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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being born a boy shouldn’t place you at a disadvantage when applying for a spot in a school, however, at St. Andrew’s, that’s what kids get waitlisted for: being the gender that they apparently already have too many of. To the poster who somehow thinks that kids are only rejected for not being an A/B student: you couldn’t be more wrong. There are only just a couple of spots available in 8th grade, and a few more in 9th, but since an already established class pre-exists, kids get rejected for not being a specific gender, which has nothing to do with academics. I wish they would just be transparent and not waste our time and money and just say: hey, we have spots, but only if your kid is a girl.

Meanwhile, Bullis is more than thrilled to welcome the same boy that St. Andrew’s waitlisted. My guess is that they have more spots available and allow a larger 9th grade class size than St. Andrew’s and that they don’t care as much about keeping the genders equal in number. That seems so silly anyway. Nowhere else in life are there an equal number of girls as boys. Imagine if you couldn’t get a job at a workplace not because you weren’t skilled enough, but because the job already had too many people of your gender working there already…that’s not right. The world isn’t 50/50 gendered. And I wouldn’t care if my kid was in an uneven distribution of boys/girls in a class.[/quote]

This sounds like the experience of a specific year where SAES had more boys in the cohort. Surely they're not boy heavy in the 8th grade year after year?[/quote]

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