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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HE doesn't put anyone in, the DCPS main computer does! If you rank other schools before SWS and get into one, SWS and any other school lower on the list gets dropped off. This is not how it used to be -- each school was dealt with as a separate entity instead of your list as a whole being considered.

Last year, if you put in for 6 schools, you could have gotten into your first choice and still had waitlist spots on the second through sixth choice. This year, if you put in for 6 schools, and get chosen at your third pick, you would still get waitlist spots in numbers one and two, but not in numbers 4-6 at all.

They did this to stop the major shuffling that would happen when everyone had 6 slot still potentially held open close the beginning of the school year. The assumption this year is that you rank the schools in the true order in which you would accept a slot, so you would not care if your "lesser" picks get dropped. Of course you could have six waitlist spots if you don't get into any school straightout.

The principal was emphasizing that, if SWS is your first pick, make it your first lottery pick. How is this misleading?[/quote]

Read what 17:38 said:

"this year,[b] they're only going to admit kids whose parents put SWS as their top DCPS choice[/b][i] for PreS3"

Unless this poster is misquoting the principal, which s/he may very well be, this is NOT how the lottery works.  Yes, I get that IF YOU GET IN to a higher ranked choice, then the other schools are taken off your list.  However, if I rank SWS #2 and get in, but get waitlisted at my #1 choice, then the principal CAN NOT deny admission to my child.

So if the principal did indeed say "they are only admitting kids whose parents put SWS as their top choice"... he is being misleading at best.[/quote]

If you don't understand the lottery, you might have found it confusing.  But what he said is what I have read on DCUM and elsewhere.  Put your true first choice first.  Don't try to game the system.  He didnt' say anything about admitting only kids whose parents put SWS first.  That is completely fabricated.[/quote]

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