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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we are disappointed come March, it will be much easier for us to handle if we go in thinking that this is all basically a lottery still -- albeit one where the odds are "rigged" (I don't mean this in a malicious way) slightly for or against you based on test scores, demographics, connections, etc.[/quote]

This comment touches close to what bothers me about the process. We are applying to kindergarten. I am 100 percent fine with using assessments to understand and place children into classes or even programs. However, the idea that developmental information is being used not to see what a child needs, but rather to make lists of children who schools want to recruit, bugs me. At 4 and 5, perfectly normal and smart kids are all at somewhat different points in their development. How can you be sorting them into little categories at this age?

I almost feel guilty subjecting my kid to the process, but at least s/he has no idea I am doing it.[/quote]
PP who made the earlier comment here -- not defending or liking the process at all, but in some ways I'm glad that, based on older threads where admissions folks gave first-hand information about how they make decisions, it's good to know that no one thing is completely dispositive or disqualifying for an application.  That they really do take the totality of play visit, test scores, recommendations, connections, etc. and then make the best consensus-based admissions decisions they can with so few spots available.

Of course, selfishly, I would love it if the fact that my DD did quite well on the WPPSI was, by itself, enough for the Big 3 to accept her.  But we also have zero connections and she attends a no-name, non-"feeder" (whatever that means) preschool, and we wouldn't want those things to sink her application either.  So I readily accept the uncertainty and stress of the next five weeks, for better or worse.[/quote]

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