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[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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Sure. But the poster was trying to understand this year's patterns and they can't be explained by kids at DCB or LAMB thinking they might not get a spot at DCI in 6th.

I actually didn't know YY had expanded or was that big, wow.[/quote]

Depends what is meant by "rising 5th grader"-- at this point in the year I think it means someone who's in 4th grade today. Anyone in 4th at MV or Stokes who isn't a DCI sibling should be concerned and strongly consider other options.[/quote]

I don't think that's true for Stokes French. As the only French-track member school, there should be enough spots to accommodate any Stokes French student. 20 guaranteed spots + usually about 30 additional spots to which Stokes students are offered preference ahead of others on waitlist.[/quote]

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