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Could someone clarify the bolded part here about entering in K? I was getting the impression that for the "competitive" schools, it's trying as early as possible or not much luck. Or am I misreading the feedback and data? Consider Maury for example.[/quote]

- Since all students can attend their IB school by-right in K, the school often needs to add a classroom (e.g., PK4 has 2 classes, K has 3). When there are not enough IB kids for a full extra classroom, they'll pull kids from the lottery.
- Additionally, K classrooms can have more students than PK classrooms can (I think 16 max for PK3, 20 max for PK4).
- In K, OOB students are competing only with one another for lottery spots; there is no IB preference. That makes a big difference in your chances at many schools on the Hill where not even all IB students get PK spots.

Using Maury as an example, over the last five school years, there were 0 OOB lottery matches for PK3. Whereas they made several for K (and went decently deep into the waitlist the past two years).[/quote]

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