2016 LAMB lottery results

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a 2.5% chance of admission. Your child is more likely to get into Harvard than LAMB. So try to put it out of your mind. Did you get all hyped up for the Powerball drawing, too?

News to me that 2.5% of our country goes to harvard.

Harvard last year admitted 2,000 kids out of 37,000 applicants.
LAMB last year admitted around 40+ kids out of 850 applicants.

Both com to approximately a 5% chance.
More people go to Harvard and LAMB than win Powerball.

You have to separate the sibling preference cohort from the gen'l population as odds are not similar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a 2.5% chance of admission. Your child is more likely to get into Harvard than LAMB. So try to put it out of your mind. Did you get all hyped up for the Powerball drawing, too?

News to me that 2.5% of our country goes to harvard.

Harvard last year admitted 2,000 kids out of 37,000 applicants.
LAMB last year admitted around 40+ kids out of 850 applicants.

Both com to approximately a 5% chance.
More people go to Harvard and LAMB than win Powerball.

You have to separate the sibling preference cohort from the gen'l population as odds are not similar.

I did. This was not counting sibling preference. As has been previously pointed out, there are at least 60 slots for incoming pk3 at LAMB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And Harvard has nothing to do with anything since this is a random lottery not a merits-based admission. A related pet-peeve: school lottery winners gaining a smugness that indicates they suspect it was more than randomness that got them their coveted school.

+1 also doesn't account for the fact that many families play just because it's free to enter. With Harvard (even if you have application fee waived) there is still a lengthy process to apply. With schools it's a 2 second free process online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a 2.5% chance of admission. Your child is more likely to get into Harvard than LAMB. So try to put it out of your mind. Did you get all hyped up for the Powerball drawing, too?

News to me that 2.5% of our country goes to harvard.

Harvard last year admitted 2,000 kids out of 37,000 applicants.
LAMB last year admitted around 40+ kids out of 850 applicants.

Both com to approximately a 5% chance.
More people go to Harvard and LAMB than win Powerball.

Lamb only accepted 27/850 or so for pk3 and 3 or so for pk4. Just so everyone is on the same page, even though DD was accepted, it had nothing to do with my amazing parenting skills (don't tell my inlaws).

And it also bothers me when people act like they did something to get their kid in. My neighbor sends his son to Latin PCS. As a JOKE, I congratulated him on "being such a wonderful parent you got your kids into such great schools". Without missing a beat he said "well it did take research and I do think I'm an excellent parent and Latin is a part of that." I just rolled my eyes and walked off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a 2.5% chance of admission. Your child is more likely to get into Harvard than LAMB. So try to put it out of your mind. Did you get all hyped up for the Powerball drawing, too?

News to me that 2.5% of our country goes to harvard.

Harvard last year admitted 2,000 kids out of 37,000 applicants.
LAMB last year admitted around 40+ kids out of 850 applicants.

Both com to approximately a 5% chance.
More people go to Harvard and LAMB than win Powerball.

Lamb only accepted 27/850 or so for pk3 and 3 or so for pk4. Just so everyone is on the same page, even though DD was accepted, it had nothing to do with my amazing parenting skills (don't tell my inlaws).

And it also bothers me when people act like they did something to get their kid in. My neighbor sends his son to Latin PCS. As a JOKE, I congratulated him on "being such a wonderful parent you got your kids into such great schools". Without missing a beat he said "well it did take research and I do think I'm an excellent parent and Latin is a part of that." I just rolled my eyes and walked off.

LAMB actually ended up going to 53 or 54 on the PK3 waiting list. It was 27 the day of the lottery, but by the time school started they had worked through quite a bit of their list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a 2.5% chance of admission. Your child is more likely to get into Harvard than LAMB. So try to put it out of your mind. Did you get all hyped up for the Powerball drawing, too?

News to me that 2.5% of our country goes to harvard.

Harvard last year admitted 2,000 kids out of 37,000 applicants.
LAMB last year admitted around 40+ kids out of 850 applicants.

Both com to approximately a 5% chance.
More people go to Harvard and LAMB than win Powerball.

Lamb only accepted 27/850 or so for pk3 and 3 or so for pk4. Just so everyone is on the same page, even though DD was accepted, it had nothing to do with my amazing parenting skills (don't tell my inlaws).

And it also bothers me when people act like they did something to get their kid in. My neighbor sends his son to Latin PCS. As a JOKE, I congratulated him on "being such a wonderful parent you got your kids into such great schools". Without missing a beat he said "well it did take research and I do think I'm an excellent parent and Latin is a part of that." I just rolled my eyes and walked off.

LAMB actually ended up going to 53 or 54 on the PK3 waiting list. It was 27 the day of the lottery, but by the time school started they had worked through quite a bit of their list.

That still doesn't increase the number of spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a 2.5% chance of admission. Your child is more likely to get into Harvard than LAMB. So try to put it out of your mind. Did you get all hyped up for the Powerball drawing, too?

News to me that 2.5% of our country goes to harvard.

Harvard last year admitted 2,000 kids out of 37,000 applicants.
LAMB last year admitted around 40+ kids out of 850 applicants.

Both com to approximately a 5% chance.
More people go to Harvard and LAMB than win Powerball.

Lamb only accepted 27/850 or so for pk3 and 3 or so for pk4. Just so everyone is on the same page, even though DD was accepted, it had nothing to do with my amazing parenting skills (don't tell my inlaws).

And it also bothers me when people act like they did something to get their kid in. My neighbor sends his son to Latin PCS. As a JOKE, I congratulated him on "being such a wonderful parent you got your kids into such great schools". Without missing a beat he said "well it did take research and I do think I'm an excellent parent and Latin is a part of that." I just rolled my eyes and walked off.

LAMB actually ended up going to 53 or 54 on the PK3 waiting list. It was 27 the day of the lottery, but by the time school started they had worked through quite a bit of their list.

That still doesn't increase the number of spots.

No. But the odds of getting in are better when you consider how far down on their wait list they tend to go rather than if you just look at number of spots.

[Anonymous]

The 850 includes siblings. So say it's 800 for all pk3 and pk4 and they accept 30 total. It's just under 4% for nonsiblings. But really better for pk3 and worse for pk4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 850 includes siblings. So say it's 800 for all pk3 and pk4 and they accept 30 total. It's just under 4% for nonsiblings. But really better for pk3 and worse for pk4.

But they likely accept more than 30. Last year there were a similar number of spots (27 pk3 and a handful for pk4). The pk3 list went into the mid-50s and the pk4 list went pretty high (high teens/twenties at least).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: And it also bothers me when people act like they did something to get their kid in. My neighbor sends his son to Latin PCS. As a JOKE, I congratulated him on "being such a wonderful parent you got your kids into such great schools". Without missing a beat he said "well it did take research and I do think I'm an excellent parent and Latin is a part of that." I just rolled my eyes and walked off.

I roll my eyes whenever anyone mentions the research they did on schools and how it is such an arduous task. I always think they must have a really easy job where they're not used to doing any work. Same goes for the "nightmare" of the September Shuffle when every teacher I've ever talked to says it is no big deal.

[Anonymous]

September Shuffle is not a big deal (anymore). It really does not happen.

[Anonymous]

Good luck to everyone that applied!

[Anonymous]

Did anyone receive a call?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:September Shuffle is not a big deal (anymore). It really does not happen.

It really used to happen. Just like granite counter tops used to be stylish. Times change. Don't dwell, just move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:September Shuffle is not a big deal (anymore). It really does not happen.

It really used to happen. Just like granite counter tops used to be stylish. Times change. Don't dwell, just move on.

NP here. What's in now? Please enlightened me.