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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may have been the harshest year in decades. [/quote]

Source? We were told by two schools that the grades we were applying for had fewer spots than normal since they needed to right size the schools. I wasn’t sure if that was across the board.[/quote]

It is across-the-board in urban areas including Greater Washington DC.  Staffing issues prevent school expansion (just letting more qualified kids in each year), Covid rapidly accelerated demand for privates, and certain schools have their own particular issues which exasperate the issue like the whole neighborhood problem Georgetown Day school is having.

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How would GDS “neighborhood problem” exasperate anything. They went over their agreed enrollment two years in a row. [/quote]'

Bc they are now right-sizing [/quote]

There are whole threads about this issue. They had to admit I think it was 75 fewer kids than they usually do because of an issue with their neigborhood agreement.[/quote]

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