Has anyone formerly waitlisted been matched?

[Anonymous]

Just "waiting".... ?

[Anonymous]

Waitlists are unlikely to move before the May 1 deadline.

Patience.

[Anonymous]

Reenrollment forms are not due until mid May.

[Anonymous]

MV isn't updating their waitlisted until after May 1st.

[Anonymous]

According to the My School DC handbook (pg 12) schools cannot contact wait listed families to offer a space until after May 1.

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/Learn-About-Schools/Enrollment/Lottery%20Policy%20Handbook.pdf

[Anonymous]

Yet another date to wait for, ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the My School DC handbook (pg 12) schools cannot contact wait listed families to offer a space until after May 1.

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/Learn-About-Schools/Enrollment/Lottery%20Policy%20Handbook.pdf

So does this mean if I accept a seat at a school prior to may 1, I don't lose my waitlist spot? Is this true for charters as well as dcps?

[Anonymous]

So why has my waitlist number gone up for IT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So why has my waitlist number gone up for IT?

Because of people getting off the waitlist. This happens if they leave DC or accept at a private school, for example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So why has my waitlist number gone up for IT?

As in you were at 40 and it went to 41? Or you were at 40 and it went to 39?

[Anonymous]

I don't really think Waitlists will move much anymore. Almost all schools are in the common lottery, so aside from a handful of kids who move, around 30 or so from LAMB, a handful from Bethune... No one else should be declining their spots right? I guess some do go private but is it really enough to make a difference? Maybe a few hundred?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really think Waitlists will move much anymore. Almost all schools are in the common lottery, so aside from a handful of kids who move, around 30 or so from LAMB, a handful from Bethune... No one else should be declining their spots right? I guess some do go private but is it really enough to make a difference? Maybe a few hundred?

No-- people can decide to stay at their current school, go to their IB school that they did not lottery for, leave DC, or homeschool. The first two categories are a decent number of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the My School DC handbook (pg 12) schools cannot contact wait listed families to offer a space until after May 1.

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/Learn-About-Schools/Enrollment/Lottery%20Policy%20Handbook.pdf

This is a DCPS handbook; does not apply to charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So why has my waitlist number gone up for IT?

Probably because someone else enrolled a child at the school, which bumped a sibling up to the top of the waitlist for the grade you applied for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't really think Waitlists will move much anymore. Almost all schools are in the common lottery, so aside from a handful of kids who move, around 30 or so from LAMB, a handful from Bethune... No one else should be declining their spots right? I guess some do go private but is it really enough to make a difference? Maybe a few hundred?

No-- people can decide to stay at their current school, go to their IB school that they did not lottery for, leave DC, or homeschool. The first two categories are a decent number of people.

You're definitely right for anything about PK3. But for PK3 there is no guarenteed inbound school, and the only "current school" would be private daycare/preschool. I'm thinking that isn't a high number. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm thinking there will be very little movement for PK3. Since fewer spots open up in the upper grades (k-12), probably there isn't much movement there either.