Yu Ying Waitlist Movement

[Anonymous]

I bet a whole lot of families are waiting until after the May tours and spring fair to make a decision. (I know we are). Expect the wait list to move a bunch in early June.

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Anonymous wrote:website wait list just updated. tuesday may 3. no movement in preK, the other 3 grades had slight movement

Wow! So the first 26 on the waitlist for PreK all accepted. Guess they really wanted Chinese.

remember the wait list is application order. The first 26 probably all submitted applications the first day/ week that the application period opened, so they really wanted YY for some reason. Or, they are organized parents hoarding multiple slots and going to decide later. Take your pick.

Good point. The families at the top of the waitlist submitted their applications within the first day or so, they are the most likely to stay. However, it's still really early. A LOT of families who got lucky in the lottery have surely filled out paperwork - not because they're really interested in Chinese, but because they feel they have no other alternative. This isn't a good school to pick for only that reason. However, many of those lottery families will elect not to come when they get in to another school that they preferred. I just hope they have the courtesy to call and let the school know so that the waitlist can keep moving. There's no way all of those people are planning to come straight out of the lottery.

Maybe some of them just gave up their waitlist spot since they accepted elsewhere.

The point is that we would have expected more people to give up their spot than actually have (so far). There were about a hundred of them, after all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet a whole lot of families are waiting until after the May tours and spring fair to make a decision. (I know we are). . . .

+1

[Anonymous]

As a PP mentioned earlier, the contract deadline for most private schools is around June 1st. Our daughter is currently enrolled at a great private PK-12, but we would seriously consider moving her to YY PK-4 if she gets in via the WL (I am a native Mandarin speaker). We have a low waitlist # (below 10), therefore would love it if she gets in before the private school contract goes into effect. Should we wait it out and keep her current enrollment at the private (and pay a tuition penalty if she gets into YY), or is it safe to assume we will get into YY because we have a low WL #? Any advice and/or suggestion? Many thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

I would be shocked if she didn't get into YY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a PP mentioned earlier, the contract deadline for most private schools is around June 1st. Our daughter is currently enrolled at a great private PK-12, but we would seriously consider moving her to YY PK-4 if she gets in via the WL (I am a native Mandarin speaker). We have a low waitlist # (below 10), therefore would love it if she gets in before the private school contract goes into effect. Should we wait it out and keep her current enrollment at the private (and pay a tuition penalty if she gets into YY), or is it safe to assume we will get into YY because we have a low WL #? Any advice and/or suggestion? Many thanks in advance.

Last year to fill 25 preK nonsibling slots, offers were made to more than 50 students. This year there are 84 nonsibling preK slots. So far, offers have been made to 110 students. If you extrapolate and assume a similar 50% yield (offers made to students enrolled), another 50+ students will be offered slots. The timing question is open. Last year, quite a few of those offers happened late summer/ first weeks of school, when parents had made commitments, students had started at another school, etc.

I think you'll get an offer, and it likely will be before August 1st. Maybe before June 1st, but maybe not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a PP mentioned earlier, the contract deadline for most private schools is around June 1st. Our daughter is currently enrolled at a great private PK-12, but we would seriously consider moving her to YY PK-4 if she gets in via the WL (I am a native Mandarin speaker). We have a low waitlist # (below 10), therefore would love it if she gets in before the private school contract goes into effect. Should we wait it out and keep her current enrollment at the private (and pay a tuition penalty if she gets into YY), or is it safe to assume we will get into YY because we have a low WL #? Any advice and/or suggestion? Many thanks in advance.

you will absolutely get a spot. i know of quite a few families who are holding Yu Ying spots but whom now have other options. None of us want to turn the spots down until we can actually get to see a classroom and or go to the family day. Personally we are leaning towards not attending (we just got into our local JKLM off the wait list). But we definitely feel like we can't turn Yu Ying down until we've gathered as much information about it as we can. I'm sure there are many other families in our position (I know of 2). Yu Ying made it difficult for families to decline outright by offering these tours a month after acceptances were made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a PP mentioned earlier, the contract deadline for most private schools is around June 1st. Our daughter is currently enrolled at a great private PK-12, but we would seriously consider moving her to YY PK-4 if she gets in via the WL (I am a native Mandarin speaker). We have a low waitlist # (below 10), therefore would love it if she gets in before the private school contract goes into effect. Should we wait it out and keep her current enrollment at the private (and pay a tuition penalty if she gets into YY), or is it safe to assume we will get into YY because we have a low WL #? Any advice and/or suggestion? Many thanks in advance.

