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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deep breaths, everyone.[/quote]

OP here: Fine. I will take exactly ONE deep breath to avoid typing what's actually in my head right now in response to this post.

This question is words to you. It's a year of potentially avoidable hell for us. 
My younger kid will either jump to the top of the waitlist, with an actual decent shot of attending school with their admitted sibling this fall - or, if the school waits a few weeks and isn't strict about processing enrollments in the order they were received, my kids will almost definitely be attending schools on the literal opposite ends of town for at least a year, if not longer. The schools themselves are each only 15-20 minutes from our home - we're more or less in the middle - but there's no direct public transportation to either and we have only one car, so dropoff during rush hour would be a 20 minute drive in one direction, then a 40 minute drive in the other direction, then a drive to work.

So that means either a year of more than two hours a day of round trip school driving time, on top of the work commute; public transportation - which would mean a two bus, 40 minute trip in each direction TWICE A DAY in all weather for one or the other of these very small children, and that's assuming everything actually runs on time - or daily Ubers, which would be...pricey. Like, $600-$1000 a month pricey. OR, the school just processes the forms asap, and we find out soon whether we actually have a shot at one fairly quick, simple joint dropoff and pickup daily, at no additional cost to our family, at one school located less than 5 minutes by car from my office.

You breathe. I'm holding mine until they process the forms. Thanks.[/quote]

This post doesn't make sense to me.

If one of your kids has matched with a school, then their sibling already has "Sibling Offered" preference. Which puts them behind "Sibling Attending" and "In Boundary" (if this is PK), and ahead of people with no preference. This should already be reflected in their current waitlist number.

Per this page of the FAQ, under "Sibling Offered Preference": https://www.myschooldc.org/node/116

"If the sibling who was offered a space does enroll at the school, the preference remains as “sibling offered” for all siblings that applied to that same school; it does not change to “sibling attending.”"

So the timing of when your first child's enrollment is processed doesn't matter. Your second child already has their "Sibling Offered" preference - nothing is going to change.

Am I missing something here?[/quote]

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