School Admission in Pune

One more first time experience for me for my daughter admission. I had never run before for admissions for self as I had to do for my daughter as my Dad use to do it for me.
On top of that my wify was after me that we must get her into best schools as if I wanted to admit my daughter into some bad school.

My search started when I was already in UK. One of my friends cam back to India from Uk and luckily got the admission due to some contact. It was this day that I started thinkink of admissions for my daughter and tried looking in to the school websites available. I wrote to the school named Bishops and the response from them was to contact them in April which was to far. And hence I ignored the admission process thinking that it was in April.

When I reached Pune, Rosary was the first school I visited. It was not a good experience to visit the school. The parking for my vehicle was on the Public Road. The receptionist was too busy to handle the calls and also the peolpe visiting for form and enquiries. There was lot of people not managed by the school waiting for enquiries. I was asked to sit so that some one can talk to me. Some of the observations I made when I was sitting over there were not good. One small girl had injured her finger and the female who cleans the floors was nursing her and not the teacher.
Some of the students were standing for about 20-25 minutes outside the Principals office with there calendars for signature may be by missing there classes probably. The person who spoke to me ultimately was sitting in a room below staircase and was very conjusted. In all after coming from UK it was not a good scenario. When I discussed this with one of my friends mother she said this is what happens here you cannot expect it to be like UK :)

Bishop was the next school I visited and I was not happy to find the Security/Gateman as the school had Xmas holiday upto 13th Jan and the admissions for LKG was not avaliable over there.

The next visit was to St Felix, when I reached the school I was told that the admissions process are already closed and no enquiry will be entertained.

The school I visited along with my better half was Symboisis International School at Viman Nagar. The reception was good and the Concerned person was nice and informative. She expalianed and took us around the school and told us that teh admissions are already full anf there is a wating list of 10 candidates. To get in to the list I need to pay onl;y Rs. 3000.

Still to continue