Anonymous
Post 02/25/2023 20:07     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:What’s the big 3 acceptance rate? Which school is the hardest to get into?


EY, Deloitte, PwC
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2023 19:20     Subject: Re:What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Hey!
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2022 12:16     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
I was online watching my savings account catch fire…
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2022 06:00     Subject: Re:What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
I was in the bathroom using my plastic knife.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2022 05:32     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Agree about this whole thread being amazing. Let’s hope it never gets locked.
Anonymous
Post 05/10/2022 21:41     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Happy days...I admit when one has won the gold medal one never forgets.

Pre-K: It was a balmy spring evening. I was drinking a small gin and tonic and stuffing larks' cheeks with jamon iberico when my butler brought me the letter on a silver tray.

St. Albans: It was cold. I was upstairs having my anus bleached. I snorted a little Bolivian marching powder in celebration.

Yale: I was whipping the new maid a rolled-up copy of Horse and Hounds - there had been an unforgivable incident with a Ming Vase. Weather: overcast, light rain later.

Harvard Law School: the butler found me asleep in the stables after a large dose of ketamine. In my drug-induced fog I could barely take in the good news. I must have slept with half of Mclean in the course of the next week.


A dozen years later, and IMO this is still the greatest post in the history of DCUM. PP, I hope you are still here.


To this day, "I was drinking a small gin and tonic and stuffing larks' cheeks with jamon iberico when my butler brought me the letter on a silver tray" is still the funniest sentence in the English language that I have ever read.
Anonymous
Post 05/10/2022 14:42     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:Happy days...I admit when one has won the gold medal one never forgets.

Pre-K: It was a balmy spring evening. I was drinking a small gin and tonic and stuffing larks' cheeks with jamon iberico when my butler brought me the letter on a silver tray.

St. Albans: It was cold. I was upstairs having my anus bleached. I snorted a little Bolivian marching powder in celebration.

Yale: I was whipping the new maid a rolled-up copy of Horse and Hounds - there had been an unforgivable incident with a Ming Vase. Weather: overcast, light rain later.

Harvard Law School: the butler found me asleep in the stables after a large dose of ketamine. In my drug-induced fog I could barely take in the good news. I must have slept with half of Mclean in the course of the next week.


A dozen years later, and IMO this is still the greatest post in the history of DCUM. PP, I hope you are still here.
Anonymous
Post 05/10/2022 06:39     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Was carpooling home with the family when the email ding came!
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2022 22:47     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Schtupping the head of school, what else?


You too!!


Thought I recognized you . . . .
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2022 22:35     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
I love when this thread gets a bump!

I was working… and I’ve been working weekends ever since to pay for the privilege of private.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2022 22:05     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:I still remember:

Pre-K: It was a cold day. I lived in an apartment and the fat envelope was jammed inside the box. At first I thought it was a magazine, but when I pulled it out, I saw the logo of green children holding hands.

St. Albans: I was having a Christmas open house and my son ran out to get the mail for me. I was holding a tray of stuffed mushrooms when I saw the envelope in his hand...



Twelve years later, I'm dying to know how OP's kids turned out.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2022 08:11     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:Schtupping the head of school, what else?


You too!!

Anonymous
Post 02/21/2022 08:08     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
What’s the big 3 acceptance rate? Which school is the hardest to get into?
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2022 19:59     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Mine didnt get in. I remember refreshing the computer while DS was at a church function. It was so sad because so many people had just found out they got in. I was very bitter.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2022 19:56     Subject: Re:What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:I will thrown my hat in the ring-

Kid, family, I - whoever- was rejected in Pk. We applied to several schools that year but only wanted this one school. Went to a public PK instead. Reapplied the following year to this one school for kinder. Chances were slim but kid got in.

Got the acceptance email during a work meeting. I kept checking my email alllll day long. Was freaking excited for my kid- virtual Pk sucked. Dcps was just sucking so bad at the time and we were looking for some kind of hope (please don’t mock me- last year was awful).

We didn’t do anything special to “celebrate” but the school sent a sweet welcoming package on Saturday.

I know this thread is mostly meant to mock but I get it. Waiting for any kind of result/response can be nerve wracking. Hang in there!


Congratulations but this is a joke thread.

*leaving thread before someone kicks me out for saying this is a joke thread out loud...*