Lottery Swami Says

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K, IB is Burroughs

Stokes Spanish
Stokes French
Lee
ITS
DCB
Shining Stars
2R4
YY
CMI
Breakthrough

You will get into Breakthrough on lottery day and waffle about enrolling because you aren't sure of the commute. Your CMI and YY numbers will be untenable. You will get off of the WL at SSMA with a number in the 30s by mid-summer, but will be watching your ITS number and DCB numbers creep down. You will call DCB and ITS through count day and will eventually get in ITS in late September. Your kid will be resilient, and you will be happy. You'll sign up immediately for kiss and go duty.

No match, Breakthrough is in the 30s, SSMA is in the 40s. ITS is near 100, don't think that's happening. I give you a 7 out of 10.

Swami still thinks you will get a Breakthrough call before 1-June.

For K? They aren't expanding that much at K. They don't have the room now that they are staying in current location

Swami doublesdown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For K:

LAMB
SWS
Two River Young
Lee
MV
TR 4th
DCB
YY
Peabody
Brent
Mann
Lafayette

Swami says you will get a good number, most of yours will be under 40, but you will only receive an offer from TR:Y, and not until later in the process.

Thank you - that would be great!
Correct on LAMB lottery - under 40 : )
You make this process a little more fun!

You failed me Swami - LAMB is best number - 2RY is in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Swami sleeps.
Tell Swami if she should get a new job outside internet prognostication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(No IB listed--IB is Langdon)
MV
Stokes
DCB
SWS
Lee
VN
CMI
SHining Stars
Logan
ITD
2Rivers
JO Wilson

Swami says while you should have put a true safety on here, your desire for Montessori will land you at SSMA this evening, and at Lee by the end of enrollment period.

Holy Crap! What are you? We matched at SS and got #12 at Lee! You're freakin me out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(No IB listed--IB is Langdon)
MV
Stokes
DCB
SWS
Lee
VN
CMI
SHining Stars
Logan
ITD
2Rivers
JO Wilson

Swami says while you should have put a true safety on here, your desire for Montessori will land you at SSMA this evening, and at Lee by the end of enrollment period.

Holy Crap! What are you? We matched at SS and got #12 at Lee! You're freakin me out.

Lol. Love the "what are you?," not "who."

[Anonymous]

Help me Swami!!!!! Is there any hope for pk4 ???? Is there any possibility my kid will get into any or one of the top 5?

1 Washington Yu Ying PCS Waitlisted - #113
2 Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS Waitlisted - #168
3 Hearst Elementary School Waitlisted - #95
4 DC Bilingual PCS Waitlisted - #117
5 Shepherd Elementary School Waitlisted - #46
6 Capital City PCS - Lower School Waitlisted - #48
7 Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Oyster) Waitlisted - #173
8 Mann Elementary School Waitlisted - #139
9 Murch Elementary School Waitlisted - #110
10 Creative Minds International PCS Waitlisted - #135
11 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Waitlisted - #92
12 DC Prep PCS - Edgewood Elementary waitlisted - #32

[Anonymous]

Swami me:

PK3
Matched West IB
Cap City 39
Powell DL-English 39
Cleveland DL-English 45
Haynes 48
All others in 80s and above

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5th grade moving from out of state. If we don't get an acceptable option through lottery, we will just rent on Conn. Ave to go IB for Lafayette or Murch.

Washington Latin PCS – Middle School
BASIS DC PCS
Two Rivers PCS at 4th Street
Capital City PCS – Middle School
Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
Lafayette Elementary School
Murch Elementary School
Shepherd Elementary School
Ross Elementary
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens
E.L. Haynes PCS – Middle School
Bancroft Elementary School

Congrats! You almost won the lottery. You are offered a BASIS slot, and now are deciding where on the D6, 30s bus lines you want to live. Welcome to DC!

Sorry to say, Swami, but you misread our fortune. We got in the 70s for Basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4

Mundo
Yu Ying
Stokes French
Stokes Spanish
Inspired
DCI
CMI
2R 4th
Lee
Cleveland English
SSMA
Breakthrough

Plus LAMB

Sorry for the delay, lottery swami had to put kids to bed. You are going to be one of our lucky ones this year, but make copies of your paperwork because you will likely get off several lists throughout the summer! You will get into Inspired on the first draw, enroll, and will creep up the Stokes French list, but shoot up the Yu Ying and MV lists. You will have a hard discussion in your family on whether Mandarin and/or Spanish are things you are willing and able to support, but will ultimately enroll in MV about 2 weeks before school begins.

