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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids don't go to Yu Ying.  I have no opinions on the school.  But 90% of the families I've met who go there have a major connection (usually one mandarin speaking parent).  Have I just had weird luck?  I've probably met 20 families (none are close friends).[/quote]

YY probably has more 1/2 Asian biracial kids than any other school in the area.  I assume the 1/2 Asian kids are there for the Mandarin and not to escape their IB school.  We did.  Our other choice were private schools but they don't offer immersion Mandarin starting in preK.  One of the best Mandarin speakers in my kid's K class is white:  was born and lived in China until they moved to DC.  Most of the families I know are there b/c they value Mandarin or grow too.  It's simply too much work otherwise.  And the only family I know who left did b/c they were reassigned.  They were white and had lived in China/spoke Mandarin and are missed.[/quote]
Is it your contention that these half-Asian biracial kids are unusually lucky in their lottery hand, or that they are disproportionately interested in the school vs. regular whites, blacks etc.? because interest, background and links to China are all well and good, but they don't give you any edge in the YY lottery.  The white kid who was born and lived in China until he moved to DC and a Hispanic kid who never left Takoma Park, D.C., are playing equal odds. [/quote]

It is becoming an increasingly open secret that YY hand picks its students by manipulating the "wait list."  I've started a thread on this general topic.   The "time stamp" on the "wait list" is one wiggle factor.

There's the transparent lottery outcome, and if all ## of those lotto kids don't take their seat that they scored, then suddenly the next batch is oddly much more Chinese and/or connected than the district population that enters the lottery. How can that be, hmm. 
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