Parent tour guides will email parents on their tours to offer to answer additional questions. All parents attending will receive an email, not select parents. We also reach out to accepted parents.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Parents from two of the five school we applied to have emailed/called us. Tier 2ish schools. (No, I'm not naming them.) Our family is white, unconnected and completely unexceptional. The kid, however, has a really cool personality.

Hard to believe or you would name the schools. You could at least say whether DC, VA, or MD schools. K-8? JK-12? other?

OP? Anything?

OP here. Neither school runs through 12. They are DC and MD.

That is helpful, OP. Thank you!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Parents from two of the five school we applied to have emailed/called us. Tier 2ish schools. (No, I'm not naming them.) Our family is white, unconnected and completely unexceptional. The kid, however, has a really cool personality.

Hard to believe or you would name the schools. You could at least say whether DC, VA, or MD schools. K-8? JK-12? other?

OP? Anything?

OP here. Neither school runs through 12. They are DC and MD.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, is your child black, Asian or manifestly Hispanic? Because at our DDs school, children who appear non-white AND meet the other criteria are highly prized. Wooed, even.

It's a somewhat recent campaign tactic, meant to compete with Sidwell especially for talented kids.

What does "manifestly Hispanic" mean? Can't you just say someone with melanin?!

Sheesh.

Oh, man, we're screwed. Knew I shouldn't have procreated with a white guy. Kids are brown but melanin free...sigh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Parents from two of the five school we applied to have emailed/called us. Tier 2ish schools. (No, I'm not naming them.) Our family is white, unconnected and completely unexceptional. The kid, however, has a really cool personality.

Hard to believe or you would name the schools. You could at least say whether DC, VA, or MD schools. K-8? JK-12? other?

OP? Anything?

Anonymous wrote:To piggy back on 17:08, two AA moms at a recent activity were sitting next to me discussing the fact that well prepared children of color from their preschool were being "recruited if they do well on the test" and were "highly sought after" and offered "scholarships" at "fancy private schools because they don't have much diversity."

based on what i have seen as recent school events, this doesn't surprise me at all. i expect it is true.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Parents from two of the five school we applied to have emailed/called us. Tier 2ish schools. (No, I'm not naming them.) Our family is white, unconnected and completely unexceptional. The kid, however, has a really cool personality.

Hard to believe or you would name the schools. You could at least say whether DC, VA, or MD schools. K-8? JK-12? other?

OP here. Parents from two of the five school we applied to have emailed/called us. Tier 2ish schools. (No, I'm not naming them.) Our family is white, unconnected and completely unexceptional. The kid, however, has a really cool personality.

I don't think this happens until after letters go out and, even then, only at some schools.

Anonymous wrote:Op, is your child black, Asian or manifestly Hispanic? Because at our DDs school, children who appear non-white AND meet the other criteria are highly prized. Wooed, even.

It's a somewhat recent campaign tactic, meant to compete with Sidwell especially for talented kids.

What does "manifestly Hispanic" mean? Can't you just say someone with melanin?!

Sheesh.

Anonymous wrote:Do schools actually do this? If so, which ones?

+1

Do schools actually do this? If so, which ones?

Anonymous wrote:A lot of these posts sound like trolls.

Maybe. But the poet is pretty good.

A lot of these posts sound like trolls.

Minority parent of kids who go to different private schools here. This notion that bright minority kids are wooed and prized because of some "shortage" is ridiculous. There are PLENTY of full-pay, high SES minority families in DC (ours for one) and the top schools get plenty of minority applicants, many of whom don't get multiple acceptances despite their ability to pay full freight. Now, if the applicant has a great jump shot, that's another thing entirely . . .