CM lottery

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do these schools continue to use postcards? Who still snail-mails these days? How hard is it to email?

When I sent out my birth announcements I used postcards and at least 10 never arrived at their destination. I am more worried about the DC branch of the USPS than CM right about now.

[Anonymous]

So, just call the school and ask for your wait list number?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do these schools continue to use postcards? Who still snail-mails these days? How hard is it to email?

When I sent out my birth announcements I used postcards and at least 10 never arrived at their destination. I am more worried about the DC branch of the USPS than CM right about now.

Good point. But let's not worry about some being lost until we hear that at least some people have received theirs in the mail.

[Anonymous]

Just got the postcard. Waitlist number in the low 200s...oh well

[Anonymous]

So glad to hear that the postcards arrive today. I am sure mine will be worse than you, PP!

[Anonymous]

We got #31. Any chance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got #31. Any chance?

I was 37 and got in last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do these schools continue to use postcards? Who still snail-mails these days? How hard is it to email?

I'm sure this is impossible for you to imagine, but there are still families in DC that don't use email or the internet a whole lot. Yes, it's true.

Postcards do 2 things: can reach everyone; and if you lied about where you live, you won't get yours. It's not really a residency test as much as it reflects that it's important that you should know that public schools almost always communicate through regular mail.

All schools communicate by mail, even if they also communicate in other ways (email and/or phone).

[Anonymous]

What's killing me is that my kid's # is in high 40s/low 50s--just a bit below where they apparently stopped admitting kids on the PS3 waitlist last year.

If we don't get in by September, somehow it'll hurt more than if we had a WL # in the 300s, since we'll be SO close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, just call the school and ask for your wait list number?

Person I talked to wouldn't give it over the phone. They would have been swamped, i get that. But maybe they will next week for those whose postcards didn't arrive by then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's killing me is that my kid's # is in high 40s/low 50s--just a bit below where they apparently stopped admitting kids on the PS3 waitlist last year.

If we don't get in by September, somehow it'll hurt more than if we had a WL # in the 300s, since we'll be SO close.

Maybe you'll get something good in the common lottery and will forget all about it. One can hope.

[Anonymous]

Yes, luckily we have a couple of backups (IB or another year in daycare).

[Anonymous]

Hahahaha in the low 100s for PK4. Oh well!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got #31. Any chance?

I was 37 and got in last year.

when did you find out that you had gotten in?

[Anonymous]

Funny - I did not even apply to CM yet I keep checking this thread repeatedly just to see how the parents who did apply are making out.