Today I am feeling extremely happy to share with you all that finally I got succeeded in securing a seat for my child in a prestigious school of Delhi. My battle with All Schools from Since Last 3 Years finally come to an End. No body can ever think about conditions and difficulty faced by parents in Delhi for their kids to get admitted in Schools. The conditions become worse, if you don't have any sibling or Alumni point ready with you. Location where you stay also plays a vital role to get selected or for opting the best schools.
I never thought about this at the time of purchasing a flat in Mehrauli area. The oldest and well known famous area of Delhi, have a major draw back for school selection as all school situated more than 5 km area from here and the Bus routes of school also not lie in with-in. If I Knew it earlier rather I would have preferred to stay on rent in the area like, Kalu Sarai, Vasant Vihar or Vasant Kunj.
No body can ever imagine that, when i jumped in to this field of selection, after knowing all this drawbacks, I applied to 37 Schools of Delhi for my ward admission including all best and worst schools. God knows what will happen as from few parent's experience, they were unable to get a single seat after so many phases of selections.
This was the very first phase of disappointment and frustration to run all over the South Delhi area to fill the 37 schools forms, many more difficulties and frustration still waiting for all of us, as there were changes in the point system of Delhi admission criteria, The DOE introduced a new 5 points for interstate transfer cases and every one applied with the same having fake certificate or documents. So due to this Alumni belt was also disappointed as the transfer case were standing with them and getting admission being in more number and probabilities. So this was the year of court cases, one after another, there were more than 15 cases with the court to decide what will be the fate of Delhi nursery admissions and applicants.
So case after case, case against case, We were forced to run from one school to another for lottery as being in less point category we were on the mercy of Siblings, Alumni, Transfer cases, if they left the seat we all approx 2500+ candidate assembled for lottery, which decide few lucky one from them in numbers not more than 10/15.
I never thought about this at the time of purchasing a flat in Mehrauli area. The oldest and well known famous area of Delhi, have a major draw back for school selection as all school situated more than 5 km area from here and the Bus routes of school also not lie in with-in. If I Knew it earlier rather I would have preferred to stay on rent in the area like, Kalu Sarai, Vasant Vihar or Vasant Kunj.
No body can ever imagine that, when i jumped in to this field of selection, after knowing all this drawbacks, I applied to 37 Schools of Delhi for my ward admission including all best and worst schools. God knows what will happen as from few parent's experience, they were unable to get a single seat after so many phases of selections.
This was the very first phase of disappointment and frustration to run all over the South Delhi area to fill the 37 schools forms, many more difficulties and frustration still waiting for all of us, as there were changes in the point system of Delhi admission criteria, The DOE introduced a new 5 points for interstate transfer cases and every one applied with the same having fake certificate or documents. So due to this Alumni belt was also disappointed as the transfer case were standing with them and getting admission being in more number and probabilities. So this was the year of court cases, one after another, there were more than 15 cases with the court to decide what will be the fate of Delhi nursery admissions and applicants.
This process took months, as process started from mid December 2013 and ended in May 2014, in between this I faced more than 60 round of lotteries and was unable to secure a seat in waiting list too. But thanks to God and St. Anthony School because they allotted a seat for my daughter as there were number of candidate less being a Girls Catholic School.
Now I was with seat but not satisfied as this was not my first or in between 20th choice from the list of filling forms. So I kept an Eye with the process going on but i didn't got more than frustration and disappointment. Now When all process stopped and the summer vacation of my daughter started, I got call from few more schools like Bloom and Manav Bharti, but due to 3 month passed and financial factor, I opted to stay in St. Anthony. In September I got call from Apeejay Saket but i simply refused it, cause it didn't make any sense to change school in September.
Now year change, I again jumped in the field of admission this year for KG class, as Nursery class was over with St. Anthony School. This year option were very less as only few school opened their admission with few vacant seats in the class, even I too had the less choice of schools as I already had a seat and only would opt schools from best School List. But the frustration and disappointment again caught me with full force and not let me to give any single point to be happy. We faced interviews, Lotteries, Tests but again empty handed, back to old school for KG Class.
This all happened with me but I was too determined to fight again and again with this point systems based on various factor which was not favorable for us. 2016, I again in this admission field to fight and win a seat for my ward, Again I start applying from Jan on-words but with very few options not able to secure one seat.
We again started to send our daughter to educate in previous school with filling all fees, Dress purchasing and books. NO Body knows when the fate will change, and this happens to us as first time my daughter got selected in a lottery in DPS VK. I was overwhelmed to hear her name and with in hours i was over with all formalities, admitted her, purchased new books, dress and all.
Now the time of celebration for us, as We WON the battle of Points and admission which we started 3 year back. As we know the more happiness is also unable to digest, we again fell into deli-ma, that are we doing good or not as in comparison, previous school was looking more sound in academics. Again we discussed it with many parents, friends and relatives and came on the conclusion that it will be the best for our daughter in long run as be in the best school in India and DPS brand matters a lot in child's education, confidence and exposure with necessary Co-Ed education in today's scenario.
