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[quote=Anonymous]I did not attend any open houses, and I found/got into a school that works really well for DD.

Initially I scheduled to attend a few open houses, but as a single working mom I found either they didn't fit my schedule ( I have to save time off for when DD is sick) or some work issue came up where I had to be in the office. Also, it really just didn't seem to make a lot of sense to me, given my time constraints, to attend a bunch of open houses and get my mind set on a school where we might not have a chance of getting in, so I decided to wait until after the lotteries and only go to open houses if we stood a good chance of getting into the schools.

That said, I spent a lot of time, years in fact (since DD was 6 mos old), researching education methodologies, reading DCUM and other parent sites, asking questions about parent/child experiences at schools that seemed like they would fit what I wanted. When it came time for lotteries, based on my research I applied to 6 publics and 7 charters -- some schools I really wanted, some fairly good choices, and 1 charter and 1 public each that I thought were decent but not highly in demand so I had a good chance of getting in.

My waitlist numbers were pretty bad for all but 1 of my top choices, where I had waitlist number in the teens. They still had one more open house I could have attended, but DD ended up being sick, so I missed it. We got in 1 week before school closed for the year, so I made an appointment to tour the school, which worked really well for me.

DD is at that same school now, thriving and happy.

So my advice is, do your research, and if you have time to attend open houses, take advantage of them, but it's not necessary to go.

P.S. I did get calls from some other schools over the summer.

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