Read all threads, cant find answer, please help!

[Anonymous]

I'm sure it's a dumb question, and I know I saw somewhere on MyschoolDC that you get only ONE offer on March 30, but.....I keep reading references to getting into multiple schools?
Let's say by some miracle DS gets into his first or 2 or 11th choice school but for whatever reason we decided we changed our mind and dont want it anymore. Can he refuse the spot and move down to another school? I don't think thats how it works but why do people refer to getting into multiple schools?

[Anonymous]

I think that means they were waitlisted but contacted by several schools that a spot opened up.

[Anonymous]

You will be only be matched at one school.

If that school is first on your list,, you are done.

If that school is not first on your list, you will also be on the wait list for everything ranked higher than where you matched. You will see what number on the wait list you are.

People who say they got multiple offers mean that they matched at a school, and either enrolled or turned it down.

And then later were offered a match at a different school they were wait listed. If they decide to enroll at the second school, they give up their initial school, and any schools they had ranked below the second school where they matched.

[Anonymous]

You are wait listed at all schools above where you match. We were matched with our 10th choice last year. We were dropped from our 11th and 12th choices. We were wait listed at 1-9. We declined our 10th choice match and accepted at a charter outside the lottery (Bethune). We then received an offer for our 2nd choice school and accepted it. So, three offers in total.

Just a note, when we saw our wait list numbers, we reordered our list. Our second choice school is not a hotly popular one so we moved it down a bit (which didn't affect our wait list number at all) so that if we matched we might still have a chance at some of the more sought after charters. (Never happened but still a good outcome for us.)

[Anonymous]

Thanks pps. To the last poster, if the school was truly your second choice, and you reordered it further down your list, that means if you did get into the " highly sought after" charters your second favorite option would then be off the table. NOT understanding why you would do that?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, never mind I see you then accepted that spot. But you were able to reorder the list before accepting so that you didn't lose schools below it on the list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are wait listed at all schools above where you match. We were matched with our 10th choice last year. We were dropped from our 11th and 12th choices. We were wait listed at 1-9. We declined our 10th choice match and accepted at a charter outside the lottery (Bethune). We then received an offer for our 2nd choice school and accepted it. So, three offers in total.

Just a note, when we saw our wait list numbers, we reordered our list. Our second choice school is not a hotly popular one so we moved it down a bit (which didn't affect our wait list number at all) so that if we matched we might still have a chance at some of the more sought after charters. (Never happened but still a good outcome for us.)

Same here. I reordered the list and put the ones DD had no chance of getting into towards the bottom.