Arlington lottery questions

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do they send the results by snail mail??

You get an email.

Yeah - if you get in, you get the email at almost the exact time they say they'll release the data (e.g., 4:00 p.m. on whatever date). For my kid who did not get in, it came almost an hour later.

It will also be on the schoolmint account page. They are releasing them on the 29th

[Anonymous]

Yeah I just looked on schoolmint and the page says updated 1/22 but just says ‘submitted’.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they send the results by snail mail??

You get an email.

Yeah - if you get in, you get the email at almost the exact time they say they'll release the data (e.g., 4:00 p.m. on whatever date). For my kid who did not get in, it came almost an hour later.

It will also be on the schoolmint account page. They are releasing them on the 29th

My child was accepted at HB for 6th grade last year. I heard first via text and it was late in the evening--closer to 7pm (I think) on whatever the equivalent of the 29th was on . I think the email came at the same time but noticed the text first. Then logged into schoolmint (it had just said "submitted" earlier that day).

[Anonymous]

Thank you! I am sure DC will not get a slot but c’est la vie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you! I am sure DC will not get a slot but c’est la vie.

In the elementary years I had more luck on non-traditional entry years. I hope it’s true for middle school too!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And how much the teachers/APS are willing to backdoor your kid in. There is always the HB admin loophole.

This is horrible but I know it happens. We know someone bragging that she knows her 5th grader is going to get in. Older sibling goes there. Not that I understand how they rig lottery or just replace kids once they see the list.

I really do not think this is true. I am probably way closer to admin at HB than others posting on this thread and I truly cannot imagine them doing this.

NP. I will let you know in a couple of weeks. Mom at our school told a whole group the HB principal told her they have a way of making things happen. If her kid gets in or not, will let ya’ll know.

I don't think this is true at HB, although I do think its true for other options schools. We are at an option elementary school and there are a lot of teacher's kids that go there. But I know staff at HB that could not get their kid in.

100% not true for teachers at any option school. If you have teacher's kids at your school then they all got in through the lottery. Ask me how I know.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And how much the teachers/APS are willing to backdoor your kid in. There is always the HB admin loophole.

This is horrible but I know it happens. We know someone bragging that she knows her 5th grader is going to get in. Older sibling goes there. Not that I understand how they rig lottery or just replace kids once they see the list.

I really do not think this is true. I am probably way closer to admin at HB than others posting on this thread and I truly cannot imagine them doing this.

NP. I will let you know in a couple of weeks. Mom at our school told a whole group the HB principal told her they have a way of making things happen. If her kid gets in or not, will let ya’ll know.

I don't think this is true at HB, although I do think its true for other options schools. We are at an option elementary school and there are a lot of teacher's kids that go there. But I know staff at HB that could not get their kid in.

100% not true for teachers at any option school. If you have teacher's kids at your school then they all got in through the lottery. Ask me how I know.....

It's not the teachers who are getting the preference for their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And how much the teachers/APS are willing to backdoor your kid in. There is always the HB admin loophole.

This is horrible but I know it happens. We know someone bragging that she knows her 5th grader is going to get in. Older sibling goes there. Not that I understand how they rig lottery or just replace kids once they see the list.

I really do not think this is true. I am probably way closer to admin at HB than others posting on this thread and I truly cannot imagine them doing this.

NP. I will let you know in a couple of weeks. Mom at our school told a whole group the HB principal told her they have a way of making things happen. If her kid gets in or not, will let ya’ll know.

I don't think this is true at HB, although I do think its true for other options schools. We are at an option elementary school and there are a lot of teacher's kids that go there. But I know staff at HB that could not get their kid in.

100% not true for teachers at any option school. If you have teacher's kids at your school then they all got in through the lottery. Ask me how I know.....

It's not the teachers who are getting the preference for their kids.

The previous poster said they thought that teachers got a priority in the lottery for schools other than HB and that is simply not true.

[Anonymous]

This is why a PP is right that it would be fascinating to get the class lists for HB and see who is there that wasn't selected in the lottery.

Remember years ago that then-SB member Nancy Van Doren's twins both magically somehow got spots at HB. There wasn't a sibling preference, but of all the kids applying from their school it somehow worked out that they both got in.

Neither of my kids is interested in HB so this isn't sour grapes, it's simply an APS parent who finds HB a huge waste of resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why a PP is right that it would be fascinating to get the class lists for HB and see who is there that wasn't selected in the lottery.

Remember years ago that then-SB member Nancy Van Doren's twins both magically somehow got spots at HB. There wasn't a sibling preference, but of all the kids applying from their school it somehow worked out that they both got in.

Neither of my kids is interested in HB so this isn't sour grapes, it's simply an APS parent who finds HB a huge waste of resources.

There may be cheating— I have no idea—but I can tell you that at HB, twins are considered a single unit. So if one twin’s name is drawn, they both get an offer. This happened for some twins in my kid’s grade/ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why a PP is right that it would be fascinating to get the class lists for HB and see who is there that wasn't selected in the lottery.

Remember years ago that then-SB member Nancy Van Doren's twins both magically somehow got spots at HB. There wasn't a sibling preference, but of all the kids applying from their school it somehow worked out that they both got in.

Neither of my kids is interested in HB so this isn't sour grapes, it's simply an APS parent who finds HB a huge waste of resources.

There may be cheating— I have no idea—but I can tell you that at HB, twins are considered a single unit. So if one twin’s name is drawn, they both get an offer. This happened for some twins in my kid’s grade/ES.

That’s only because Nancy pushed hard for it about half a dozen years ago. Prior to that there wasn’t a twin preference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why a PP is right that it would be fascinating to get the class lists for HB and see who is there that wasn't selected in the lottery.

Remember years ago that then-SB member Nancy Van Doren's twins both magically somehow got spots at HB. There wasn't a sibling preference, but of all the kids applying from their school it somehow worked out that they both got in.

Neither of my kids is interested in HB so this isn't sour grapes, it's simply an APS parent who finds HB a huge waste of resources.

There may be cheating— I have no idea—but I can tell you that at HB, twins are considered a single unit. So if one twin’s name is drawn, they both get an offer. This happened for some twins in my kid’s grade/ES.

That’s only because Nancy pushed hard for it about half a dozen years ago. Prior to that there wasn’t a twin preference.

Twins made it out of our school to HB and I thought it sucked. Terrible policy for middle school and beyond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Along those same lines, what are the odds of getting into HB Woodlawn?

3 out of how many kids who apply (which is at least 1/2, IME) are in your elementary school 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

There were 31 applicants from my kid's ES and 3 selected. ATS had 50+ applicants so probably just about the whole 5th grade class applied.

[Anonymous]

The conspiracy theories about HBW admission are silly. The only time I’ve ever heard of a non-lottery transfer involved a kid who was being bullied and just in a horrible situation at his home school. And even that was just a rumor. Sometimes people think they know how a kid got in and they’re just wrong. Maybe that kid got off a waitlist.