Charter School lottery results are in

[Anonymous]

I thought there was a way to enter twins in the lottery. You enter both twins as one unit, and if the unit gets in, both kids get in. You decrease each twin's chance by half, but increase the odds of getting them both in this way?

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted everywhere, best number is 130 worst is 286. Doubt we will get off the waitlist, guess we are going private. Good luck everyone!

Same here! Wait listed everywhere for my twins. Now trying to decide on private. Smh

Since there is no sibling preference, we didn't even bother to try. The odds of getting two slots in the same school were astronomical, so I didn't think it was worth it. We made other plans. The PG lottery system is virtually impossible for twins.

Not true. I know of a couple twins and a set of triplets who got in.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted everywhere, best number is 130 worst is 286. Doubt we will get off the waitlist, guess we are going private. Good luck everyone!

Same here! Wait listed everywhere for my twins. Now trying to decide on private. Smh

Since there is no sibling preference, we didn't even bother to try. The odds of getting two slots in the same school were astronomical, so I didn't think it was worth it. We made other plans. The PG lottery system is virtually impossible for twins.

Not true. I know of a couple twins and a set of triplets who got in.

Agree. The two sets of twins I know that did the lottery last year got consecutive numbers on the waitlist (#13 and #14, #42 and #43), and a set of twins in my kid's school both got in 2 years ago. I'm sure there are many more, but I'm only speaking for twins I personally know.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted everywhere, best number is 130 worst is 286. Doubt we will get off the waitlist, guess we are going private. Good luck everyone!

Same here! Wait listed everywhere for my twins. Now trying to decide on private. Smh

Since there is no sibling preference, we didn't even bother to try. The odds of getting two slots in the same school were astronomical, so I didn't think it was worth it. We made other plans. The PG lottery system is virtually impossible for twins.

Not true. I know of a couple twins and a set of triplets who got in.

Agree. The two sets of twins I know that did the lottery last year got consecutive numbers on the waitlist (#13 and #14, #42 and #43), and a set of twins in my kid's school both got in 2 years ago. I'm sure there are many more, but I'm only speaking for twins I personally know.

That speaks to my theory that you can register the twins as ONE unit in the lottery and if they get in they both get in... but I wasn't able to find it in writing anywhere online. I could swear I read it somewhere though.

As I said, you children have half the chance of winning this way (individually) because you are entering 2 kids only 1 time. But if they do get in both get in.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted everywhere, best number is 130 worst is 286. Doubt we will get off the waitlist, guess we are going private. Good luck everyone!

Same here! Wait listed everywhere for my twins. Now trying to decide on private. Smh

Since there is no sibling preference, we didn't even bother to try. The odds of getting two slots in the same school were astronomical, so I didn't think it was worth it. We made other plans. The PG lottery system is virtually impossible for twins.

Not true. I know of a couple twins and a set of triplets who got in.

Agree. The two sets of twins I know that did the lottery last year got consecutive numbers on the waitlist (#13 and #14, #42 and #43), and a set of twins in my kid's school both got in 2 years ago. I'm sure there are many more, but I'm only speaking for twins I personally know.

That speaks to my theory that you can register the twins as ONE unit in the lottery and if they get in they both get in... but I wasn't able to find it in writing anywhere online. I could swear I read it somewhere though.

As I said, you children have half the chance of winning this way (individually) because you are entering 2 kids only 1 time. But if they do get in both get in.

I don't think that's the case though. Each child has their own school ID number and they enter the lottery based on the student ID number. I think you actually have a greater chance of getting in because if one child gets in, the second child automatically gets the following number. On the lottery result roster, there are no double entries for place. Each place on the waitlist has a discete ID number.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted everywhere, best number is 130 worst is 286. Doubt we will get off the waitlist, guess we are going private. Good luck everyone!

Same here! Wait listed everywhere for my twins. Now trying to decide on private. Smh

Since there is no sibling preference, we didn't even bother to try. The odds of getting two slots in the same school were astronomical, so I didn't think it was worth it. We made other plans. The PG lottery system is virtually impossible for twins.

Not true. I know of a couple twins and a set of triplets who got in.

Agree. The two sets of twins I know that did the lottery last year got consecutive numbers on the waitlist (#13 and #14, #42 and #43), and a set of twins in my kid's school both got in 2 years ago. I'm sure there are many more, but I'm only speaking for twins I personally know.

That speaks to my theory that you can register the twins as ONE unit in the lottery and if they get in they both get in... but I wasn't able to find it in writing anywhere online. I could swear I read it somewhere though.

As I said, you children have half the chance of winning this way (individually) because you are entering 2 kids only 1 time. But if they do get in both get in.

