Anonymous
Post 03/14/2026 13:49     Subject: Does Sidwell reject kids or is everyone on the waitlist?

Anonymous wrote:For Kindergarten


I heard several siblings are waitlisted. If you are not a connected family, I feel the chance is slim. Maybe have a Plan B.
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2026 13:45     Subject: Does Sidwell reject kids or is everyone on the waitlist?

For Kindergarten
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2026 13:41     Subject: Re:Does Sidwell reject kids or is everyone on the waitlist?

For what grades?
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2026 11:17     Subject: Does Sidwell reject kids or is everyone on the waitlist?

When do they hit their waitlist. I know Potomac and Gds have gone to the waitlist already
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2026 08:57     Subject: Does Sidwell reject kids or is everyone on the waitlist?

They reject, especially for the 9th grade/HS entry
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2026 02:24     Subject: Does Sidwell reject kids or is everyone on the waitlist?

We got in off of Sidwell waitlist a few years back. It’s real.
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2026 02:15     Subject: Does Sidwell reject kids or is everyone on the waitlist?

Waitlists don’t “move.” This isn’t daycare or the DCPS lottery.

A big3 -might- go back and look at its wait POOL for a specific individual IF that same sort of individual (Croatian female oboe player from Virginia) declined an offer for 4th grade.

Every year newbie parents are too hopeful about “waitlist” “movement”
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2026 01:05     Subject: Does Sidwell reject kids or is everyone on the waitlist?

My kid was wait listed. The worst part about that is that we never heard from them again, so the poor kid held out hope all the way up to the first day of starting school somewhere else (no matter what we told him; he's a kid after all). It would have been kind to get a note letting him know the class was full.