Language immersion lottery sibling preference

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any insight on what kind of “preference” immersion sibs get these days? All I could find in the documents online was a reference to a “weighted” lottery favoring siblings and lower socio-economic status. Do they keep it vague on purpose?

[Anonymous]

It's my understanding that if you are a sibling you get 2 "tickets" into the lottery versus the 1 kids without siblings in the program get.

[Anonymous]

It’s a weighted process. The word favoring is too strong IMO. It’s like other magnet programs with a lot more applications than seats. There will be disappointment from low SES and siblings along with the rest of the applicants.

[Anonymous]

I think there are a certain number of spots reserved for siblings, and there is a lottery along siblings to allocate them those who don’t get a spot are entered into the lottery for the non-sibling spots.

[Anonymous]

I thought they did away with sibling quotas or preferences when a few years ago 93% of an admitted class was siblings or past immersion students.

[Anonymous]

I thought they did away with sibling quotas or preferences when a few years ago 93% of an admitted class was siblings of past immersion students.

Edited to correct typo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought they did away with sibling quotas or preferences when a few years ago 93% of an admitted class was siblings or past immersion students.

It’s no longer guaranteed admission but they admit there’s some kind of a preference. They are opaque about how it is weighted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I thought they did away with sibling quotas or preferences when a few years ago 93% of an admitted class was siblings of past immersion students.

Edited to correct typo.

Wow, did it really get as high as 93%?

[Anonymous]

I don’t know the number exactly but if you take a school that has 2 immersion classes and let’s say 24 each, that’s 48 per grade and then across 1-5 that’s 240 kids that could pull in someone into K. Maybe even another grade as I don’t know if a rising 5 could pull in a K next year. So all you need is 1/5 of the kids to have a sibling and that fills K. 1/10 would fill one of the classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the number exactly but if you take a school that has 2 immersion classes and let’s say 24 each, that’s 48 per grade and then across 1-5 that’s 240 kids that could pull in someone into K. Maybe even another grade as I don’t know if a rising 5 could pull in a K next year. So all you need is 1/5 of the kids to have a sibling and that fills K. 1/10 would fill one of the classes.

DP. That’s some mental gymnastics.

In our grade, it’s maybe 2 or 3 kids.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if we will get results next week or the week after. The deadline was a bit earlier this year.

[Anonymous]

The results are expected the 2nd week in May.
I’ve heard (from one administrator) that siblings get 1.5 “lottery tickets”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The results are expected the 2nd week in May.
I’ve heard (from one administrator) that siblings get 1.5 “lottery tickets”.

Did someone say that about when to expect results? The last few years, results have always come out in the third calendar week after the deadline. That was the second week of May for 2022-2024. But the deadline was earlier this year.

[Anonymous]

A few years back we got notified in late May.