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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Twin parent, if your twins are #1 at each other's matches, your odds are very good. Have you looked at the data for previous year waitlist movement for the two schools in question? It's not a perfect predictor, but it can set your mind at ease. Most schools make a least a few waitlist offers, and many will wind up going deep into their lists. I anticipate your kids will be at the same school before August. Though I can understand why that's a stressful situation to be in.[/quote]

So dismayed to see that DCPS still has not figured out how to accommodate twins, triplets, etc. We went private because our work schedules required certainty not months of wonder and worry. Sibling preference should work for multiples, not just for singletons. Ridic.[/quote]

Preschool class sizes have a firm legal enrollment cap.  Sorry if you don't like it, but it isn't a matter of DCPS figuring anything out.  [/quote]

NP here,

There should be an option where twins are placed together from the start.  So, let's say that Twin A's name is drawn, and he places into the 3rd choice school, then Twin B also gets a space in that school, and one less kid is added from further down the lottery list.

It really wouldn't be hard, and it wouldn't impact preschool class sizes. [/quote]

But it would heavily advantage parents of twins of getting into their preferred school, over parents of non-twin siblings who get waitlisted and don't receive an automatic admit simply because their sibling is there. Even though, as with twins, parents of siblings would obviously really benefit if their kids attended the same school.

And both are advantaged over kids with no sibling, who will always wind up further down the waitlist for a school (even an IB school if PK) simply because they don't have a sibling at the school already.

Here's a hard truth about the DC lottery: if you want to guarantee a spot for your kid (even two kids at once) it is easy to do. But it means being willing to send your kids to a school more likely to have space. There is absolutely no reason that you are entitled to an extra spot at LAMB or whatever simply because you have twins, over a kid without a twin on the same waitlist. Your twins could just go to a school with more room.

You just don't want to. You don't want the school with more room. Guess what? Parents of non-twins feel the same way! Stop trying to pretend this is just about keeping your twins together because if that were your main priority, you wouldn't be fretting over getting them into schools with some of the longest waitlists in the city. You could enroll them at the same school today if that's what you wanted.[/quote]

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