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Anonymous wrote:after a couple of e-mails, we spoke to a girl on Sunday. It took 20 minutes to connect over skype because she'd never done it before. she told us she was the first family she talked to. we really liked her. we e-mailed the next day. no response. 3 days later, i noticed her profile disappeared, so I e-mailed her again asking whether she'd matched with another family. no response. called the agency this morning, just to verify, and they said she had matched with another family.

i feel like i dodged a bullet. these moments scare me because girls who seem so great turn around and demonstrate poor communication and immaturity. i can take an au pair's rejection, but just please let me know that, so i can move on. also, who are these families that go from speaking to an au pair to matching in 3 days? that seems nuts to me.

It is not that rare to match quick on AIPIA. Our first AP was about 3 days and she had 5 other families try to match with her and like 2 or 3 still waiting on her response. We got lucky and we had a great year with her. Next matches on APIA took lonnger (3 weeks or so). CCAP service up tends to give both parties more time select, APIA you gotta move quick.

Anonymous wrote:after a couple of e-mails, we spoke to a girl on Sunday. It took 20 minutes to connect over skype because she'd never done it before. she told us she was the first family she talked to. we really liked her. we e-mailed the next day. no response. 3 days later, i noticed her profile disappeared, so I e-mailed her again asking whether she'd matched with another family. no response. called the agency this morning, just to verify, and they said she had matched with another family.

i feel like i dodged a bullet. these moments scare me because girls who seem so great turn around and demonstrate poor communication and immaturity. i can take an au pair's rejection, but just please let me know that, so i can move on. also, who are these families that go from speaking to an au pair to matching in 3 days? that seems nuts to me.

Anonymous wrote:My friends just went through matching. They had a similar experience to yours. Many girls turning them down before they even had a conversation- and they are an easy family with 2 schoolage kids. A few girls with whom conversations were going well, actually asked them to release them, so they could talk to other potential families.
They talked to our LCC, and she says this is common this year. They are guessing that many incoming APs only want to be in NY, FL or CA.

Our AP is here for a few more months, but it makes me scared for match season.

One suggestion for CCAP is to let the APs have 2-3 families they can talk to at a time, instead of just 1. It seems like these APs turn down a family immediately, because they don't want to be locked up in their account