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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some factors are: the crumbling of TR and CMI (or, people's willingness to acknowledge it), so more people  there are lotterying. No longer having a guarantee at DCI means those families are lotterying. Stuart-Hobson is no longer as easy to get into. So people are making longer lottery lists because they're scared.[/quote]

Longer lists is probably part of it, but the number of unique 5th grade applicants has been on an upward trend over the past three years, so I would expect that’s part of it as well. [/quote]

I'm curious about this as well. Are there numbers available yet on the number of unique applicants per grade this year? If this year's rising fifth graders don't have a DCI guarantee and SH isn't taking as many OOB students as it used to, families may be hedging their bets and applying for Latin and Basis for fifth instead of putting all of their stakes on a good enough lottery number for sixth.[/quote]

[b]I think most rising 5th graders have a DCI guarantee. I can't think of a feeder that has a bigger 4th class than spots.[/b][/quote]

That may be true now, but most of the DCI feeders are dramatically increasing the size of their primary classes and, when pushed, are acknowledging that this means that there will not be a guarantee for kids entering PK3, PK4, K, or even 1st (at some of the schools) right now. At YY, for example, they told us that kids have lots of middle school options and that because "many" kids will choose to go to MS like Latin or BASIS, there should be enough spaces at DCI available for those kids that want to go there, even when the grades start with 100 students (as they will soon at YY), but that is far from a guarantee and also not reflective of the current reality w/r/t the number of kids waitlisted at MS like Latin and BASIS this year. 
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MV sent a letter recently saying there will be more kids than spots for the current 4th graders-- 70 spots and 100 kids. So even assuming not everyone applies to DCI, not everyone who applies matches or enrolls, and some kids peel off for Latin and Basis in 5th, it's possible someone could be shut out of DCI. Depending on whether the other Spanish member schools use their full allocation of seats, as well. So it's a really hard thing to predict. But it's not some vague future hypothetical-- for MV and Stokes it's happening now.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k90Y1NiPfpaGHYuHLAHIdgZA79KiNfLE/view[/quote]

Can you imagine suffering through MV in hopes of solving MS and HS only to be shut out? I'd be in therapy for years trying to deal with what I did to my kid. [/quote]

Says someone who knows absolutely nothing about MV.    P 3rd grade had issues last year but things are good otherwise.  We are at 8th St and having a great year and my kid is doing great socially and academically.

Good luck with Cardozo or whatever……

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MV's issues are not new and have been getting worse for years. They were masked when they had only one campus and came into the light when they (predictably) spread themselves too thin. Ironic to a fault for you to be ignorant of issues extending over a number of years while accusing others of "knowing absolutely nothing about MV".[/quote]

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