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Anonymous
I'm doing kinda the same thing. Future PK3 has Lee only but older Lee student (who may not be a good fit for Montessori) has one dream, close by school on the list. I definitely want my younger, who I think will be a good fit for Montessori, at Lee, but the location uncertainty and the fact my current Lee kid is not taking to the curriculum (likes it but very very distracted) means we are putting our toe back into the lottery water. Most likely we'll stay though - the elementary program just sounds too promising. Pray pray pray they somehow find a good location! |
Anonymous
Do not do this PP. If your IB really is your #1 choice (and you indicated commute is #1), leave as is. |
Anonymous
| But our IB is our first choice, so that advice doesn't apply, does it? |
Anonymous
| PP here, and right, that's what I thought - put in order you actually want. In this case, our IB is first because of combo of commute + our feelings about the school. |
Anonymous
That's correct, if it's your number #1 choice, you should put it first. The problem with putting IB last is that if you get into ANY school above it, you will be dropped from the IB waitlist, so your chance of going to the IB school will be zero. There is no game here folks, put the schools in the order of your preference. If you want an IB school or OOB or charter "safety" that you want to put as 11 or 12 to keep something possible, that's fine. But those should truly be your last choices if you number them 11 or 12. |
Anonymous
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I'm in bound for Ross. 99% sure this is my list.
Ross (IB) Breakthrough Shining Stars Lee YY Marie Reed School Without Walls |
Anonymous
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When determining the order of your rank, keep in mind the impact that the ranking of your in-boundary preference has on the schools ranked before and after it.
Remember, for your DCPS in-bound school, you have preference over ALL out-of-boundary applicants, See: http://www.myschooldc.org/faq/faqs/. This means that so long as there are enough seats for all in-bound applicants (as appears to be the case most East of the Park DCPS schools), you are guaranteed to at least get into your in-bound (if you aren't matched at a school you rank higher). Do: Rank your schools in your true order of preference, including your in-bound option, but keep in mind the following impacts and scenarios: 1. If you love your in-bound, then rank it #1 - and that's awesome for you - you have little to stress about because it would take a very bad lottery draw for you not to be matched there. Why? For you not to be matched at your in-bound (or a school you rank higher), you would have to draw such a poor # that that there are more inbound families with a higher lotto # than you that get matched to your school than spots available at that school. And even if this were the case that your lotto number was so bad, you are still going to be in front of all out of boundary students on the waitlist - so, as students who are matched at your shared in-bound get pulled off waitlists at other charter schools, you will be among the first to be offered a spot. 2. Even if your in-bound isn't your #1 preference, you can still feel very confident that you will at least get into it. But remember, if you # is so bad that you don't even get into your in-bound school, your bad # isn't going to get you into schools you ranked lower that you don't have preference at. So, it makes little sense to have highly regarded charter schools below your in-bound on your list. If your # is so bad that it isn't even good even to get you a spot at your in-bound, it isn't going to be good enough for a space at a highly regarded charter. 3. It really only makes sense to add schools below your in-bound that you think won't have any waitlists at all. That way if you draw a really poor # that you aren't matched to your in-bound, you could at least be matched at one of those "safety" schools. 4. Conversely, if you are ranking popular OOB schools that may or may not even have spaces for OOB, you should probably have them ranked very high on your list or not at all. Why? If that OOB school does have spaces for OOB kids (which is a big if), it is likely that the # of spaces available for OOB is small. So, if you draw a great lotto #, then you will be placed at a school towards the top of your list. If that is an OOB school, then great. But with a great # and an OOB school in the middle or bottom of your list, it seems unlikely you would get in there but not one of the schools you ranked higher. If you draw an average or poor # and have an OOB school low on your list, it is likely that the limited # of OOB spots at that school are already filled by the time the algorithm gets around to your lottery # and attempts to match to you to the highest ranked school that still has spots available. Bottomline: Always rank in your true preference. Even if you violate the scenarios I outlined above, no big deal - all it means is that your ranked schools in places on your list that give you very slim chances of getting in there. But, it is interesting to think about the various scenarios of where you would be matched according to your rankings under various different lotto scenarios... |
Anonymous
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Mount Pleasant
Ross YY CMI Hyde-Addison ITS MV Lee Breakthrough Cleveland Marie Reed Powell HD Cooke |
Anonymous
Good list even if Ross is a waste. |
Anonymous
Ummm, you could get in nowhere with that list. |
Anonymous
Based on location and your priorities you may want to consider Bridges and DC Bilingual. |
Anonymous
Lay only waitlisted 3 out of 48 IB kids last year and they probably all eventually got in. Plus you don't know PP's intentions. Why do so many people feel compelled to give unsolicited advice? |
Anonymous
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Here's our PK3 list.
Neighborhood: Bloomingdale Mundo Verde Yu Ying Stokes French Stokes Spanish Two Rivers Inspired Teaching Lee Montessori CMI Cleveland Seaton Langley (IB) |
Anonymous
| *LT only waitlisted |
Anonymous
CFMS is an independent Catholic school. Why would they need to do anything more on a tour than elaborate on the way in which the Atrium works into their program? To person who's thinking of it for elementary, as opposed to starting by age 4 at the latest, they generally won't take a non-Montessori kid for elementary. Possibly at 4th grade, but not generally. |