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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think sibling preference is a bigger hook at most private schools.  The ones my kids attend still reject legacies/siblings who can’t meet the academic standards, occasionally causes some drama.[/quote]

If you are going to have a preference, sibling preference makes sense for elementary/middle school, and even high school.  It allows families to keep their kids together at the same school, which I can understand being something a school (and their student families) value.  It does lead to a bunch of strategies that families employ to take advantage of this preference, but so be it.[/quote]

What strategies ae you talking about? [/quote]

The only thing I can think of is to enroll the strongest candidate in the school and hope that they can get the weaker one in based on sibling preference. Sounds wild, I know. But, DC probably has people who might do this.

This strategy is high risk and depends on the second child, the school, the performance of the first child and the school’s experience with the parents.

Sibling preference is certainly not an automatic pass to acceptance. It usually works, but if the second child has academic, social or other problems, the school will bite the bullet and reject them.[/quote]

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