I just applied for two preschools for our daughter. She is one week and one day old. I plan to apply to at least one more this week. How incredibly absurd this city is.
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It's a good thing you know that though and aren't trying when she is 2 only to be told there is no chance, or a 50 person waiting list!!
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Good for you for being so on the ball. I agree, though, that is absurd!
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Congrats on the birth of your daughter! Ours was about that old when DH's coworkers started suggesting we get on lists of preschools. We don't live in The Big City. We still don't have our names on anyone's list (almost two years later) and expect to be fine.
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I would have no idea about this except that I have an older child. It's a long story but we were extremely lucky when we moved here to get him into a really great preschool.
It seems that schools around here either accept applications at birth and offer spots based on where you are on the wait list (more or less) or accept applications in the late winter the year before starting school and offer spots based on interviews, diversity, and so on. The three that are within walking distance of our place are all apply-at-birth schools and all have good reputations.
We'll get preference at one because it's DS's school--assuming we are still using them for after school care--and because of where we live, but I'm still not counting on it. Fortunately, I think it's free to apply there; I just dropped $90 in application fees for the other two. I do think I'll stop at three for now.
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Um, I applied to the waiting list at one preschool the day I got home from the hospital after giving birth to DD1. She is almost 4 and STILL hasn't moved off the waiting list. We ended up putting her at a preschool/daycare center near our home that isn't NAEYC-accredited and isn't as prominent/popular. We're happy nonetheless, but I have no idea who gets into the first preschool if they don't have older kids (as I'm guessing many take advantage of the sibling priority policy).
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Wow, I hadn't even thought about that! Seriously? We're in the same city you know...only we are a totally seat-of-the-pants family that hopes that keeping fingers crossed will do the trick...
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I have Jack on a wait list already. He has a tu-th spot and is 3 on a wait list for a M-W-F spot for the last 6 months.
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Yep. If we ever have another I fully plan on marching into the preschool office a few weeks after birth to put his/her name on the waiting list! I put my younger DD on the wait list when she was about 1 1/2 at my older DDs school. Two years later we barely made it in!
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