That's it, really.
Three of the five criteria are about older siblings.
- Children who have a brother(s)/sister(s), half-brother(s)/half-sister(s) already enrolled
- Children who are only, or eldest in their family.
- Children whose brother(s)/sister(s), half-brother(s)/half-sister(s) previously attended the school.
The DSC didn't go there - but that's hardly anything to do with me or my daughter. I even wrote them a cover letter explaining about the older kids being half-siblings and not my children, but obviously they haven't treated her as "eldest or only". Which she would be if I were single.
We meet the other criteria, and when we met with the school principal before the applications went in, he said that in his experience, everyone who put them as first choice had gotten it.
I'm so depressed. Once again, my girl loses out because of choices made for the DSC before I even came along.