Mundo Verde Waitlist moving

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an earlier poster too, and found it strange that we received an email on a Sunday too.

We were #11 on the K list. We will probably stay at Powell as an OOB family.

We may be in the same predicament. What factors led to your decision to stay at Powell?

Powell as been on the up and up. Parents are really engaged and want the best for the school. Good support and recognition from DCPS and the community. Although the current principal and assistant principal are leaving, I'm sure their replacements will do just has good (hopefully).

Last put not least, Powell will also have a new shiny building in a less congested neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:Is 11 a realistic pk4 waitlist?

To answer my own question, yes. We just got in from the 11 spot. And we had it as our 12th choice.

Good for you if you're happy about it and will take it, but this is exactly why the lottery is still flawed. As many families who are dying to get into Mundo Verde, to me no one who lists it 12 should get in if there are hundreds who listed in in the top 3.

Jealous much? PP got a good general number. She is likely to get in another school that she ranked higher. Even if she doesn't and accepts MV, it is still in her top 12, what should she do not enroll in any school?

Unless she created the current lottery, my issue is not with her and if you actually read my post, you'd be clear on that. Of course she should register if she wants to. My issue is that if/when this lottery really gets it right, more people will be matched according to their top 3 and they'll find a way for people to not get into a school that hundreds have ranked in the top 3 and they've ranked 12. If the idea is better matching, then it's the same number of spots, but honestly someone who ranked MV in their top 3 would get a call before this person did. That's just my opinion, but feel free to get all hot and bothered about it if you really want to. No one is telling this poster who got in not to enroll.

I'm the poster who just got the call for MV and I agree that the lottery is aggravating. Here I am getting a spot that would be much coveted by another family and at the same time I am in the same boat in that there are 10 other choices that I wanted more and am not geting. I've already declined an offer from my 11th choice.

First, thanks for understanding the point I was making. I appreciate that.

Second, if you were already matched with and turned down your #11 spot, why did you get a call from MV? Or I guess you were matched after the initial lottery?

So if you already declined your #11 choice, are you not going for MV as your #12? Or did your ranking change after the fact?

To be blunt we really added MV on at the end just to have 12 choices. It was kind of a "why not?" type deal. Our 11th choice was Garrison which my spouse just won't do. Its our in boundary school and my spouse hates the grounds.
Our no.5 choice is Hearst and we are #3 on the waitlist and we are hoping that will come in soon.

I'm surprised that the Hearst waitlist hasn't moved when MV is already at #11 for pK.

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I'm surprised that you didn't get into a not-all-that-in-demand IB like Garrison in the original lottery if you had a draw strong enough to get you a #11 spot in the WL at a school like MV. Doesn't really make sense.

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That's really interesting that someone got into Mundo verde from the 12 spot on their list. Did you have only DCPS with geographic preference for spots one through eleven? If you had any charters ahead of Mundo verde, i would expect that you would have gotten into them by now with that good of a lottery draw.

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MV crows are circling. How dare you not have MV at #1? Why with the bullying, inexperienced teachers, expensive aftercare how could you ever not put MV 1?

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Anonymous wrote:MV crows are circling. How dare you not have MV at #1? Why with the bullying, inexperienced teachers, expensive aftercare how could you ever not put MV 1?

I pay roughly the same amount for aftercare at Stokes...

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Anonymous wrote:MV crows are circling. How dare you not have MV at #1? Why with the bullying, inexperienced teachers, expensive aftercare how could you ever not put MV 1?

I pay roughly the same amount for aftercare at Stokes...

$320 is hardly roughly the same as MV.

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Anonymous wrote:MV crows are circling. How dare you not have MV at #1? Why with the bullying, inexperienced teachers, expensive aftercare how could you ever not put MV 1?

Wow, axe to grind much?

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Anonymous wrote:MV crows are circling. How dare you not have MV at #1? Why with the bullying, inexperienced teachers, expensive aftercare how could you ever not put MV 1?

Wow, axe to grind much?

Not at all I am happy MV makes many people happy. It's ludicrous to see the parents look down on others and really think that MV is the only choice for families. Especially when MV is not established or tested.

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Anonymous wrote:That's really interesting that someone got into Mundo verde from the 12 spot on their list. Did you have only DCPS with geographic preference for spots one through eleven? If you had any charters ahead of Mundo verde, i would expect that you would have gotten into them by now with that good of a lottery draw.

No, PP said her IB was Garrison, which she put at 11. Find it bizarre that she wouldn't have been matched with it immediately.

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PP who had MV at 12 had a lot of popular DCPSs earlier in her list (she posted it in another thread that came up when I did a search on another is last night). Having schools like Janney and Ross earlier on in her list explains how she got into MV at 12 and not earlier picks (except Garrison). Also Garrison mixes 3s and 4s together so I don't think they add 4s per se which may explain why her kid got WLed despite being inbounds.

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Anonymous wrote:PP who had MV at 12 had a lot of popular DCPSs earlier in her list (she posted it in another thread that came up when I did a search on another is last night). Having schools like Janney and Ross earlier on in her list explains how she got into MV at 12 and not earlier picks (except Garrison). Also Garrison mixes 3s and 4s together so I don't think they add 4s per se which may explain why her kid got WLed despite being inbounds.

PP here. This is correct. We have sibling preference at Hyde and proximity at Ross but thats it. In the end Hearst may work out and even Hyde and Mann.

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Anonymous wrote:MV crows are circling. How dare you not have MV at #1? Why with the bullying, inexperienced teachers, expensive aftercare how could you ever not put MV 1?

Wow, axe to grind much?

Not at all I am happy MV makes many people happy. It's ludicrous to see the parents look down on others and really think that MV is the only choice for families. Especially when MV is not established or tested.

Show one post, just one, where someone acts as if MV is "the only choice for families". Being enthusiastic is not the same as looking down on someone else or saying your school is "the only" school. You're saying it happens, show even one post where it does, or admit that you are pissy about MV for some reason and you're exaggerating MV parent attitudes.

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Anonymous wrote:That's really interesting that someone got into Mundo verde from the 12 spot on their list. Did you have only DCPS with geographic preference for spots one through eleven? If you had any charters ahead of Mundo verde, i would expect that you would have gotten into them by now with that good of a lottery draw.

No, PP said her IB was Garrison, which she put at 11. Find it bizarre that she wouldn't have been matched with it immediately.

Agree. This would pretty much be impossible, given the lottery algorithm.

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Anonymous wrote:That's really interesting that someone got into Mundo verde from the 12 spot on their list. Did you have only DCPS with geographic preference for spots one through eleven? If you had any charters ahead of Mundo verde, i would expect that you would have gotten into them by now with that good of a lottery draw.

No, PP said her IB was Garrison, which she put at 11. Find it bizarre that she wouldn't have been matched with it immediately.

Agree. This would pretty much be impossible, given the lottery algorithm.

It's not impossible if Garrison did not have any 4 year old slots because everyone said they were coming back. Unlike MV, Garrison does not add a bunch of spots for prek4.