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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe there is some standard way of informing parents about their chances of getting in BEFORE the open house, and BEFORE they do their lottery selections. Could they add a column on the myschoolsdc site? They have a lot of information on there for all of the schools, but no standard piece of data for % accept rate.[/quote]

They kind of do that for the DCPS schools, with # of available spaces and # of applicants last year.  You can see, at least with Ross, that the number of available spaces (3) and number of applications last year (95) that your chances of getting in are very slim, no matter what.

Last year, for PS3, we went to a lot of open houses because I thought it was the responsible thing to do. Why clog up the application pool if we weren't really interested in the school? Obviously that ended up being really disappointing, because we fell in love with schools that we ended up with triple digit waitlist numbers for.

This year, I feel like we have a much better understanding of the various schools, including how we'd rank them, so we aren't going to any open houses. The places we were interested in last year are still on our list, in the order they were in (since we actually ranked everything by preference in private, like a common application). If she doesn't get in anywhere, we're also fine with where we are.[/quote]

Are you sure there are only 3 available PS3 spaces at Ross? I thought there were about 15 in the class.[/quote]

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