Chances of getting in to Brent for PS3 next year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With only 30 PreK3 spots left at Brent (down from 38 last year) and Lord knows how many names going in the hat in the 2015-2016 lottery season, I wouldn't hold my breath. The school was expecting two dozen in-boundary applicants with siblings in the last lottery season and got 42.

Take heart, Van Ness got nearly 20 of the Brent in-boundary 3 year olds and AppleTree LP got a dozen. If you land in either program (both solid and predominantly high SES), your kid will have plenty of K buddies/former classmates at Brent. Tyler Spanish Immersion, Ludlow-Taylor and Peabody also welcome multiple Brent in-boundary kids for PreK3 and 4.

I love DCUM. Idiots spouting garbage with impunity. DCPS publishes the data, so why don't we just take a look, shall we?

Ludlow Round 1
PK3:
45 seats offered - 5 IB w/sib admitted, 40 IB admitted. 25 waitlisted from categories that cannot be IB for Brent (i.e. WL IB w/sib accepted on through to proximity)
PK4:
4 seats offered - 4 IB accepted. 14 waitlisted from categories that cannot be IB for Brent (i.e. WL IB w/sib accepted on through to proximity)

Peabody Round 1
PK3:
61 seats offered - 28 IB w/sib admitted, 33 IB admitted. 39 IB waitlisted. (i.e. categories that cannot be IB for Brent)
PK4:
17 seats offered - 3 IB w/sib admitted, 14 IB admitted. 22 IB waitlisted. 22 waitlisted w/sib enrolled (i.e. categories that cannot be IB for Brent)

Tyler Round 1:
Same story for PK3.
In the interest of full disclosure there were in fact 4 OOB PK4 kids admitted.

In the interests of fairness to the original poster (and perhaps of use to the folks entering the lottery for PK3), Ludlow-Taylor runs pretty far down into its waitlist for both PK grades or at least did two and three years ago. Tyler Traditional generally goes through most or all of its waitlist. But Peabody's doesn't budge all that much, and there are many IB families clamoring to get into PK. So, now, they don't generally welcome inbounds Brent kids, at least for PK3.

In fairness to the rest of us who are sick of BS on DCUM, three years ago in the DC schools is a lifetime. And if the poster knew anything about LT or Hill schools they'd know that their impression is stale. Also, and maybe I'm just prickly and reading into your post, but there is no category for "inbounds Brent kids" other than at Brent. Everywhere else they are "OOK kids", no different from (gulp) poor black kids IB for Ward 8 schools.

Honey, I'm the poster you're talking to, and I've been through the PK lottery rodeo for the past 3 years and watched the PK waitlists move as well as spoken with many other families about their experiences. i am also quite well versed in lottery procedure. What exactly did I write that was wrong? Of course, there is no special category for inbounds Brent kids at other schools. You are prickly without a cause!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some families were very creative in terms of the address used for purposes of the lottery last year. That includes some who have child in ECE and older sibling at Brent.

Double down on your BS. Never surrender!!!!

It is BS because the Brent registrar does home visits if she's had a complaint about address use, or suspects cheating. Claim what you like, but parents can't just take ECE spots using random addresses (a friend's, that of a rental or whatever).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:With only 30 PreK3 spots left at Brent (down from 38 last year) and Lord knows how many names going in the hat in the 2015-2016 lottery season, I wouldn't hold my breath. The school was expecting two dozen in-boundary applicants with siblings in the last lottery season and got 42.

Take heart, Van Ness got nearly 20 of the Brent in-boundary 3 year olds and AppleTree LP got a dozen. If you land in either program (both solid and predominantly high SES), your kid will have plenty of K buddies/former classmates at Brent. Tyler Spanish Immersion, Ludlow-Taylor and Peabody also welcome multiple Brent in-boundary kids for PreK3 and 4.

I love DCUM. Idiots spouting garbage with impunity. DCPS publishes the data, so why don't we just take a look, shall we?

