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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyine who can't return a simple phone call within a few days, especially when you're dealing with what is essentially a client, is ridiculously ineffective.[/quote]

Public school for you and yours!  Anyone who can't follow online instructions that say to schedule the appointment via an online system will not survive in that school.  They likely conduct a great deal of interaction with students and parents online as well.

In any event, we have gone through the admissions process for three different children in the past two years, scheduled visits, attended open houses (some of which needed reservations), participated in parent interviews and student shadow days/playdates, involving probably a dozen different independent schools in MoCo and DC (including some of the more popular, hard-to-get-in choices as well as some that we looked at and decided not to apply) and as many different methods of scheduling (some want phone calls, some say wait for them to call you, some want you to email or register online, some want you to do all of this before you apply, some want you to do all of this only after you apply, etc.).  I have to say we have not had a single problem in getting the things scheduled in a timely and efficient manner with any of the schools we have looked at.  I think the longest we ever had to wait for a call back was a couple of days.  Even when we email a short thank you note after the interview or visit day, we almost always receive a reply from the admissions person.  You may occasionally find an AD that has a bit of an attitude, but by and large I have not found that to be the case (with maybe one exception, who shall not be named).  Some parents, on the other hand, are just too full of themselves.[/quote]

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