Anonymous
12/23/2019 12:03
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:if you can pay the full tuition, you'll get it. every school is looking for full pay families and don't think beauvoir is more exclusive than that. if you can pay, your kid will get in.
Imagine thinking that being full-pay, without more, is enough to get into the most selective private schools around here.
Agreed. You need connections, hooks.
No, actually, you don't. As these selective schools creep up in price, and DCPS gets better and more acceptable to a broader spectrum of families, all of these schools - particularly at the elementary level - are becoming more, shall we say, "welcoming," to those who can pay full freight.
Anonymous
12/23/2019 10:57
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid transferred from DCPS to STA/NCS for later middle school and is doing better academically than his/her 4 good friends who are Beauvoir lifers. We did not supplement outside of school over the years--what he/she knows is solely what was learned in school.
I'm quietly proud of DCPS--they take a lot of crap (and we dealt with a lot of craziness over the years) but the kids are leaving well prepared to attend elite schools.
NP. My kids’ and our experience at Beauvoir was amazing and something I would not trade for anything. If you didn’t experience it then it is something you don’t understand and never will. The connection between the families from Beauvoir is something special and hard to explain. I am grateful for our time at Beauvoir and there was so much more than academics that was beneficial to our children. Yes it was magical and we realize more every year just how special it was the older our children get. Our children are both doing exceptionally well academically at STA/NCS but even if they were not we would not trade our time at Beauvoir for anything.
I will 100% say the same thing about our public neighborhood school. My kid made life-long friendships there. The kids are now in every type of school---public, private, parochial, international. But they still live within a few blocks of each other, text daily and see each other every week. They are each others' "people" despite their different paths now. I look back at the decision to send them there as one of the best of my life as it firmly grounded my kids in a tight-knit neighborhood community.
Anonymous
12/23/2019 10:08
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:if you can pay the full tuition, you'll get it. every school is looking for full pay families and don't think beauvoir is more exclusive than that. if you can pay, your kid will get in.
Imagine thinking that being full-pay, without more, is enough to get into the most selective private schools around here.
Agreed. You need connections, hooks.
Anonymous
12/23/2019 10:01
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:if you can pay the full tuition, you'll get it. every school is looking for full pay families and don't think beauvoir is more exclusive than that. if you can pay, your kid will get in.
Imagine thinking that being full-pay, without more, is enough to get into the most selective private schools around here.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 21:48
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
The reality is that no school admissions officer, parent, or teacher can know for certain what a child’s academic fit will be around middle school based on the child’s talents and personality at age 3, 4, or 5. Too much development occurs in that timeframe.
I am with the camp that says the transition from any school to STA will be challenging, but if the fit is right, the boy will rise to the occasion.
Too many parents focus on feeder schools and Top This or Top That rather than what works best for their child at the child’s current stage.
NCS would have been a bad fit for my daughter but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t well educated. She just isn’t one inspired by traditional pedagogical methods. STA, on the other, while a tough transition academically for my son, was the right fit.
I disagree with the PP who thinks her son who came from another school is “doing better” than the B kids simply based on his grades. There is more to life in success in academics and while my son is newer there, plenty of the lifers have other wonderful qualities that will serve them well in life even the ones that aren’t mostly A or straight A students.
Nothing bad will happen if your child goes somewhere else than NCS or STA. My daughter has never done better academically or intellectually than being at a another school that has a more progressive approach to education. It isn’t a big three, but she will go farther in her life going there than she would have at NCS. Not because, NCS is a bad school (it is amazing), but because it wasn’t the one that would bring out the best in her.
I am with the camp that says the transition from any school to STA will be challenging, but if the fit is right, the boy will rise to the occasion.
Too many parents focus on feeder schools and Top This or Top That rather than what works best for their child at the child’s current stage.
NCS would have been a bad fit for my daughter but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t well educated. She just isn’t one inspired by traditional pedagogical methods. STA, on the other, while a tough transition academically for my son, was the right fit.
I disagree with the PP who thinks her son who came from another school is “doing better” than the B kids simply based on his grades. There is more to life in success in academics and while my son is newer there, plenty of the lifers have other wonderful qualities that will serve them well in life even the ones that aren’t mostly A or straight A students.
Nothing bad will happen if your child goes somewhere else than NCS or STA. My daughter has never done better academically or intellectually than being at a another school that has a more progressive approach to education. It isn’t a big three, but she will go farther in her life going there than she would have at NCS. Not because, NCS is a bad school (it is amazing), but because it wasn’t the one that would bring out the best in her.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 21:10
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid transferred from DCPS to STA/NCS for later middle school and is doing better academically than his/her 4 good friends who are Beauvoir lifers. We did not supplement outside of school over the years--what he/she knows is solely what was learned in school.
I'm quietly proud of DCPS--they take a lot of crap (and we dealt with a lot of craziness over the years) but the kids are leaving well prepared to attend elite schools.
NP. My kids’ and our experience at Beauvoir was amazing and something I would not trade for anything. If you didn’t experience it then it is something you don’t understand and never will. The connection between the families from Beauvoir is something special and hard to explain. I am grateful for our time at Beauvoir and there was so much more than academics that was beneficial to our children. Yes it was magical and we realize more every year just how special it was the older our children get. Our children are both doing exceptionally well academically at STA/NCS but even if they were not we would not trade our time at Beauvoir for anything.
