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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]West of the park is where I'm looking. My in bounds school is not an option, obviously, or I wouldn't be worried. [/quote]

Oh, yeah. Sorry. Barring a miracle, it's not happening. Most of those schools are over-enrolled. Now you know![/quote]

Oh my - I am going nuts. I meant I am looking EAST of the park. Clearly my kid needs a better public education than the one I received.  
I'm also in Ward 5, but the bottom part much closer to Ward 6. [/quote]

Hi there.  I'm in Ward 4 and went through this insanity last year for PS3.  We put Thomson, Barnard, Cleveland, Marie Reed and Francis-Stevens on our list (decent schools within proximity of home or office that we thought we might have SOME chance of getting into).  Got waitlisted at all and never received a call from any.  Probably should have put Takoma EC on there but I doubt we would have had much of a chance there either.  We also applied to LAMB (no chance in hell, which of course panned out), EL Haynes (ditto), Mundo Verde, Inspired Teaching, Cap City and AppleTree.  Got a call from Apple Tree and turned the spot down.  Moved up the lists on others but nowhere near the point where we'd be offered a spot.

It's all a crap shoot, but in our opinion when it came to the DCPS lottery we didn't even bother with the really "aspirational" schools, because the reality is that there are too many IB and OOB with a sibling preference kids who apply for first-timers to have ANY chance.  I'm not sure that any of this will mean anything or be helpful, but. . . .

Good luck all![/quote]

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