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Permalink Reply by Vandana Singh on September 20, 2012 at 10:44am

Hi Deepten, I followed the law of elimination to arrive at Scottish.

There are very limited schools in gurgaon that fulfill what i look for in a school for my son-

1) i dont believe in alternate education and thus Heritage and Shikshantar dont feature in my list

2) I dont believe in pure academic orientation (my son is very right brained) - schools like DPS, Amity, DAV fall out

3) I wanted ICSE or CBSE board, a decent academic record and a good mix of ECA - landed up shortlisting only Shriram, Scottish and Suncity.

Shriram and Suncity are still a while away and therefore at present Scottish seemed like the best bet.

Scottish has

a) good academic results - the topper this year in Class 12 from NCR was from Scottish -

b) has a healthy focus on eca - tennis, arts, etc are high priorty

c) Is day boarding - for working parents like me, it is a boon.

Hence, the "sought after" feeling ... ofcourse, distance does play a role for me as well. Scottish is 10 minutes from where i live and i didnt want my child to travel too much. Hence, Delhi schools were out. Hope this helps ..

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Permalink Reply by 04g3vs2ohne37 on October 1, 2012 at 1:52pm

Hi Deepten,

Well, I would be one of the parents who didn't even bother to stand in the line..I just didn't care for the process. To me, it seemed suspiciously like unwarranted marketing hype. You tell me, how democratic is the first-come-first served approach? And if the HT School Survey is anything to go by, it didn't even figure in the Top 10 schools in Gurgaon. But again, choosing a school is a very personal decision. What works for me, may not work for you. 

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Permalink Reply by Radhika Mathur on September 20, 2012 at 12:04pm

Vandana, great points.

I too secured a seat in SH today. Was surprised when I got call for interaction two days ago. It forced me to think why this after a month! and when the school had first cum first serve criteria to nullify the large number of applications received.

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Permalink Reply by Rohit Saxena on September 20, 2012 at 12:24pm

>>>>good academic results - the topper this year in Class 12 from NCR was from Scottish -

is it really true ? do we have any proof for this ? just curious. i never expected this

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Permalink Reply by Vandana Singh on September 20, 2012 at 1:00pm

Hi Rohit ... the papers covered it .. sometime in May ... if you google it, you will find it ... it was a girl if i remember correctly !

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Permalink Reply by manish kumar mundhra on September 20, 2012 at 11:26pm

i guess she was from Blue bells...23 childrens were in top list

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Permalink Reply by Sharmila on September 20, 2012 at 11:29am

Yeah Meetu im wondering whats the sudden change like.Im sure Heritage is one big reason. I too had an interaction today in SH 

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Permalink Reply by Shuchita Aggarwal on September 20, 2012 at 4:26pm

hi meetu, 

i heard some stuff about SH. They are rejecting children on the ground of intelligence telling parents to consider for pre-nursery instead of nursery when as per age criteria they are eligible for nursery. I feel it is extremely shameless and unnecessary exploitation of parents. Might be thats why they have some vacant seats now and they are again calling for interaction after a very firm NO.

I need not say much about the school. just wanted to share.

Also want to add that i do not doubt the school in terms of education might be one of the best sought out school of gurgaon, i am just telling about their approach. (Which is very wrong.)

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Permalink Reply by Meetu gupta on September 20, 2012 at 10:50pm

Vandana..topper in which board?...NCR is all about CBSE...so if a student is a topper in NCR in CBSE board then only its a big thing.

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Permalink Reply by Meetu gupta on September 20, 2012 at 10:54am

Vandana, the interaction in SH is tomorrow. Not even sure whether we will go for the interaction or not. If this is the way they conduct the admission process what good values they will give to the children.

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Permalink Reply by Vandana Singh on September 20, 2012 at 10:59am

I agree Meetu ... however, given the limited options, I dont think we have much choice. Am sure

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Permalink Reply by Sharmila on September 20, 2012 at 12:18pm

Hi Vandana, i got a seat in SH.Could you help me with the payment details and whats the process. However, Now I keen to know the Suncity results also. If I make the payment in SH  how much would be refunded incase i dont admit my kid there.

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