Charter Waitlist Data is Available!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man my DD's number was worse than I thought.

+1. I must have had one of the worst draws ever. I'm practically the last number at all the charters I applied for.

[Anonymous]

What about data from DCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hands if you just discovered you are dead last (or next to last) on every. single. waitlist.

We're pretty close to the bottom. We're one of the lowest down the WL at our IB DCPS school too. I can see the allure of NOT having an integrated lottery now. At least with separate lotteries for each charter you at least have the chance of getting a better number at some schools instead of the same crappy number for every school.

while each entrant only gets one number, I thought each number drawn for each school is random? Can anyone explain the mechanics of MS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hands if you just discovered you are dead last (or next to last) on every. single. waitlist.

We're pretty close to the bottom. We're one of the lowest down the WL at our IB DCPS school too. I can see the allure of NOT having an integrated lottery now. At least with separate lotteries for each charter you at least have the chance of getting a better number at some schools instead of the same crappy number for every school.

while each entrant only gets one number, I thought each number drawn for each school is random? Can anyone explain the mechanics of MS?

Watch the video on the myschooldc home page

[Anonymous]

To give you guys some hope, I had the LAST number on every waitlist last year. This year, we got into our top choice, which is very competitive. It sucks to get a bad number, but you're not doomed forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hands if you just discovered you are dead last (or next to last) on every. single. waitlist.

We're pretty close to the bottom. We're one of the lowest down the WL at our IB DCPS school too. I can see the allure of NOT having an integrated lottery now. At least with separate lotteries for each charter you at least have the chance of getting a better number at some schools instead of the same crappy number for every school.

while each entrant only gets one number, I thought each number drawn for each school is random? Can anyone explain the mechanics of MS?

Watch the video on the myschooldc home page

yeah, that's not what I asked. that's just a basic primer on the lottery process. I'm talking more about the algorithim

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to look at the relative popularity of some of the schools frequently talked about here. Here are the lists in order for PK3:

1. LAMB 548
2. MV 468
3. CMI 433
4. Two Rivers (4th) 358
5. Yu Ying 355
6. Stokes Spanish 335
7. ITS 326
8. DCB 293
9. Lee 268
10. Stokes French 230
11. SSMA 184
12. El Haynes 182
13. Two Rivers (y) 171
14. Bridges 144
15. Breakthrough 137
16. Sela 3 (can this be correct?)

Yes Sela is right. There are only 12 spaces and you didn't even list DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hands if you just discovered you are dead last (or next to last) on every. single. waitlist.

We're pretty close to the bottom. We're one of the lowest down the WL at our IB DCPS school too. I can see the allure of NOT having an integrated lottery now. At least with separate lotteries for each charter you at least have the chance of getting a better number at some schools instead of the same crappy number for every school.

while each entrant only gets one number, I thought each number drawn for each school is random? Can anyone explain the mechanics of MS?

Watch the video on the myschooldc home page

yeah, that's not what I asked. that's just a basic primer on the lottery process. I'm talking more about the algorithim

They use a Roth-style algorithm.

(Roth won a Nobel Prize for his work showing that this style of approach maximizing results for all participants as a whole.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2012/popular-economicsciences2012.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to look at the relative popularity of some of the schools frequently talked about here. Here are the lists in order for PK3:

1. LAMB 548
2. MV 468
3. CMI 433
4. Two Rivers (4th) 358
5. Yu Ying 355
6. Stokes Spanish 335
7. ITS 326
8. DCB 293
9. Lee 268
10. Stokes French 230
11. SSMA 184
12. El Haynes 182
13. Two Rivers (y) 171
14. Bridges 144
15. Breakthrough 137
16. Sela 3 (can this be correct?)

You can't use LAMB's number to show for popularity. Anyone can apply to lamb and doesn't have to prioritize it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to look at the relative popularity of some of the schools frequently talked about here. Here are the lists in order for PK3:

1. LAMB 548
2. MV 468
3. CMI 433
4. Two Rivers (4th) 358
5. Yu Ying 355
6. Stokes Spanish 335
7. ITS 326
8. DCB 293
9. Lee 268
10. Stokes French 230
11. SSMA 184
12. El Haynes 182
13. Two Rivers (y) 171
14. Bridges 144
15. Breakthrough 137
16. Sela 3 (can this be correct?)

Yes Sela is right. There are only 12 spaces and you didn't even list DCPS.

This is not a lottery list; it's an overview of waitlist numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To give you guys some hope, I had the LAST number on every waitlist last year. This year, we got into our top choice, which is very competitive. It sucks to get a bad number, but you're not doomed forever.

The problem is when you run out of years to try. I've had awful draws 3 years in a row now. I'm trying one more time, but will move next spring if it doesn't work out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to look at the relative popularity of some of the schools frequently talked about here. Here are the lists in order for PK3:

1. LAMB 548
2. MV 468
3. CMI 433
4. Two Rivers (4th) 358
5. Yu Ying 355
6. Stokes Spanish 335
7. ITS 326
8. DCB 293
9. Lee 268
10. Stokes French 230
11. SSMA 184
12. El Haynes 182
13. Two Rivers (y) 171
14. Bridges 144
15. Breakthrough 137
16. Sela 3 (can this be correct?)

You can't use LAMB's number to show for popularity. Anyone can apply to lamb and doesn't have to prioritize it.

Exactly. We only applied to LAMB because it didn't "cost" a spot. Knew we'd turn it down if we had another decent option, as we are already bilingual (ended up not winning but getting in somewhere else).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to look at the relative popularity of some of the schools frequently talked about here. Here are the lists in order for PK3:

1. LAMB 548
2. MV 468
3. CMI 433
4. Two Rivers (4th) 358
5. Yu Ying 355
6. Stokes Spanish 335
7. ITS 326
8. DCB 293
9. Lee 268
10. Stokes French 230
11. SSMA 184
12. El Haynes 182
13. Two Rivers (y) 171
14. Bridges 144
15. Breakthrough 137
16. Sela 3 (can this be correct?)

Yes Sela is right. There are only 12 spaces and you didn't even list DCPS.

This is not a lottery list; it's an overview of waitlist numbers.

Yes but I don't know anyone that applied to Sela as they didn't want to waste a coveted spot (since they only have 12). As you can see the same 300 people are tending to apply for 10 out of the other 14 above then adding in their "safeties" or other IBs. Sela you can get into if you strike out in first round, right now it's not worth a lottery play.

[Anonymous]

Applied for pk4 and got to WL#1 at Sela and #59 at AppleTree- CH, but in that list shows 0 and 46 on the WL for each of these schools. Weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Applied for pk4 and got to WL#1 at Sela and #59 at AppleTree- CH, but in that list shows 0 and 46 on the WL for each of these schools. Weird.

Was this in round 1 or after the lottery results?