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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey there OP, you're on the right track by narrowing things down geographically first. Here are my thoughts on your situation:

Appletree schools shouldn't be considered "totally new". They're fine. It's just one more site operated by an organization that has many sites. Appletree is fine.

For your chances of getting in out of boundary, see this data. https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/node/61
And then this data for waitlist movement: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay
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Thank you! I'd seen the Tableau dashboards, but the bigger files from the other site are really useful. Regarding these numbers, am I interpreting this correctly?
- If my in-bound school matched slots that have a lower (or no) preference, as an in-boundary applicant we'd have a pretty decent chance of being matched
- For out-of-boundary schools, to have any sort of chance I need to see that they gave at least some slots to "no preference" applicants

For Appletree, I wasn't sure if there were big disparities by location. I know they have been around a while, but this one particular location is opening in August (so, if we went there our daughter would be in their first class).
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Yes, you're interpreting those things correctly. Well done! The waitlist data can be a little hard to interpret-- it tells you how many offers were made, but not how many were accepted. Some schools need to do multiple offers to fill just one empty spot. And siblings can jump the waitlist-- so if a child gets an offer and accepts it, that causes their siblings to move to the top of the list. So it's hard to say precisely how things worked out for no-preference applicants.

The nice thing about a new Appletree is that there are no currently attending students to confer Sibling Attending preference on their younger sibs-- it works in your favor that it is new.[/quote]

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