What were your 6 picks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barnard ( in-bound)
West
Takoma
Bancroft
Garrison
Ross ( not a chance in hell )

These are my choices for PK3.

Why would you put your IB school at the top? Since it's your best chance you should put it last.

If Barnard is that person's preference, not putting at the top would be an awful strategy. Say, if the person put it in third and happens to get into Takoma, puff, he/she is thrown to the back of the waitlist at Barnard. What good would that do?
What you're looking at here is the list of someone whose preference is clearly his/her inbouds school (maybe they like it, maybe they have a second child who they worry would not get in even with sibling prefs at an OOB option) but who has some doubts that he/she may get in at Barnard and therefore lists a couple of likely OOB options to get in somewhere just in case.

PP. Initially, I didn't have Barnard on my list. I assumed that since I was IB, I would get in automatically. By doing some research, I found out there are only a limited amount of seats for PK3. An administrator told me to put Barnard on OOB lottery to be safe. Also, doing the charter school lottery to cover all my bases.

[Anonymous]

1. Bancroft
2. Eaton
3. Tyler (Spanish)
4. Marie Reed Dual
5. Logan @ Montessori
6. Maury (IB)

This is for PreK4 and we prefer bilingual charter. Enrolled at a charter currently.

[Anonymous]

Lots of people willing to commute I guess? Seems like a lot of lists have schools from numerous quadrants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barnard ( in-bound)
West
Takoma
Bancroft
Garrison
Ross ( not a chance in hell )

These are my choices for PK3.

Why would you put your IB school at the top? Since it's your best chance you should put it last.

If Barnard is that person's preference, not putting at the top would be an awful strategy. Say, if the person put it in third and happens to get into Takoma, puff, he/she is thrown to the back of the waitlist at Barnard. What good would that do?
What you're looking at here is the list of someone whose preference is clearly his/her inbouds school (maybe they like it, maybe they have a second child who they worry would not get in even with sibling prefs at an OOB option) but who has some doubts that he/she may get in at Barnard and therefore lists a couple of likely OOB options to get in somewhere just in case.

Actually, with the new rules this year, you wouldn't even be included on Barnard's wait list on the above scenario. So it's absolutely critical you put your schools in the order you'd be happy with.

Yes, you would

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people willing to commute I guess? Seems like a lot of lists have schools from numerous quadrants.

I agree. So many of these lists have schools all over the place. I had to pick my kids up right after school on Capitol Hill and drive them across town a couple times in the last couple weeks. We didn't get to our destination in NW until 4:10 after driving for 45 minutes and we were all fried. And that was even before rush hour really got underway. I cant imagine doing that every day, twice a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barnard ( in-bound)
West
Takoma
Bancroft
Garrison
Ross ( not a chance in hell )

These are my choices for PK3.

Why would you put your IB school at the top? Since it's your best chance you should put it last.

If Barnard is that person's preference, not putting at the top would be an awful strategy. Say, if the person put it in third and happens to get into Takoma, puff, he/she is thrown to the back of the waitlist at Barnard. What good would that do?
What you're looking at here is the list of someone whose preference is clearly his/her inbouds school (maybe they like it, maybe they have a second child who they worry would not get in even with sibling prefs at an OOB option) but who has some doubts that he/she may get in at Barnard and therefore lists a couple of likely OOB options to get in somewhere just in case.

PP. Initially, I didn't have Barnard on my list. I assumed that since I was IB, I would get in automatically. By doing some research, I found out there are only a limited amount of seats for PK3. An administrator told me to put Barnard on OOB lottery to be safe. Also, doing the charter school lottery to cover all my bases.

Even though Barnard is your inbounds, you must do a lottery for any PS3 spot in any school. Had you imagined you'd show up there the first day of school to enroll? PS3, while guaranteed, is also not an expected year of school in DC as K is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people willing to commute I guess? Seems like a lot of lists have schools from numerous quadrants.

I agree. So many of these lists have schools all over the place. I had to pick my kids up right after school on Capitol Hill and drive them across town a couple times in the last couple weeks. We didn't get to our destination in NW until 4:10 after driving for 45 minutes and we were all fried. And that was even before rush hour really got underway. I cant imagine doing that every day, twice a day.

I think lists are going to move in September once these families start doing the twice a day commutes to the schools they've gotten into. NW to Capitol Hill is a bear any time of day, a nightmare during rush hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barnard ( in-bound)
West
Takoma
Bancroft
Garrison
Ross ( not a chance in hell )

These are my choices for PK3.

Why would you put your IB school at the top? Since it's your best chance you should put it last.

