Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 15:23     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Declining some wonderful schools and accepting one too.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 15:17     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Accepting BVR K. Declining Sidwell and GDS. New parent reception today sealed the deal. The stuffiness I was expecting to feel was absent and it seems to be ideal for very young children. Clear messages and positive energy all around!


We were there too, for prek! Debating between BVR and NPS but BVR was great today!


Def go with BVR. NPS gets small in upper grades and it can be difficult navigating friend groups. BVR class by 3rd grade is 80-85 kids.


+1. We have loved BVR so much. And at NPS, people are leaving more and more each grade. Also, NPS is warm and nurturing, but the parent community is often not. We have many friends across various grades and over many years who either left early or suffered through some really crazy mean mom stuff. Especially about the christmas pageant, which moms get really worked up about apparently.


Your response would have been so much less BVR if you had stopped after that first sentence.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 14:18     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Anonymous wrote:Declining Maret, GDS, Sidwell, Burke, Harvard, Princeton, Yale...allowing your lesser kids a chance to be elite.


Awesome!
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 13:13     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Declining Maret, GDS, Sidwell, Burke, Harvard, Princeton, Yale...allowing your lesser kids a chance to be elite.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 12:02     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Accepting BVR K. Declining Sidwell and GDS. New parent reception today sealed the deal. The stuffiness I was expecting to feel was absent and it seems to be ideal for very young children. Clear messages and positive energy all around!


We were there too, for prek! Debating between BVR and NPS but BVR was great today!


Def go with BVR. NPS gets small in upper grades and it can be difficult navigating friend groups. BVR class by 3rd grade is 80-85 kids.


+1. We have loved BVR so much. And at NPS, people are leaving more and more each grade. Also, NPS is warm and nurturing, but the parent community is often not. We have many friends across various grades and over many years who either left early or suffered through some really crazy mean mom stuff. Especially about the christmas pageant, which moms get really worked up about apparently.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 11:50     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Are most day school applicants waiting until tomorrow’s deadline to make their decision?
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 11:44     Subject: Re:List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Likely declining Flint Hill for boarding.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 11:41     Subject: Re:List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Releasing St. Alban’s and Sidwell for boarding. 9th grade


Tell me you have $$$ without telling me you have $$$


Not necessarily. We applied for FA for boarding and got some. Our boarding option ended up being a bit less than the private option here.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 09:35     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Accepting BVR K. Declining Sidwell and GDS. New parent reception today sealed the deal. The stuffiness I was expecting to feel was absent and it seems to be ideal for very young children. Clear messages and positive energy all around!


We were there too, for prek! Debating between BVR and NPS but BVR was great today!


Def go with BVR. NPS gets small in upper grades and it can be difficult navigating friend groups. BVR class by 3rd grade is 80-85 kids.


Thanks! We enrolled at BVR and are really excited!
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 23:12     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Deciding re Field!
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 22:58     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Accepting BVR K. Declining Sidwell and GDS. New parent reception today sealed the deal. The stuffiness I was expecting to feel was absent and it seems to be ideal for very young children. Clear messages and positive energy all around!


We were there too, for prek! Debating between BVR and NPS but BVR was great today!


Def go with BVR. NPS gets small in upper grades and it can be difficult navigating friend groups. BVR class by 3rd grade is 80-85 kids.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 22:51     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Accepting BVR K. Declining Sidwell and GDS. New parent reception today sealed the deal. The stuffiness I was expecting to feel was absent and it seems to be ideal for very young children. Clear messages and positive energy all around!


We are a current BVR family and we are really happy.


Agree! My children attended BVR and they/we loved it.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 22:32     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Anonymous wrote:9th grade. Declining Burke. Accepting NCS.


Wow those are two very different schools.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 22:18     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Anonymous wrote:Which schools typically go to WL after declines?

The ones that either badly misjudged their expected yield or ones that need to fill specific holes to balance a class or fill a need.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 22:07     Subject: List of Schools You are Declining and Where Will You Accept?
Which schools typically go to WL after declines?