Anyone turning down LAMB spot?

[Anonymous]

I've heard they went to #30 on the published list. And out of some of those since the common lottery came out are not taking the spots because they were matched with more preferred choices and will be giving up their LAMB seats. I guess for some its just a waiting game.

Which location did you call about the waitlist #? I want to call Monday but want to call the correct person.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Bump

[Anonymous]

...yes...bump.

[Anonymous]

I just did for pk3.

[Anonymous]

Any movement for PK4?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just did for pk3.

Bless you PP. Where did you decide to send your DC?

[Anonymous]

Yes thank you! We've now moved up 2 spots only 20ish more to go.

[Anonymous]

We just got in for prek4. I am still pinching myself. We have twins and so will use two spots (sorry!). If it makes you feel better, one of our kids was shut out of common lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just got in for prek4. I am still pinching myself. We have twins and so will use two spots (sorry!). If it makes you feel better, one of our kids was shut out of common lottery.

Congrats! Hope we are as lucky for PK-3! Did they give any indication of where they have spots (NE or NW)?

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Anonymous wrote:We just got in for prek4. I am still pinching myself. We have twins and so will use two spots (sorry!). If it makes you feel better, one of our kids was shut out of common lottery.

What do you mean? Did you order your twins (common) lottery form differently? How can one be shut out and not the other?

Did LAMB have two spots for you or did they just open up a second to accommodate both kids?

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Anonymous wrote:We just got in for prek4. I am still pinching myself. We have twins and so will use two spots (sorry!). If it makes you feel better, one of our kids was shut out of common lottery.

What do you mean? Did you order your twins (common) lottery form differently? How can one be shut out and not the other?

Did LAMB have two spots for you or did they just open up a second to accommodate both kids?

LAMB said that if one kid got in the other would be accepted automatically.

In regular lottery, one kid got into a school (Seaton) but other kid got it nowhere and was number 2 on Seaton WL with accepted sibling priority.

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Anonymous wrote:We just got in for prek4. I am still pinching myself. We have twins and so will use two spots (sorry!). If it makes you feel better, one of our kids was shut out of common lottery.

What do you mean? Did you order your twins (common) lottery form differently? How can one be shut out and not the other?

Did LAMB have two spots for you or did they just open up a second to accommodate both kids?

LAMB said that if one kid got in the other would be accepted automatically.

In regular lottery, one kid got into a school (Seaton) but other kid got it nowhere and was number 2 on Seaton WL with accepted sibling priority.

They would both have been in at Seaton by the beginning of May. Thanks for the update. Looks like even though both of your kids are in only one space is officially freed up then. They will need two PK4 spot declines to move any further on the wait list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just got in for prek4. I am still pinching myself. We have twins and so will use two spots (sorry!). If it makes you feel better, one of our kids was shut out of common lottery.

Congratulations! Were you numbers 4 and 5 on the list? (Initials I.J. and D.J)

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Anonymous wrote:We just got in for prek4. I am still pinching myself. We have twins and so will use two spots (sorry!). If it makes you feel better, one of our kids was shut out of common lottery.

Congratulations! Were you numbers 4 and 5 on the list? (Initials I.J. and D.J)

Yes.

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Anonymous wrote:I attended the lottery results day, and they said that they got to somewhere around 30 on the waitlist last year. I think they had more siblings this year, but good luck! (We are #356 so no chance. haha)

I think they actually had fewer sibling spots taking up lottery slots this year than last year. My daughter started this year in PK3 as a sibling and it was a large sibling class.

Ah, I was just guessing about the siblings part...We were told LAMB had 60 spots available for PK3 and PK4. After siblings, only 30 spots and 3 of those went to PK4; then with sibling pairs (if one got in, the other did too), they only got to around #24 on the long list of names. I just assumed it wasn't possible that they could get to 30 on the wait list based on those numbers (so fewer non-sibling spots available this year) but definitely could be mistaken!

Were you told they only got to #24 by someone at the school? I was told by the school they got to 30 on the pK-3 list but now I'm worried I got the wrong information!

Whoops--just seeing this. At the lottery, they read the names quickly. One of the women said that based on the names with siblings that they probably only got to #24 to fill 30 spots (sibling names were listed as one entry as far as I could see). So this was said as soon as the lottery list was generated so off the cuff and not official. But yes, by an administrator.