+1
Anonymous
12/22/2019 20:58
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:My kid transferred from DCPS to STA/NCS for later middle school and is doing better academically than his/her 4 good friends who are Beauvoir lifers. We did not supplement outside of school over the years--what he/she knows is solely what was learned in school.
I'm quietly proud of DCPS--they take a lot of crap (and we dealt with a lot of craziness over the years) but the kids are leaving well prepared to attend elite schools.
NP. My kids’ and our experience at Beauvoir was amazing and something I would not trade for anything. If you didn’t experience it then it is something you don’t understand and never will. The connection between the families from Beauvoir is something special and hard to explain. I am grateful for our time at Beauvoir and there was so much more than academics that was beneficial to our children. Yes it was magical and we realize more every year just how special it was the older our children get. Our children are both doing exceptionally well academically at STA/NCS but even if they were not we would not trade our time at Beauvoir for anything.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 20:03
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Np: they have shrunk the class sizes purposely. It's 18 per class in Pre-K. [/quot
They don’t have enough kids and they are spinning it. Bottom line is that it is a loss of revenue of 9 kids, or a bit under $360 k a year. Rising tuitions and the spread of universal pre-K are hurting all the schools. You don’t see it as overtly in gds and sidwell because they take fewer kids but even they have had to go further down their waitlist.
That first part can't be right. I knew families on beauvoir's waitlist who did not get off this year, so they weren't short. I agree universal pk is creating competition for the privates, and yes, sidwell and gds went relatively far into their waitlists in the younger grades, but no one is "short" kids. Beauvoir had people on the waitlist for pk, but they didn't take them off that list. [/quot
Everyone from our preschool got in. All were full pay. Some accepted and then switched to gds and sidwell when they got off their lists. It’s fallen in popularity because of a couple of difficult years. New head is great, though. Kids who didn’t get in might have had behavioral issues, required financial aid or were young for their class and they wanted them to wait.
Again, the cavalier way you insult kids is stunning. I know many full pay families with great kids who didn’t get in. I know a couple very connected kids who did, and, as tends to be more true than not everywhere, it’s the super connected kids who get a mild screen for disruptiveness.
It’s also reality that two to three preschools get their kids in a ton of places. Your kids probably went to one of them. Not everyone is coming through that pipeline.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 18:31
Subject: Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:Yes, imagine that. Beauvoir alum know how to think and not just recite memorized facts.
But they don’t necessarily know what to do when they get to the school they are supposedly being prepared for? Got it. No wonder so many on the Close roll their eyes said alums and their parents.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 17:29
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Np: they have shrunk the class sizes purposely. It's 18 per class in Pre-K. [/quot
They don’t have enough kids and they are spinning it. Bottom line is that it is a loss of revenue of 9 kids, or a bit under $360 k a year. Rising tuitions and the spread of universal pre-K are hurting all the schools. You don’t see it as overtly in gds and sidwell because they take fewer kids but even they have had to go further down their waitlist.
That first part can't be right. I knew families on beauvoir's waitlist who did not get off this year, so they weren't short. I agree universal pk is creating competition for the privates, and yes, sidwell and gds went relatively far into their waitlists in the younger grades, but no one is "short" kids. Beauvoir had people on the waitlist for pk, but they didn't take them off that list. [/quot
Everyone from our preschool got in. All were full pay. Some accepted and then switched to gds and sidwell when they got off their lists. It’s fallen in popularity because of a couple of difficult years. New head is great, though. Kids who didn’t get in might have had behavioral issues, required financial aid or were young for their class and they wanted them to wait.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 16:59
Subject: Beauvoir acceptance rate
Yes, imagine that. Beauvoir alum know how to think and not just recite memorized facts.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 16:41
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
I posted before about the spread between BVR and the Close schools. My kids DID NOT go to BVR, public or any of the schools which draw a lot of posters on these kind of threads. In other words, I have no axe to grind about the school. Simply, I was stunned by the difference between what I was told BVR was and what my kids have said regarding the difficulties BVR kids have. When our first got there, we were concerned about our kid’s ability to keep up and they have been far ahead of the kids who were supposed to have had the advantage of the “inside” track. Anyone considering BVR who is interested in their kids staying on the Close should absolutely explore with the BVR admin their plan for making sure their child lands well when they get to the next step.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 16:24
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
if you can pay the full tuition, you'll get it. every school is looking for full pay families and don't think beauvoir is more exclusive than that. if you can pay, your kid will get in.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 15:46
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
I think pp is just tired of the people who come on here every year and basically say Beauvoir kids aren’t as good as their kids. It gets really old.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 14:40
Subject: Re:Beauvoir acceptance rate
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kid transferred from DCPS to STA/NCS for later middle school and is doing better academically than his/her 4 good friends who are Beauvoir lifers. We did not supplement outside of school over the years--what he/she knows is solely what was learned in school.
I'm quietly proud of DCPS--they take a lot of crap (and we dealt with a lot of craziness over the years) but the kids are leaving well prepared to attend elite schools.
Glad your kids doing well, but joining the throngs of public-school parents who feel the need to say how much better their kids are than other kids who went to private is pretty far from “quietly proud.”
The only thing “quiet” is that people like you bring your kids to sta and ncs (congrats and welcome) quietly looking, even hoping, for a Beauvoir kid to fail. Go justify your life choices some other way. Your child-focused schadenfreude is mean.
I hope your kid’s friends don’t know that their buddy’s mom posts about their relative academic performance on dcum. Pathetic.
Not PP
Holy cow, you are sensitive.