[quote=Anonymous]At some point it's just random OP.
A school like STA will have 10 open spots for 7th grade and 40 (or 60 or 80 or whatever) boys who are great candidates.
Many 100% qualified kids get turned down. It happen each and every year.

Do you think there are only 10 qualified boys who apply for the 10 spots and then everyone else just happens to have a major flaw in their application?

Of course not. There are MANY equally qualified kids who get turned down at every admissions point, every year.


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That’s what I initially thought, but was told that we would’ve been waitlisted instead.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the word on the new AD in terms of who he favors. The last 2 coached lax and soccer so it was no surprise who had an edge in admissions. The new guy is not a coach so I’m hoping some reasonableness returns to the admissions equation??

Define "reasonableness". His agenda seems to be one of "diversity"

+1. He talks a good game, but in the end, most admits are siblings, legacies (a lock for admission) and families with hooks/ connections of some sort.

THIS is TRUTH

I wholeheartedly agree. My son had all A’s on his report card from another boys schools with a ranked one below Albans in Dc. He plays a sport, chess, competed in robotics and was denied. We have no connection or hook and was foolish to believe he had a chance based on merit.

It was probably his recommendations. Have you had any issues with the current school?

No, needed 2 recommendations and spoke to both and they were terrific. One actually contacted me asking why I was seeking other school. He wanted to know if we were unhappy and to know if there was something they could do to keep us. Firmly believe that we have no connection to the school as the reason. Nothing was missing and or deficient.

At some point it's just random OP.
A school like STA will have 10 open spots for 7th grade and 40 (or 60 or 80 or whatever) boys who are great candidates.
Many 100% qualified kids get turned down. It happen each and every year.

Do you think there are only 10 qualified boys who apply for the 10 spots and then everyone else just happens to have a major flaw in their application?

Of course not. There are MANY equally qualified kids who get turned down at every admissions point, every year.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the word on the new AD in terms of who he favors. The last 2 coached lax and soccer so it was no surprise who had an edge in admissions. The new guy is not a coach so I’m hoping some reasonableness returns to the admissions equation??

Define "reasonableness". His agenda seems to be one of "diversity"

+1. He talks a good game, but in the end, most admits are siblings, legacies (a lock for admission) and families with hooks/ connections of some sort.

THIS is TRUTH

I wholeheartedly agree. My son had all A’s on his report card from another boys schools with a ranked one below Albans in Dc. He plays a sport, chess, competed in robotics and was denied. We have no connection or hook and was foolish to believe he had a chance based on merit.

It was probably his recommendations. Have you had any issues with the current school?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the word on the new AD in terms of who he favors. The last 2 coached lax and soccer so it was no surprise who had an edge in admissions. The new guy is not a coach so I’m hoping some reasonableness returns to the admissions equation??

Define "reasonableness". His agenda seems to be one of "diversity"

+1. He talks a good game, but in the end, most admits are siblings, legacies (a lock for admission) and families with hooks/ connections of some sort.

THIS is TRUTH

I wholeheartedly agree. My son had all A’s on his report card from another boys schools with a ranked one below Albans in Dc. He plays a sport, chess, competed in robotics and was denied. We have no connection or hook and was foolish to believe he had a chance based on merit.

You keep saying your son is at a school “ranked one below St. Albans.” What ranking are you talking about? Something silly like Niche? You sound naive. If your son was applying for 7th from another DC boy’s school, I assume you were at St Anslems? Are you the parent always bad mouthing that school? Maybe STA sensed you are a PITA? Just a thought…

Why do you stalk people on private school threads? Do you stalk on other topics as well?

If it’s silly, why do you know a lot about niche and rankings. Seems you follow it.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the word on the new AD in terms of who he favors. The last 2 coached lax and soccer so it was no surprise who had an edge in admissions. The new guy is not a coach so I’m hoping some reasonableness returns to the admissions equation??

