Anonymous
03/08/2023 16:37
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
It must be real. The year our kid applied to private schools, Sidwell kept asking us throughout the summer whether we still wanted our kid to remain on it despite several attempts to tell them that we no longer wanted our kid on the waitlist (or whatever you want to call it). They were very nice, but just weird.
What do you mean by "asking"? We got a lot of mass emails with no real information. I wouldn't equate that with an individual person reaching out to ask.
A direct email to us from the admissions person we (as parents) interviewed with asking whether we wanted our kid to remain on their list.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 16:12
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
+1 the year our child applied, we knew three families who got off the waitlist in one weekend for k. three.
What year was this?
Anonymous
03/08/2023 14:52
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
It must be real. The year our kid applied to private schools, Sidwell kept asking us throughout the summer whether we still wanted our kid to remain on it despite several attempts to tell them that we no longer wanted our kid on the waitlist (or whatever you want to call it). They were very nice, but just weird.
What do you mean by "asking"? We got a lot of mass emails with no real information. I wouldn't equate that with an individual person reaching out to ask.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 14:41
Subject: Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some schools have real wait pools, and yet the chances of admission from them are still quite low. Both can be true.
Yes but the chances are likely higher at the schools that also reject.
I'm just throwing numbers out there but if by higher you mean 5-10 percent chance of getting off a wait pool vs. 1 percent, then yes. Both are still very low.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 14:31
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
+1 the year our child applied, we knew three families who got off the waitlist in one weekend for k. three.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 11:14
Subject: Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Some schools have real wait pools, and yet the chances of admission from them are still quite low. Both can be true.
Yes but the chances are likely higher at the schools that also reject.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 11:07
Subject: Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Some schools have real wait pools, and yet the chances of admission from them are still quite low. Both can be true.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 10:54
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
It must be real. The year our kid applied to private schools, Sidwell kept asking us throughout the summer whether we still wanted our kid to remain on it despite several attempts to tell them that we no longer wanted our kid on the waitlist (or whatever you want to call it). They were very nice, but just weird.
Interesting! Why do you think they did that?
I imagine nothing more than it was hard to keep track of everyone. But the fact that they were trying tells me that the list was something the school expected it might actually need.
Absolutely.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 10:22
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
It must be real. The year our kid applied to private schools, Sidwell kept asking us throughout the summer whether we still wanted our kid to remain on it despite several attempts to tell them that we no longer wanted our kid on the waitlist (or whatever you want to call it). They were very nice, but just weird.
Interesting! Why do you think they did that?
I imagine nothing more than it was hard to keep track of everyone. But the fact that they were trying tells me that the list was something the school expected it might actually need.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 10:05
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
It must be real. The year our kid applied to private schools, Sidwell kept asking us throughout the summer whether we still wanted our kid to remain on it despite several attempts to tell them that we no longer wanted our kid on the waitlist (or whatever you want to call it). They were very nice, but just weird.
Interesting! Why do you think they did that?
Anonymous
03/08/2023 09:54
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
It must be real. The year our kid applied to private schools, Sidwell kept asking us throughout the summer whether we still wanted our kid to remain on it despite several attempts to tell them that we no longer wanted our kid on the waitlist (or whatever you want to call it). They were very nice, but just weird.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 09:54
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
This is a silly statement, and you have no reason to post this. Just because a wait list is VERY real, does not mean that any one child has a likelihood of getting in. The majority will not.
Anonymous
03/08/2023 09:51
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anyone hear about any waitpool movement yet?
Anonymous
03/08/2023 09:49
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.
Sidwell's waitlist is VERY real. Quite possible he'll get in.
Anonymous
03/04/2023 20:24
Subject: Re:Friday March 3 2023 Admissions decisions reveal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCPS family here. Applied for 6th grade, got into NCS, Holton and WIS. Waitlist at Sidwell.
Congrats. The Sidwell waitlist is very real!
DS is on Sidwells waitlist too. I know he won’t get in. He will just accept to another top 10 local school.