Waitlist number going higher?

[Anonymous]

yes very common and can happen for the next few months. I reached number one on the waitlist for my inbounds school and then in September a sibling with inbounds preference bumped me down to #2 and I never got in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Child is incoming 9th grade and tested, interviewed for school without walls high school. I called and myschooldc could not figure it out...

OP, stay on top of this one and be a squeaky wheel. Sounds to me like a couple of applicants got added manually by someone (at MSDC or SWW) probably because something got screwed up (applicant has proof that they applied but their child didn't show up in the lottery results, etc.) and to placate those families and remedy the mistake they bumped them to the top of the waitlist. If there was a mistake (and I was on the receiving end) I'd also be demanding satisfaction, so OP, you need to do the same.

+1. SWW is already less than transparent about its admission criteria and process.

OP - have you called the school? Do that, but also put things in writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a lot of numbers go up on my list (like 4 out of the 10 schools on my list pushed me up farther 2-3 spots) the first morning of the lottery results (Friday, before noon) and it made ZERO sense. People kept saying "because of siblings!" but that would mean that people have already accepted schools that they wanted, which, I thought required enrollment. I can NOT believe that people were enrolling at 10am on Friday already, and for the lottery numbers to start moving. For example, on the draw at midnight, I was 31 on a list, but by 10am, I was 33. So two people had already enrolled in a school and had siblings push me back? Doubtful. Manual entry makes more sense, but then that screams of mismanagement/error since a lot of people reported seeing higher numbers moving Friday morning

DCUM at its glorious best!!! Go on with your bad selves.

[Anonymous]

FWIW: I called SWWHS and asked them about this. They told me it was a "technical" problem and that the actual waitlist position is the one initially provided.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Child is incoming 9th grade and tested, interviewed for school without walls high school. I called and myschooldc could not figure it out...

OP, stay on top of this one and be a squeaky wheel. Sounds to me like a couple of applicants got added manually by someone (at MSDC or SWW) probably because something got screwed up (applicant has proof that they applied but their child didn't show up in the lottery results, etc.) and to placate those families and remedy the mistake they bumped them to the top of the waitlist. If there was a mistake (and I was on the receiving end) I'd also be demanding satisfaction, so OP, you need to do the same.

SWWHS has control of their waitlist and where they can add eligible students. Call the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a lot of numbers go up on my list (like 4 out of the 10 schools on my list pushed me up farther 2-3 spots) the first morning of the lottery results (Friday, before noon) and it made ZERO sense. People kept saying "because of siblings!" but that would mean that people have already accepted schools that they wanted, which, I thought required enrollment. I can NOT believe that people were enrolling at 10am on Friday already, and for the lottery numbers to start moving. For example, on the draw at midnight, I was 31 on a list, but by 10am, I was 33. So two people had already enrolled in a school and had siblings push me back? Doubtful. Manual entry makes more sense, but then that screams of mismanagement/error since a lot of people reported seeing higher numbers moving Friday morning

I checked our lottery results pretty much as soon as they were posted on the night of March 31, and it listed our position at one school as 66 on the WL. We got the lottery results letter in the mail from MSDC this past weekend and it listed our position at that particular school as 65. I mean, its one slot, and we're not getting in either way, but what happened there? Sometime between when the lottery was run and when the results were posted online we went up a spot -- but it was not even possible for a family to accept in that period of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw a lot of numbers go up on my list (like 4 out of the 10 schools on my list pushed me up farther 2-3 spots) the first morning of the lottery results (Friday, before noon) and it made ZERO sense. People kept saying "because of siblings!" but that would mean that people have already accepted schools that they wanted, which, I thought required enrollment. I can NOT believe that people were enrolling at 10am on Friday already, and for the lottery numbers to start moving. For example, on the draw at midnight, I was 31 on a list, but by 10am, I was 33. So two people had already enrolled in a school and had siblings push me back? Doubtful. Manual entry makes more sense, but then that screams of mismanagement/error since a lot of people reported seeing higher numbers moving Friday morning

I checked our lottery results pretty much as soon as they were posted on the night of March 31, and it listed our position at one school as 66 on the WL. We got the lottery results letter in the mail from MSDC this past weekend and it listed our position at that particular school as 65. I mean, its one slot, and we're not getting in either way, but what happened there? Sometime between when the lottery was run and when the results were posted online we went up a spot -- but it was not even possible for a family to accept in that period of time.

Because the people who applied post lottery with a preference were not included in the initial lottery results but immediately pushed your # up.