Anonymous
Post 02/11/2011 09:34     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
OP is definitely a suburbanite striver who did everything to send her kid to a DC Big 3. Actually kudos might be in order.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2011 08:41     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:I can not decide which is funnier, the wonderful and imaginative scenarios being shared or the few posters who are popping in with an actual testimonials to share.



this definitely!
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2011 23:54     Subject: Re:What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
I have three children and they have been accepted 6 times to various elite schools and I don't remember any of the times. I do remember the relief I felt when I got the financial aid letters, however.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2011 23:47     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
I actually do remember because the school that was perfect for my DC calls people personally. And I had just had very bad news the call some minutes before (a death in the family). Then some good news. So this is not always a joke.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2011 23:42     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:You people are nuts.


Um . . . ahem . . . you're referring to the liberal Washington elite . . .you know, the ones who embrace the idea of diversity but actually prefer to educate their children "away from the masses."
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2011 23:33     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
This is by far the funniest thread I have ever seen!
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2011 23:15     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...


Norman Rockwell moments indeed.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2010 22:14     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:This post is silly. When I started reading I thought it was going to ask about when you found out about college acceptance.


Of course it's silly - that's the point. Gotta have some diversions between now and Friday/Saturday.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2010 22:09     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Anonymous wrote:I can not decide which is funnier, the wonderful and imaginative scenarios being shared or the few posters who are popping in with an actual testimonials to share.


I think the difference is funny versus sad!
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2010 18:05     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
That wouldn't have been any fun. This is fun.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2010 15:53     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
This post is silly. When I started reading I thought it was going to ask about when you found out about college acceptance.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2010 13:07     Subject: Re:What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?


The first thing that I pulled out of the envelope was a Beauvoir sticker for the rear window of my car. My eyes filled with tears of joy. Weak-kneed, I slumped to the ground, babbling deliriously. Now I would get to put that sticker on my car, and everyone would finally understand how important and special I was! I had achieved my dream! My life was perfect! I kissed the envelope and then fainted, right there in the front hall.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2010 13:02     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.


You did, but you were fab, darling.

Kisses,
Bitsy
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2010 11:43     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
Sure you can tell them apart?
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2010 10:42     Subject: What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?
I can not decide which is funnier, the wonderful and imaginative scenarios being shared or the few posters who are popping in with an actual testimonials to share.