Edison culinary program.

[Anonymous]

My daughter applied to the culinary program at Edison and was waitlisted. She wants to be a professional chef and she is very upset. Does anyone have experience with this program and the waitlist? Her school counselor is not helpful at all.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean Edison High School in Fairfax County?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean Edison High School in Fairfax County?

No, I'm pretty sure OP meant Thomas Edison High School of Technology in Wheaton.

Sorry, OP, no experience other than being a student in another program there many years ago. Friends who were in the culinary program really liked it and they even had a little restaurant on campus which was only open to classes who made reservations.

[Anonymous]

Sherwood also has a culinary program, is it as good and can he apply there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sherwood also has a culinary program, is it as good and can he apply there?

I think you can only apply to the one your school feeds into it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter applied to the culinary program at Edison and was waitlisted. She wants to be a professional chef and she is very upset. Does anyone have experience with this program and the waitlist? Her school counselor is not helpful at all.

Edison is always under enrolled. Call the teacher and find out the best way for your child to get in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter applied to the culinary program at Edison and was waitlisted. She wants to be a professional chef and she is very upset. Does anyone have experience with this program and the waitlist? Her school counselor is not helpful at all.

Edison is always under enrolled. Call the teacher and find out the best way for your child to get in.

I emailed the principal and she said the pull the names off the waitlist. I’m not sure Edison is always under enrolled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter applied to the culinary program at Edison and was waitlisted. She wants to be a professional chef and she is very upset. Does anyone have experience with this program and the waitlist? Her school counselor is not helpful at all.

Edison is always under enrolled. Call the teacher and find out the best way for your child to get in.

I emailed the principal and she said the pull the names off the waitlist. I’m not sure Edison is always under enrolled.

Capacity of school is 950. Enrollment is 840.

[Anonymous]

Definitely follow up with them. My kid was able to enroll in June a couple of years ago. That was pre-Covid, of course, but I would not be surprised at all if things shift over the course of the next many months.

Hope it works out for DC!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter applied to the culinary program at Edison and was waitlisted. She wants to be a professional chef and she is very upset. Does anyone have experience with this program and the waitlist? Her school counselor is not helpful at all.

Edison is always under enrolled. Call the teacher and find out the best way for your child to get in.

I emailed the principal and she said the pull the names off the waitlist. I’m not sure Edison is always under enrolled.

Capacity of school is 950. Enrollment is 840.

I think that is program dependent. The culinary program is very popular.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely follow up with them. My kid was able to enroll in June a couple of years ago. That was pre-Covid, of course, but I would not be surprised at all if things shift over the course of the next many months.

Hope it works out for DC!

For culinary?

[Anonymous]

Did they tell you why she was waitlisted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they tell you why she was waitlisted?

It is a lottery now. All kids are either accepted or waitlisted. It is not even a real application.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter applied to the culinary program at Edison and was waitlisted. She wants to be a professional chef and she is very upset. Does anyone have experience with this program and the waitlist? Her school counselor is not helpful at all.

Edison is always under enrolled. Call the teacher and find out the best way for your child to get in.

I emailed the principal and she said the pull the names off the waitlist. I’m not sure Edison is always under enrolled.

Capacity of school is 950. Enrollment is 840.

I think that is program dependent. The culinary program is very popular.

They have been under enrolled for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely follow up with them. My kid was able to enroll in June a couple of years ago. That was pre-Covid, of course, but I would not be surprised at all if things shift over the course of the next many months.

Hope it works out for DC!

I would follow up with the teacher as another poster suggested and then keep in touch with the principal (there should be an AP administratively in charge of the program, figure out who that person is) so they know your kid wants to come. There is discretion (or at least there used to be) with these waitlists and how they pull kids off of them. If you don't get in over the summer, I'd continue to check a month into school, in my experience there is movement out of these programs the first month of school (kids realizing they don't like commuting to and from school, don't like the specific program, etc.). What school is your kid zoned for? I'd try and set up her schedule now so she could easily move into the program at the beginning of the year, if she is that serious about wanting to attend. The teacher in charge of the culinary program can give you advice on class schedule at your "home" school.