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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am confused about what the gamble is.  If your kid had gotten into a K-12, choosing a K-8 is something of a gamble because you could end up without a high school placement.  But if you don’t have a K-12 option, I don’t get it.[/quote]

OP here.  I'm not going to say what my public option is.  TMI.  What I will say is that we're talking about starting Lowell in the early grades.  We weren't really thinking about high school when we applied to lower schools because it seemed so far away but now that we're in we're wondering if it's worth paying for 8+ years only to be shut out of the better privates for high school.  We are knew to this.[/quote]

NP.  If you like Lowell more than your public option, you can start there for the early grades and apply out to your preferred K-12s at middle school or sooner (depending on the entry years of your preferred school).  We are at another K-8, but we have friends at Lowell who rave about it, especially for the early years.  [/quote]
This is good advice. If you have a k-12 option take it. If you are deciding between public vs Lowell, Try Lowell and then switch back to public or switch to another private at 4th or 6th or 7th, or be okay with the possibility of Burke or the like (or public which can be a great fit for some kids by high school) if your kid doesn’t get into one of the most competitive private schools applying for 9th. We thought Lowell was best for pp-3rd grade. I have three kids. One graduated and two left early and one went to public for high school. [/quote]

What do you mean by Burke or the like?[/quote]
Schools that have historically large number of Lowell students attend for HS and that are not as competitive to gain admission in, say in comparison to Maret or Sidwell etc[/quote]

Do Lowell grads ever get into Sidwell, GDS or Maret?[/quote]

In the past three years NO, maybe 10 years ago one or two a year. Most got to Burke, Wilson, MOCO pubic, some to St Johns.[/quote]

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