LAMB Lottery

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet I keep thinking that if we get into a good charter we'll be able to try for a third

You're on to something. YY has a bumper crop of 3rd children.

Is this the thread where someone said "Come on people, stop having kids! All you need is 2, you don't need that 3rd... do what the Royal Family does: an heir and a spare. That's all you need."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:interesting. my twins received consecutive waitlist numbers. this can't be a coincidence. anyone have any insight into how that happened?

Twins' numbers are "attached" because of sibling preference. Once one is accepted, the next is automatically at the top of the list.

It works the same at Princeton, if that helps.

No kidding?? So if I have twins, one is an academic superstar, the other a musician-wannabe weed-smoking slacker, and they both apply to Princeton and the academic superstar gets in, the musician gets in automatically? Even if he got a 400 on the SATs?

(Not a diss to musicians by the way! My DH is brilliant and also a musician, so just posing a hypothetical...)

[Anonymous]

Omg near 500. I knew the odds for my dream school were slim to none, so why am I so upset? I'm actually tearing up. My punishment for checking dcum on my lunch break - mascara runs!

Anyone else having irrational reactions to the news? I need company in my misery!

Last year, for PS3, I invested so much wishful thinking into LAMB-my son was bilingual thanks to his daycare, we could walk 4 blocks to campus, etc. Imagine the cruel shock of getting #740 something on the WL. Although as my DH pointed out, once you're past 100 or whatever is going to move, it doesnt matter if you're 101 or 701.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Omg near 500. I knew the odds for my dream school were slim to none, so why am I so upset? I'm actually tearing up. My punishment for checking dcum on my lunch break - mascara runs!

Anyone else having irrational reactions to the news? I need company in my misery!

Last year, for PS3, I invested so much wishful thinking into LAMB-my son was bilingual thanks to his daycare, we could walk 4 blocks to campus, etc. Imagine the cruel shock of getting #740 something on the WL. Although as my DH pointed out, once you're past 100 or whatever is going to move, it doesnt matter if you're 101 or 701.

Wow - so it sounds like there has a been a significant decline in the number of apps (down by 200?) compared to last year?

[Anonymous]

Last year, for PS3, I invested so much wishful thinking into LAMB-my son was bilingual thanks to his daycare, we could walk 4 blocks to campus, etc. Imagine the cruel shock of getting #740 something on the WL. Although as my DH pointed out, once you're past 100 or whatever is going to move, it doesnt matter if you're 101 or 701

PP of the above here. I just checked my number for PK4. we have an excellent number. Gulp. Wow. Our kid is pretty happy at another charter (not immersion, not walking distance, not montessori) so I don't know what we would do if we got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Last year, for PS3, I invested so much wishful thinking into LAMB-my son was bilingual thanks to his daycare, we could walk 4 blocks to campus, etc. Imagine the cruel shock of getting #740 something on the WL. Although as my DH pointed out, once you're past 100 or whatever is going to move, it doesnt matter if you're 101 or 701

PP of the above here. I just checked my number for PK4. we have an excellent number. Gulp. Wow. Our kid is pretty happy at another charter (not immersion, not walking distance, not montessori) so I don't know what we would do if we got it.

Glad you are happy where you are. At the open house, they said they expected zero PK4 spots.

[Anonymous]

Is there somewhere that we can see how deep LAMB went into their waitlist last year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there somewhere that we can see how deep LAMB went into their waitlist last year?

You can't see this for any school. People here said they went into the low 100s for PK3.

[Anonymous]

Glad you are happy where you are. At the open house, they said they expected zero PK4 spots.

I find it hard to believe there would be NO slots, unless there are open PK4 slots taken up by siblings of incoming PK3ers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Glad you are happy where you are. At the open house, they said they expected zero PK4 spots.

I find it hard to believe there would be NO slots, unless there are open PK4 slots taken up by siblings of incoming PK3ers.

No new spots--obviously there would be more spots if someone leaves, which seems less likely with DCI prospect. They said there would be zero spots in the initial lottery.

[Anonymous]

http://www.lambpcs.org/pk3-lottery-results/

[Anonymous]

Thanks to the pp who posted that link (even though my WL number sucks)

[Anonymous]

We have a great number for PK4 (less than 10) ... Any chance of movement this year???

[Anonymous]

^^ Are you top 5?

[Anonymous]

5:23 yes!!! So excited as we struck out last year at all Spanish immersion programs. Now there is a teeny bit of hope!!