Anonymous
04/22/2025 21:56
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am one of the PPs. Follow up question on this : Do Episcopalian Schools such as NCS/STA, SSSAS, St Andrews... give any advantage in the admissions process to Episcopalian kids/ families? or is this limited to Catholic Schools?
No. There’s a place in the application to indicate your religion if you choose to, but there’s no advantage to being Episcopalian.
I wonder why this is the case. As in why do Catholic Schools give advantage to Catholic kids in admissions but Episcopalian Schools don't give the same advantage to Episcopalian kids.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 20:48
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Absolutely.
I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but the DC area seems to be filled with people who will do anything to get what they want.
It's appalling.
Seems pretty innocuous to me. In the grand scheme of what parents do to prep their kids for admissions, showing up to a church one morning and having their 12 year old get splashed with some holy water so they can say he’d been baptized is tame.
Well, as a Catholic, I find it distasteful and tacky that people do that. But to each their own, I suppose.
+1
Hopefully the Christian beliefs will rub off on them. Total lack of integrity
Anonymous
04/22/2025 20:00
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Absolutely.
I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but the DC area seems to be filled with people who will do anything to get what they want.
It's appalling.
Seems pretty innocuous to me. In the grand scheme of what parents do to prep their kids for admissions, showing up to a church one morning and having their 12 year old get splashed with some holy water so they can say he’d been baptized is tame.
That response shows where your ethical standards are.
Converting to Catholicism or pretending to to get an Admission advantage is scurrilous. And you attempt to justify this by saying there are worse things? I can’t think of any.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 19:49
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Absolutely.
I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but the DC area seems to be filled with people who will do anything to get what they want.
It's appalling.
Seems pretty innocuous to me. In the grand scheme of what parents do to prep their kids for admissions, showing up to a church one morning and having their 12 year old get splashed with some holy water so they can say he’d been baptized is tame.
It's lying. You're pretending something is important, but the only thing truly important is pushing your kid ahead of someone else's. Religion is not important to you and saying that you vale this is a total lie. Great example for your kids.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 19:46
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:I am one of the PPs. Follow up question on this : Do Episcopalian Schools such as NCS/STA, SSSAS, St Andrews... give any advantage in the admissions process to Episcopalian kids/ families? or is this limited to Catholic Schools?
No they give no preference. We're atheist and my kids aren't baptized.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 19:42
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Absolutely.
I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but the DC area seems to be filled with people who will do anything to get what they want.
It's appalling.
Seems pretty innocuous to me. In the grand scheme of what parents do to prep their kids for admissions, showing up to a church one morning and having their 12 year old get splashed with some holy water so they can say he’d been baptized is tame.
Well, as a Catholic, I find it distasteful and tacky that people do that. But to each their own, I suppose.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 19:35
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:I am one of the PPs. Follow up question on this : Do Episcopalian Schools such as NCS/STA, SSSAS, St Andrews... give any advantage in the admissions process to Episcopalian kids/ families? or is this limited to Catholic Schools?
No. There’s a place in the application to indicate your religion if you choose to, but there’s no advantage to being Episcopalian.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 19:09
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Absolutely.
I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but the DC area seems to be filled with people who will do anything to get what they want.
It's appalling.
Seems pretty innocuous to me. In the grand scheme of what parents do to prep their kids for admissions, showing up to a church one morning and having their 12 year old get splashed with some holy water so they can say he’d been baptized is tame.
100%
Anonymous
04/22/2025 18:35
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Absolutely.
I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but the DC area seems to be filled with people who will do anything to get what they want.
It's appalling.
Seems pretty innocuous to me. In the grand scheme of what parents do to prep their kids for admissions, showing up to a church one morning and having their 12 year old get splashed with some holy water so they can say he’d been baptized is tame.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 18:06
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Absolutely.
I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but the DC area seems to be filled with people who will do anything to get what they want.
It's appalling.
I’m the PP who shared that anecdote and we are on the supposedly laid-back west coast, not even in the dmv!
Anonymous
04/22/2025 16:37
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Absolutely.
I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but the DC area seems to be filled with people who will do anything to get what they want.
It's appalling.
+1
Anonymous
04/22/2025 12:26
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Absolutely.
I don't know if the rest of the world is like this, but the DC area seems to be filled with people who will do anything to get what they want.
It's appalling.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 11:19
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
This, and IIRC the Catholic School apps will ask you to upload a baptismal certificate.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 08:45
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
Anonymous wrote:Don’t say they’re Catholic if you’re applying to a Catholic school because you’ll be caught flat-footed when they ask for baptismal or first communion papers.
It’s too late for a 7th grader, but I know a similar family whose kids decided to do baptism and first communion in 6th grade to prep for competitive Catholic HS admissions. Based on who I saw at Easter vigil this week, they aren’t the only ones to have this idea.
What a disgusting mockery of religious conviction.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 08:23
Subject: What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)
I am one of the PPs. Follow up question on this : Do Episcopalian Schools such as NCS/STA, SSSAS, St Andrews... give any advantage in the admissions process to Episcopalian kids/ families? or is this limited to Catholic Schools?