Help me understand DCI admissions

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Feeder preference is much more important than sibling preference because you have kids from non-immersion schools and they don’t want to give these kids sibling preference over feeder preference.

Siblings at immersion feeders are already in the immersion schools due to sibling preference. So all siblings at immersion feeders already have feeder preference. You don’t need sibling preference.

As to someone’s comment above about holding spots for non-immersion families, that is not going to happen at all when the expansion classes come up. Mon feeder families will be shut out.

But what happens when the total number of kids with feeder preference exceeds the number of available spots at DCI?

Right, that's the question. If there are 250 feeder preference seats and 50 general seats (and 350 kids with feeder preference), do all of those spots go to feeder preference kids, or do the general seats go to people with great lottery numbers who don't have feeder preference.

[Anonymous]

DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?

There were no non-feeder Spanish seats this year. 20 for French and 20 for Mandarin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?

There's no such thing as general admission spots. The school determines, each year, the space in each language track, in each grade. (For the purposes of the lottery only, each track is treated as three separate "schools.") There are preferences for that track -- sibling, feeder school, child of staff member. [Not necessarily that order.] Like the lottery for other schools, everyone who enters gets assigned a number. Let's say there are 100 spots for 6th grade for Spanish. The first whatever number of spots will be filled with preferences -- whether it's 90 spots out of 100 or 110 spots out of 100. After that will be everyone who hasn't gotten a preference. Up till now, in 6th grade classes in every language, there have usually been fewer preferences than spots, so kids without a preference have gotten in. At some point in Spanish in a couple of years, unless the school decides to expand and finds another location, there will be no spaces for kids without preference, and not enough even for those with preference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?

There's no such thing as general admission spots. The school determines, each year, the space in each language track, in each grade. (For the purposes of the lottery only, each track is treated as three separate "schools.") There are preferences for that track -- sibling, feeder school, child of staff member. [Not necessarily that order.] Like the lottery for other schools, everyone who enters gets assigned a number. Let's say there are 100 spots for 6th grade for Spanish. The first whatever number of spots will be filled with preferences -- whether it's 90 spots out of 100 or 110 spots out of 100. After that will be everyone who hasn't gotten a preference. Up till now, in 6th grade classes in every language, there have usually been fewer preferences than spots, so kids without a preference have gotten in. At some point in Spanish in a couple of years, unless the school decides to expand and finds another location, there will be no spaces for kids without preference, and not enough even for those with preference.

So how will they decide which kids with feeder preference get in and which don't? Will it be siblings-first, or will it be by lottery number without regard to siblings?

I don't know what you would call the 9th grade spots offered, if not "general admission".

[Anonymous]

If there are not general admission spots, what would you call the 20 spots offered for French and Chinese that aren't for a specific feeder school?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If there are not general admission spots, what would you call the 20 spots offered for French and Chinese that aren't for a specific feeder school?

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They're spots for which no feeder students are taking preference. I think it's important to understand that there is no quota for "general admission spots" or set number of them in any given year, and no actual requirement that any exist. Usually they do, but they're not a fixed thing -- they're the leftover spots. (I'm glad they usually exist! I just think it's important to understand that they don't exist as a fixed, separate thing.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?

There's no such thing as general admission spots. The school determines, each year, the space in each language track, in each grade. (For the purposes of the lottery only, each track is treated as three separate "schools.") There are preferences for that track -- sibling, feeder school, child of staff member. [Not necessarily that order.] Like the lottery for other schools, everyone who enters gets assigned a number. Let's say there are 100 spots for 6th grade for Spanish. The first whatever number of spots will be filled with preferences -- whether it's 90 spots out of 100 or 110 spots out of 100. After that will be everyone who hasn't gotten a preference. Up till now, in 6th grade classes in every language, there have usually been fewer preferences than spots, so kids without a preference have gotten in. At some point in Spanish in a couple of years, unless the school decides to expand and finds another location, there will be no spaces for kids without preference, and not enough even for those with preference.

