Younger children are evaluated in playgroups, the middle grades do 'design challenges,' and high school applicants have 20- to 30-minute student conversations.
. Students are given MacBooks and iPads, take yoga and dance classes, and graduate fluent in either Mandarin or Spanish.Unsurprisingly, the school is highly selective. David Buckwald, the school's admissions director, said that while Avenues doesn't publicize its admissions rate, the school receives many more applications than it can accept.
"And then within the playgroups, we're seeing how students, for one, play with the different activities set up in the room," he said."How do they play supervised, unsupervised? How do they play with other students?"Katie Warren/Business Insider
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