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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far my kids have never been rejected from anywhere we applied to. Having said that we only ever applied to a couple of places we were certain were a good fit and were very committed to. I don't know if that makes a difference but I do think if you're using the scatter gun effect, i.e. applying to a lot of schools, you do increase your chances of getting a "no" simply because they know that.[/quote]

When our student applied more than seventeen years ago, and was rejected by all of the Big 3 (Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell), we only applied to four schools total.  In those days everything was done by paper application, and I do not recall being asked to which, if any other schools, our child had applied.

While I agree that no one should apply to seven of more schools, I do think that it is realistic -- and not scattershot -- to apply to at least four schools particularly if, like us, you had no connection to any private school.  If our child had not applied to that fourth school for kindergarten, he or she would probably still have been rejected by all of the Big 3, and additionally, they would have missed out on the wonderful school that so positively impacted their life.[/quote]

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