My DC got into every school they applied to. Sidwell, Potomac, GDS, Holton-Arms It was hard deciding which one to choose.

Dear 21:49 perhaps you didn't see the heading, it's where Didn't you get into. Please leave us one forum where we can commiserate with each other - very glad for your daughters success, would rather see it on a different forum. And PS - you could have just said "everywhere applied" and stopped at that.

Child-8th girl got into everywhere applies (GDS, Maret, Sidwell)

Preschool classmate, boy with August birthday, interviewed at Sidwell and said we think he may be ready for K. Accepted for PreK. This kid was more mature than my March boy so that wasnt the issue.

Whatever. Believe what you want. I know the facts, and I speak the truth.

Have you been collecting their bdays just from conversations?

I call BS--they don't publish birthdays. And definitely not year of birth...

Anonymous wrote:They may not be held over, but look at the YEAR they were born. Those boys turned six just before starting kindergarten.

No, you're wrong. As I made clear, these four were all "correct age" for K -- turning six in the summer after K completed. I did not count any who turned six in the summer before K.

They may not be held over, but look at the YEAR they were born. Those boys turned six just before starting kindergarten.

Anonymous wrote:They don't like summer birthdays at Sidwell for pk and k, especially for boys. Even May is tough for boys applying, though not as much for girls. This is not as much a factor once applying for third grade and later.

I'm sorry, but someone is spreading mistaken info. I'm right now looking at a list of my child's classmates from K at Sidwell. I have birthdays listed for about two thirds of them, and I see at least four boys with summer birthdays (June-August). None of those four are held over from the previous year, so they all are among the youngest in the class. There may be more than four of them, because as I wrote, my birthday list is incomplete.

If it is a policy, then they shouldn't allow you to apply.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't like summer birthdays at Sidwell for pk and k, especially for boys. Even May is tough for boys applying, though not as much for girls. This is not as much a factor once applying for third grade and later.

I don't think the process is the cookie-cutter operation you suggest.

I do.

With that many applicants I'm sure the first round through them all has to be somewhat cookie cutter

Stone Ridge. 9th.

Potomac 9. Re previous poster--so true re boys and private school! I wish I had known...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't like summer birthdays at Sidwell for pk and k, especially for boys. Even May is tough for boys applying, though not as much for girls. This is not as much a factor once applying for third grade and later.

I don't think the process is the cookie-cutter operation you suggest.

I do.

It's been this way for years. Hold your kid back and he will be more likely to get accepted next year. It's the gods honest truth