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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

Eaton isn't overcrowded.

I was asking about how I should play the lottery not about scheming to keep an IB spot after we move ob.  It sounds like I should put ob schools before eaton because if we get into those we are safer than if we get into eaton.

Thanks![/quote]

You might not think it is over crowded but we have friends whose kid is and IB sibling and didn't get into PK4 until the end of October. There are legitimate families applying for the spots. Time for you to move on. [/quote]

Oh my goodness.  For the zillionth time, I was asking because I am about to play the lottery and wanted to know where to put eaton on my list of lottery preferences.  This wasn't a scheming question - it was a lottery question. I am a legitimate Eaton family that has owned a very small condo IB for the last 3.5 years.  It is (maybe) possible we will still be here in the fall as we've been looking for almost a year and can't find anything we can afford but it is likely we will eventually move (when I don't know) , so I am still playing the lottery.[/quote]

OP, imagine your oldest kid was about to enter K, instead of PK4. What would you do then, in your same current living situation? [/quote]

I imagine she might play the OOB lottery (instead of early childhood lottery) to see how she does knowing that she will have the right to enroll at Eaton later in the spring (or in the fall, or the first day of school). [/quote]

But the way the preference in the lottery works is that once you get in, you are pulled off the waitlists (or outright acceptance) of any school behind, it right? So if I don't get into a eop ob school I put ahead of Eaton, then I haven't lost any chance for eaton, right?  So the only difference between playing the lottery for pk4 and k is that for K I wouldn't put eaton on my lottery list at all.  Is this right?  [/quote]

You're right that you haven't lost your chance to get into Eaton if you have other schools ranked ahead of Eaton that you don't win a spot with. And if that's how it plays out, it seems you will most likely get a spot at Eaton since you have IB preference.  BUT, if you do get a spot at one of those higher ranked schools then Eaton is no longer a choice for your at all...no waitlist spot, nothing. So it's a risk. If you like the idea of Eaton, I would rank it first and take the spot and deal with negotiating the ability to stay later. [/quote]

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