Twins lottery scenario

[Anonymous]

I have twins who will attend pk3 next year and we will probably get into our IB school
Here is how I am planning to play the school lottery:

Twin A
- Stokes French
- IB

Twin B
- Stokes French
- IB


What happens if:
-Twin A get into Stokes (i.e. he won't be on the WL for the IB)
-Twin B doesn't get into Stokes (get on their WL) but get into our IB.
However what if the WL doesn't move much and Twin B doesn't get accepted in Stokes? Since Twin A will not have a WL # for our IB school, will I be able to get him to our IB school as well? how would that work?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

You can add more schools after the lottery, so you would re-add your IB school. File your enrollment paperwork as soon as you possibly can, to get in the sibling enrolled category.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have twins who will attend pk3 next year and we will probably get into our IB school
Here is how I am planning to play the school lottery:

Twin A
- Stokes French
- IB

Twin B
- Stokes French
- IB


What happens if:
-Twin A get into Stokes (i.e. he won't be on the WL for the IB)
-Twin B doesn't get into Stokes (get on their WL) but get into our IB.
However what if the WL doesn't move much and Twin B doesn't get accepted in Stokes? Since Twin A will not have a WL # for our IB school, will I be able to get him to our IB school as well? how would that work?

Thanks

Your strategy is fine for part one (initial entry).

Assuming one twin gets into Stokes and the other does not, you can talk to Stokes and judge how likely / unlikely it is that the other twin might gain a seat with sibling preference.

If it's a long shot, and you want them at the same school, you would turn down the Stokes slot and re-enter that twin for you IB. They would get in line behind the rest of the IB without siblings and hopefully get a spot by fall.

To confirm call My School DC. They answer these questions every day and are really knowledgeable.

[Anonymous]

Great, thank you!

[Anonymous]

Some version of this scenario happened to me with twins the first year of the new lottery system. My understanding is that they have since addressed this issue and if Twin A gets into school choice 1 and Twin B is waitlisted at that school, Twin A is not automatically taken off the WL (or not accepted) at schools lower down on his/her list.

But you should definitely ask My School DC - they were super helpful when this happened to us and they get back to you very quickly (within an hour or so).

[Anonymous]

OP here, here is the response from MyschoolDC
"Although there are no guarantees, sibling are given a preference called sibling offered preference. Siblings are also waitlisted at their siblings matched school with the preference regardless of the order". If I understand correctly, in my scenario, if Twin A get into Stokes he will still get on the WL for IB with a preference of "sibling offered".