Waitlist data August update

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Earlier poster meant Latin 1 and 2 waitlists are the same set of kids. There is probably also lots of overlap with Basis (matches and waitlist), but yes not everyone on the Latin waitlists will have also listed Basis.

Makes sense. Most of the current crop of rising 6th graders I know did both latins and would take both. This wasn't the the couple of years ago when a Latin slot at the og campus was much preferred. This might be the first successful expansion.

But agreed that Latin and basis are different enough that people dont necessary put both down unless they dont have dci/inspired or another viable middle school path.

[Anonymous]

there are also a lot of people who list Basis in the 5th grade lottery after the Latins but then go on to turn down the Basis spots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basis made a lot more offers than at this point last year. The Latins will be impossible.

With resect to all of this data you need to evaluate it all in context. BASIS made more offers this year than last but the net remaining waitlist is longer than in any year before. So is it more relevant that they needed to make more offers to fill the final seats or that more kids who put the school on their WL are still on the WL? If you are trying to assess the likelihood of admission then the net remaining on WL is the relevant measure.

The larger picture in DC is that the reminder WL at all in demand MS continue to increase. The story this tells us is that demand for high quality MS seats increases and more and more kids are being shut out of a desired path.

[Anonymous]

except 6th grade families this year overall did pretty okay. hardy took 1/2 its waitlist. dci french took 40+ students not from feeders. nobody at feeders got shutout of dci. inspired teaching and stuart hobson had spaces. eliot-hine had nearly or maybe completely already gone through its entire waitlist.

[Anonymous]

TR 4th has gone through entire WL for all but PK3 and PK4. TRY is even worse having gone through basically the entire WL for all grades. TR MS has a WL only in 8th.

As a long ago parent that loved that school before Kristina burned it to the ground this makes me sad...and angry.

[Anonymous]

Check out Stuart Hobson with 100+ still on WL for 6th!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy 6th grade lots of offers

101 offer for 6th grade at Hardy is crazy!!
The school leadership have been saying the school is overenrolled. How does this work?

It’s a data error.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TR 4th has gone through entire WL for all but PK3 and PK4. TRY is even worse having gone through basically the entire WL for all grades. TR MS has a WL only in 8th.

As a long ago parent that loved that school before Kristina burned it to the ground this makes me sad...and angry.

I’m also a long ago parent, but honestly—I don’t think the schools was ever that great. “Dr.” K (LOL) just exposed the cracks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy 6th grade lots of offers

101 offer for 6th grade at Hardy is crazy!!
The school leadership have been saying the school is overenrolled. How does this work?

It’s a data error.

I don’t think so.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely no chance for Spanish or Chinese at DCI. French is the only way to possibly get in if you are lucky as a non-feeder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely no chance for Spanish or Chinese at DCI. French is the only way to possibly get in if you are lucky as a non-feeder.

Spanish made 12 offers in 6th and 9th. Chinese made 20 offers in 9th. I realize it will get harder as the feeders increase in size, but not impossible this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely no chance for Spanish or Chinese at DCI. French is the only way to possibly get in if you are lucky as a non-feeder.

Spanish made 12 offers in 6th and 9th. Chinese made 20 offers in 9th. I realize it will get harder as the feeders increase in size, but not impossible this year.

PP above. My post was pertaining to middle school for 6th grade.

Those Spanish offers went to feeder kids who were on the waitlist. Not non-feeder kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely no chance for Spanish or Chinese at DCI. French is the only way to possibly get in if you are lucky as a non-feeder.

Spanish made 12 offers in 6th and 9th. Chinese made 20 offers in 9th. I realize it will get harder as the feeders increase in size, but not impossible this year.

PP above. My post was pertaining to middle school for 6th grade.

Those Spanish offers went to feeder kids who were on the waitlist. Not non-feeder kids

How do you know?

[Anonymous]

No real chance at DCI Spanish coming from a non-feeder. But that is nothing new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy 6th grade lots of offers

101 offer for 6th grade at Hardy is crazy!!
The school leadership have been saying the school is overenrolled. How does this work?

Yeah, I’m curious about this. They only had 2 available lottery seats for 6th grade, but made 101 offers to fill those two seats?

No. Hardy is always assuming that some number of kids who are inbound and/or come from feeders will enroll each year. They need to be conservative here, as they are required to take all those kids. So, not being sure how many that would be, they only offered up two lottery seats.

But then, the number of kids inbound/from feeders was probably way less than they anticipated. So they had tons of extra seats available for OOB kids.

My guess is, especially before August, very few people turn down Hardy waitlist offers.

I think it’s because of the feeder change. No more JR. It’s now to MA which has not gotten buy in from IB families. It’s title 1, poorly performing, limited in curriculum, EC, and sports.

So more IB families from feeders are not going the Hardy route so more seats for OOB.

No. The people entering 6th now know that
MacArthur will be very different by time they get there *because* there is no longer an option of J-R.