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[quote=Anonymous]Here's our list for PK4, very much in the order of true preference for our family:

Inspired Teaching
Capital City
Mundo Verde
Eaton
Powell - our IB
Shepherd
Hearst
Lafayette
Lee Montessori
West
Tubman
Cleveland

I'm not sure if the tracking number is the lottery number that was pulled, but it was something above 23,000.  We were matched, and have enrolled, at Powell.  Our lowest WL # was at 100 at Cap City and the highest was 229 at Eaton.

I thought it was pretty wild that we pulled such a poor lottery number but still got matched at our IB school, and I'll always wonder if the ranking had anything to do with getting in or if it was just the number of other PK4 applicants there.

We're excited about the prospect of contributing to a rising neighborhood school and will stay in through 5th if it proves to be a good environment for our kid.   I felt overall very pleased with the unified lottery because it was so much easier to research and consider schools that weren't even on my radar in the previous year. In hindsight of the former lottery process, we were making some pretty uninformed decisions based on the opinions of others.  And I was doing it all myself with DH just waiting to hear the results.  This time, there was much deeper research and many, many discussions with my husband about what we wanted and what would work within our expectations and household needs.

It was rather like throwing darts as opposed to throwing up a handful of chips to see where they fall.  Did we get exactly what we wanted?  No, but at least we were aiming for something specific and I think we came much closer to what we wanted than we would have with the previous process.[/quote]

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