Rumor about LAMB lottery

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was planning to enter the LAMB lottery twice for PK3. DS is a September birthday and I thought that I would enter him for the year he qualified first (2015), and as a 'redshirt' candidate to enter PK3 late (2016). My School DC app allows you to hold your child back so I thought the LAMB lottery would allow you to do so as well. No proof of that.

But perhaps that is what people meant by 'entering twice'?

We ended up getting into a school that we really liked during the first lottery round and did not apply again anywhere. However, I still wish that I had held him back a year given current school struggles....

I don't think MSDC allows you to redshirt your kid anymore. It defaults you to the grade that corresponds you to their age.

You can redshirt on MSDC. You just can’t send the child ahead of the grade they should be in.

[Anonymous]

Lamb is pretty paranoid and neurotic. I don’t think they would fall for this. Putting a fake name down might work, but they wouldn’t let you register. Putting a fake name down for the regular school would probably have the same result- good luck with the registration process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor did this with her child. One entry was with her last name and the other with her husbands last name.

Granted this was 2 years ago, but they got in.

Winner!!!!!

Who has called the PCSB ??

Nobody because PP invented that story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully if what PP said is true, an audit would catch this.

Who would audit them? And how? LAMB’s lottery has been a disgrace for years and no one has penalized them. They posted the names of the kids and their birthdates online a few years back (privacy violation) and nothing happened.

[Anonymous]

The two kids I know who were accepted in the Lamb lottery were the kids of semi-famous boldfaced names. I always wondered if they looked through the applicants and gave a preference to the more prominent names. Lamb could stop all this talk by just joining the lottery like every other school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The two kids I know who were accepted in the Lamb lottery were the kids of semi-famous boldfaced names. I always wondered if they looked through the applicants and gave a preference to the more prominent names. Lamb could stop all this talk by just joining the lottery like every other school.

This is so absolutely ridiculous. I don't know anyone semi-famous at the school and I and everyone else I know there got in the right way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The two kids I know who were accepted in the Lamb lottery were the kids of semi-famous boldfaced names. I always wondered if they looked through the applicants and gave a preference to the more prominent names. Lamb could stop all this talk by just joining the lottery like every other school.

This is so absolutely ridiculous. I don't know anyone semi-famous at the school and I and everyone else I know there got in the right way.

Then you clearly don’t know much about the student body or the parents there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor did this with her child. One entry was with her last name and the other with her husbands last name.

Granted this was 2 years ago, but they got in.

Winner!!!!!

Who has called the PCSB ??

Nobody because PP invented that story.

Sure, you must be ty neighbor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The two kids I know who were accepted in the Lamb lottery were the kids of semi-famous boldfaced names. I always wondered if they looked through the applicants and gave a preference to the more prominent names. Lamb could stop all this talk by just joining the lottery like every other school.

Thanks for the update on what you've always wondered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully if what PP said is true, an audit would catch this.

Who would audit them? And how? LAMB’s lottery has been a disgrace for years and no one has penalized them. They posted the names of the kids and their birthdates online a few years back (privacy violation) and nothing happened.

The lottery gets audited every year. This thread is ridiculous and full of uninformed speculation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully if what PP said is true, an audit would catch this.

Who would audit them? And how? LAMB’s lottery has been a disgrace for years and no one has penalized them. They posted the names of the kids and their birthdates online a few years back (privacy violation) and nothing happened.

The lottery gets audited every year. This thread is ridiculous and full of uninformed speculation.

Where is the audit results published? What was the response to the fact that they posted applicant kid names and birthdates on their site in 2015?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who would audit them? And how? LAMB’s lottery has been a disgrace for years and no one has penalized them.

If you don't know anything about their audit process, you don't have any basis to call their lottery "a disgrace for years." Other than bitterness, perhaps.

Let it go. There's no shame in joining the 85% of applicants who don't get into LAMB, Yu Ying, etc. Be proud that DC has such unique, high-performing schools in its portfolio.

[Anonymous]

I actually think it would be incredibly easy to double enter the lottery. One with dad as parent, one with mom as parent, using full name and nickname that are obviously related (Elisabeth/Beth). Yes, you might get caught, but then you 100% feign ignorance and say that each parent filled it out not knowing the other one had... going through marital issues/informally separated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think it would be incredibly easy to double enter the lottery. One with dad as parent, one with mom as parent, using full name and nickname that are obviously related (Elisabeth/Beth). Yes, you might get caught, but then you 100% feign ignorance and say that each parent filled it out not knowing the other one had... going through marital issues/informally separated.

This is what had happened in the past. Or- people "forgot" they already entered their child. Entered once with middle initial - once middle name - once with Jr etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually think it would be incredibly easy to double enter the lottery. One with dad as parent, one with mom as parent, using full name and nickname that are obviously related (Elisabeth/Beth). Yes, you might get caught, but then you 100% feign ignorance and say that each parent filled it out not knowing the other one had... going through marital issues/informally separated.

This is what had happened in the past. Or- people "forgot" they already entered their child. Entered once with middle initial - once middle name - once with Jr etc.

You know where this doesn't happen? the MSDC lottery site. because you're putting in your kid's SSN and address and they have the systems to actually filter multiple entries out. But sure, LAMB can run a rogue crap platform year after a year, while all the other bilingual schools migrated to the common lottery years ago. I think they do it so they can boast how many applicants they have, because so many people apply to Lamb because it doesn't involve using one of your 12 slots.