Yu Ying Lottery on Apr 7, anyone attend?

[Anonymous]

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

My, isn't that extraordinary! Yu Ying had 160 applicants for 25 slots and you just happened to get one of them. Then, Two Rivers had 201 applications for 14 Pre-K slots and you also managed to get one of them. You know, I could look up the Eaton and EL Haynes numbers too, but I doubt it's worth it...

If it walks like a troll and smells like a troll...

[Anonymous]

Real nice... Why would I make that up?

[Anonymous]

The Yu Ying waitlist is updated now....

[Anonymous]

What is the link? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonyuying.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174&Itemid=200008&lang=en

It looks like previous #13 is now #1

[Anonymous]

16:45 back

That is on the preK list, it looks like the wait list has moves up 12 slots. On the 2nd grade list, it looks like the wait list has moved up 3 slots. One can only tell this with the earlier wait list printout.

No movement on K or 1st

[Anonymous]

Coming late to this thread, but does anyone know how common it is for 12 of the first 37 spots to open up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coming late to this thread, but does anyone know how common it is for 12 of the first 37 spots to open up?

Hard to say. Yu Ying is a very young school, this is only their 2nd lottery. I think in general lottery numbers through the teens are considered pretty good at most schools.

[Anonymous]

Not sure I understand the question--Do you mean how common would it be if you were number 12 on the lottery to get in? What do you mean by "12 spots in the first 37"?

[Anonymous]

My thinking was that if #13 is now #1, that means that 12 spots opened up b/c 12 people turned the school down. That's out of the 25 people that got in plus the first 12 on the wait list. Hence, 37. I guess it doesn't matter that they were first 37 except that since the wait list is based on when you apply you'd think that those early folks would have been more interested. But, my logic is actually faulty since the 25 spots from the lottery were random. So, I guess my question is just how this wait list movement compares to other "top" charters.

[Anonymous]

Here is a question I would ask:

The incoming PreK class has 50 slots, and 25 siblings and 25 via the random lottery were admitted. After the first round of response deadlines, 12 more PreK students were admitted. This means that of the initial 50, 12 declined or did not meet the deadline for paperwork. How common is this, that 24% of the admitted students decline the slot?

My answer:

It is hard to know with only 1 previous year of lottery experience. My guess is that the declined slots were declined by those randomly admitted and not by the siblings. Maybe the 12 who declined got lucky in the DCPS lottery (e.g., in bounds for Janney PreK admitted, and YY was only a backup) or maybe admitted to another charter lottery (e.g., prefer Spanish immersion and admitted to LAMB). My guess is that the next 12 on the waitlist, which is sorted by application date, will have a higher retention rate. In November '09, there were parents waiting on the day the applications were first accepted when the school door opened. Those parents are organized and likely to be very interested in YY. They knew that the wait list was sorted not randomly but by application submission date.

I would expect little movement now, only 1 or 2 slots at a time, until August or so, when there is another big shuffle that happens city wide.

I also would expect that a few slots will open up in K, 1, and 2, as parents decide to place their child in another school for next year.

[Anonymous]

So 1/2 the people that got in turned down their spots? How likely are the other half to do that?

[Anonymous]

Half the people that got in turned down their slots when they simultaneously received other lottery & DCPS results. The half that took the slots probably did not get in (in the initial wave of lottery results) anywhere else, or anywhere they prefer more.

That half is much more likely to show up at YY on Aug 30.

Once you accept a spot (anywhere), any subsequent acceptance has to be better than the accepted place, for you to be willing to give up the acceptance.

The order in which a family receives acceptances influences where they end up (in my opinion and personal experience).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So 1/2 the people that got in turned down their spots? How likely are the other half to do that?

OP here. Not necessarily, some of the people on the wait list could have dropped off. Anyway, I know we did a scattershot approach when we first applied and turned down a spot at one of the more desirable charters, so I'm not surprised if a lot of people included Yu Ying just to increase their chances of getting in *somewhere*. That could explain the 12 people that have already passed. Still, I'm curious about how this movement compares to other charters. My impression is that most people who get into cap city or haynes keep their spots but maybe I'm wrong.

[Anonymous]

This is very helpful. Thank you, everyone! I am interested in Yu Yung for next year. My question is -- how do I find out that Yu Ying sorts its waitlist by application date (if I didn't read it here)? Do any other charters (or DCPC) do this?