Ludlow Round 1
PK3:
45 seats offered - 5 IB w/sib admitted, 40 IB admitted. 25 waitlisted from categories that cannot be IB for Brent (i.e. WL IB w/sib accepted on through to proximity)
PK4:
4 seats offered - 4 IB accepted. 14 waitlisted from categories that cannot be IB for Brent (i.e. WL IB w/sib accepted on through to proximity)

Peabody Round 1
PK3:
61 seats offered - 28 IB w/sib admitted, 33 IB admitted. 39 IB waitlisted. (i.e. categories that cannot be IB for Brent)
PK4:
17 seats offered - 3 IB w/sib admitted, 14 IB admitted. 22 IB waitlisted. 22 waitlisted w/sib enrolled (i.e. categories that cannot be IB for Brent)

Tyler Round 1:
Same story for PK3.
In the interest of full disclosure there were in fact 4 OOB PK4 kids admitted.

In the interests of fairness to the original poster (and perhaps of use to the folks entering the lottery for PK3), Ludlow-Taylor runs pretty far down into its waitlist for both PK grades or at least did two and three years ago. Tyler Traditional generally goes through most or all of its waitlist. But Peabody's doesn't budge all that much, and there are many IB families clamoring to get into PK. So, now, they don't generally welcome inbounds Brent kids, at least for PK3.

In fairness to the rest of us who are sick of BS on DCUM, three years ago in the DC schools is a lifetime. And if the poster knew anything about LT or Hill schools they'd know that their impression is stale. Also, and maybe I'm just prickly and reading into your post, but there is no category for "inbounds Brent kids" other than at Brent. Everywhere else they are "OOK kids", no different from (gulp) poor black kids IB for Ward 8 schools.

Honey, I'm the poster you're talking to, and I've been through the PK lottery rodeo for the past 3 years and watched the PK waitlists move as well as spoken with many other families about their experiences. i am also quite well versed in lottery procedure. What exactly did I write that was wrong? Of course, there is no special category for inbounds Brent kids at other schools. You are prickly without a cause!

Not sure how what I wrote wasn't clear. But I'll do it again if you need me to. You defended a post that was incongruous with facts. And you defended it based on the fact that at least "two or three years ago" it was accurate. Which is, as I said in my original response, a lifetime in Hill schools. If you have ever been through LT you know the lower floor doesn't even look like the same school as the 3rd floor.

What probably set me off about your post is the Brent-centric nature of your post. Funny how you seem to know a little bit about Peabody but not much about the current state of LT or anything outside your area. Which doesn't stop you from chiming in and then coming over the top. You don't have to know anything about Brent. And you can be wrong. But jeez, lady. The post to which you replied literally provided the data that showed the OP was simply wrong, notwithstanding the confidence with which it was written. Your understanding of the current landscape is wrong. And it isn't helping the poster who asked the question. If you have no idea what you are talking about then how about just not talking?

[Anonymous]

Honey, again, you are prickly without a cause. Lottery results are very different than who actually ends up getting into a school for the school year. Some waitlists move; others don't. My child was at Ludlow-Taylor for the past two years. I know what it looks like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honey, again, you are prickly without a cause. Lottery results are very different than who actually ends up getting into a school for the school year. Some waitlists move; others don't. My child was at Ludlow-Taylor for the past two years. I know what it looks like.

Ludlow admitted zero non-IB PK3 kids. There are not any OOB kids attending PK3. Do I need to explain what "zero" means? Or does your use of "honey" change the meaning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honey, again, you are prickly without a cause. Lottery results are very different than who actually ends up getting into a school for the school year. Some waitlists move; others don't. My child was at Ludlow-Taylor for the past two years. I know what it looks like.

Ludlow admitted zero non-IB PK3 kids. There are not any OOB kids attending PK3. Do I need to explain what "zero" means? Or does your use of "honey" change the meaning?

