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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not trying to be snarky,OP.  You have about a .00004% of getting into any of them so really, it worth very little of your time worrying whether the teachers are warm and nurturing at this point.  It's just not a rational decision to put this much energy into thinking about schools that your child will likely never attend.  
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OP, if we had followed pessimistic advice like this, our child would never have been admitted to LAMB last year (months after the lottery, off the waitlist). Apply where you would like your child to go - there's always a chance. [/quote]

No one is telling OP not to apply, where are you getting that from?  The PP you're replying to is basically saying go ahead and apply, but your odds of getting in are so slim, don't waste a lot of time labor ing over the differences in "levels of nurturing" until you know what your actual choices are.  Then come back and specifically ask because it's a real choice you have.

And given the odds, that is darn good advice.[/quote]

We have two friends whose kids were offered spots at LAMB, but because they had already accepted spots elsewhere, they turned them down. It is silly to take DC Urbanmom and assume that the hundreds of folks who apply are sharing the result of their experience with everyone on here. That is obviously where these "low odds" (re. 0.00004%) claims are coming from. How often have people written "We got into LAMB" on here? It's those who didn't who post a lot, giving a certain impression about the odds. Just saying.[/quote]

Ok PP, since you're so confident that we're over-hyping the awful odds, how many people applied to LAMB for 2011-2012 school year, and how many actual lottery slots did they have for PS3, PK4, and K?  I don't remember LAMBs exact numbers but I asked this exact question of their enrollment person at the Charter School Expo and when I heard the numbers I almost just gave back my blank application without filling it out.  Then I heard even worse odds from Cap City, Haynes and Stokes, and I sucked it up and applied anyway.

But LAMB had bad odds as well.  So if you're sure this is wrong, back up your sense that this is unnecessary pessimism with optimistic actual LAMB numbers.[/quote]

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