YY parent here. You've got a PreK number below 10? For a class of 100+ students? Based on previous experience, you'll definitely get in.

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15:22 PP here. Thank you to those who replied to my post. My gut is telling me to keep her enrolled at the private in case we are accepted at YY after June 1st. We would love to save the hefty tuition penalty, but will gladly pay it if YY turns out to be a good fit for our family.

Another question for current parents: What is the probability of a PK-3 class in 2012-2013? Our daughter has younger siblings who will be eligible then.

We are planning on going to the YY KidFest on May 15th, so I hope to meet some of you there!

[Anonymous]

I've heard rumors that a pk-3 is a strong probability.

Here's the skinny on Yu Ying for those of you on the fence: it is hard work for both kids and parents, there are lots of families who love to get together in all strata of the school, the after-care is really expensive and really worth it, the teachers work their rear-ends off to get the kids to succeed, the parent involvement is the best I've seen in any school, it is a warm and friendly place where my kids love to go (despite the fact that school is not always easy for them), it is a young school with young-school problems but with that comes the chance to dive in and shape the culture of the school.

Come to the Kidfest. We'll all be running around and having fun. It is good silly fun, low-key and definitely unpretentious. If you want to get to meet the grown-ups without the kids then consider coming to the gala auction in June. It'll be too late for all the spread sheets and jockeying for spots at other schools, but then again if you are still in the race at that point you would likely have fun getting to meet everyone in your new school family

[Anonymous]

15:52 - are you sure that offers were made last year to #50 on the waitlist? In another thread, there was info that the last waitlist number offered a spot for PK last year was 33. thx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:22 PP here. Thank you to those who replied to my post. My gut is telling me to keep her enrolled at the private in case we are accepted at YY after June 1st. We would love to save the hefty tuition penalty, but will gladly pay it if YY turns out to be a good fit for our family.

Another question for current parents: What is the probability of a PK-3 class in 2012-2013? Our daughter has younger siblings who will be eligible then.

We are planning on going to the YY KidFest on May 15th, so I hope to meet some of you there!

Very good. This year Pre-K is going to be full immersion so that they can get more Chinese into the kids before they have to start hewing to the DC standards. They've made it clear they want to start Pre-S for fall 2012 so that those kids can have two years of full immersion. It may depend somewhat on how well next year goes. They've said they're going to stop taking kids as late as 2nd grade. With the youngest set to get 1 or 2 years of full immersion, there's just no way a joining 2nd grader would ever catch up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:52 - are you sure that offers were made last year to #50 on the waitlist? In another thread, there was info that the last waitlist number offered a spot for PK last year was 33. thx

Offers were made to 25 random plus 33 from wait list for a total of 58 to fill 25 nonsibling spots. If the ratio is exactly the same this year, offers would be made to 84 random plus the first 110 of the initial wait list {(33/25) times 84}. At this point, the wait list has moved 26 slots, so the current wait list would get down to #85.

[Anonymous]

Is this the first year that the waitlist has been ordered by application date, or has that always been the case? The reason I ask is because it would make sense that it wouldn't move as much if it is ordered by application date vs. random lottery.

[Anonymous]

ordered by application date every year. This is the third year of a lottery. The top of the wait list (the 26 admitted in late April -- the first post random admissions) probably has the highest "yield" rate. Of the initial random 84, 26 so far have declined. I would expect quite a few more of the remaining randomly admitted students will decline before school starts.

[Anonymous]

forgive this potentially silly question from parent new to dc and dc charter schools: everyone just does the online application, right? no one submits a hard copy do they? and when will a decision be made on a permanent location for YY? thanks!