Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 22:20     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
6, accepted at 4, waitlisted at 2. First time going through the process and did not know what to expect.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 11:28     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Twins will be entering into 7th at a 7 - 12 school. Currently in 5th. We are switching privates. They have been at current school since K. Not a good fit for middle and high. How many privates to apply to? Not in DMV area. Acceptance rate at the private that is our first choice is 50%. Kids have strong academics and ECs, and expect to have strong test scores. Will need financial aid.


You need to put them in public if you need financial aid for 2 kids throughout high school.


Why? There is aid
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 09:25     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:Twins will be entering into 7th at a 7 - 12 school. Currently in 5th. We are switching privates. They have been at current school since K. Not a good fit for middle and high. How many privates to apply to? Not in DMV area. Acceptance rate at the private that is our first choice is 50%. Kids have strong academics and ECs, and expect to have strong test scores. Will need financial aid.


You need to put them in public if you need financial aid for 2 kids throughout high school.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 09:20     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We applied to five for high school.

I wouldn’t count on good letters of recommendation if you are full pay at your current school and leaving before the normal end point.

I don’t think I this is true. There’s no upside or downside for the teachers if a child chooses to leave before the “graduation” year. They have no incentive to deliberately try to tank a student’s eval and I believe teachers as a whole are far more professional than to do so.

At some places, the HOS also writes a recommendation letter.


Or makes a phone call trashing full pay families who want to move on before a graduation year.

Yeah that doesn’t happen.


I’m glad you believe your head of school so is awesome and doesn’t need your $50,000 a year but the K-8 school economics are precarious in many places.

It 100 percent has happened.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2024 09:14     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
3 for kid 1,
1 for kid 2 (where kid one attended).
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2024 14:42     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
We were very intentional and only applied to 1. Did a boat load of online research and attended online seminars, but ultimately we only applied and toured the campus of 1.

We applied to magnets, but their requirements were less intensive.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2024 00:28     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We applied to five for high school.

I wouldn’t count on good letters of recommendation if you are full pay at your current school and leaving before the normal end point.

I don’t think I this is true. There’s no upside or downside for the teachers if a child chooses to leave before the “graduation” year. They have no incentive to deliberately try to tank a student’s eval and I believe teachers as a whole are far more professional than to do so.

At some places, the HOS also writes a recommendation letter.


Or makes a phone call trashing full pay families who want to move on before a graduation year.

Yeah that doesn’t happen.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2024 22:00     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We applied to five for high school.

I wouldn’t count on good letters of recommendation if you are full pay at your current school and leaving before the normal end point.

I don’t think I this is true. There’s no upside or downside for the teachers if a child chooses to leave before the “graduation” year. They have no incentive to deliberately try to tank a student’s eval and I believe teachers as a whole are far more professional than to do so.

At some places, the HOS also writes a recommendation letter.


Or makes a phone call trashing full pay families who want to move on before a graduation year.


Huh?
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2024 20:24     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We applied to five for high school.

I wouldn’t count on good letters of recommendation if you are full pay at your current school and leaving before the normal end point.

I don’t think I this is true. There’s no upside or downside for the teachers if a child chooses to leave before the “graduation” year. They have no incentive to deliberately try to tank a student’s eval and I believe teachers as a whole are far more professional than to do so.

At some places, the HOS also writes a recommendation letter.


Or makes a phone call trashing full pay families who want to move on before a graduation year.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2024 20:23     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:We applied to five for high school.

I wouldn’t count on good letters of recommendation if you are full pay at your current school and leaving before the normal end point.


+1

Ours plans to maybe apply to one private. Maybe. Or he will just go to public. We aren’t afraid. It’s a heroin vs. weed thing.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2024 18:00     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We applied to five for high school.

I wouldn’t count on good letters of recommendation if you are full pay at your current school and leaving before the normal end point.

I don’t think I this is true. There’s no upside or downside for the teachers if a child chooses to leave before the “graduation” year. They have no incentive to deliberately try to tank a student’s eval and I believe teachers as a whole are far more professional than to do so.

At some places, the HOS also writes a recommendation letter.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2024 16:03     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:How many schools do you like more than your current school and/or your public option?


We applied to four when DC went through the process. 2 were the ideal (DC got into first choice of the 2) and 2 were back ups that we loved less over time but didn’t pull the apps because it was such a hyper competitive situation.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2024 15:52     Subject: How many privates do you apply to for middle/high school?
Anonymous wrote:One.

Sidwell.


I’m sorry.