2024 Lottery Results

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Anonymous wrote:6th grader at Basis, with 3rd grade sibling at Lamb. 6th grader was not liking Basis, so tried the lottery. Got a waitlist #5 at DCI....because of the sibling preference for the 3rd grader. Wild.

Wow - I didn't appreciate that sibling preference operated across ES/MS/HS. Congrats

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Anonymous wrote:6th grader at Basis, with 3rd grade sibling at Lamb. 6th grader was not liking Basis, so tried the lottery. Got a waitlist #5 at DCI....because of the sibling preference for the 3rd grader. Wild.

Wow - I didn't appreciate that sibling preference operated across ES/MS/HS. Congrats

What? Is that true? I didn't realize it worked this way either.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question: we matched at Sela (we put it lower on our list but we speak the language at home, so that would actually be a bonus) and got #15 WL at SWWFS. Prior years suggests little movement off the list before August or even October, but that this result is fairly likely to get an admissions offer. SWWFS is slightly easier from a commute perspective, though not necessarily enough to make a difference, especially with the van service from our neighborhood to Sela.
A few questions for the hive mind:

--This is our first lottery. How secure is a "match" if we don't enroll until much later?

--if the WL offers go as late as October...what do people tend to do in August and September?

--most importantly - feeder status aside for a moment - is there a clear academic choice at the PK and elementary level? are there any issues with either that would give the other an advantage? Looking at the rankings and assessments (such as they are), I'm not sure ...

I love Sela, our child loves Sela, and it has been fantastic in generally every way. The only reason we are (considering) leaving is to secure a middle school feeder pattern. I would regret leaving though

Did you lottery and match somewhere else? Where?

Curious to know (if you’ll tell) what school you’d leave Sela for.

Yes. I was a poster above. We matched at Key, and plan to enroll unless we get in a waitlist school of

Shepherd (WL # 7)
Lafayette (WL # 4)
Mann (WL # 1)
Murch (WL # 3)
Janney (WL # 3)

Which are really just ordered in terms of commute. All wonderful schools.

We're EOTP, zoned for Wells (fine) and Coolidge (currently not fine). I'd rather enroll in a good feeder now then face getting shut out in 5th and 6th and having to move (if we could even afford it). If we could be assured Deal/Basis/Latin/Hardy, then we'd stay at Sela through 5th.

Smart move!!!!

It’s looks like Sela will eventually feed into Deal, so you will likely see those kids again at some point.

Um. Sela is a charter. What is this nonsense?

Um. It’s a DME recommendation that came up during the boundary revision process. There are a handful of immersion programs in the city who do not have a MS/HS path and the city’s idea is to create charter-DCPS programs that would be housed at different DCPS throughout the city, and Sela to Deal is one of the possibilities under discussion.

Will never happen.
They'd do a cross sector Montessori first.
Or certainly won't send it to Deal. Maybe McFarland or CHEC. Actual dual language schools

The point is for the city to create MORE immersion programs without having to do any work - and then claim credit. And they discussed Sela going to Wells/Deal, with Deal being most likely, and that other Chinese immersion program feeding into Stuart-Hobson, I believe.

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Anonymous wrote:6th grader at Basis, with 3rd grade sibling at Lamb. 6th grader was not liking Basis, so tried the lottery. Got a waitlist #5 at DCI....because of the sibling preference for the 3rd grader. Wild.

Congrats though - hope your kid gets out of BASIS.

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Anonymous wrote:6th grader at Basis, with 3rd grade sibling at Lamb. 6th grader was not liking Basis, so tried the lottery. Got a waitlist #5 at DCI....because of the sibling preference for the 3rd grader. Wild.

Wow - I didn't appreciate that sibling preference operated across ES/MS/HS. Congrats

Interesting, right? 6th grader is a Lamb alum, but did 5th and now 6th at Basis, so didn't get a preference for DCI. But little sibling might have done the trick.

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Anonymous wrote:Rising 5th grader, oldest sibling, matched at top choice, Latin 2nd Street. I'm walking around in disbelief. And also obviously not going to chat it up among the 4th grade moms, so posting here

Ha. I see you 😄. We got in a few years ago—as an only child. True unicorn. Very happy, but yes, I told no one unless asked.

