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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCB parent here.  DCB 5th grade parents received an email the day before the lottery stating that, for the first time, DCB applicants outnumbered DCB spots and that some students would be on the WL as of lottery day.  They reassured that other feeder schools had NOT used their 50 slots and those slots would be allocated to the feeder school students on the WL on 4/1.  The 5th grade class at DCB this year has 3 classes instead of the typical 2 due to needing to expand the grade in years past to accommodate siblings.[/quote]

But this still doesn’t answer the question. Are there general admission slots, and do feeder kids get access to those first too?[/quote]

There's no such thing as general admission spots. The school determines, each year, the space in each language track, in each grade. (For the purposes of the lottery only, each track is treated as three separate "schools.") There are preferences for that track -- sibling, feeder school, child of staff member. [Not necessarily that order.] Like the lottery for other schools, everyone who enters gets assigned a number. Let's say there are 100 spots for 6th grade for Spanish. The first whatever number of spots will be filled with preferences -- whether it's 90 spots out of 100 or 110 spots out of 100. After that will be everyone who hasn't gotten a preference. Up till now, in 6th grade classes in every language, there have usually been fewer preferences than spots, so kids without a preference have gotten in. At some point in Spanish in a couple of years, unless the school decides to expand and finds another location, there will be no spaces for kids without preference, and not enough even for those with preference.[/quote]

So how will they decide which kids with feeder preference get in and which don't?  Will it be siblings-first, or will it be by lottery number without regard to siblings?

I don't know what you would call the 9th grade spots offered, if not "general admission".[/quote]

On kids with feeder preference: feeder + sibling is higher than just feeder.
On 9th grade: my point is that there aren't "feeder school spots" and "general admission spots." That implies (to me, and I suspect to other people) that there are two separate, distinct, and permanent kinds of spots. Of course, there are no feeder students going directly into 9th (or 7th or 8th) grade![/quote]

So if you were a feeder kid who got shut out of 6th, that does you no good in grades after that?

So it seems like the chances of admission to DCI for non siblings will actually not be that great in the years to come.[/quote]

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