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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want to say, as a current GDS parent who was in your shoes last year, don't let one bad interview scare you off from a truly amazing school. They have hundreds of applications for each entry grade and it's extremely difficult to get in. The weight of that workload may have come across to you from your particular interviewer. [/quote]

On this note - our child still applied and was accepted for 9th to GDS (pre-COVID) - but it was evident through the entire process that this admissions person never bothered to learn the basic interests of our child.  In the end, this meant our child didn't ever get a good feel for how they might fit into the GDS community.  GDS was a big question-mark to our DC when compared to other schools they were accepted to. Those schools had allowed Fall Shadow visits and had paired them with like-interested students and then again did this in the Spring after acceptances went out.  GDS did not have a Fall Shadow that admissions cycle and the student they were paired with in the Spring seemed completely random. Furthermore, even though GDS had admissions related events for sports/theatre/arts - our child was not invited to any of these (even though they were clearly VERY interested in a particular activity that she kept ignoring).  Despite all of this, DC still tried their best to understand whether GDS would be a good place for them - but in the end - they chose somewhere else because they couldn't fill in all the missing pieces.  I think if this admissions person had paid just a small amount of attention, my DC would have had a much better feel for GDS.  They are happy where they landed and it is most likely the better choice for my DC. So, no hard feelings but that admissions person totally dropped the ball and based on prior PP posts it sounds like our DC isn't the only one falling into this category with her. (this is the only reason we are weighing in on this topic).[/quote]

Honestly, I was noticing in open houses that the schools with the warmest lower school admissions officers were drawing a crowd of kinder, nicer parents.   I worry at what kind of school/parent community it creates when the school doesn't model this. And wonder how much more prestige based it becomes when you reward prestige over character.[/quote]

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