Bangalore Nursery admission saga - Part II

We stay in Jayanagar 7th Block, and after a little bit of asking around, we decided to get admission forms in the following schools

• Delhi Public School (South) : Brand name, location, reputation for co-curricular activities
• Kumarans: Brand name, location, reputation for academics
• Brigade School: Liked the ambience, Age relaxation, and we knew somebody who was studying there.
• Innisfree: Heard a lot on the internet, low class size
• National Public school (Koramangala): Brand
• National Hill view: Brand, Cousin's daugther was studying there.

We then went around collecting admission forms (Oct first week onwards to November first week). We were curious on the age criteria, as our daugther would have been 2 years 11 months by Jun end 2009. As to our expectation, all the above schools had strict age criteria to be around 3 years+ by June end. (Two extreme exceptions; Brigade which had an age criteria of 2 years 6 months & InnisFree which had 3 years 2 months by Jun)

Innisfree didn't even allow us to collect the form (which got me a good feeling about the school management), & DPS didn't allow us to submit the form. Kumarans, NPS & National Hill view allowed to submit the form, but said that we had a slim chance on getting in. The admission form fees & age criteria is as follows:

School	Age criteria as on Jun 30	Average. Fee structure for Year 1 (incl. development fees + admission)	Admission form fees
Kumarans	3 years	Rs. 51000	Rs. 150
DPS	3 years	Rs. 100000+	Rs. 300
Brigade	2 yrs 6 months	Rs. 115000	Rs. 600
NPS	3 years		Rs. 350
National Hill view	3 years	Rs. 60000	Rs. 500

An interesting aside on the application forms itself: Apart from the usual things like Father's / Mother's name, Date of birth; all of them had Parents' educational qualifications, designations, & Gross salary. I am very curious on the correlation between these & the final list of selected students :-). I do suspect that it would be very high.

Next Post: Interview process & Selection.