If Barnard is that person's preference, not putting at the top would be an awful strategy. Say, if the person put it in third and happens to get into Takoma, puff, he/she is thrown to the back of the waitlist at Barnard. What good would that do?
What you're looking at here is the list of someone whose preference is clearly his/her inbouds school (maybe they like it, maybe they have a second child who they worry would not get in even with sibling prefs at an OOB option) but who has some doubts that he/she may get in at Barnard and therefore lists a couple of likely OOB options to get in somewhere just in case.

Actually, with the new rules this year, you wouldn't even be included on Barnard's wait list on the above scenario. So it's absolutely critical you put your schools in the order you'd be happy with.

Yes, you would

If she didn't get in at Barnard, but did at Takoma, she'd be on the waitlists (with IB preference at Barnard) and at West. The last three on the list get thrown out, effectively.

[Anonymous]

Only did 3:

Ross
Garrison
Thomson (IB)

May the odds be ever in our favor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people willing to commute I guess? Seems like a lot of lists have schools from numerous quadrants.

I agree. So many of these lists have schools all over the place. I had to pick my kids up right after school on Capitol Hill and drive them across town a couple times in the last couple weeks. We didn't get to our destination in NW until 4:10 after driving for 45 minutes and we were all fried. And that was even before rush hour really got underway. I cant imagine doing that every day, twice a day.

I think lists are going to move in September once these families start doing the twice a day commutes to the schools they've gotten into. NW to Capitol Hill is a bear any time of day, a nightmare during rush hour.

Some of us work closer to other schools or plan to use metro, split pickup/drop off with a spouse, etc to avoid the nightmare. DC attends a charter across town and mom (me) does drop offs and dad does pickups. It doesn't faze me at all.

[Anonymous]

^^ I guess if you compare it to what the folks in the 'burbs go through to get in and out of town everyday, it's all perspective. We love our bike-able/walk-able commute to school though, and look forward to the kids being able to bike it themselves shortly.

Oh for all of the golden three: a sizable yard to shove the kids in while i make dinner, a short trip to a good school and a short trip to and from work... Does it exist in DC for less than $3M?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barnard ( in-bound)
West
Takoma
Bancroft
Garrison
Ross ( not a chance in hell )

These are my choices for PK3.

Why would you put your IB school at the top? Since it's your best chance you should put it last.

If Barnard is that person's preference, not putting at the top would be an awful strategy. Say, if the person put it in third and happens to get into Takoma, puff, he/she is thrown to the back of the waitlist at Barnard. What good would that do?
What you're looking at here is the list of someone whose preference is clearly his/her inbouds school (maybe they like it, maybe they have a second child who they worry would not get in even with sibling prefs at an OOB option) but who has some doubts that he/she may get in at Barnard and therefore lists a couple of likely OOB options to get in somewhere just in case.

Actually, with the new rules this year, you wouldn't even be included on Barnard's wait list on the above scenario. So it's absolutely critical you put your schools in the order you'd be happy with.

Yes, you would

Sorry, PP. I don't think you understand the changes made to the waitlist procedures this year. If you get in a school you will NOT be given ANY spot on the waitlist at any of the other schools ranked BEHIND the school you got a spot. You'll only be on waitlists of schools ranked AHEAD of the school you got a spot at. I think there will be many families who are shocked to learn they don't have any chance of getting a PreK/P3 program cause they got in somewhere higher.

[Anonymous]

Capitol Hill Montessori @Logan
School within a School
Garrison
Thomson
Cleveland Dual Language
Walker Jones (IB)

[Anonymous]

For PS3. Dual language and distance are important factors.
Applying to a few charters too - but the numbers are not in our favor - and I am not willing to drive that far. We'll see what happens. I predict that we will end up at Bancroft.

Bancroft (IB)
Powell
Marie Reed (dual language)
Cleveland (dual language)
Ross
Tubman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Sorry, PP. I don't think you understand the changes made to the waitlist procedures this year. If you get in a school you will NOT be given ANY spot on the waitlist at any of the other schools ranked BEHIND the school you got a spot. You'll only be on waitlists of schools ranked AHEAD of the school you got a spot at. I think there will be many families who are shocked to learn they don't have any chance of getting a PreK/P3 program cause they got in somewhere higher.

Just to reiterate, this is indeed a significant change. It should affect your rankings (the logic's the same), but it should affect your thinking about the options and how sure you want to be about those rankings. In the past, it wasn't unusual for parents to rethink their list as phone calls trickled in ("oh, maybe I like this better after all"). Newly, you just simply won't get such calls because you won't be on any of the waitlists below the option that comes through for you, if and when it does.
One ranking consideration that may be worthwhile in the face of this: if you're truly indifferent between two options, place the likelier below/behind the less likely to increase your chance to give it another chance to think.