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Every Sim thinks their child is a genius inThe Sims 2, but some students truly are gifted. These children receive exemplary grades and have a wonderful home life, or at least enough to impress the headmaster of a private school.
Getting your young Sims into private school is a challenge if you’re not prepared, but we’ll help you get ready in advance so you can dress to impress. From the meals you make to how clean you keep your house, here’s everything you need to know to help your kids get into the most prestigious school in the city.
How To Call The Headmaster
Once you haveat least one child or teen Simin the household, a Sim canuse a phone to invite the headmasterover. He’ll arrive that night toperform an inspectionof the household. If you do well, your child or children may beadmitted to a private school!
However, there are several factors that contribute to your candidacy as a private school student. First, your students must havegrades of ‘C’ or higher. For this reason, it’s best towait to call the headmaster until your students returnso their grades don’t drop in school just before the big night.
How To Pass The Inspection
When the headmaster arrives on your doorstep, the scenario begins. You’ll have only a few minutes (in-game hours) to impress him and earn at least 90 points to get your student into the private institution. There are three sections of the evening that make up your score:
The House Tour
One of the most important part of the tour isshowing your home to the headmaster. Each room you show is evaluatedbased on decorand cleanliness. Lots of vibrant decor makes for an engaging environment, which will make the headmaster happy.
Talk to the headmasterand select the option togive him a house tour in the Entertain menu. Then, walk around the house to the desired rooms. Select the headmaster again to show him the room and watch his reaction.
When you’re ready toend the tour, select the option to end it while talking to the headmaster again.
You’reonly able to give one tour, and you may onlyshow each room once. Make sure they look good!
The Best Dinner
The headmaster is bound to get hungry, and your cooking skillsmake up a decent sum of pointsfor the evening. If cooking isn’t your specialty, study cooking until you haveat least three or four skill points.
Easy meals won’t impress the headmaster, sodon’t give him mac and cheese. Good easy options includespaghetti and hamburgers, and more advanced options includeBaked Alaska and Lobster Thermidor.
Cooking takes time! If you’re running short on time or run a single-parent household,cook the meal before the headmaster arrivesand put it in your inventory.
When you’re ready to serve the headmaster dinner,use the Entertain optionwhen speaking to him to call him to dinner. Otherwise, the points will go under the Schmooze category instead of Dinner.
How To Schmooze
Lastly, you’ll need tocarry on conversation with the headmaster. While your Sims' interests may differ, they can still be friendly. Your score depends on how well you get along.
Since you have to serve dinner, it’s best tomake small talk at the dinner table. Don’t let the headmaster get bored! You don’t need to be best friends by the end of the night, but you need to make sure he leaves feeling good.
As a last resort, you can alwaystry flirting with the headmaster. Ethics don’t matter (much) to Sims.
Once youreach the threshold of 90 points, the headmaster will shake your hand andwelcome you and all applicable childrento the private school.
Any children born or aged up after this acceptance, or any children that were not accepted, willneed to apply againfor a shot at private school.
Despite the memory stating that private school is expensive, youdon’t actually have to pay for it.
