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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trinity parent who wore normal clothing (pants, flats, sweater) for both our k tour and interview. Did not interview with head of admissions (Jennifer) or associate head of admissions (was Drew, is now Jaclyn). Unconnected and got lucky.

The couple we toured with was outwardly flashy, dad was pompous and talked over everyone and argued with his wife and tried to dismiss her questions. They probably thought we were the odd ones, but we never saw them again. ;)[/quote]

Wow, unconnected? Nice. Any tips [/quote]

Luck. Honestly. My kid is very bright, but NYC is [u]filled[/u] with very bright kids. I am confident that many applicants would have checked the same boxes and been equally successful in the school.

I wish I had meaningful tips. Be yourself. Be kind. Hope that your 4/5 year old has a good day on that visit. Know why the school is of interest to you and why you think your child would be a good fit and communicate that well. We focused a lot on the lower school experience at every school because it felt impossibly hard to predict who our kid would be in middle or high school. That is all I've got.

The rest is just luck.[/quote]

This makes me feel good. We're unconnected. We have a very bright kid (also a 2nd rounder at Hunter). We didn't interview with Jaclyn or Jennifer though both had really kind responses to our thank you notes as both were at our kid's 2nd playdate. Our tour was wild though. Other family was kind. We asked a bunch of questions as we went through but the tour guide was really enthusiastic and shared so much and introduced us to so many teachers that the whole thing actually lasted a little over 2 hours. It was so thorough! [/quote]

I thought the only interviewers were Jennifer or Jacklyn.  There’s a third?  Were you able to get feedback from the second play date? We’ve gotten no feedback at all from Trinity 
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