HB Lottery?

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Anonymous wrote:Lottery results seem to have started going out about 10 minutes ago. Slowing appearing.

Thanks. My DC got waitlisted but there is no waitlist number. Does APS normally let you know where you are on the waitlist?

Yes, everyone knows their waitlist number, but remember it’s the number from your school. Even the #1 at our elem didn’t get off the waitlist last year.

Does your waitlist number tells you your OVERALL placement...or your placement by school?

We still can’t see our waitlist number. I assume it will pop up eventually.

This is a ridiculous system where some people can see their wait list numbers and others can't.

I highly suspect that user error is at play. Log in and then SCROLL DOWN.

Nope. It’s not there. Can’t scroll beyond the bottom.

Different poster. I don’t see it either. I’ve checked on desktop and phone. Definitely not user error. At best it’s an APS error. But it seems suspect to me.

Do you see your kid and the application? What does it say for the status? What date was it last updated?

DP. Here is a screen shot of ours from a few minutes ago. I don’t particularly care if my kid gets in, but am sharing it to demonstrate that the other posters aren’t making it up or incompetent.

I am the poster who shared the screen shot above. For anyone who is still waiting, a waitlist number finally appealed sometime after mid-morning today.

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Anonymous wrote:Lottery results seem to have started going out about 10 minutes ago. Slowing appearing.

Thanks. My DC got waitlisted but there is no waitlist number. Does APS normally let you know where you are on the waitlist?

Yes, everyone knows their waitlist number, but remember it’s the number from your school. Even the #1 at our elem didn’t get off the waitlist last year.

Does your waitlist number tells you your OVERALL placement...or your placement by school?

We still can’t see our waitlist number. I assume it will pop up eventually.

This is a ridiculous system where some people can see their wait list numbers and others can't.

I highly suspect that user error is at play. Log in and then SCROLL DOWN.

Nope. It’s not there. Can’t scroll beyond the bottom.

Different poster. I don’t see it either. I’ve checked on desktop and phone. Definitely not user error. At best it’s an APS error. But it seems suspect to me.

Do you see your kid and the application? What does it say for the status? What date was it last updated?

DP. Here is a screen shot of ours from a few minutes ago. I don’t particularly care if my kid gets in, but am sharing it to demonstrate that the other posters aren’t making it up or incompetent.

I am the poster who shared the screen shot above. For anyone who is still waiting, a waitlist number finally appealed sometime after mid-morning today.

>50?



(my DC was ~120 a few years ago)

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If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

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Anonymous wrote:If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

If twins they both get in. If one. Is at HB and a you get sibling applied there is not any sort of preference.

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* a younger sibling

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Anonymous wrote:If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

There is no sibling preference at HB at all.

At elementary option schools, there is a sibling preference in the lottery if the sibling is concurrently enrolled but you don't move up the waitlist- you get the preference next time you enter the lottery. Ex- 1st and 4th grade siblings apply to an option school and the 1st grader gets in but the 4th is number 12 on the waitlist- the 4th grader doesn't jump to the top but if they enter the lottery for their 5th grade year they would get sibling preference in the lottery.

Twins are treated as one in the lotteries for elementary so if one gets in the other does too. I'm about 97% sure that twins are not admitted like that to HB.

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Twins get in as a pair through the HB lottery.

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Anonymous wrote:If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

There is no sibling preference at HB at all.

At elementary option schools, there is a sibling preference in the lottery if the sibling is concurrently enrolled but you don't move up the waitlist- you get the preference next time you enter the lottery. Ex- 1st and 4th grade siblings apply to an option school and the 1st grader gets in but the 4th is number 12 on the waitlist- the 4th grader doesn't jump to the top but if they enter the lottery for their 5th grade year they would get sibling preference in the lottery.

Twins are treated as one in the lotteries for elementary so if one gets in the other does too. I'm about 97% sure that twins are not admitted like that to HB.

Wrong. Twins are admitted together to HB and so are triplets.

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Anonymous wrote:If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

There is no sibling preference at HB at all.

At elementary option schools, there is a sibling preference in the lottery if the sibling is concurrently enrolled but you don't move up the waitlist- you get the preference next time you enter the lottery. Ex- 1st and 4th grade siblings apply to an option school and the 1st grader gets in but the 4th is number 12 on the waitlist- the 4th grader doesn't jump to the top but if they enter the lottery for their 5th grade year they would get sibling preference in the lottery.

Twins are treated as one in the lotteries for elementary so if one gets in the other does too. I'm about 97% sure that twins are not admitted like that to HB.

Wrong. Twins are admitted together to HB and so are triplets.

This is the Nancy Van Doren Exception. I think she had kids at HBW when this was debated years ago. She is a twin mom herself and started crying/babbling incoherently at a school board meeting about the mysterious and deep bond that twins share since the womb and why separating them into different schools would be devastating. She was widely mocked for her speech at the time, but the School Board still endorsed it. The compromise was that twins admitted to HBW count as one spot, so it supposedly doesn't reduce the number of kids admitted (although if they can squeeze in a few extra twin siblings, then why can't they just increase the class size... but whatever).

