Will waitlist move tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know the WHY of Cooper offering more 6th grade seats than 5th? I thought their goal originally was to capture kids at 5th to get them school ready. Adding together regular and equitable access matches (ignoring the unmatched EA seat), they offered :
5th: 56
6th: 95


I thought key to mission was getting 5th graders in to establish good executive functioning, etc. This does meet their target of 150 kids in year one.

That is odd indeed. At the open house they mentioned not fully subscribing the 5th grade class in order to build the culture then filling it next year on the belief that the returning students would reinforce the culture. Honestly that made sense to me. How does that track with fully subscribing the 6th grade class? Would not the same principle hold true in that grade? Or perhaps the trade-off of culture building vs delayed academic rigor was too severe in 6th? Without judgment and from a strictly academic perspective would love to hear more about the thought process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the virtual open house I attended, the administration mentioned that they decided to offer less 5th grade spots for the first year because (1) they recognized that 6th grade is the more traditional entry year for middle school and wanted to be able to offer more 6th grade seats than usual both this year and next year; and (2) they wanted to begin developing a school culture with a smaller number of 5th grade students who can then help the new 6th graders acclimate next year.

I don't think PP was taking issue with the approach for 5th, just intrigued about why that same thought process is not being applied to 6th.

[Anonymous]

Not seeing any movement yet. This is boring.

[Anonymous]

No WL movement thus far for Cooper Campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No WL movement thus far for Cooper Campus.

I know, I've been checking MySchoolDC daily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would we expect entry year to move quicker? E.g. 5th grade at BASIS and Latin II?

Ha, this is my exact waitlist too. No movement on either Latin campus or BASIS, on my list at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would we expect entry year to move quicker? E.g. 5th grade at BASIS and Latin II?

Ha, this is my exact waitlist too. No movement on either Latin campus or BASIS, on my list at least.

Can you give us rough approximations of your #s for each?

[Anonymous]

NP. We're about 60 for Basis and 100 for Latin 2. You?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. We're about 60 for Basis and 100 for Latin 2. You?

30s for BASIS and 70s for Latin II. Have not seen movement.

[Anonymous]

We are also 30s for Basis and 70s for Latin II. We will get an offer from Basis but not holding my breath on Latin II. What do you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. We're about 60 for Basis and 100 for Latin 2. You?

30s for BASIS and 70s for Latin II. Have not seen movement.

NP. I think there are related moving pieces. My impression is there are not a small number of people who matched at Basis who are still on WL for Latin I, and just about 100% of the Latin II WL. If (big if) anyone gets off Latin I WL that will drive subsequent movement on Basis and Latin II. But likely to be a delayed movement because Latin I needs to move first.

Would also observe that the person who processes enrollments at Basis does not appear to be in a rush. She waited weeks to process enrollments (common refrain at open house a few weeks ago) so if the Basis WL doesn't move at first it might not portent lack of movement overall.

Good luck to all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. We're about 60 for Basis and 100 for Latin 2. You?

30s for BASIS and 70s for Latin II. Have not seen movement.

NP. I think there are related moving pieces. My impression is there are not a small number of people who matched at Basis who are still on WL for Latin I, and just about 100% of the Latin II WL. If (big if) anyone gets off Latin I WL that will drive subsequent movement on Basis and Latin II. But likely to be a delayed movement because Latin I needs to move first.

Would also observe that the person who processes enrollments at Basis does not appear to be in a rush. She waited weeks to process enrollments (common refrain at open house a few weeks ago) so if the Basis WL doesn't move at first it might not portent lack of movement overall.

Good luck to all.

Well that's annoying. Thanks for the intel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are also 30s for Basis and 70s for Latin II. We will get an offer from Basis but not holding my breath on Latin II. What do you think?

Offer from BASIS seems almost guaranteed. It'll be interesting to see what happens with Latin II. Could move a lot due to the negatives (crap facilities, not great location, temporary campus, brand new school). Personally, we do not know what we would do if we got into BASIS and then got an offer from Latin II.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are also 30s for Basis and 70s for Latin II. We will get an offer from Basis but not holding my breath on Latin II. What do you think?

Offer from BASIS seems almost guaranteed. It'll be interesting to see what happens with Latin II. Could move a lot due to the negatives (crap facilities, not great location, temporary campus, brand new school). Personally, we do not know what we would do if we got into BASIS and then got an offer from Latin II.

I wonder how many people on the WL have Basis above Latin II, and vice versa.

[Anonymous]

How long before it shows you are enrolled in MySchool. I received the email that all signatures were complete a day ago.