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Yu Ying Lottery on Apr 7, anyone attend?
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Anonymous
| A student who speaks Chinese at home will be treated randomly in the lottery just like any other student. There is a possibility that the after the upper classes (3rd grade and above) have closed to new students that students who are already fluent in Chinese will be admitted by exception. Since the school will have students in that grade level for the first time next year, it is the first year for that policy to be possibly implemented. It is mentioned as an option in the charter application. If you have a Chinese fluent student who will be in 3rd grade next year, call the school and ask. That class currently has 49 of 50 seats taken. |
Anonymous
| According to DC charter school law, fluency in a language is not a category for which a school can offer priority admissions. The fact that a PreK applicant already speaks Chinese can not be taken into account. |
Anonymous
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As an overall rule, they do not take language into consideration in lottery preference (I think they can choose language preference or sibling preference and they chose sibling), nor do they allow "new students" to start after 2nd grade, the rationale being that their classmates will already be so far ahead in their Mandarin that the new student would be at a significant disadvantage.
However, I would suspect that the fact that there are a few more immersion programs nationwide, and there are students who are bilingual at a > 2nd grade level might start to be considered on a case-by-case basis in the future. A transfer student from another immersion program, or someone with native bilingual fluency, might be able to get a one-off exception. I think it will be a "call the school" kind of thing rather than an official policy decision. I don't think anything formal is set up for that just yet., but it would make sense as an empty space in a class means less revenue. |
Anonymous
Thanks for that. Good to know. Wonder how far down the wait list they ended up going. |
Anonymous
| Well, we struck out for the Yu Ying lottery. But I have to say they must be really well organized, they posted their lists so quickly. Thanks for the link! |
Anonymous
Just to clarify, it is not that these spaces were reserved in advance. It is that there are 25 preK siblings, founder's kids and staff kids enrolled. They get priority enrollment. It is a very young school in that in many families the oldest child is at Yu Ying and there are a lot of toddlers, pregnant mothers, at school functions. The staff/faculty is also pretty young and there have been several babies born to them. I would expect the PreK list to move less this year than last, I don't know how many were siblings/staff/founders last year, but it was fewer. It is less likely that these 25 priority admitted will give up a spot than the 25 random admits. |
Anonymous
Yu Ying bases it waitlist on when you got your application in. So it had the waitlist in order ready to go before the lottery was held and just needed to make some very minor modifications to it. |
Anonymous
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I tracked the Yu Ying wait list regularly for some unexplainable reason last summer. My notes say that for K, kids in the class on the first day of school, had these wait list numbers on April 23, 2009: 1, 6, 9, 12, 14. Kids that joined the school in late Sept/ early Oct were numbers 28 & 40.
For preK, my notes are sketchier, but seem to indicate that wait list numbers 12, 21, 33, 34, 38, 40, & 47 were enrolled (what's particularly unclear is how many of numbers 1 to 11 enrolled). |
Anonymous
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22:44 continued. By month across all classes, around 90 acceptances in April, 5 new acceptances in May, 15 in June, 10 in July, 8 in early August, after that I lost count with more rapid working through the list. . .
For 2nd grade, all applicants were accepted, a start up anomaly as 1st grade was underenrolled in the first year of the school. For 1st grade, #16 on April 23 was admitted by the summer immersion camp. |
Anonymous
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Yu Ying bases it waitlist on when you got your application in. So it had the waitlist in order ready to go before the lottery was held and just needed to make some very minor modifications to it.
I find it unfair that the waitlist is based on the sequencing of application. This means that for those who applied later but before the application deadline will have no chance of moving off the waitlist. Certainly there is no such information given on their webpage. To be fair, sequencing on the waitlist should be randomized by lottery too. |
Anonymous
According to the DC Public Charter School Board guidelines on lotteries and waitlist policies: (http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/Enrolling-Your-Child/Enrollment-and-Lottery-Guidelines.aspx) 6. Schools may exercise two options in arranging the waiting list. 1) Schools may arrange their waiting list by lottery results, OR 2) Schools may place those applications received by the deadline in order of their submission on a waiting list and then all other applications should be placed after them in order of their submission on that waiting list. So to be fair, it looks like they are following the law in accordance with the School Reform Act (Sec 38-1802.06). And furthermore, they DID state this explicitly at the open houses. |
Anonymous
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Link to charter board guidelines with cut/paste below. According to a PP, Yu Ying uses the second acceptable method for organizing wait list. I agree that it would be helpful for this process to be described on the YY website, and that it is not mentioned on the website. I'd be interested to know if it was discussed at the open houses.
http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/Enrolling-Your-Child/Enrollment-and-Lottery-Guidelines.aspx 6.Schools may exercise two options in arranging the waiting list. 1) Schools may arrange their waiting list by lottery results, OR 2) Schools may place those applications received by the deadline in order of their submission on a waiting list and then all other applications should be placed after them in order of their submission on that waiting list. |
Anonymous
It was. They explained it very clearly at the open house(s). |
Anonymous
| for anyone following Yu Ying on DCUM - a poster was kind enough to share how the waitlist was created back in the fall. |
Anonymous
| We moved in the opposite direction on the Waitlist! Started with a better spot on Thursday when the list was first posted and then another child was added ahead of us on Friday, has anyone seen this happen before? Should I call the school? |