<p>S applied to six day schools and I feel that the process was like applying ED to college. Except the odds of getting in are worse.
Last June, I met with his school placement office to get a list of schools he might apply to.
We had to send the applications in Sept. in order to secure an interview spot for the most popular schools. Some schools have a set amount of interview slots, so once they are filled they stopped taking applications. So unless if you check their web sites often you will never know.
I am glad that the interviews are over. The school had an interview Prep class for the students. I wish it had one for parents.
Some schools will accept a handful of students, and with legacies having an edge, the chance of getting in is actually worse than HYPS. It's not uncommon for a school to accept less than 10 kids.
I went to one open house with at least 300 people. The school plans to take only about 40 kids, and is one of the schools that takes the most kids.
Now I understand why some of my girlfriends send their kids only to K-12 schools.</p>
<p>Your story makes me feel so lucky that we have good public schools in our state and there is no need to use private schools to get the best available education- even blue collar towns do a good job with gifted and talented.</p>
<p>I’m like wis - all of mine have gone to public all the way through. I am trying to understand a school that takes only 10 kids per grade. How much variety can they have in classes, being so small? </p>
<p>I had briefly considered looking at private HS for my youngest, but decided she could get a fine education at our public high by sticking with the honors and AP classes.</p>
<p>Mamabear, the schools that take a small number of kids tend to be K-12 single sex schools. They have a set number of kids per grade. So they can only accept kids according to how many of their eight graders don’t come back for HS.</p>