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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are excited!  Qualified for both and have a place at Eastern, which is our home school so yes we had a higher chance of getting in there.  Wait pool at Takoma Park. [/quote]

How did you find out your child placed? The snail mail letter we got today only mentioned qualifying for the lottery.[/quote]

That same letter says if you did or did not get “placed in the regional program”.[/quote]

Crap, I too read our DC's letter as just about qualifying for the lottery pool. I guess if it is unclear that means DC was NOT placed?[/quote]

There should be three columns. Column 1 is just the name of the program, Column 2 is whether your child met the criteria, and Column 3 is whether they were placed in the program. It is poorly formatted, but it should have the information you are looking for. "Not Placed" if they met the criteria just means they are now on the waitlist, which should have some movement as kids decide whether to stay in their home schools, or decide between two offers if they had good lottery luck. [/quote]

There are no columns in the letter we received. Just one paragraph each for Humanities and Math results. It does talk about whether student met the criteria and was placed in the lottery. But after that it does not clearly say they did not get a spot (I guess for those who were lucky enough to get a spot there is a sentence to that effect). Reading carefully, and knowing about how this works, you get the info. But definitely not a well crafted explanation...[/quote]

For those who are (clearly!) more capable of divining the message in these missives, how do you know your waitlist spot? (Is everyone waitlisted, or can you miss even this cutoff  :cry: ?)[/quote]

I don't think there is a waitlist spot. Our letter basically said that our kiddo will have access to local enrichment and remains in the lottery pool for regional program vacancies. So as vacancies open up (kids declining spots) they will fill them from the lottery pool (the kiddos who met the criteria and placed in the pool). Not sure how that process works though (whether they already randomly drew a waitlist in the beginning, or once the first deadline for acceptance passes, they go back to the lottery pool to draw etc.). [/quote]

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