You will feel terrible leaving your existing school, but will jump in and get involved with both feet.

Swami could not have been wronger. Terrible number, no hope anywhere except Cleveland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in Boundary for Bancroft
PK3

Our list is
Marie Reed (Sp)
Marie Reed (Eng)
Bancroft
Tubman
HD Cook

Swami, how will we do?

Swami says Bancroft. Swami wonders if you secretly want to move to Adams Morgan.

Swami, you were almost 100% right!
We got option 7 (Meridian), but have number 2 for Bancroft, 87 for MR Eng and 29 for MR Sp. Lottery Goods were good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5th grade moving from out of state. If we don't get an acceptable option through lottery, we will just rent on Conn. Ave to go IB for Lafayette or Murch.

Washington Latin PCS – Middle School
BASIS DC PCS
Two Rivers PCS at 4th Street
Capital City PCS – Middle School
Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
Lafayette Elementary School
Murch Elementary School
Shepherd Elementary School
Ross Elementary
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens
E.L. Haynes PCS – Middle School
Bancroft Elementary School

Congrats! You almost won the lottery. You are offered a BASIS slot, and now are deciding where on the D6, 30s bus lines you want to live. Welcome to DC!

Sorry to say, Swami, but you misread our fortune. We got in the 70s for Basis.

If this year is similar to last, you'll get an offer from Basis over the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in Boundary for Bancroft
PK3

Our list is
Marie Reed (Sp)
Marie Reed (Eng)
Bancroft
Tubman
HD Cook

Swami, how will we do?

Swami says Bancroft. Swami wonders if you secretly want to move to Adams Morgan.

Swami, you were almost 100% right!
We got option 7 (Meridian), but have number 2 for Bancroft, 83 for MR Eng and 29 for MR Sp. Lottery Goods were good.

1 Marie Reed Elementary School (Dual Language) - Waitlisted - #29
2 Marie Reed Elementary School Waitlisted - #83
3 Bancroft Elementary School - Spanish Dominant Waitlisted - #2
4 H.D. Cooke Elementary School Waitlisted - #10
5 Tubman Elementary School Waitlisted - #7
6 AppleTree Early Learning PCS - Columbia Heights Waitlisted - #10
7 Meridian Public Charter School - Elementary School Match (enrollment pending)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Swami for kicks and giggles please tell me our chances of
1st grade:

Stokes Community Freedom PCS (Spanish)
Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS
DC Bilingual PCS
Creative Minds International PCS
Bridges PCS
E.L. Haynes PCS – Elementary School
Two Rivers PCS at 4th Street
Tubman Elementary School
Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
Center City PCS – Petworth
Sela PCS
Takoma Education Campus

Swami says you love a good commuting challenge, and it's good. You will get into Sela on first pull, and reorder your list rapidly because you aren't convinced that you prefer Bridges more than ITS after all, even if it is convenient. You will figure out the secret backroads to ITS after you get in, and find another family to share carpooling with.

Swami you were not correct this time. Matched at Bridges, WL for the top four all under 15. But I still appreciate your efforts!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For PK4

Oyster-Adams (in boundary)
Marie Reed Elementary School (Dual Language)
DC Bilingual PCS
Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS
Bancroft Elementary School
Cleveland Elementary School (Dual Language)
Powell Elementary School (Dual Language)
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS (Spanish Language Program)
Creative Minds International PCS
Bridges PCS

Please don't leave me hanging, wise Swami...

Swami hopes you like to drive and are ok being anxious, because unless you have a sibling, (you didn't indicate), you will be shut out everywhere next Thursday at 11pm. You will eventually get into Bridges and decline to stay at your current care situation.

Here are my results today:
Oyster #14
Marie Reed Spanish #25
DC Bilingual #17
Mundo Verde #7
Cleveland Dual Language #6
Stokes -Spanish #3
CMI #13

[Anonymous]

Swami's tired!