Does anyone have an inkling of how many open K spots there will be for Yu Ying?

[Anonymous]

On pins and needles to see the lottery results and whether my early bird lottery application yielded a good wait list number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On pins and needles to see the lottery results and whether my early bird lottery application yielded a good wait list number.

Call the school and ask. They should already be able to tell you your WL number. Did you get it in online within the first 10 minutes?

[Anonymous]

I did call the school and know my time stamp which is between 10 and 15 mins, because the website kept crashing starting at 8AM. That is either a really good sign for me or a really bad sign. Do I need to actually camp out in front of the school next year at 4 AM, if I don't get my kid in this year?

School said they did not know how many K spots for this year. Am hoping DCUM has some intel.

[Anonymous]

How can they know how many K spots if the application deadline hasn't been reached yet? Did current students with hopeful siblings have to turn their applications in early? Unless they required current students wanting to invoke sibling preference for hopeful sibs early, they will have no idea how many K spots they have until after the application period closes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can they know how many K spots if the application deadline hasn't been reached yet? Did current students with hopeful siblings have to turn their applications in early? Unless they required current students wanting to invoke sibling preference for hopeful sibs early, they will have no idea how many K spots they have until after the application period closes.

Parents of returning students have turned in the paperwork, and sibling preference forms should be in too. There shouldn't be very many (if any) siblings going into the K class, those children should already be there in PreK right now.

The vast majority of those 8am applications are going to be for PreK, the next largest pool will be K. If it were me, and I really wanted in, I'd camp out at the school with a completed form to hand in when they open, and have DH at home prepared to fire away the online app at precisely 8:00:01am.

[Anonymous]

pretty sure you're thinking of another school---the Yu Ying website didn't crash, but another school's did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On pins and needles to see the lottery results and whether my early bird lottery application yielded a good wait list number.

Did you move here recently or not get in through the lottery last yr? Not sure why someone would want their kid to enter in K after missing a full yr of Mandarin in preK unless they are one of the above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did call the school and know my time stamp which is between 10 and 15 mins, because the website kept crashing starting at 8AM. That is either a really good sign for me or a really bad sign. Do I need to actually camp out in front of the school next year at 4 AM, if I don't get my kid in this year?

School said they did not know how many K spots for this year. Am hoping DCUM has some intel.

Would you have your child start at 1st grade? Do you speak Mandarin at home? I'm wondering how far behind a child would be starting two years after most of the other students.

[Anonymous]

Seems to me that if the school allows new admissions up to the 2nd grade and we all know they can't test for proficiency, if a parent hasn't been able to get their kid in until 1st or 2nd I would assume YY believes a child can still succeed starting up to that point.

It would be really hard to catch up, but wouldn't YY lobby for earlier grade cut off of new students if odds were it wouldn't work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can they know how many K spots if the application deadline hasn't been reached yet? Did current students with hopeful siblings have to turn their applications in early? Unless they required current students wanting to invoke sibling preference for hopeful sibs early, they will have no idea how many K spots they have until after the application period closes.

Parents of returning students have turned in the paperwork, and sibling preference forms should be in too. There shouldn't be very many (if any) siblings going into the K class, those children should already be there in PreK right now.

The vast majority of those 8am applications are going to be for PreK, the next largest pool will be K. If it were me, and I really wanted in, I'd camp out at the school with a completed form to hand in when they open, and have DH at home prepared to fire away the online app at precisely 8:00:01am.

I'm guessing you're a current YY parent - what's the word on the street about how many PreK slots are going to lottery, since sibling preference forms are in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that if the school allows new admissions up to the 2nd grade and we all know they can't test for proficiency, if a parent hasn't been able to get their kid in until 1st or 2nd I would assume YY believes a child can still succeed starting up to that point.

It would be really hard to catch up, but wouldn't YY lobby for earlier grade cut off of new students if odds were it wouldn't work?

Actually, the child would do ok. If most of the class speaks the language, they would pick it up fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that if the school allows new admissions up to the 2nd grade and we all know they can't test for proficiency, if a parent hasn't been able to get their kid in until 1st or 2nd I would assume YY believes a child can still succeed starting up to that point.

It would be really hard to catch up, but wouldn't YY lobby for earlier grade cut off of new students if odds were it wouldn't work?

Actually, the child would do ok. If most of the class speaks the language, they would pick it up fast.

YY has publicly said that they want to move from 2nd to 1st grade cut off, for exactly that reason. Since they went full immersion in pre-K, it's too hard to integrate at 2nd.

[Anonymous]

There are no new slots for K at YY. so, the only slots that will be filled are from departing PreK students. At this point, unless a family is sure they are leaving the area (or have already left), there will probably be zero slots filled at the lottery.

that will help you, as PreK students make other plans for K and let the school know (can't stand the commute any more and going to inboundary, got into a preferred OOB or charter school, etc.) the WL in application order will be used.

Expect a long wait.

Hold open the weeks that YY has summer school which is required for newly entering students to K, 1, 2.

[Anonymous]

^^ I can understand how that would be true. They are wise to do that, although just to beat the dead horse even more dead (dead-er?), it would be so great if they could test for proficiency starting in 1st or 2nd so they could fill in slots made vacant by attrition. I guess one battle at a time, they have DCI on their hands to implement first.

And while I'm drifting the thread a little, I actually support NOT screening by proficiency for PK, K and 1st. I think keeping it open for ALL kids to be eligible and keeping the curriculum ready to respond to kids entering as late as K or 1st with zero Mandarin is wise given they are a DC public school. But after 1st, would be great if they could start filling vacant spots by testing proficiency. Just my little .02 cents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are no new slots for K at YY. so, the only slots that will be filled are from departing PreK students. At this point, unless a family is sure they are leaving the area (or have already left), there will probably be zero slots filled at the lottery.

that will help you, as PreK students make other plans for K and let the school know (can't stand the commute any more and going to inboundary, got into a preferred OOB or charter school, etc.) the WL in application order will be used.

Expect a long wait.

Hold open the weeks that YY has summer school which is required for newly entering students to K, 1, 2.

No, very tragically we all know there will be at least one.