DC Lottery Results
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Anonymous
Did it drop off the list or are you waitlisted there? If it dropped off, you can do a post lottery app through the website. I think same process as before? If you’re waitlisted, you can rearrange the list to put it at #1. |
Anonymous
Thanks! We're good with Langley, but the prospect of getting into Inspired early (and not have to deal with the lottery for 12+ years(!) is so tempting). |
Anonymous
Makes sense! There are SO MANY Langley bound people at ITS, it feels a little like another neighborhood school. |
Anonymous
What numbers are you looking at to suggest Murch took more than 16 kids off the waitlist in any grade beyond PK4? They made 9 waitlist offers in kindergarten last year, and while there have been years where they add classrooms and thus take a chunk off the waitlist, most years it's 1-2 kids, tops. |
Anonymous
| Under 5 on the WL for Latin Cooper for 6th grade. No idea if there is even a shot, as it looks like only 2 offers last year. Very curious if all of the employment upheaval will mean more enrollment upheaval, but who knows. |
Anonymous
You have a much better chance at H-A than Murch. |
Anonymous
The difference here is that, no matter what you decide, there will be multiple transitions. It's just the nature of 5th and 6th grade in DC. If they stay at current elementary school for 5th, it's still a "transition" since many 4th grade classmates will move on to charters or better middle school feeders. And they will still have to transition to a new school in 6th. If they don't lottery into something they like for 6th, they're not just looking at moving schools but moving out of DC entirely, which is obviously a much bigger transition. If instead they go to BASIS for 5th, yeah it's a transition. But if they end up liking it, they're set. If they don't, they're in the same position lotterying for 6th as they would be anyway. But maybe it buys them a little extra time to make a game plan if they're willing to stick with BASIS for 6th. |
Anonymous
we're on the PK4 list. |
Anonymous
| lololol only tried for Latin at 5th and in the mid-high 300s for each campus. |
Anonymous
No you’re right - especially in this instance. I just see moving schools/relotterying thrown out a lot on here, and I’m always a bit surprised. We’re now facing another possible move at 5th and I haven’t even told my kid they got in yet. |
Anonymous
It dropped off. Should've mentioned this is for Prek3. We matched with our second choice. If we do a post lottery app while we lose our spot at our current match? |
Anonymous
The problem you'll be facing is that the Murch PK4 waitlist is full of kids with neighborhood preference. They took a few OOB kids off the PK4 waitlist this year but most years they don't take any. |
Anonymous
You won't lose the spot. But the waitlist for PK3 Spanish at Stokes is likely hundreds of kids long. So you don't have any chance of getting in with a post-lottery app. |
Anonymous
| Basis goes surprisingly deep into its waitlist. (Said no last year for a smart kid with anxiety and limited interest in homework. Will try one of SH or EH.) |
Anonymous
My feeling is most people who recommend this are trying to optimize middle and/or high school feeds and see a middle or high school transition as more harmful than an elementary transition (or two). But some are definitely of the "grass is always greener" mentality and that feels harmful. Have acquaintances whose 2nd grader is struggling a bit both academically and socially, and I wonder how much of it is that she's never been in any childcare setting or school for more than a year before being moved again for something "better." |