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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know - there's also a lens on the OP's (admittedly sloppy) post that suggests they are a URM family trying to understand the landscape on the chances their kid would be accepted, get funding, and thrive...(especially because they seem to care whether admissions staff is diverse)

I'll answer the commute question - we have an older child - we are not supposed to drive our child to school in the AM unless we have a carpool where we bring another family's child with us. Afternoon is not an issue for arriving as a solo family for pick-up.  Our DC takes the bus but we know of other families that do not - and probably fudge by dropping their child "somewhere else near campus". [b]I can't speak to the penalty or how may families are "cheating" on carpool rules.[/quote][/b]
Is this why people drop off on WI? 
SO they don't get caught cheating on carpool rules?[/quote]

Someone needs to get Frumin involved in this clear breach of the agreement made with the neighborhood. So selfish and entitled.[/quote]

GDS has a great inexpensive bus system ($2/morning); I don't think people regularly flaunt the drop off rules.[/quote]

You’d be wrong. People drop off all over. Check 42nd street. [/quote]

Is 42nd Street within the no drop off zone? There's a map.[/quote] there is supposed to be no drop offs anywhere outside the school grounds. The map does not comply with the BZA. [/quote]

That can't be right. Certainly no one would prevent me from dropping my kid off at, say, the Cleveland Park metro. There has to be a line.[/quote]
Anywhere in the neighborhood.  Taking the metro from a different neighborhood  is not breaking your contract. [/quote]

And I thought "the neighborhood" was defined by the map that GDS distributes, but a pp said that was wrong. [b]So what defines the neighborhood?[/b][/quote]
Is your child walking or biking from your house to GDS?  This would be the neighborhood
Are you dropping your child off at a friend's house and they are walking together? This would be the neighborhood
Are you driving your child from your house to a place where your child picks up public transportation and takes public transportation to GDS?  This is OK

Any other scenario - assume you are supposed to drop off at the school grounds

Pretending to drop your child off at the bagel place and child walking through the parking lot = not OK
Mint Green water bottle girl - getting out at the doggie day care = not OK[/quote]

I have two kids, only one at gds. I drop both off them a block from friendship heights -- the non GDS one takes the subway, the GDS one walks. Yes, that's dropping off somewhere other than campus. No, I'm not doing anything wrong.[/quote]

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