I don't think that's the case though. Each child has their own school ID number and they enter the lottery based on the student ID number. I think you actually have a greater chance of getting in because if one child gets in, the second child automatically gets the following number. On the lottery result roster, there are no double entries for place. Each place on the waitlist has a discete ID number.

My twins were selected for the speciality lottery. I entered them both separately with there IDs. Maybe it is different for the charter lottery.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted everywhere, best number is 130 worst is 286. Doubt we will get off the waitlist, guess we are going private. Good luck everyone!

Same here! Wait listed everywhere for my twins. Now trying to decide on private. Smh

Since there is no sibling preference, we didn't even bother to try. The odds of getting two slots in the same school were astronomical, so I didn't think it was worth it. We made other plans. The PG lottery system is virtually impossible for twins.

Not true. I know of a couple twins and a set of triplets who got in.

Agree. The two sets of twins I know that did the lottery last year got consecutive numbers on the waitlist (#13 and #14, #42 and #43), and a set of twins in my kid's school both got in 2 years ago. I'm sure there are many more, but I'm only speaking for twins I personally know.

That speaks to my theory that you can register the twins as ONE unit in the lottery and if they get in they both get in... but I wasn't able to find it in writing anywhere online. I could swear I read it somewhere though.

As I said, you children have half the chance of winning this way (individually) because you are entering 2 kids only 1 time. But if they do get in both get in.

I don't think that's the case though. Each child has their own school ID number and they enter the lottery based on the student ID number. I think you actually have a greater chance of getting in because if one child gets in, the second child automatically gets the following number. On the lottery result roster, there are no double entries for place. Each place on the waitlist has a discete ID number.

If what I bolded were true, yes, twins would definitely have double the chance of getting in!

But I can't find that procedure written anywhere online.

I SWEAR I read online that there was a certain procedure for twins, where you just registered one time for both twins... but maybe I imagined it. (Or they gave you a choice to enter each one individually, but there was no sibling preference if one got in and the other did not.)

[Anonymous]

Does anyone now if/when/how these wait-lists move?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone now if/when/how these wait-lists move?

I think for the lower grades they move a lot. People are waiting for the Specialty Program lottery results before they make their decisions. Lots of people would rather do one of the Immersion Programs or TAG than a Charter....one big reason is that Specialty programs still provide transportation.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone now if/when/how these wait-lists move?

I think for the lower grades they move a lot. People are waiting for the Specialty Program lottery results before they make their decisions. Lots of people would rather do one of the Immersion Programs or TAG than a Charter....one big reason is that Specialty programs still provide transportation.

This is my first time going through the process of TAG lottery. Could you tell me when and how we will be notified?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone now if/when/how these wait-lists move?

I think for the lower grades they move a lot. People are waiting for the Specialty Program lottery results before they make their decisions. Lots of people would rather do one of the Immersion Programs or TAG than a Charter....one big reason is that Specialty programs still provide transportation.

This is my first time going through the process of TAG lottery. Could you tell me when and how we will be notified?

Not until early/mid April. Specialty programs haven't had their lottery yet.

[Anonymous]

Specialty lottery results are out by the way. It was not announced but you can go online and find out. So as of today both charter and specialty program results are out on the website.

[Anonymous]

Results for specialty schools:

http://gis.pgcps.org/Specialty_Results/default.aspx

[Anonymous]

My Son received K placement for both CMIT South Elem & North Elem. We have accepted placement at SES, but if we get a placement into a language immersion then we will likely go there instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted everywhere, best number is 130 worst is 286. Doubt we will get off the waitlist, guess we are going private. Good luck everyone!

Same here! Wait listed everywhere for my twins. Now trying to decide on private. Smh

Since there is no sibling preference, we didn't even bother to try. The odds of getting two slots in the same school were astronomical, so I didn't think it was worth it. We made other plans. The PG lottery system is virtually impossible for twins.

Not true. I know of a couple twins and a set of triplets who got in.

Agree. The two sets of twins I know that did the lottery last year got consecutive numbers on the waitlist (#13 and #14, #42 and #43), and a set of twins in my kid's school both got in 2 years ago. I'm sure there are many more, but I'm only speaking for twins I personally know.

This is completely opposite what I was told last year. I called a number of found on the PGCPS web-site and also called Robert Goddard Montessori and asked and was told that each twin would be entered into the system independently, that they would get a separate ID and wait list number. And that if one got in, that the other was not guaranteed a spot. I was told that sibling preference is only extended when one child is already enrolled in the school, so basically older and younger siblings, but not same age siblings.

Oh well. We made different arrangements and we're happy with the path that we chose for our twins.