Define "reasonableness". His agenda seems to be one of "diversity"

+1. He talks a good game, but in the end, most admits are siblings, legacies (a lock for admission) and families with hooks/ connections of some sort.

THIS is TRUTH

I wholeheartedly agree. My son had all A’s on his report card from another boys schools with a ranked one below Albans in Dc. He plays a sport, chess, competed in robotics and was denied. We have no connection or hook and was foolish to believe he had a chance based on merit.

You keep saying your son is at a school “ranked one below St. Albans.” What ranking are you talking about? Something silly like Niche? You sound naive. If your son was applying for 7th from another DC boy’s school, I assume you were at St Anslems? Are you the parent always bad mouthing that school? Maybe STA sensed you are a PITA? Just a thought…

Maybe you should take a break from dcum. Just a thought…

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the word on the new AD in terms of who he favors. The last 2 coached lax and soccer so it was no surprise who had an edge in admissions. The new guy is not a coach so I’m hoping some reasonableness returns to the admissions equation??

Define "reasonableness". His agenda seems to be one of "diversity"

+1. He talks a good game, but in the end, most admits are siblings, legacies (a lock for admission) and families with hooks/ connections of some sort.

THIS is TRUTH

I wholeheartedly agree. My son had all A’s on his report card from another boys schools with a ranked one below Albans in Dc. He plays a sport, chess, competed in robotics and was denied. We have no connection or hook and was foolish to believe he had a chance based on merit.

You keep saying your son is at a school “ranked one below St. Albans.” What ranking are you talking about? Something silly like Niche? You sound naive. If your son was applying for 7th from another DC boy’s school, I assume you were at St Anslems? Are you the parent always bad mouthing that school? Maybe STA sensed you are a PITA? Just a thought…

Why do you stalk people on private school threads? Do you stalk on other topics as well?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the word on the new AD in terms of who he favors. The last 2 coached lax and soccer so it was no surprise who had an edge in admissions. The new guy is not a coach so I’m hoping some reasonableness returns to the admissions equation??

Define "reasonableness". His agenda seems to be one of "diversity"

+1. He talks a good game, but in the end, most admits are siblings, legacies (a lock for admission) and families with hooks/ connections of some sort.

THIS is TRUTH

I wholeheartedly agree. My son had all A’s on his report card from another boys schools with a ranked one below Albans in Dc. He plays a sport, chess, competed in robotics and was denied. We have no connection or hook and was foolish to believe he had a chance based on merit.

You keep saying your son is at a school “ranked one below St. Albans.” What ranking are you talking about? Something silly like Niche? You sound naive. If your son was applying for 7th from another DC boy’s school, I assume you were at St Anslems? Are you the parent always bad mouthing that school? Maybe STA sensed you are a PITA? Just a thought…

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Anonymous wrote:I must say that it's nice that you're getting to practice your 'where is the merit' whining now, so you can repeat it 4-6 years from now when your kids are rejected from college.

You dismiss merit? It will be nice when you whine about how your kid can’t handle college and you’ll have to bail him out. Or when he has low job performance and he’ll be moving back in with you.

No more like you whine about how the only explanation for your kid not getting in is to claim it’s not about merit. Maybe you should face the fact that he just wasn’t good enough. Your kid getting rejected is not evidence of anything.

And if my kids end up the way you describe? guess what, they’ll own that result. And so will I. I won’t whine about how it must be because my perfect kid was somehow cheated.

Not good enough, you winch? Straight A’s. You want him to perform brain surgery? Your kid gets you to do everything for him. The only thing you have is a connection and you are offended that you know your kid couldn’t get in without that.
You’re gonna whine when you don’t get your way, Karen. I bet when you don’t get what you want, you say “I’m going to get you fired.”

Am I the one whining now? I don’t think so. Are we supposed to be impressed with straight As in 6th grade? Seriously?

Look your kid didn’t get in. If the only way you can sleep at night is to tell yourself it’s not about merit then go ahead. I’m sure whenever your kid loses at sports you just blame the refs. That’s all this is.

