Proud, even, of my proactiveness in getting my daughter ready for the private school application process. Then I joined a private school admissions Facebook group and was promptly stripped of any confidence I had about the process—or our chances of getting through it. We never anticipated being a private school family. How much a private school divulges about its admissions practices and criteria is largely up to the school. Then there is the ISEE or SSAT, the standardized tests nearly every private school requires as part of the application.