UrbanBaby

05.22.08, 06:04 AM General Topics
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i usually just watch the chatter on here about applications to private schools with bemused detachment. i have always been very very against showcasing your own achievements to an audience of school masters and mistresses in the hopes of being deemed appropriate. It is just so ugly. My nonsense, however, has left me stranded! It turns out where I am from it is not quite as perfectly egalitarian as I had hoped and a few schools - still public - do accept pupils based on the parents' motivation letter. I feel sick having to wrote this. Do people really talk about their academic and professional achievements in a boastful way in these letters? (this is just a big cultural difference for me I think) ... should I just talk about why I want him in the school and what education means to us? [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 05.22.08, 06:04 AM Flag

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Be honest and sincere. Not boastful. Give them a true picture of dc. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 05.22.08, 06:06 AM Flag

and is it OK to focus on my child, on our ideas about education etc without naming what universities we went to and hinting at out income? it's the latter i can't stomach. won't it be clear enough that we are "successful" from the rest of the content. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 05.22.08, 06:10 AM Flag

absolutely. Anything else would be a turn-off to the school as well. I used to work in prep school admissions, and some parents have a weird idea that those "boasts" help their dcs, but they absolutely do NOT. We don't want obnoxious families. We want families dedicated to their children's education and who have great values. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 05.22.08, 06:15 AM Flag

thanks. makes me feel much better! [ Reply | More

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General Topics 05.22.08, 06:25 AM Flag

GL! [ Reply | More

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General Topics 05.22.08, 06:31 AM Flag