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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again.

Thanks to the last 10 or so kind posters.

You have all taken my post as it was intended:  an FYI.

At our JKLM a very common conversation (since K almost) is "what are you guys doing for middle and high school".  And most people reply, "we're not sure.  Perhaps private, perhaps public". 
I think many of us had (have) this vague thought that all options were reasonably obtainable if our kids were doing well in school, etc.  Turns out it's not the case.  C'est la vie.

If a "top" private is your goal, do what others have said:  apply early in PK/K or perhaps apply first to a K-8 private and transfer from there (because they do have relationships
with the top privates and it's much easier to get into a big 3 than from DPCS).  Applying directly to a "big 3" from DCPS is a numbers game and not a good one lately (in the experience of those from our school).   Maybe it's different
from other schools.  Who knows.  I'm sure it varies by year, by school, as the wind shifts, etc.

In my own case, I hadn't spent more than 6 months thinking about any of this.  I certainly didn't have a 3 year plan to apply to a K-8 and then on to a Big 3.  Quite frankly, I'm (we're)
happy with DCPS options for middle and high.  We dipped our toe into other options and at this point, they didn't work out.  If I was in a situation where I had to move my kid from DCPS at middle 
or high school (either based on the kid or the school) or had a life-long plan to send my kid to a top private I would have done well to "set up" my private options earlier. [/quote]

OP, unfortunately, when you advise me to get my kids into privates at PK instead of 5th, you're telling me to do something that is completely beyond my means. Yes, and I should also buy the more expensive car with better safety ratings, and the 25-year roof rather than the 15-year one, and outsource the house cleaning, and get some of that light plastic surgery too for those sun spots and crow's feet, oh, and a tutor for the kids.

I cannot afford whatever would be left of the tuition after FA, or to pay someone to shuttle my kids across town for six years longer than absolutely necessary, or the time to be in the car with them 90 minutes a day longer than a closer free school would require.

Maybe the top privates take that into consideration. You could have, and maybe should have moved over sooner. I can't.[/quote]

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