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[quote=Anonymous]Our family is not shut out, but we may well could have been as we are zoned for Coolidge (not an option) and our son got a terrible lottery number.

He will be attending McKinley Tech.  He is someone who does extremely well on standardized tests and, previous to the change in admissions requirements, would have had a great chance at getting into Walls which was our plan.

My takeaway is that I'm very grateful that we put ALL of the schools we would be willing for our son to attend on the application.  All of them.  It's a true lottery now as it always was.

I also wonder if we should have applied for private schools, but my son's strong preference was that the money that would go to Private school instead go to Graduate School or a down payment on a home.  For us, this is an actual pot of money that is for our kids, so it's not conceptual and we left this choice up to our son.  Because, ultimately it's his choice which school he attends.

Now, we did not have our son apply for the early college program at Coolidge, and in retrospect, I wish we had.  Things turned out fine, but our safety schools were McArthur and Sojourner Truth and they had many, many applications this year so I doubt our son would have lotteried in.

Our son is interested in Engineering, we loved the open house and this truly is a happy ending for us, but if it had been a different year (or a different interview day where he had been in a bad mood and not gotten in?) then we could have been shut out.  In that case, I would have called around to all the high schools we would consider to see if anyone happened to have any spaces open up.

My point is, please don't count on getting into anywhere other than your zoned school, because things change.  Apply to all schools you would consider, and, probably, at least a couple of private schools even if paying the tuition would be a stretch.
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