Anonymous wrote:And bonus is that plenty of kids from redeemer will head to Gilman, St. Paul's, BL, and cathedral. My kid started his next school with a couple of buddies.

Anonymous wrote:Here is the website for Redeemer. http://redeemerpds.org/ The outdoor play space there is incredible and the kids spend alot of time using it.

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Anonymous wrote:We met Lana is person. The letter we received stated that we could make an appt to talk to her. Even if the letter doesn't say that, do give her a call. She is extremely nice and very helpful re your kid and his abilities. If you let her know you are committed to Gilman she will absolutely tell you what she needs to see next time around. She may even suggest a place for K (for example, Redeemer sends a number of boys to Gilman each yr). She may also suggest some other schools to look at for your son for next yr. For ex, the new head of St Paul's lower school, Dr Powell, was the assistant LS head at Gilman for a long while - he's fabulous. I believe the school is a bit less difficult to get into, though a great school.

I met with her this week. It went well. My DS tested well between 89-95% percentile. His downfall was that he is talkative and distractable and had trouble staying on task. I've decided to reapply for first grade and see what happens. Next time around though I will apply for more schools instead of only two!

I'm glad you had a good meeting -- I do think that Gilman in particular selects for a rather narrow range of learning styles, with focus being a key component. My impression is that Friends is a bit more flexible in that regard. But a year's maturity can make a huge difference, so maybe 1st grade will work out for him at Gilman.



Of course, if you got into a good charter school then some of them are great options too. We didn't get into any the year we applied!

I will say I was very put off with Park School. The AD basically seems like she is too busy to talk to any of the rejected parents and wants to schedule meetings in April to review results! It's a shame. I do appreciate how Lana made herself readily available to us. She was very helpful. I definitely think I will consider applying to Gilman, Friends, St Pauls, and Boys Latin next go around but not Park!

The only sad part about the charter we were accepted to is that it is so far from where I am working! Driving from Patterson park to owings mills seems grueling!

Have you considered during kindergarten at one of the private preschools? Both Redeemer (just north of Northern on Charles) and Good Sheppard (a little further north, off Charles in Ruxton) offer well respected kindergartens. Tuition is much cheaper than the independent schools (around $8000 for the year) and both are feeder schools for Gilman/Calvert/St. Pauls. Class sizes are small -- there were ten children in my son's class at Redeemer. Both schools are nominally Episcopalian, but not all kids who attend are.

Do you know if there are openings for 2015-2016 K at Redeemer/Good Shepherd?

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Anonymous wrote:We met Lana is person. The letter we received stated that we could make an appt to talk to her. Even if the letter doesn't say that, do give her a call. She is extremely nice and very helpful re your kid and his abilities. If you let her know you are committed to Gilman she will absolutely tell you what she needs to see next time around. She may even suggest a place for K (for example, Redeemer sends a number of boys to Gilman each yr). She may also suggest some other schools to look at for your son for next yr. For ex, the new head of St Paul's lower school, Dr Powell, was the assistant LS head at Gilman for a long while - he's fabulous. I believe the school is a bit less difficult to get into, though a great school.

I met with her this week. It went well. My DS tested well between 89-95% percentile. His downfall was that he is talkative and distractable and had trouble staying on task. I've decided to reapply for first grade and see what happens. Next time around though I will apply for more schools instead of only two!

I'm glad you had a good meeting -- I do think that Gilman in particular selects for a rather narrow range of learning styles, with focus being a key component. My impression is that Friends is a bit more flexible in that regard. But a year's maturity can make a huge difference, so maybe 1st grade will work out for him at Gilman.



Of course, if you got into a good charter school then some of them are great options too. We didn't get into any the year we applied!

I will say I was very put off with Park School. The AD basically seems like she is too busy to talk to any of the rejected parents and wants to schedule meetings in April to review results! It's a shame. I do appreciate how Lana made herself readily available to us. She was very helpful. I definitely think I will consider applying to Gilman, Friends, St Pauls, and Boys Latin next go around but not Park!

The only sad part about the charter we were accepted to is that it is so far from where I am working! Driving from Patterson park to owings mills seems grueling!

Have you considered during kindergarten at one of the private preschools? Both Redeemer (just north of Northern on Charles) and Good Sheppard (a little further north, off Charles in Ruxton) offer well respected kindergartens. Tuition is much cheaper than the independent schools (around $8000 for the year) and both are feeder schools for Gilman/Calvert/St. Pauls. Class sizes are small -- there were ten children in my son's class at Redeemer. Both schools are nominally Episcopalian, but not all kids who attend are.

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Anonymous wrote:We met Lana is person. The letter we received stated that we could make an appt to talk to her. Even if the letter doesn't say that, do give her a call. She is extremely nice and very helpful re your kid and his abilities. If you let her know you are committed to Gilman she will absolutely tell you what she needs to see next time around. She may even suggest a place for K (for example, Redeemer sends a number of boys to Gilman each yr). She may also suggest some other schools to look at for your son for next yr. For ex, the new head of St Paul's lower school, Dr Powell, was the assistant LS head at Gilman for a long while - he's fabulous. I believe the school is a bit less difficult to get into, though a great school.

