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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In our kids' experience, the HS application process was not stressful at all, and they barely talked about it with their friends at school, it was not competitive. Our kids ended up at a "Big 3" which is what they wanted. It all worked out, but [b]as parents you have to be prepared that you're not fully in control of the process or your 14 year-old child[/b]. I agree that perhaps a K-8 is not a good fit for [u]insecure, status-seeking parents who are obsessed with fake notions of prestige or elitism[/u].[/quote]

Parent of former k-8 lifer here. I couldn't agree more with this poster and I hope OP is still reading. The bolded is so true.

The corollary is that when the 'status' group ends up in a K-8 as their consolation prize because they were rejected from Sidwell or Maret, they form little exclusionary cliques within the K-8 community and continue to apply out of that school early and often.  I saw this so often that is became an amusing truism.

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