Apply to some schools for 9th grade, others for 10th?

dodgersmom
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:24:18 +0000

No, no changes of plan, but we were doing everything on a pretty short timeline. (And, to be honest, it took all the brain cells I had just to remember which grade he was supposed to apply to at each school! Any change would have made my head explode . . .)

But you can absolutely change your mind . . . just send the school a note and say you’ve reconsidered and decided to apply for X instead of Y. And, with some schools, you can also say that you’d happily accept an offer to either grade, if the school thinks that one would be a better fit than the other.

The SSAT application is an absolute nightmare for this kind of thing, by the way . . . you can submit a different parent statement for every school, but you have to be oh-so-careful that you don’t make a mistake and send the statement that says “grade 9” to the school where you intended to indicate “grade 10.” Do NOT send these off late at night . . . !!! :D