P.S. DCPS kept the waitlists in-house this year. Schools that used to be able to game the system and pull people off of waitlists without following the rules effectively lost their discretion. (Looking at you Logan, SWSG, LT)

[Anonymous]

You be nothin' but cray-cray as you apparently have me confused with some other poster. And while it may be the case that the cheater could afford a house in-bound for Brent if they sold both their primary residence and rental property, they chose not to do so -- perhaps for the purpose of hedging bets for middle school a few years down the road. By the way, "Ebonics" is properly referred to as "African-American Vernacular English," and "heresay" is not an actual English word. But you would have known this had you followed your own advice to "google it." Perhaps you were thinking of "heresy"? Sweet dreams girl.

[Anonymous]

What ever happened to the subject of getting into Brent for PS3 next year? Some of us would like to know what the chances are for your run of the mill in boundary resident for a 2-3 year old. Does anybody know if this year's crop of toddlers is smaller or bigger than last year's?

[Anonymous]

^I'd wager that it's a little smaller than the 2015 group. I'm guessing an applicant number in the 60s this time, not the 70s (there were 73 or 73 last time, right?). Anybody else agree?

[Anonymous]

Agree, smaller! I'm not seeing quite as many 2 year olds at Turtle Park, Lincoln Park etc. as last year, but I think it will still be a big group.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With only 30 PreK3 spots left at Brent (down from 38 last year) and Lord knows how many names going in the hat in the 2015-2016 lottery season, I wouldn't hold my breath. The school was expecting two dozen in-boundary applicants with siblings in the last lottery season and got 42.

Take heart, Van Ness got nearly 20 of the Brent in-boundary 3 year olds and AppleTree LP got a dozen. If you land in either program (both solid and predominantly high SES), your kid will have plenty of K buddies/former classmates at Brent. Tyler Spanish Immersion, Ludlow-Taylor and Peabody also welcome multiple Brent in-boundary kids for PreK3 and 4.

Peabody had IB families 39 deep on the waitlist this year.

But didn't the Peabody WL clear by the second week of school? I thought that a couple of Brent families got in for PreS3 in October.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honey, again, you are prickly without a cause. Lottery results are very different than who actually ends up getting into a school for the school year. Some waitlists move; others don't. My child was at Ludlow-Taylor for the past two years. I know what it looks like.

OK, so that was in 2014. Did LT take any of the 2015 Brent applicants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honey, again, you are prickly without a cause. Lottery results are very different than who actually ends up getting into a school for the school year. Some waitlists move; others don't. My child was at Ludlow-Taylor for the past two years. I know what it looks like.

OK, so that was in 2014. Did LT take any of the 2015 Brent applicants?

To my knowledge, Ludlow didn't take any of the In boundary Brent applicants from the big 2015 applicant pool, even in late September or October.

If people want to bitch about address cheating, please start your own thread to keep this one from getting any nastier, or more ridiculous.

If you have concerns about cheaters, please just go talk to the registrar. In our dealings with her, she's very thorough. We had to submit to a quick home visit at one point (when we were divorcing and using two neighborhood houses). We also had to submit more paperwork than normal.

[Anonymous]

The OOB early childhood lotteries are always on shifting sands. Before 2013, you could usually crack Brent by the start of school, and LT was within your sights OOB. Plus Miner and JO Wilson were practically definites, at least if you had patience over the summer. Now, other than the several AppleTrees w/in a couple miles, it's so hard to say. If you get proximity for VanNess or Tyle Traditional from Brent, those local choices should work. But other than those two, and maybe the not-so-popular Payne, who knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OOB early childhood lotteries are always on shifting sands. Before 2013, you could usually crack Brent by the start of school, and LT was within your sights OOB. Plus Miner and JO Wilson were practically definites, at least if you had patience over the summer. Now, other than the several AppleTrees w/in a couple miles, it's so hard to say. If you get proximity for VanNess or Tyle Traditional from Brent, those local choices should work. But other than those two, and maybe the not-so-popular Payne, who knows.

I think most of those who are in-bound for Brent and can't get in should seriously look at Van Ness Elementary. Van Ness will be TOTALLY renovated by the start of the 2016 - 2017 school year, and the oldest grade will only be 1st grade.