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Thanks for your insights, @Michael Cullinane and @DDM. It sounds like what your kids experienced in the neighborhood program at Bell is what I’m afraid of if I send my younger kid there. I have no doubt Bell is a great school overall, but I do have a worry about shortchanging my kid by choosing neighborhood over a (different) RGC program. I appreciate your perspectives, it’s definitely giving me more to think about. Overall it sounds like any differentiation done in the neighborhood program is probably not going to be sufficient.
@Stewart Thanks for your reply – do you mind telling me what you do to supplement for your neighborhood program child? Did you start doing this because they were bored in class or just because you felt like they could handle more than what was being taught in school? Do you have a sense of how much differentiation happens in the neighborhood classes? This is one of my worries about neighborhood, that if they are not being taught at a level/pace commensurate with their abilities they will actually do worse in school because they are bored, develop bad habits, etc. Of course, very hard to predict whether this would apply to any particular kid at all until they are actually in school for a while.
Any insight into McPherson? We are debating between the McPherson RGC and the neighborhood program at Bell for K. Our eldest attends Bell RGC, and we’d love to have our kids in the same school (both for convenience and because I know they would like to be in the same school), but our youngest is not likely going to make it off the waitlist for Bell RGC, so the neighborhood program would be our only choice if we want to have both at Bell.
We are also trying to weigh the inconvenience/logistics of having kids in 2 schools against what we may be depriving our youngest of by sending them to a neighborhood program instead of an RGC, plus whether the overall school experience would be better at Bell vs McPherson. We are happy with Bell and don’t know a lot about McPherson apart from what I’ve been able to find in these forums and on their website. We are touring on Friday, but would love to hear from other McPherson parents or anyone else who has dealt with this type of choice.
Thank you!
So frustrating – I don’t see why they can’t treat the Selective side like the Choice side (allow people to see their waitlist number for schools they’ve ranked higher than one from which they’ve received an offer) – I’d love to be able to make a more informed decision. If we knew our WL number was high enough at our preferred schools that an offer was unlikely we wouldn’t risk declining the offer we have.
Does anyone know if principals have access to the tiered waitlist scores? I understand admissions are not up to them but I’m curious if they could let us know generally where we’d fall on their waitlist if we reach out to them. (We got an offer so we’re not able to see waitlist for schools we ranked higher.) Also can you add the schools that were admin declined back to your app when the rolling waitlist opens, even if you’ve accepted another selective offer?
