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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I agree and suspect strongly that YY will join the common lottery for these reasons. Too much risk of server crash, brawls among people camping on the sidewalk outside YY etc.

Think they considered this year but they didn't know if they would have Pk3 until too late in the process. And they also wanted to see how it went.[/quote]

This. I'm a Yu Ying parent and when I asked the admin about the common lottery last year they did say they were actively considering it but needed to figure out if they were doing a PS3 class first which wasn't confirmed until after the common lottery happened. They also wanted to make sure the lottery went well- meaning no major glitches or snafus- but it was primarily about juggling the PS3 decision. I suspect they will join this year and the decision not to so far is hardly nefarious.

As far as improving your chances, if you are willing to stand in line you probably have a better shot with Yu Ying's time stamped wait list than with the common lottery, though I agree both approaches help address the concern of having [b]truly committed families attend[/b]. [/quote]

What do mean by truly committed?  Parents willing to speak Chinese at home if they can?  Willing and able to host Chinese au pairs through the J-1 visa program?  Take regular family trips to Chinese-speaking swathes of the earth, and send kids to immerson summer camps?  Invest in instructional software and DVD collections?  Hire tutors and schlep kids to heritage schools in the burbs on weekends for extra instruction?  These enrichment options are expensive and DC Charter mainly wants kids whose parents can't begin to afford them.  You guys are losing the forest for the trees on what makes language immersion work into the teen years.  A well-designed lottery process is the tip of the iceberg.

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