Parents faced with tough questions, schools deluged with applications and string pulling by parents are all regular features of the annual nursery admission process in Delhi.

The parents, besides preparing their kids for interviews, also dedicate hours to studies and counselling and preparing themselves to withstand pre-admission blues. They even teach their children what the school would teach them in their first standard. The schools put up tough questions in the name of finding the ‘normal IQ and motor skills’ of tiny tots.

Spread in a campus of over thirty-six acres of forest-land, pasture-land, vegetable garden and orchards, the school mainly consists of the Senior School and the Junior School. The main building of the Senior School, built in 1895, consists of the Principal's Office, Main Office and Reception, Accounts Office, Maintenance Office, Classrooms, a well equipped Computer Department, Study Hall, Staff Room, Old Chapel, Kitchen, Dining Rooms for both Senior and Junior School, Senior Dormitories, Infirmary, etc. A Chapel cum Auditorium and well equipped laboratories for Physics, Chemistry and Biology form part of a new building inaugurated in 1981. The school library and the Principal's Residence provide an imposing view of the Main Building of the Senior School. The Junior School Building, built in 1925, consists of Classrooms, Junior School Computer Department, Dormitories, the Junior School Headmistress' Office, etc. The school has a large playing field with a stadium, basketball courts, and other open areas used for recreation. The school also provides residential accommodation to most of its staff members. Medical Facilities The College has a qualified and experienced doctor who visits the College infirmary twice a week. In addition, a qualified nursing Sister remains in the infirmary as resident nurse. Cases of minor ailments are cared for in the College infirmary while cases requiring hospital care are referred to the local Government Hospital, Nainital. Parents are informed when a student enters the infirmary or is referred to the Hospital. The bills and other details on account of treatment are sent to the parents. Expenditure on tonics, medicine, injections, X-Rays, hospitalisation, operations or treatment by Specialist Doctors is billed to the parents. A Health Form with various other circulars is sent to the parents at the beginning of term. Parents must, in the interest of their children, fill in the forms accurately. Should it be discovered, subsequent to the admission of a student, that she is suffering from an illness, or the after effects of an illness, of a serious nature because of which she may be deemed either wholly or partially unfit for boarding-school life, the Principal has the right to require her immediate withdrawal. The College maintains a medical record of each child and parents are requested to assist the College in maintaining accurate records, which may play a vital part in an emergency. Should the Principal discover a student suffering from a chronic illness or infirmity subsequent to the admission, she will have the right to require the withdrawal of the student from the College. A student who has suffered from an infectious disease during any vacation shall not be permitted to return until the Medical Officer of the College and the Infirmary Sister both certify her medically fit. In the event of serious illness of a boarder, her parents/guardians are informed immediately. They may be in constant touch with the Resident Sister of the College Infirmary over the phone between 5 P.M. and 8 A.M. Children's teeth and eyesight must be attended to during the long winter holidays and not left for the College authorities to see to during the year. .

A tranche of forty Local Authorities were invited to make a "Readiness to Deliver" submission by 8 May 2009. Of those that did only Hampshire, Barnet, Bolton, Peterborough, Wigan and Sunderland were successful. In early August 2009 the Authorities that had been unsuccessful, as well as the Authorities who had delayed making a submission, were advised that all submissions for the remaining twelve places to be allocated during the financial year ending on 31 March 2010 were to be made by 17 September 2009. On 30 November 2009 it was announced that eleven local authorities – Brent, Darlington, Devon, Havering, Kingston, Croydon, Norfolk, Plymouth, Sefton, Wakefield, and Warrington – will be joining the BSF programme for the first time, with another two – Lancashire and Tameside – starting the next phase of their BSF schemes. Planning and building on these schemes will begin between January and March 2010 and brings the total number of local authorities in England which are active in BSF to 96.