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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay so I ran the math on this. Here’s the percentage of kids without feeder preference who eventually get in each year, including wait list offers.

Chinese:
2019-2020 45%
62%
100%
54%
2023-2024 23%

French:
2019-2020 15%
31%
87%
38%
2023-2024 21%

Spanish:
2019-2020 35%
37%
16%
26%
2023-2024 0%

Note that the 2023-2024 figures do not yet include September wait list offers, so those numbers should go up.

So the simple answer is no, you do have a chance to get in without a feeder preference, though it varies by year and language, and as with all popular DC schools, your chances are dramatically higher if you’re willing to accept a waitlist offer whenever you get it, even in September. If you don’t include waitlist offers, those percents get cut, on average, by about half.

This is all based purely on historical data though. The concerning number is the big ole 0 for Spanish this year. Not a single offer. I’m a data nerd, but I’m not familiar with the policies and trends at DCI more broadly. If they’ve made a permanent change that created that zero, and they don’t make any waitlist offers in September, then yeah, getting in to the Spanish track without a feeder preference might no longer be possible. If it was just a weird year [b]with big classes coming from the feeders[/b], then the numbers imply you’ve got a chance in future years. [/quote]

Just FYI re the bolded above - I know that the current group of 6th graders that came from LAMB was NOT a big class, and in fact did not use all of its feeder spots.  So I read this to say that there are already other Spanish feeder schools who are using more than allocated seats.[/quote]

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