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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I expect it usually depends on how many applicants there are. For example, Catholic schools like O’Connell are so much larger than the independent privates, they simply couldn’t interview everyone. We didn’t come across any non-Catholic schools that didn’t do interviews during our process last year, so if you e found smaller independent schools that don’t interview I couldn’t speculate about them. [/quote]

But it also differs across similarly sized competitive schools.  Potomac doesn't interview parents but Sidwell, GDS, and Maret (smaller) do.  [/quote]

This must depend on the age at Potomac, as we have a parent interview scheduled for there, but for a younger age. [/quote]

HS has no parent interview at Potomac[/quote]

The older the child the less parents matter. They’ll get a sense of your child from teacher and extracurricular recs, grades, and interview. Unless legacy or big donor I can’t see parents throwing it for HS. [/quote]

It doesn't matter to me either way, but all the other schools our DCs applied to require parent interviews for HS. In my view, the admissions office can decide for themselves whether they find it useful or not. I can see both sides - that's their choice. Potomac chooses no - saves me some time. Other schools choose yes, so I show up and answer whatever it is they feel they need to know.[/quote]

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