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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My waitlists for 6th grade are also really stalled out. I think there's less churn in the school system generally now, compared to how it was pre-covid. People are less enamored of trading up unless they think it'll be significantly better.

A few things to know-- when you get close to getting an offer, things tend to move really slowly. What you experience when you're at the back end of a waitlist is due to people leaving the list, it's not real offers.

DCPS hasn't started yet, and DCPS schools tend to see who shows up on the first day, call any no-shows that they were expecting to have, and only then decide to make some offers. It's after that point that things start to move. So I think by the end of next week you might see some results.

I'm also not sure when ASPEN rolls over (if that's even a thing anymore), but in the few days when the enrollment system is offline to refresh for the year, schools can't see data of who's enrolled elsewhere, so they tend not to make offers.[/quote]

This is helpful to know thank you.

We are #3 on a waitlist for a school that has never NOT cleared it's waitlist for 3rd grade and we would take a spot if offered so it's really frustrating to sit in limbo and have to prepare to start at a different school wondering if we are going to get that offer this week or next week or potentially not until September. I hate putting my kid in this situation too.[/quote]

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