Yu Ying Lottery on Apr 7, anyone attend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We moved in the opposite direction on the Waitlist! Started with a better spot on Thursday when the list was first posted and then another child was added ahead of us on Friday, has anyone seen this happen before? Should I call the school?

If you only moved by one or two slots, it's probably a case where a child in your DC's grade had a sibling admitted, which then bumped the admitted child's sibling to the top of the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We moved in the opposite direction on the Waitlist! Started with a better spot on Thursday when the list was first posted and then another child was added ahead of us on Friday, has anyone seen this happen before? Should I call the school?

If you only moved by one or two slots, it's probably a case where a child in your DC's grade had a sibling admitted, which then bumped the admitted child's sibling to the top of the waitlist.

That or some kind of error in the new child's application date. Still, I would call the school - can't hurt to ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know when they'll be able to start accepting students who already speak Chinese?

If you can't join after 2nd grade because it's too late to catch up, then shouldn't you be able to join in 3rd if you already speak a lot of Chinese?

I agree it's too bad they don't/can't give preference to Chinese-speaking students; seems like their program isn't as strong as it could be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know when they'll be able to start accepting students who already speak Chinese?

If you can't join after 2nd grade because it's too late to catch up, then shouldn't you be able to join in 3rd if you already speak a lot of Chinese?

I agree it's too bad they don't/can't give preference to Chinese-speaking students; seems like their program isn't as strong as it could be.

LAMB has permission from the Charter School Board to give preference to Spanish native applicants. They essentially hold a dual lottery (i.e. pick random applicants but sort by language. If the first 10 kids picked are English speakers, then they'll keep drawing and putting kids on the waitlist until the eventually draw some Spanish speakers. Yu Ying could get permission to do this, but I suspect they figured the number of Chinese speakers would be so small that the dual system would not work.

[Anonymous]

someone earlier on this thread implied that the charter school board allowed a school to pick between sibling preference or language preference in a lottery, but not both. Implied by an anonymous poster is pretty far from fact, but wondering. . ..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:someone earlier on this thread implied that the charter school board allowed a school to pick between sibling preference or language preference in a lottery, but not both. Implied by an anonymous poster is pretty far from fact, but wondering. . ..

Oyster gets to do both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:someone earlier on this thread implied that the charter school board allowed a school to pick between sibling preference or language preference in a lottery, but not both. Implied by an anonymous poster is pretty far from fact, but wondering. . ..

Oyster gets to do both.

But Oyster isn't a charter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:someone earlier on this thread implied that the charter school board allowed a school to pick between sibling preference or language preference in a lottery, but not both. Implied by an anonymous poster is pretty far from fact, but wondering. . ..

Oyster gets to do both.

But Oyster isn't a charter.

LAMB also does both. If that is not permitted someone should figure it out before the LAMB lottery on Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:someone earlier on this thread implied that the charter school board allowed a school to pick between sibling preference or language preference in a lottery, but not both. Implied by an anonymous poster is pretty far from fact, but wondering. . ..

Oyster gets to do both.

But Oyster isn't a charter.

It is however a public school. There's no good reason to allow one public school privileges that you're not going to allow others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:someone earlier on this thread implied that the charter school board allowed a school to pick between sibling preference or language preference in a lottery, but not both. Implied by an anonymous poster is pretty far from fact, but wondering. . ..

Oyster gets to do both.

But Oyster isn't a charter.

It is however a public school. There's no good reason to allow one public school privileges that you're not going to allow others.

And yet there are DCPS high schools that are allowed to have competitive admissions, whereas no charter schools are allowed to.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know when the waitlist will be updated?

[Anonymous]

For those of you on the Yu Ying waiting list for pre-k, we forfeited our spot...

[Anonymous]

Where did you decide to go, 20:07?

[Anonymous]

Still trying to decide between Eaton, EL Haynes or Two Rivers.

[Anonymous]

wow, you have amazing luck to get into all three. Good karma. I know people had to have registration materials in by yesterday, so maybe the list will start to move