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So dude, you got in?  So all the dialect speakers can arrange a meeting with the VP so they can jump the line...[/quote]

Yes, in.   Don't know if the dialect speakers get the same treatment, doubt it, since no one in admin speaks a dialect.  The "meeting" was in Mandarin (I also speak a dialect, but not my child).  Planning to go private for 2nd or 3rd, so our spot will stay empty for several years unless something changes.  Ridiculous when we know Mandarin-speaking kids whose parents would take it.

If thinking that YY could be friendlier to native speakers to boost enrollment of bilingual kids makes me a crazy, I'll go with that.

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This does not surprise me and I'm generally pro YY.  Which class?  [b]Prior to the current preK, YY has gone through their entire waitlist for preK[/b] so any favoritism like what happened to you really made no difference.  At least this will make "let's recruit more native speakers" people happy.[/quote]

Not true.  I can't speak to other classes, but this year's 1st grade class (students who entered PreK in Fall of 2010) definitely did not go through the waitlist.  We have some friends who were in the 20s and they never got a call, even once the September shuffle started.[/quote]

[b]Then your friends missed the email and phone calls, we were on the waitlist, 20ties, and currently in 1st and we got off the waitlist in May that yr.  I don't know how far into the waitlist they went into that yr but know people in the 80ties who got in[/b]. [/quote][/quote]

I know a family who really, [i]really[/i] wanted Yu Ying and didn't get in that year.  Fortunately, they learned about the 1st-in-line lottery system and were able to get in from the top of the waitlist the following year (last year's Kindergarten).  They are at the school now and love it, but would have loved even more to have been there in PreK.  They definitely didn't miss a call or email, they had been hoping for it all summer long.[/quote]

I know the family who was at the top of the K list that year.  I also knew them during the PreK application process, and they were so so about the school after attending an open house although they did apply.  I know where they got in for preK and that they were satisfied but ultimately decided they wanted YY and to arrive on the first day to apply for K.  Now maybe we're talking about a different family, and the family you're talking about was second or third, but the family I'm talking about reported that there were only a handful of people showing up on the first day to apply, and the rest were all there for Pre-K, not K.  Maybe they were lying to me and were in fact waiting all summer, but as I recall they had a number around 60-80 on the WL, not in the 20s.

So I say with authority that the family you describe - 1st grade, in the 20s on the WL for preK, got in K by being first in line - does not exist.

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