So how will they decide which kids with feeder preference get in and which don't? Will it be siblings-first, or will it be by lottery number without regard to siblings?

I don't know what you would call the 9th grade spots offered, if not "general admission".

On kids with feeder preference: feeder + sibling is higher than just feeder.
On 9th grade: my point is that there aren't "feeder school spots" and "general admission spots." That implies (to me, and I suspect to other people) that there are two separate, distinct, and permanent kinds of spots. Of course, there are no feeder students going directly into 9th (or 7th or 8th) grade!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?

There's no such thing as general admission spots. The school determines, each year, the space in each language track, in each grade. (For the purposes of the lottery only, each track is treated as three separate "schools.") There are preferences for that track -- sibling, feeder school, child of staff member. [Not necessarily that order.] Like the lottery for other schools, everyone who enters gets assigned a number. Let's say there are 100 spots for 6th grade for Spanish. The first whatever number of spots will be filled with preferences -- whether it's 90 spots out of 100 or 110 spots out of 100. After that will be everyone who hasn't gotten a preference. Up till now, in 6th grade classes in every language, there have usually been fewer preferences than spots, so kids without a preference have gotten in. At some point in Spanish in a couple of years, unless the school decides to expand and finds another location, there will be no spaces for kids without preference, and not enough even for those with preference.

So how will they decide which kids with feeder preference get in and which don't? Will it be siblings-first, or will it be by lottery number without regard to siblings?

I don't know what you would call the 9th grade spots offered, if not "general admission".

On kids with feeder preference: feeder + sibling is higher than just feeder.
On 9th grade: my point is that there aren't "feeder school spots" and "general admission spots." That implies (to me, and I suspect to other people) that there are two separate, distinct, and permanent kinds of spots. Of course, there are no feeder students going directly into 9th (or 7th or 8th) grade!

So if you were a feeder kid who got shut out of 6th, that does you no good in grades after that?

So it seems like the chances of admission to DCI for non siblings will actually not be that great in the years to come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?

There's no such thing as general admission spots. The school determines, each year, the space in each language track, in each grade. (For the purposes of the lottery only, each track is treated as three separate "schools.") There are preferences for that track -- sibling, feeder school, child of staff member. [Not necessarily that order.] Like the lottery for other schools, everyone who enters gets assigned a number. Let's say there are 100 spots for 6th grade for Spanish. The first whatever number of spots will be filled with preferences -- whether it's 90 spots out of 100 or 110 spots out of 100. After that will be everyone who hasn't gotten a preference. Up till now, in 6th grade classes in every language, there have usually been fewer preferences than spots, so kids without a preference have gotten in. At some point in Spanish in a couple of years, unless the school decides to expand and finds another location, there will be no spaces for kids without preference, and not enough even for those with preference.

So how will they decide which kids with feeder preference get in and which don't? Will it be siblings-first, or will it be by lottery number without regard to siblings?

I don't know what you would call the 9th grade spots offered, if not "general admission".

On kids with feeder preference: feeder + sibling is higher than just feeder.
On 9th grade: my point is that there aren't "feeder school spots" and "general admission spots." That implies (to me, and I suspect to other people) that there are two separate, distinct, and permanent kinds of spots. Of course, there are no feeder students going directly into 9th (or 7th or 8th) grade!

The bolded part based on some other threads actually seems unclear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?

There's no such thing as general admission spots. The school determines, each year, the space in each language track, in each grade. (For the purposes of the lottery only, each track is treated as three separate "schools.") There are preferences for that track -- sibling, feeder school, child of staff member. [Not necessarily that order.] Like the lottery for other schools, everyone who enters gets assigned a number. Let's say there are 100 spots for 6th grade for Spanish. The first whatever number of spots will be filled with preferences -- whether it's 90 spots out of 100 or 110 spots out of 100. After that will be everyone who hasn't gotten a preference. Up till now, in 6th grade classes in every language, there have usually been fewer preferences than spots, so kids without a preference have gotten in. At some point in Spanish in a couple of years, unless the school decides to expand and finds another location, there will be no spaces for kids without preference, and not enough even for those with preference.

