Lottery ranking for selective DCPS high schools - match with #3 or #4?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my friend is insisting high schools know if you put them #1 or #3 but I thought schools don't get that information

You are correct, schools do not learn how you ranked them.

I wish they did. My kid is applying to Duke as his #1 and I think it is relevant to how Duke should assess him. It’s not his backup in case he doesn’t get into Walls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my friend is insisting high schools know if you put them #1 or #3 but I thought schools don't get that information

You are correct, schools do not learn how you ranked them.

I wish they did. My kid is applying to Duke as his #1 and I think it is relevant to how Duke should assess him. It’s not his backup in case he doesn’t get into Walls.

For Duke, I actually think you will have time to let them know and see this during the audition/interview stage!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: others say if you don't list a school as your #1 you have very little/no chance of a slot. So I'm asking about actual experiences.

Some people say there are Jewish space lasers. Others say wind farms murder hundreds of millions of birds. Still others believe the food pyramid should be all red meat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: others say if you don't list a school as your #1 you have very little/no chance of a slot. So I'm asking about actual experiences.

Some people say there are Jewish space lasers. Others say wind farms murder hundreds of millions of birds. Still others believe the food pyramid should be all red meat.

Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: others say if you don't list a school as your #1 you have very little/no chance of a slot. So I'm asking about actual experiences.

Some people say there are Jewish space lasers. Others say wind farms murder hundreds of millions of birds. Still others believe the food pyramid should be all red meat.

Wow.

Yeah, that was a really uncalled for comment. I get what the person was going for but there are really only three things that need to be said here:

1. Rank schools in the order of your true preference

2. Schools never see how you personally ranked them

3. If you have questions or concerns, call MySchool

[Anonymous]

For those that say to call the myschooldc number, I don't recommend it. My experience asking about the selective schools process was that they told me Banneker had in-boundary students and even after being corrected on that, still told me my child could be bumped by those with sibling preference (also not true). They may be great for the regular lottery, but I didn't find them informed about selective schools.

[Anonymous]

its important to rank your personal number 1 as number 1. i think schools do get a total count of how many students listed them as 1 use that for planning purposes.

[Anonymous]

Also you do remain on the WL for 1 and 2 if you get a spot at 3, even with the application HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also you do remain on the WL for 1 and 2 if you get a spot at 3, even with the application HS.

Yes, I believe so. But chat with the MySchoolDC staff. I asked them a ridiculous amount of questions last year and they were incredibly helpful. Whoever staffs that office has done a great job selecting folks that will help you untangle all of this; I think I had one person that was 'meh' but the others I spoke with were excellent both on the live chat and on the phone.