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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I am a little bonkers right now waiting to hear from schools. Don't tell me to chill out or calm down. I will do that next week. This week I am obsessed and anxious about my child's education. Just like accepting a job offer, buying a house, buying a car, selecting a neighborhood or community, this is a big decision that is possible, but not easy, to reverse. What's more, it will affect my child even more than it affects me. And I have the responsibility to choose for him, since he's not old enough to do it himself. That's a responsibility I take seriously. I am hanging out here, on this forum, so I don't drive my friends, family, and colleagues crazy too. Most of the people on this forum right now are going through the same thing, so I feel like I am in good company. Stop telling me to relax. It's just not a relaxing time, and this board provides a reasonably healthy outlet for all of the justifiable stress many of us feel at the moment.[/quote]

OP, I could have written this 6 years ago.  My DC made it to a Big 3.  Off of the wait list I should add.  To be honest, I think this can be so random.  As far as I could tell, my DC was not any smarter than many who did not get in, nor were we any richer than many families that did not get in.  I still don't know how the AD plucked us out of the crowd.  But I thank god (and that AD) every single day.  It changed my DC's path.  I'm not saying that a public school path would not have worked.  I"m sure that it would have been just fine.  But private school was what we saw as the best education we could provide for our DC.  Now, our lives revolve around the school.  Yes, there will be flamers, but I, for one, love the fact that we spend so much time at the school for this or that, and even outside of school our social circle is focused on the other families at the school.

Good luck and take care.

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