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Anonymous wrote:If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

There is no sibling preference at HB at all.

At elementary option schools, there is a sibling preference in the lottery if the sibling is concurrently enrolled but you don't move up the waitlist- you get the preference next time you enter the lottery. Ex- 1st and 4th grade siblings apply to an option school and the 1st grader gets in but the 4th is number 12 on the waitlist- the 4th grader doesn't jump to the top but if they enter the lottery for their 5th grade year they would get sibling preference in the lottery.

Twins are treated as one in the lotteries for elementary so if one gets in the other does too. I'm about 97% sure that twins are not admitted like that to HB.

Wrong. Twins are admitted together to HB and so are triplets.

I had forgotten about this. This makes no sense since APS separates twins everywhere else. I think you need special permission to even have them in the same class.
This is the Nancy Van Doren Exception. I think she had kids at HBW when this was debated years ago. She is a twin mom herself and started crying/babbling incoherently at a school board meeting about the mysterious and deep bond that twins share since the womb and why separating them into different schools would be devastating. She was widely mocked for her speech at the time, but the School Board still endorsed it. The compromise was that twins admitted to HBW count as one spot, so it supposedly doesn't reduce the number of kids admitted (although if they can squeeze in a few extra twin siblings, then why can't they just increase the class size... but whatever).

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Anonymous wrote:If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

There is no sibling preference at HB at all.

At elementary option schools, there is a sibling preference in the lottery if the sibling is concurrently enrolled but you don't move up the waitlist- you get the preference next time you enter the lottery. Ex- 1st and 4th grade siblings apply to an option school and the 1st grader gets in but the 4th is number 12 on the waitlist- the 4th grader doesn't jump to the top but if they enter the lottery for their 5th grade year they would get sibling preference in the lottery.

Twins are treated as one in the lotteries for elementary so if one gets in the other does too. I'm about 97% sure that twins are not admitted like that to HB.

Wrong. Twins are admitted together to HB and so are triplets.

This is the Nancy Van Doren Exception. I think she had kids at HBW when this was debated years ago. She is a twin mom herself and started crying/babbling incoherently at a school board meeting about the mysterious and deep bond that twins share since the womb and why separating them into different schools would be devastating. She was widely mocked for her speech at the time, but the School Board still endorsed it. The compromise was that twins admitted to HBW count as one spot, so it supposedly doesn't reduce the number of kids admitted (although if they can squeeze in a few extra twin siblings, then why can't they just increase the class size... but whatever).

I had forgotten about this. This makes no sense since APS separates twins everywhere else. I think you need special permission to even have them in the same class. And yes, agree, increase the class size.

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The increase in class size is negligible so that part doesn't really bother me. But as a non twin parent of multiple kids, I do not think twins should get an extra advantage. It's much, much more convenient for families to have your kids in the same school. I suspect HB would have an easier time increasing its diversity if it offered all siblings preference. But, in the end, APS should either offer sibling preference at HB to all families, or to none. Twins are not that special.

Do twins get this same advantage at Arlington Tech too?

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Anonymous wrote:If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

There is no sibling preference at HB at all.

At elementary option schools, there is a sibling preference in the lottery if the sibling is concurrently enrolled but you don't move up the waitlist- you get the preference next time you enter the lottery. Ex- 1st and 4th grade siblings apply to an option school and the 1st grader gets in but the 4th is number 12 on the waitlist- the 4th grader doesn't jump to the top but if they enter the lottery for their 5th grade year they would get sibling preference in the lottery.

Twins are treated as one in the lotteries for elementary so if one gets in the other does too. I'm about 97% sure that twins are not admitted like that to HB.

Wrong. Twins are admitted together to HB and so are triplets.

This is the Nancy Van Doren Exception. I think she had kids at HBW when this was debated years ago. She is a twin mom herself and started crying/babbling incoherently at a school board meeting about the mysterious and deep bond that twins share since the womb and why separating them into different schools would be devastating. She was widely mocked for her speech at the time, but the School Board still endorsed it. The compromise was that twins admitted to HBW count as one spot, so it supposedly doesn't reduce the number of kids admitted (although if they can squeeze in a few extra twin siblings, then why can't they just increase the class size... but whatever).

Her kids all went to W-L. But interesting about the twins exception.

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Anonymous wrote:If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

I know several North Arlington families with both siblings at HB. So that is just random luck??

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Anonymous wrote:If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist?

I know several North Arlington families with both siblings at HB. So that is just random luck??

I know of at least one family where they applied year after year for the second kid but really wanted that sibling to go. They eventually got in partway through 9th or 10th grade. it is luck when it happens. Also there are fewer applications from some schools, so the likelihood of siblings getting in is greater there.