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Comment by Meenakshi Katyal on January 5, 2015 at 9:47am

While going through the category list, i am unsure about VIS 10 and SVIS 18 in category A.

I would be happy to have reviews of these schools to be in top 5. Over the years, i have not heard very good comments on these schools. Internet is also full of negative reviews of VIS 10. The school was one of the best schools in dwarka 10 years back but with many more international schools in dwarka thereafter, it is no more the same. But yes, its name stills works as people were not aware of other schools. I am not sure if this old is still gold.

Pls help as i am also about to finalize my list today.

Comment by heidi on January 5, 2015 at 3:35am

I think Shivshakari is right... If everyone applies in only Top 5 or 10 schools, it would lead to no fallback option and parents would end up paying donations to get an admission in any school to save the year.

Comment by Shivshankari Sethu on January 4, 2015 at 11:44pm

dont you think if people apply to less schools, all of them would probably apply to same 10 schools? which are considered top. 

Comment by Nitin Nandrajog on January 4, 2015 at 9:23pm

This is the reason "herd mentality" is making nursery admissions difficult with every passing year. If we assume that there are 3000 parents in Dwarka/ near Dwarka areas (within 8 KM) and everyone applies to 30 known common schools in the 8KM radius to increase their chance, we will end up with a probability of 0.01 (30/3000) for each kid for every seat. By contrast if it is restricted that everyone can apply to a maximum of 15 schools in a 3-5 KM radius, there will be less than 300 parents (density of Dwarka is 19000/Km2) with each kid having a probability of 0.05 (15/300) for every seat. Just for information, last year there was 8KM criteria and the number of applications in some well known Schools were: DPS = 4700, St. Francis = 3800, Bal Bharati = 4,200. @Heidi, we cannot have a solution if only a handful of parents follow the approach of applying less, this can only be implemented if the guidelines makes it compulsory for everyone to prioritize and apply rather than "spreading too thin" across the board

Comment by Shivshankari Sethu on January 4, 2015 at 8:45pm

I dont understand how applying to 30 school is harming anyone. 

I agree on distance thing, its wrong on parents part to make 3-4 year old travel 15 kms daily. But not every one is fortunate enough to live in localities like dwarka which has 25-30 good /decent schools in 8 kms radius. 

I ve applied in  25 schools for my 31/2 year old daughter, all schools in <6 kms radius. 

I know parents from last few years who didn't get any school after applying in 15-20 schools. I realize even with 25 schools, there is a chance that I won't get shortlisted in any school. If that happens I will continue her in play school, n try for kg admissions next year. 

As parents we just want to do our best.  

Comment by Shrruty Varma on January 4, 2015 at 8:42pm

@ Prasanth. ..you motivated me.. i too have filled forms of couple of schools today....Thanks

Comment by heidi on January 4, 2015 at 7:19pm

@Nitin
Do you think that if I fill forms in 5 schools instead of 20, my condition would be more favourable. We all know that no new schools have come up in Delhi in last 10 years and population has been increasing every year. Therefore, we must accept that it is something which is not in our hands.

Comment by Nitin Nandrajog on January 4, 2015 at 2:31pm

Applying in more schools by all parents just for the sake of applying without inclination will create a situation where the number of applications per school will increase extraordinary, most of the schools have already received 1500 to 2000 applications. This was the same scenario last year, which resulted in only a handful of kids getting admitted and multiple options for some while no option for others. Then the schools get a chance to negotiate for management seats as the "potential" demand highlighted by number of applications exceeds limited supply. The parents who were involved in 2010, 2011 admissions will vouch that most of them applied to a smaller shortlist of schools, averaging about 400- 500 applications per school thereby every kid having multiple options to choose from the shortlisted schools. Over the past year, the number of applications received per school have increased manifold due to uncertainty associated with nursery admission and the relaxation of the distance criteria. This creates an imbalance as the seats per school have not increases but average applications per school have increases disproportionately.

Comment by Monika on January 4, 2015 at 1:35pm

@Ranjan
Rightly said that more forms = more chances of getting selected.

Tommorow is the last date for most of the Dwarka schools for submitting the nursery forms. And, Rs 25/- is a meagre amount for applying in as many schools as possible. I also feel one needs to fill atleast 20 forms.

Comment by Ruchika Saxena on January 4, 2015 at 8:48am

Is dwarka international a better school than delhi international?

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