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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardest part for my kid last year -- who didn't have a first-choice school, and had one acceptance and a number of WLs, so overall came through last year's crazy application season in good shape -- were the kids in her 8th grade class who just could not help themselves from musing "which should I choose" in public.  And the kids were well aware of the status rankings among various DC private schools, so that came up too.  If your kid is in a grade where many (or all) are applying to privates or to application public schools, they will talk and they can be thoughtless.  And I don't have particularly good advice for that situation other than being a safe place to share how much that behavior can sting sometimes.  (I should add that my child's one acceptance was at one of the two schools -- not a "Big 3" -- I thought would be the best fit and it has worked out well so far.)

I would also say, I think kids view a WL decision as pretty much the same as a rejection, so I don't think telling them they were waitlisted if they were instead rejected would lessen the sting very much. In any event, we logged on to Ravenna together that afternoon so we could see and process the results together.  [/quote]
The kids are old enough to read the letters themselves they are 13 or 14! They will know what it says and no a rejection stings more than waitlist if you know it’s a real waitlist [/quote]

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