So how will they decide which kids with feeder preference get in and which don't? Will it be siblings-first, or will it be by lottery number without regard to siblings?

I don't know what you would call the 9th grade spots offered, if not "general admission".

On kids with feeder preference: feeder + sibling is higher than just feeder.
On 9th grade: my point is that there aren't "feeder school spots" and "general admission spots." That implies (to me, and I suspect to other people) that there are two separate, distinct, and permanent kinds of spots. Of course, there are no feeder students going directly into 9th (or 7th or 8th) grade!

The bolded part based on some other threads actually seems unclear.

Yes, this year with DCB seems like the first real test of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCB parent here. DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day. They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1. The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?

There's no such thing as general admission spots. The school determines, each year, the space in each language track, in each grade. (For the purposes of the lottery only, each track is treated as three separate "schools.") There are preferences for that track -- sibling, feeder school, child of staff member. [Not necessarily that order.] Like the lottery for other schools, everyone who enters gets assigned a number. Let's say there are 100 spots for 6th grade for Spanish. The first whatever number of spots will be filled with preferences -- whether it's 90 spots out of 100 or 110 spots out of 100. After that will be everyone who hasn't gotten a preference. Up till now, in 6th grade classes in every language, there have usually been fewer preferences than spots, so kids without a preference have gotten in. At some point in Spanish in a couple of years, unless the school decides to expand and finds another location, there will be no spaces for kids without preference, and not enough even for those with preference.

So how will they decide which kids with feeder preference get in and which don't? Will it be siblings-first, or will it be by lottery number without regard to siblings?

I don't know what you would call the 9th grade spots offered, if not "general admission".

On kids with feeder preference: feeder + sibling is higher than just feeder.
On 9th grade: my point is that there aren't "feeder school spots" and "general admission spots." That implies (to me, and I suspect to other people) that there are two separate, distinct, and permanent kinds of spots. Of course, there are no feeder students going directly into 9th (or 7th or 8th) grade!

So if you were a feeder kid who got shut out of 6th, that does you no good in grades after that?

So it seems like the chances of admission to DCI for non siblings will actually not be that great in the years to come.

Mm -- I'm sure they haven't figured this out yet because it hasn't happened yet. There was no feeder preference after 6th in the past. That is, if you were a feeder student who decided not to go to DCI for 6th, but wanted to come for 7th, you didn't get preference. (Remember, every feeder student, until this year, got in on first round.) I wonder if that will change once feeder students who want to go don't get in for 6th.

[Anonymous]

There are no sibling preference. It’s feeder preference. This is what DCI has said.

In future, if there are more feeder kids then spots, I suspect it will be a lottery for those kids. The ones that don’t get in, then they get spots of other language tracks not taken by feeder kids. Easy enough.

I doubt above is going to happen with not enough spots for feeder kids. Not everyone tracks to DCI. In addition, they are already approved for many more spots so the school can expand if they want to. We will need to wait and see how things play out.

What is certain is that there is no saved slots for non-feeder kids and they will be shut as soon as the expansion grades enters from the feeder schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are no sibling preference. It’s feeder preference. This is what DCI has said.

In future, if there are more feeder kids then spots, I suspect it will be a lottery for those kids. The ones that don’t get in, then they get spots of other language tracks not taken by feeder kids. Easy enough.

I doubt above is going to happen with not enough spots for feeder kids. Not everyone tracks to DCI. In addition, they are already approved for many more spots so the school can expand if they want to. We will need to wait and see how things play out.

What is certain is that there is no saved slots for non-feeder kids and they will be shut as soon as the expansion grades enters from the feeder schools.

cite? It says on the DCI page on MySchoolDC that there is sibling preference btw.