I knew quite a few families like you when we did the lottery 2 years ago. Latin isn't just for siblings.

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Anonymous wrote:IB for Tyler. Only put Brent on the list because it's a closer walk and better school than Tyler for 3rd grade. WL under 10.

I wonder if Brent might be seeing more OOB movement already in anticipation of their modernization and temporary move to a swing space. But if you're Tyler catchement it won't really be a big deal for you, just similar distance the other direction.

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Anonymous wrote:Under #5 for yu ying, second grade. Any hope????

I assume your child already speaks Mandarin? You usually can't join an immersion in second grade. Most cut it off for monolingual kids at first grade, unless you can demonstrate proficiency in both languages.
If you do speak it, I'd contact the school to let them know. I could see them not even bothering to look at the waitlists for past first.

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Anonymous wrote:For PK-4:

SWW@FS: WL#8
Marie Reed ES:WL #18
The Riverseed School: WL #1
Matched at Stevens ELC

Already at Amidon would we have a chance at SWW or MR realistically?

Are you so unhappy with Amidon that you would switch to Stevens for a year, and then have to switch again for k? Odds at sww and Mr aren't great.

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Anonymous wrote:First time doing the lottery after just moving to DC...

Applying to PK3, and we're inbounds for Ludlow-Taylor, where we are waitlisted #10 (and with so bad waitlist number for other schools that they're all irrelevant)

In 21-22, 4 offers were made by June and 9 by October
In 22-23, 6 offers were made by June and 11 by October
In 23-24, 0 offers were made by June and 14 by October,

So based on that, there seems to be a fairly good chance that we will get a spot sometime during the fall/winter, is that right? (i.e., in the previous two years we would have gotten a spot by October, and just missed out in 21-22?).

Thanks in advance!

Most schools don't make any spots available after count day, which is in mid September. So if you don't get in the first few weeks of school, you probably won't.

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Anonymous wrote:#45 on the waitlist at Yu Ying - any shot? We are willing to wait till September to get a spot, but not sure if that's even realistic.

I think a lot of it depends on how many seats they actually opened in the lottery, and when the new building actually opens. If they reduced the seats to what they can accommodate in the current building, and then add them whenever the building finishes, we might see a lot of movement. If they ran the lottery based on what they can actually fit in the new building, then i don't think the lottery will move much at all.

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Anonymous wrote:6th grader at Basis, with 3rd grade sibling at Lamb. 6th grader was not liking Basis, so tried the lottery. Got a waitlist #5 at DCI....because of the sibling preference for the 3rd grader. Wild.

Wow - I didn't appreciate that sibling preference operated across ES/MS/HS. Congrats

Interesting, right? 6th grader is a Lamb alum, but did 5th and now 6th at Basis, so didn't get a preference for DCI. But little sibling might have done the trick.

DCI’s published preferences:

LOTTERY PREFERENCES
1. Founders
2. Children of Staff
3. Sibling Attending
4. Sibling Offered
5. Sibling Attending (DCI-Member School)*
6. Sibling Offered (DCI-Member School)*
*Not applied to Gr. 6 Member School Applicants

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Anonymous wrote:Under #5 for yu ying, second grade. Any hope????

I assume your child already speaks Mandarin? You usually can't join an immersion in second grade. Most cut it off for monolingual kids at first grade, unless you can demonstrate proficiency in both languages.
If you do speak it, I'd contact the school to let them know. I could see them not even bothering to look at the waitlists for past first.

This is not true for Yu Ying. I have spoken directly to a Yu Ying teacher about it. It is fine if your kid wants to go to Yu Ying without Mandarin.

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We ended up with #2 on the waitlist at School Within School, but we don’t have any sibling preference. Does anybody have a rough guess at what our odds might look like?

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Ended up with a spot at our third choice for pre-K3. Third on the waitlist for our IB, Lewis. Pretty pleased overall. It's pre-k3, and we achieved our goal of making sure we had a spot close to home.