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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Straight A student at Deal. Waitlisted at privates, waitlisted at walls, number too high to get in. Headed to Jackson Reed and so disappointed. DC is so bored and unchallenged at Deal and I worry it’ll be more of the same at JR. I feel like we failed DC. We are willing to make the financial sacrifice for private but I feel like that whole process was a waste of time and that system is rigged against kids coming from DCPS unless they are a star athlete or have another “hook”.

Thank you for letting me join the pity party. [/quote]

Almost identical situation. Kid didn’t even really want Walls, until today. 🙄 The saddest part is that he’s taking all of these waitlist decisions personally. I get it…it does FEEL personal if the whole decision is based on a 5 minute interview. But we keep emphasizing that there is much randomness in this process that it just boils down to luck. And he wasn’t particularly lucky this time.

Also, GDS accepted 12 students (some of those 12 as siblings), so that’s not a thing to feel badly about either.

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I bet our kids know each other. Yeah, DC knows it’s random but it still sucks and they are so unenthused about JR. DC understands the GDS situation but if we knew ahead of time we would have put other schools on our list. And DC knows they are an as good if not better student than the siblings that got in, so that’s also hard (but further explains the randomness and that it has nothing to do with DC). [/quote]

Honest question: for parents who have kids who are "unenthused about JR" why do you think that is? Could it be that you as parents have given the impression that it's a bad school? It's not. [/quote]

True, we are in part to blame. But I’ve never met a top student from JR who’s been excited to share their experience, and we’ve been asking families about their experiences at Wilson since DC was little. Please share your experience, that would be helpful, sincerely.  DC’s experience at Deal hasn’t helped, with no teachers for months, English classes that never even finish a book, and no teaching of how to write. I look forward to being proven wrong. We will make the best of it and now have resources to supplement but have to figure out what that looks like. [/quote]

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