August waitlist data is posted

[Anonymous]

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Numbers look much lower than I expected at a bunch of charters (see DC Bilingual and LAMB for examples). Maybe things are returning to pre-pandemic numbers?

[Anonymous]

They are quite low, but Inspired Teaching and Latin seem high, and DCI for non-feeder kids as well.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I mean, to be clear, some schools have made tons of offers or cleared their whole lists. But not ITS, Latin, or DCI. Seaton and Langley PK3 haven't made many offers, unlike before the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

I've never understood what happens at selective high schools when there are seats left over. Do they just have a smaller class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never understood what happens at selective high schools when there are seats left over. Do they just have a smaller class?

They sometimes overadmit in the initial match process. And yes, the size of the freshman class on count day varies from year to year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never understood what happens at selective high schools when there are seats left over. Do they just have a smaller class?

They sometimes overadmit in the initial match process. And yes, the size of the freshman class on count day varies from year to year.

So is there any hope with a late application of a qualified kid, if a seat would otherwise be empty?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never understood what happens at selective high schools when there are seats left over. Do they just have a smaller class?

They sometimes overadmit in the initial match process. And yes, the size of the freshman class on count day varies from year to year.

So is there any hope with a late application of a qualified kid, if a seat would otherwise be empty?

I can’t see a reason not to try. Probably makes sense to call the school(s).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I mean, to be clear, some schools have made tons of offers or cleared their whole lists. But not ITS, Latin, or DCI. Seaton and Langley PK3 haven't made many offers, unlike before the pandemic.

For DCI, no offers off waitlist at all for Spanish, 4 for French, and a little over 20 for Chinese. That is crazy low with few spots of hundreds on the total waitlist. It’s just going to get worst and there is going to be no chance on waitlist if you are not in a feeder.

[Anonymous]

Observations:

Holy cow TR is a sh*t show. They've all but cleared their lists at TRY for ever grade. Even for ECE!

BASIS has gone less deep into their WL than in their published history

Latin OG remains as hard a nut to crack as ever. The limited or nonexistent slots in 6,7,8 speaks very well for retention

[Anonymous]

SWW HS also barely budged. Im shocked they arent at 20

[Anonymous]

MVP is a mess

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I mean, to be clear, some schools have made tons of offers or cleared their whole lists. But not ITS, Latin, or DCI. Seaton and Langley PK3 haven't made many offers, unlike before the pandemic.

For DCI, no offers off waitlist at all for Spanish, 4 for French, and a little over 20 for Chinese. That is crazy low with few spots of hundreds on the total waitlist. It’s just going to get worst and there is going to be no chance on waitlist if you are not in a feeder.

Wow! I know someone who is very low on waitlist because has sibling enrolled in 10th (sibling is also from non-feeder trying for 6th)... seems odd that they still don’t have an offer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SWW HS also barely budged. Im shocked they arent at 20

Why shocked? Families EotP are increasingly desperate for a decent HS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SWW HS also barely budged. Im shocked they arent at 20

Why shocked? Families EotP are increasingly desperate for a decent HS.

It’s a big change from the past three years, not so much from years before that. (They’ve made 206 offers so far this year, comparable to 210 by August in 2019, 200 in 2017, 188 in 2016.)

What’s different?
- the return to in-person interviews
- increased recruiting, in the form of in-person tours
- more match day seats, which means kids are less likely to become attached to the idea of attending a school that they didn’t have to list in the lottery
- GDS took an unusually low number of 9th graders this year
- and yes, there’s a growing number of qualified middle school students in DC without boundary/feeder rights to Jackson-Reed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Observations:

Holy cow TR is a sh*t show. They've all but cleared their lists at TRY for ever grade. Even for ECE!

BASIS has gone less deep into their WL than in their published history

Latin OG remains as hard a nut to crack as ever. The limited or nonexistent slots in 6,7,8 speaks very well for retention

TRY is *really* going to feel the financial impact of their decline this year.