As of a few years ago, Potomac sent an acceptance package that arrived in the mail on decision day (not sure if this is still the case).

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Anonymous wrote:So you find out decisions by logging into Ravenna after 4 pm, or do most schools call/ email before then?

depends when your mailman or delivery guy drops off the package. For most people, the package will arrive first

Except for Landon, I thought most of the usual schools discussed here don’t send physical acceptance packages that arrive on decision day. Do I have that wrong?

Anonymous wrote:Re someone mentioning they already booked a family dinner. We had K-8 graduates waiting for a decision previous years. Our school’s recommendation was not to plan anything for the decision day beforehand. If you don’t get good news canceling plans would be more dramatic and impact your kid even more negatively. Why to plan anything? If there is good news you can just decide to go to a restaurant then. It is a random Friday so there plenty of places that don’t need a prior reservation.

Why wouldn't you be able to go out to dinner if your kid didn't get into a school?

Anonymous wrote:So you find out decisions by logging into Ravenna after 4 pm, or do most schools call/ email before then?

depends when your mailman or delivery guy drops off the package. For most people, the package will arrive first

So you find out decisions by logging into Ravenna after 4 pm, or do most schools call/ email before then?

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Anonymous wrote:our local public school is not great - still growing, only been open 2 years (macarthur HS in palisades) so am not thrilled with that option but also think DC would be fine there.

Also not thrilled with macarthur. I don’t think my DC would be fine there, so if the private options don’t work out, we will move.

Super dramatic, but you do you!

I’m not the PP you’re replying to but I don’t think it’s dramatic to move because one is unhappy with MacArthur. We were unhappy with this prospect and were not too keen about our experience with our DCPS elementary (one of the top ones) so we moved to a close in suburb and the immediate improvement was significant. The difference between the resources the our current school has vs our DCPS elementary was night and day. Of course there are lots of other trade-offs but I personally don’t think moving if you think you’re getting a better quality education for your child is an overreaction. I was very skeptical before we moved but even my kids admit it is so much better now, even though it was tough to move mid-elementary.

People are dying, Kim.

That has always been happening and will never stop.

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Anonymous wrote:our local public school is not great - still growing, only been open 2 years (macarthur HS in palisades) so am not thrilled with that option but also think DC would be fine there.

Also not thrilled with macarthur. I don’t think my DC would be fine there, so if the private options don’t work out, we will move.

Super dramatic, but you do you!

I’m not the PP you’re replying to but I don’t think it’s dramatic to move because one is unhappy with MacArthur. We were unhappy with this prospect and were not too keen about our experience with our DCPS elementary (one of the top ones) so we moved to a close in suburb and the immediate improvement was significant. The difference between the resources the our current school has vs our DCPS elementary was night and day. Of course there are lots of other trade-offs but I personally don’t think moving if you think you’re getting a better quality education for your child is an overreaction. I was very skeptical before we moved but even my kids admit it is so much better now, even though it was tough to move mid-elementary.

People are dying, Kim.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t worry about my kid on 2/27, but I do worry about the noise coming from their class, where everyone has applied generally to the same set of schools.

Same here. We've applied to two and are comfortable with our backup public school, but a bit worried how things will go with the class. Also feeling a little sad because if everyone gets their first choice, looks like none of DS's close friend circle are going to end up with him.

*our. Damn you autocorrect.

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Anonymous wrote:our local public school is not great - still growing, only been open 2 years (macarthur HS in palisades) so am not thrilled with that option but also think DC would be fine there.

Also not thrilled with macarthur. I don’t think my DC would be fine there, so if the private options don’t work out, we will move.

Super dramatic, but you do you!

I’m not the PP you’re replying to but I don’t think it’s dramatic to move because one is unhappy with MacArthur. We were unhappy with this prospect and were not too keen about our experience with our DCPS elementary (one of the top ones) so we moved to a close in suburb and the immediate improvement was significant. The difference between the resources the our current school has vs our DCPS elementary was night and day. Of course there are lots of other trade-offs but I personally don’t think moving if you think you’re getting a better quality education for your child is an overreaction. I was very skeptical before we moved but even my kids admit it is so much better now, even though it was tough to move mid-elementary.

We received a courtesy early yes from the school where are older child was then attending.

The AISGW school agree upon a single date. And to answer another PP question, most decisions will be done by the end of this week, but there will be some small tweaks next wk before final depending on the school.

Why is Feb 27 the date? Why don't schools do it on different days?

If we were rejected last year, are we likely to be rejected again?

Anonymous wrote:Do schools reject/accept on the same day? Do they hold anyone back for wait list or not really?

I figure the schools reach out by phone to people in advance of this to make sure they have a group who will accept the offer? or does it not work that way.

If we haven't heard yet i figured getting rejected. (non-high school admissions....we are new to this)

No, not having heard in advance does not mean it’s a rejection. I’ve heard that some schools will give a courtesy advance heads-up to the family of a sibling that is being rejected, a couple days to a few hours before the official release of info. Not all schools even do that.

There are no advance notifications to “ensure a group who will accept the offer.” The schools have scads of data and have a good sense of their expected yield. They admit more students than they have spots for based on that data (some schools may be more conservative if the previous year was overenrolled, etc).

You’re overthinking it.

Read some of the waitlist posts from previous years. You will hear anecdotal stories of people getting off of waitlists but the are very few and far between. Many schools (GDS, Potomac, Maret) will waitlist the vast majority of non-admitted applicants. It spares them having to deny a student and they seem not to care about the deceptive message that the kid still has a good chance. The colleges publish their waitlist data and the more competitive schools are often 1-5% off a waitlist. I would guess that they are the same around DC independents.

But don't worry, soon you'll get lots of threads about people who think that every kid who is admitted and chooses a different school triggers a kid off the waitlist. It's an annual DCUM tradition.