, Grace and Packer.  Will end up paying full tuition but it's definitely not pocket change for us.  No summer home and live outside Manhattan.  Is this something I should be worried about?[/quote]

I'd rather not say, as we're still waiting on our tuition refund, but it's not one of the three you mention.

I will say that in retrospect a pretty obvious warning sign was that community-building type exercises were extremely limp and poorly attended; it was pulling teeth to even set up *one* conservation with an actual member of the class she was joining, and nobody was trying to set up any opportunities to meet up with new classmates over the summer, nor were any of the other parents particularly interested in setting up meetings on our own. All the whatever-they-call-the-PTA-at-a-private-school type events we attended during our time there were likewise pretty depressing and empty. So basically nobody in the administration or parent body was interested in making new students feel like they belonged there.

We never toured Grace or Packer but I can say that Friends gave us a very different vibe - we didn't actually love that vibe either (candidly it was a little too Ned Flanders-y), but it was the complete opposite of where we ended up in terms of how pushy they were about community-building.[/quote]

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