Sorry to hear your plight, @applier1, a good problem though it may be. As others have suggested, I advise making your case with as many facts as you can, relying on the factors that matter to you and the factors that matter to them. Our child drove our process, and we certainly favor that approach, but I can also understand how different parents, and particularly parents from a different culture, could take a different view of how to handle the situation. Perhaps you can reach a short-term compromise and hold on to at least one other school for a while longer, while letting the non-contenders drop, and while you discuss and assess (hopefully after revisiting them) the remaining two.