Straight A’s is not something to dismiss. Do you care about education? Seemingly, you do not which is not understandable to why you are on a thread discussing a school.

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is pure merit and nobody here has the full picture of various applicants. Lots of schools don’t admit perfect kids.

At STA to many it does seem like they are looking for a certain type of family and being that type of family is a plus. That’s different from a conversation about pure merit. What is merit anyway?

Really, what is merit? You cannot be serious to ask that.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing is pure merit and nobody here has the full picture of various applicants. Lots of schools don’t admit perfect kids.

At STA to many it does seem like they are looking for a certain type of family and being that type of family is a plus. That’s different from a conversation about pure merit. What is merit anyway?

What kind of family do you think they’re looking for?

Ones with connection.

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Anonymous wrote:I must say that it's nice that you're getting to practice your 'where is the merit' whining now, so you can repeat it 4-6 years from now when your kids are rejected from college.

You dismiss merit? It will be nice when you whine about how your kid can’t handle college and you’ll have to bail him out. Or when he has low job performance and he’ll be moving back in with you.

No more like you whine about how the only explanation for your kid not getting in is to claim it’s not about merit. Maybe you should face the fact that he just wasn’t good enough. Your kid getting rejected is not evidence of anything.

And if my kids end up the way you describe? guess what, they’ll own that result. And so will I. I won’t whine about how it must be because my perfect kid was somehow cheated.

Not good enough, you winch? Straight A’s. You want him to perform brain surgery? Your kid gets you to do everything for him. The only thing you have is a connection and you are offended that you know your kid couldn’t get in without that.
You’re gonna whine when you don’t get your way, Karen. I bet when you don’t get what you want, you say “I’m going to get you fired.”

Am I the one whining now? I don’t think so. Are we supposed to be impressed with straight As in 6th grade? Seriously?

Look your kid didn’t get in. If the only way you can sleep at night is to tell yourself it’s not about merit then go ahead. I’m sure whenever your kid loses at sports you just blame the refs. That’s all this is.

Your kid couldn’t score in a game without you doing it for him. But you would want him to be picked. I bet you tell the refs “do you know who I am?”

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Anonymous wrote:I must say that it's nice that you're getting to practice your 'where is the merit' whining now, so you can repeat it 4-6 years from now when your kids are rejected from college.

You dismiss merit? It will be nice when you whine about how your kid can’t handle college and you’ll have to bail him out. Or when he has low job performance and he’ll be moving back in with you.

No more like you whine about how the only explanation for your kid not getting in is to claim it’s not about merit. Maybe you should face the fact that he just wasn’t good enough. Your kid getting rejected is not evidence of anything.

And if my kids end up the way you describe? guess what, they’ll own that result. And so will I. I won’t whine about how it must be because my perfect kid was somehow cheated.

Not good enough, you winch? Straight A’s. You want him to perform brain surgery? Your kid gets you to do everything for him. The only thing you have is a connection and you are offended that you know your kid couldn’t get in without that.
You’re gonna whine when you don’t get your way, Karen. I bet when you don’t get what you want, you say “I’m going to get you fired.”

Am I the one whining now? I don’t think so. Are we supposed to be impressed with straight As in 6th grade? Seriously?

Look your kid didn’t get in. If the only way you can sleep at night is to tell yourself it’s not about merit then go ahead. I’m sure whenever your kid loses at sports you just blame the refs. That’s all this is.

Ironically, you are whining into the ether.

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is pure merit and nobody here has the full picture of various applicants. Lots of schools don’t admit perfect kids.

At STA to many it does seem like they are looking for a certain type of family and being that type of family is a plus. That’s different from a conversation about pure merit. What is merit anyway?

What kind of family do you think they’re looking for?

Nothing is pure merit and nobody here has the full picture of various applicants. Lots of schools don’t admit perfect kids.

At STA to many it does seem like they are looking for a certain type of family and being that type of family is a plus. That’s different from a conversation about pure merit. What is merit anyway?