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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]your chance of getting into ATS- slim-[b] they admit somewhere between 25%-50% of kids that apply.[/b]
your chance of getting into Montessori- pretty good.  There has not historically been a waitlist for montessori at the elementary level.
Your chance of getting into Immersion- pretty good if you are willing to be flexible.  If you don't immediately get into your zoned immersion school, start pushing to be admitted to the other one, you probably will be (For the last several years Key has taken kids off the Claremont waiting list.)  If the immersion waitlists continue to grow, APS is open to the idea of starting a 3rd elementary immersion school.   There are a lot of educational benefits to immersion, particularly for native Spanish speakers.
Your chance of getting into Campbell- this is a wild card, previously there were very few zoned schools for which you could apply to Campbell.  This is changing in a year and the entire county will be able to apply.  I suspect that Campbell will become like ATS- slim chances.[/quote]

I don't think that's true. Much slimmer chances. The year we applied, after siblings and VPI were accounted for, there were only like 20 spaces. The waitlist was at least 200 deep IIRC (a friend's child was number 189).[/quote]

In the past, the chances of getting in to ATS (if you were not in the VPI pre-school program or a sibling of a current ATS student) was more like between 10%- 20%.  Slim chance.  As another PP has commented, those odds have improved over the past couple of years with the addition of a fourth kindergarten class.  In theory this year's fourth K class is still a "bubble."  But with the overcrowding across APS, I expect having four kindergarten classes will be the new normal.  The school building really needs to be expanded if that is to be the case, but that just puts ATS in the same boat as many other cramped APS elementaries.  ATS does, at least, sit on a large plot of land, so the space is there to expand if the money can be found.[/quote]

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