Report which of your waitlists have moved significantly this fall

[Anonymous]

I'll start for 6th grade:

DCI Chinese has moved about 20 spots
Sojourner Truth has moved about 30 spots.

Not moving:
Latin, Cooper, DCI Spanish, DCI French, Stuart-Hobson, SWW@FS.

[Anonymous]

Hardy moved 40+ places for 6th, Stuart Hobson moved 20+

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hardy moved 40+ places for 6th, Stuart Hobson moved 20+

Since the lottery, or just in the last few weeks? I'm on the list for Stuart-Hobson and it's been really stable since midsummer.

[Anonymous]

Kindergarten here -

Based on the earlier thread on this topic I didn't expect movement until Wednesday this week, but since the start of school LAMB has moved one spot - hard to say if that's from an offer from the school or someone taking themselves off the list.

Shepherd hasn't budged yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten here -

Based on the earlier thread on this topic I didn't expect movement until Wednesday this week, but since the start of school LAMB has moved one spot - hard to say if that's from an offer from the school or someone taking themselves off the list.

Shepherd hasn't budged yet.

They might open a new K classroom at Shepherd so possibly some movement there still to come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten here -

Based on the earlier thread on this topic I didn't expect movement until Wednesday this week, but since the start of school LAMB has moved one spot - hard to say if that's from an offer from the school or someone taking themselves off the list.

Shepherd hasn't budged yet.

They might open a new K classroom at Shepherd so possibly some movement there still to come.

After the start of the school year?! Was there an unexpected cohort of inbound kids and the existing classes are all oversubscribed, or . . . ?

[Anonymous]

We are on waitlists for 5th and 6th for Latin main, Latin cooper and other schools (low numbers). I find it interesting that Latin main has moved a lot more than cooper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are on waitlists for 5th and 6th for Latin main, Latin cooper and other schools (low numbers). I find it interesting that Latin main has moved a lot more than cooper.

It's particularly interesting, because it appears that's a different story than what is showing up in the data. I'm not suggesting you're wrong (could certainly be the case of people getting offers in Sept/removing themselves/offers not yet counted/etc) just that it's a different view than you get from these numbers (from over the summer).

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

[Anonymous]

Truth for 6th has dropped nearly 30 spots in one week. Seems like they're having a hard time filling up... not a good sign for a school that just expanded!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are on waitlists for 5th and 6th for Latin main, Latin cooper and other schools (low numbers). I find it interesting that Latin main has moved a lot more than cooper.

It's particularly interesting, because it appears that's a different story than what is showing up in the data. I'm not suggesting you're wrong (could certainly be the case of people getting offers in Sept/removing themselves/offers not yet counted/etc) just that it's a different view than you get from these numbers (from over the summer).

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

If you drill down and look at multiple years for 6th at cooper, you can see what I mean. This year is different for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hardy moved 40+ places for 6th, Stuart Hobson moved 20+

Pretty crazy to read this about Hardy since about a week ago Hardy newsletter for the 6th graders mentioned that 6th grade is overenrolled this year. Why do they keep accepting even more out of bounds kids then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy moved 40+ places for 6th, Stuart Hobson moved 20+

Pretty crazy to read this about Hardy since about a week ago Hardy newsletter for the 6th graders mentioned that 6th grade is overenrolled this year. Why do they keep accepting even more out of bounds kids then?

The waitlist moving doesn't necessarily mean they're making offers - people might be taking themselves off of the waitlist at Hardy as they settle in at their school or get a different offer. We won't know how many offers were made by schools in September until the msdc website updates for "offers through Oct".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten here -

Based on the earlier thread on this topic I didn't expect movement until Wednesday this week, but since the start of school LAMB has moved one spot - hard to say if that's from an offer from the school or someone taking themselves off the list.

Shepherd hasn't budged yet.

They might open a new K classroom at Shepherd so possibly some movement there still to come.

After the start of the school year?! Was there an unexpected cohort of inbound kids and the existing classes are all oversubscribed, or . . . ?

Shepherd had the 3rd Kindergarten classroom at the beginning of the school year (but I guess there could still be offers?). It's 1st grade where the new classroom is being implemented this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are on waitlists for 5th and 6th for Latin main, Latin cooper and other schools (low numbers). I find it interesting that Latin main has moved a lot more than cooper.

It's particularly interesting, because it appears that's a different story than what is showing up in the data. I'm not suggesting you're wrong (could certainly be the case of people getting offers in Sept/removing themselves/offers not yet counted/etc) just that it's a different view than you get from these numbers (from over the summer).

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

If you drill down and look at multiple years for 6th at cooper, you can see what I mean. This year is different for some reason.

I completely agree, the 6th grade WL offers from Cooper (at least through Aug) have declined absurdly this year. Understanding this doesn't capture offers made in September, Cooper 6th grade has made only a single WL offer this year (compared to 19 by this time last year, and 74 the year before that - and in each case, more by the time final totals were tallied). That's a huge jump (and seems likely related, at least in part, to the confirmation of the new building). It doesn't seem a huge discrepancy though as compared to 6th grade at 2nd street. This year 2nd Street has (as of August) made 0 WL offers. This seems relatively consistent with the last several years, where (again, only as of August) they had made 0 offers, 0 offers, 2 offers, 2 offers, 2 offers, 3 offers, 1 offer, and 6 offers (working backwards over the last 8 year).

Of course, I'm only looking at the public data, and that's out of date. So if you're seeing a different story in your WL movement, it will be interesting to see the final numbers. I can definitely see a Brookland family (for example) preferring the Kirov building over the 2nd street building and ranking it higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are on waitlists for 5th and 6th for Latin main, Latin cooper and other schools (low numbers). I find it interesting that Latin main has moved a lot more than cooper.

It's particularly interesting, because it appears that's a different story than what is showing up in the data. I'm not suggesting you're wrong (could certainly be the case of people getting offers in Sept/removing themselves/offers not yet counted/etc) just that it's a different view than you get from these numbers (from over the summer).

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

If you drill down and look at multiple years for 6th at cooper, you can see what I mean. This year is different for some reason.

Latin Cooper only has a few years of data since it's the newer campus. I think what's different this year is there were 0 new 6th grade seats to begin with because there was a full cohort moving from 5th to 6th.