Help me understand DCI admissions

[Anonymous]

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It looks like DC Bilingual had 50 seats, matched 50 kids, and waitlisted 8. Is that right, that 8 DCB kids did not get in? And were all the kids who didn't get in non-siblings? I have heard that DCI doesn't do sibling preference for its feeder schools but I'm not sure if that's true.

[Anonymous]

You hope those 8 have a backup plan..

[Anonymous]

I thought each school had enough spots until the expansion classes enter-- is that what is happening?

[Anonymous]

Hmm but the other three spanish language feeder schools didn't match a total of 7 spots. I assume those spots will go to the general program waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm but the other three spanish language feeder schools didn't match a total of 7 spots. I assume those spots will go to the general program waitlist.

I don't know. Does anyone know?

This was not an expansion grade for DCB. Prior to growth, every few years they had a bump grade with 3 classes instead of 2 classes. This was just one of the bump classes.

[Anonymous]

I would love an explanation of what happens with sibling preference. I asked at a meeting and dci admissions told me that sibling preference didnt “factor in” because you’d be better off with feeder preference. She moved on ans I didn’t have time for a follow up. I wonder if maybe you get moved up the waitlist???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I would love an explanation of what happens with sibling preference. I asked at a meeting and dci admissions told me that sibling preference didnt “factor in” because you’d be better off with feeder preference. She moved on ans I didn’t have time for a follow up. I wonder if maybe you get moved up the waitlist???

So you could have one sibling at DCI, then get the younger sibling shut out? Then what? Move both kids to the suburbs or pay for private for one and not the other? That feels like it's going to come as a big shock to feeder families that "won" the lottery in pre-K or K then haven't thought about it since...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I would love an explanation of what happens with sibling preference. I asked at a meeting and dci admissions told me that sibling preference didnt “factor in” because you’d be better off with feeder preference. She moved on ans I didn’t have time for a follow up. I wonder if maybe you get moved up the waitlist???

So you could have one sibling at DCI, then get the younger sibling shut out? Then what? Move both kids to the suburbs or pay for private for one and not the other? That feels like it's going to come as a big shock to feeder families that "won" the lottery in pre-K or K then haven't thought about it since...

Especially because then you'd have a bad lottery number so where else could you go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I would love an explanation of what happens with sibling preference. I asked at a meeting and dci admissions told me that sibling preference didnt “factor in” because you’d be better off with feeder preference. She moved on ans I didn’t have time for a follow up. I wonder if maybe you get moved up the waitlist???

I think that is true this year, although maybe not at DCB. But I wonder what happens when the expansion classes hit. It's only a few years away.

[Anonymous]

Why are they admitting any non-feeder kids if there are feeder kids who didn't get in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are they admitting any non-feeder kids if there are feeder kids who didn't get in?

I think that was part of the deal when they arranged the whole thing with the city and the PCSB.

And feeder kids are only getting feeder preference in their language, right? So if you didn't get in for DCB Spanish, that doesn't mean you have a preference for the Chinese track instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are they admitting any non-feeder kids if there are feeder kids who didn't get in?

I think that was part of the deal when they arranged the whole thing with the city and the PCSB.

And feeder kids are only getting feeder preference in their language, right? So if you didn't get in for DCB Spanish, that doesn't mean you have a preference for the Chinese track instead.

But in years past, they have admitted non-feeder kids for, say, Spanish. Is that still happening when non-feeder kids don't get in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are they admitting any non-feeder kids if there are feeder kids who didn't get in?

I think that was part of the deal when they arranged the whole thing with the city and the PCSB.

And feeder kids are only getting feeder preference in their language, right? So if you didn't get in for DCB Spanish, that doesn't mean you have a preference for the Chinese track instead.

But in years past, they have admitted non-feeder kids for, say, Spanish. Is that still happening when non-feeder kids don't get in?

I think so. I think part of the deal is there has to be some access. The city doesn't want to set up a system where you're locked out if you don't have a good lottery number when your kids are litt.e

[Anonymous]

Feeder preference is much more important than sibling preference because you have kids from non-immersion schools and they don’t want to give these kids sibling preference over feeder preference.

Siblings at immersion feeders are already in the immersion schools due to sibling preference. So all siblings at immersion feeders already have feeder preference. You don’t need sibling preference.

As to someone’s comment above about holding spots for non-immersion families, that is not going to happen at all when the expansion classes come up. Mon feeder families will be shut out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feeder preference is much more important than sibling preference because you have kids from non-immersion schools and they don’t want to give these kids sibling preference over feeder preference.

Siblings at immersion feeders are already in the immersion schools due to sibling preference. So all siblings at immersion feeders already have feeder preference. You don’t need sibling preference.

As to someone’s comment above about holding spots for non-immersion families, that is not going to happen at all when the expansion classes come up. Mon feeder families will be shut out.

But what happens when the total number of kids with feeder preference exceeds the number of available spots at DCI?