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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi neighbor.  DCB is nearby, and might even be walking/biking distance depending on where you live in the neighborhood.  [/quote]

DCB had siblings not make it off the Pre-K3 waitlist this year. It's a non-starter.

OP, echoing a PP, your list is fine, but if your master number is 50th percentile or lower, the only school you'll probably get is Bunker. Unless you're happy with Bunker, consider some less competitive schools. Our number was right around 50% last year for Pre-K3 and we were waitlisted everywhere except our in bounds, and got an October offer at Breakthrough that we turned down. Even with all of the MV8 spots last year, we never got anywhere near an offer at Stokes, IT, YY, MV, Creative Minds, EL Haynes, and Lee. [/quote]

A chart listing many of the popular PK3 school choices and their rough probability of acceptance would be super helpful if it existed...[/quote]

You can get pretty close to this by looking at the historic waitlist data. If a DCPS hasn't let in an OOB student in 3 years, it's a wasted spot likely. If a charter only goes 6% of the way into it's waitlist, then you need to pretty much win the lottery to get an offer there. E.g., Stokes Brookland French pre-k 3 had 15 lottery seats, 189 on the waitlist, and made 20 waitlist offers by October. So that means approximately 200 kids applied (189+15) and there were a MAX of 35 offers (15 initially and 20 from the waitlist). YY had 60 spots, 454 on the waitlist, and made 14 offers. Etcetera. It takes some fiddling with the data, but you can pretty much figure out which you have to: (1) win the lottery (top 10%, maybe 15% depending on your schools); (2) do pretty well (top 75% I'd say); (3) do anything less than top half.

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