I met with her this week. It went well. My DS tested well between 89-95% percentile. His downfall was that he is talkative and distractable and had trouble staying on task. I've decided to reapply for first grade and see what happens. Next time around though I will apply for more schools instead of only two!

I'm glad you had a good meeting -- I do think that Gilman in particular selects for a rather narrow range of learning styles, with focus being a key component. My impression is that Friends is a bit more flexible in that regard. But a year's maturity can make a huge difference, so maybe 1st grade will work out for him at Gilman.



Of course, if you got into a good charter school then some of them are great options too. We didn't get into any the year we applied!

I will say I was very put off with Park School. The AD basically seems like she is too busy to talk to any of the rejected parents and wants to schedule meetings in April to review results! It's a shame. I do appreciate how Lana made herself readily available to us. She was very helpful. I definitely think I will consider applying to Gilman, Friends, St Pauls, and Boys Latin next go around but not Park!

The only sad part about the charter we were accepted to is that it is so far from where I am working! Driving from Patterson park to owings mills seems grueling!

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Anonymous wrote:We met Lana is person. The letter we received stated that we could make an appt to talk to her. Even if the letter doesn't say that, do give her a call. She is extremely nice and very helpful re your kid and his abilities. If you let her know you are committed to Gilman she will absolutely tell you what she needs to see next time around. She may even suggest a place for K (for example, Redeemer sends a number of boys to Gilman each yr). She may also suggest some other schools to look at for your son for next yr. For ex, the new head of St Paul's lower school, Dr Powell, was the assistant LS head at Gilman for a long while - he's fabulous. I believe the school is a bit less difficult to get into, though a great school.

I met with her this week. It went well. My DS tested well between 89-95% percentile. His downfall was that he is talkative and distractable and had trouble staying on task. I've decided to reapply for first grade and see what happens. Next time around though I will apply for more schools instead of only two!

I'm glad you had a good meeting -- I do think that Gilman in particular selects for a rather narrow range of learning styles, with focus being a key component. My impression is that Friends is a bit more flexible in that regard. But a year's maturity can make a huge difference, so maybe 1st grade will work out for him at Gilman.



Of course, if you got into a good charter school then some of them are great options too. We didn't get into any the year we applied!

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Anonymous wrote:We met Lana is person. The letter we received stated that we could make an appt to talk to her. Even if the letter doesn't say that, do give her a call. She is extremely nice and very helpful re your kid and his abilities. If you let her know you are committed to Gilman she will absolutely tell you what she needs to see next time around. She may even suggest a place for K (for example, Redeemer sends a number of boys to Gilman each yr). She may also suggest some other schools to look at for your son for next yr. For ex, the new head of St Paul's lower school, Dr Powell, was the assistant LS head at Gilman for a long while - he's fabulous. I believe the school is a bit less difficult to get into, though a great school.

I met with her this week. It went well. My DS tested well between 89-95% percentile. His downfall was that he is talkative and distractable and had trouble staying on task. I've decided to reapply for first grade and see what happens. Next time around though I will apply for more schools instead of only two!

I'm glad you had a good meeting -- I do think that Gilman in particular selects for a rather narrow range of learning styles, with focus being a key component. My impression is that Friends is a bit more flexible in that regard. But a year's maturity can make a huge difference, so maybe 1st grade will work out for him at Gilman.

I will say I was very put off with Park School. The AD basically seems like she is too busy to talk to any of the rejected parents and wants to schedule meetings in April to review results! It's a shame. I do appreciate how Lana made herself readily available to us. She was very helpful. I definitely think I will consider applying to Gilman, Friends, St Pauls, and Boys Latin next go around but not Park!

The only sad part about the charter we were accepted to is that it is so far from where I am working! Driving from Patterson park to owings mills seems grueling!

Of course, if you got into a good charter school then some of them are great options too. We didn't get into any the year we applied!

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Anonymous wrote:We met Lana is person. The letter we received stated that we could make an appt to talk to her. Even if the letter doesn't say that, do give her a call. She is extremely nice and very helpful re your kid and his abilities. If you let her know you are committed to Gilman she will absolutely tell you what she needs to see next time around. She may even suggest a place for K (for example, Redeemer sends a number of boys to Gilman each yr). She may also suggest some other schools to look at for your son for next yr. For ex, the new head of St Paul's lower school, Dr Powell, was the assistant LS head at Gilman for a long while - he's fabulous. I believe the school is a bit less difficult to get into, though a great school.

I met with her this week. It went well. My DS tested well between 89-95% percentile. His downfall was that he is talkative and distractable and had trouble staying on task. I've decided to reapply for first grade and see what happens. Next time around though I will apply for more schools instead of only two!

Anonymous wrote:We met Lana is person. The letter we received stated that we could make an appt to talk to her. Even if the letter doesn't say that, do give her a call. She is extremely nice and very helpful re your kid and his abilities. If you let her know you are committed to Gilman she will absolutely tell you what she needs to see next time around. She may even suggest a place for K (for example, Redeemer sends a number of boys to Gilman each yr). She may also suggest some other schools to look at for your son for next yr. For ex, the new head of St Paul's lower school, Dr Powell, was the assistant LS head at Gilman for a long while - he's fabulous. I believe the school is a bit less difficult to get into, though a great school.