What is happening during the month between lottery close and results being posted?

[Anonymous]

Are schools receiving the lists and just trying to figure out sibling preferences, or is there something else going on behind the scenes?

[Anonymous]

The charters use the time to reassign good numbers to those families they really want. The unwanted are dumped into DCPS who assigns slots randomly.

[Anonymous]

The admin at our school is busy with sibling verification. Not sure what else.

[Anonymous]

MySchoolDC is supposed to be checking all applicants to affirm claimed preferences, checking for children with multiple applications (mom enters one and dad enters one to double chances) and to the extent possible (through google map searches, etc) check addresses for inboundary claims.

They also have to check and recheck that their algorithm worked (i.e. If someone was matched to a school were they dropped from all the schools ranked behind that school? We're children only matched with one school?).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are schools receiving the lists and just trying to figure out sibling preferences, or is there something else going on behind the scenes?

The schools still have nothing to do with the actual lottery at this point other than checking sibling preferences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The charters use the time to reassign good numbers to those families they really want. The unwanted are dumped into DCPS who assigns slots randomly.

Not funny.

[Anonymous]

The double application is always fun.

I used to pull the lottery for our charter. It was not uncommon to see the same person entered 2 times. I am more cynical than the school. The school always gave the person the benefit if the doubt and would pull the lower result. I would think it would be more fair to either put them at the end of the list as a result of trying to game the system OR putting both #s back in the hat and selecting the one that stays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The double application is always fun.

I used to pull the lottery for our charter. It was not uncommon to see the same person entered 2 times. I am more cynical than the school. The school always gave the person the benefit if the doubt and would pull the lower result. I would think it would be more fair to either put them at the end of the list as a result of trying to game the system OR putting both #s back in the hat and selecting the one that stays.

Soooo... you're saying that's an effective technique? Enter twice, plead ignorance if caught...

[Anonymous]

I remember three or four years ago that there was one prospective student who claimed sibling preference at Mann, Eaton, Janney, Murch and Lafayette. I wrote to ask if it's possible that one family truly has different children enrolled at all of those schools. Of course not. Totally trying to game the system. This was before MySchoolDC

[Anonymous]

now they don't provide as much data so that the average person can't try and "police" the lottery. They used to provide all the waitlist data of everyone...blinded, no names. It just showed the assigned lottery number. So you could download all the data and sort by lottery number to see where each child was waitlisted. Now, from what I understand, you can only look up your child's number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The double application is always fun.

I used to pull the lottery for our charter. It was not uncommon to see the same person entered 2 times. I am more cynical than the school. The school always gave the person the benefit if the doubt and would pull the lower result. I would think it would be more fair to either put them at the end of the list as a result of trying to game the system OR putting both #s back in the hat and selecting the one that stays.

Soooo... you're saying that's an effective technique? Enter twice, plead ignorance if caught...

it might be even more effective now because it's up to MySchoolDC to do all the checking. It used to be that regular citizens could look at the data and point out odd situations. Now you can't. So I hope MySchoolDC is doing it's due diligence.

[Anonymous]

They have to make sure no one has applied twice, verify sibling preference, so other data cleanup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The charters use the time to reassign good numbers to those families they really want. The unwanted are dumped into DCPS who assigns slots randomly.

Just because someone peed in your cornflakes, is no reason to tell lies. Shame on you, PP. Looks like someone already needs a timeout this morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The double application is always fun.

I used to pull the lottery for our charter. It was not uncommon to see the same person entered 2 times. I am more cynical than the school. The school always gave the person the benefit if the doubt and would pull the lower result. I would think it would be more fair to either put them at the end of the list as a result of trying to game the system OR putting both #s back in the hat and selecting the one that stays.

Soooo... you're saying that's an effective technique? Enter twice, plead ignorance if caught...

At our HRC you have to actually identify the sibling by name and grade, you can't just claim it blindly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The charters use the time to reassign good numbers to those families they really want. The unwanted are dumped into DCPS who assigns slots randomly.

Not funny.

yes it was