Yes, Delhi has enough seats to accommodate all nursery kids! I guess this is what our education minister said last year and I am sure they vouch the same even for this year as well, because they always count gverment schools also in their total available seats for te session.

According to the DOE, the problem is with the choice of parents, as eveyone wants their kid to go to one of that top schools only. Unless Govt is going to improving the infrastructure and quality of education in govt schools the problem with admissions will remain as is.

Your ward did not get seat anywhere? I know how frustrating this could be as I myself have lived thru it in 2007-2008 session. Many parents who thought that they would get a seat becaue fo their links, status, designation and had applied to top 3-5 schools only, are worst hit as they are now having minimum chances of getting to any school.

I have been suggesting this on many platforms (my blog, my articles in media, my handbook on Nursery Admission in Delhi, and also in interviews with Radio City…as well) that apply to as many school as you can as that would at least increase your chances. Anyways, the battle is not lost……!!

We observed last year that many schools has some HIDDEN-UNDISCLOSED seats and they filled them after the dust got settled, they started calling parents (probably picked randomly from the waitlidted candidates) and offered them seats (for no extra money! and not sure some schools amy have accpet money as well- who knows….. you know how all these things work benind the doors)

So this could be one hope for few parents and more-over, expect that some wards may have got admission in multiple schools and they are going to keep one seat only and will withdraw from other school and that would give way to some other lucky ward there….and by the way……trust me this worked for me and for few parents to whom i sugested this, if you know such lucky parents, offer them to accompany you when they are going to submit the withdrawal application, you can meet the admission officer and request them to enroll your kid for that NOW vacant seat.

Aprart from this, you can try getting in touch with admission officer yourself and seerequest them to call you if there is any vacant seat….

Last year many prominent schools “sold” few seats to various parents and names of these schools are well known to all Delhi parents….I guess….and rates were ranging from Rs. 1,00,000 to Rs. 5,00,000

I was just wondering if anyone of parents have heard any such thing this year as well. 

Many have been throwing the names of Amity International, Modern School, Ryan International and also DPS but really no clear evidence have been produced and the reason could be that one who might have paid would not like to expose it as this might put their seat at risk in that school.

Shameless self promotion - but I am proud to share that over 40% of all the reader of Parent’s Handbook have reverted back to me with thank you notes saying that they have benefited from the eBook in more than one ways. Close to 10% of them have already got seats in good schools in Delhi ranging from Birla Vidya Niketan, DPS (Mathura Road - not sure?) and few others not so populars.

Most of them benefitted from the form filling advices and that earned them more points (upto 20 points) than what they could have scored without those tips. 

Clost to 20% of them, have confirmed that they are more confident in appearing in admission interactions after reading the handbook and have better understanding of admission process, point system and lags in there.

I am really happy to hear all those comments and I guess quick amendments with in one month helped everyone.

Good luck again!

NOTE: For those who are interested in knowing how many copies have been distributed/sold so far then the total is 93 as of today which includes eBooks sold on eBay and also the copies that I distributed to my friends, colleagues. 60% of buyer never reverted back with any feedback so I am really not sure if they benefitted or not….

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