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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer OPs question, yes you may enter the lottery while residing outside the district. Upon acceptance and enrollment you just provide proof of residency. I personally know of three families who did at YY. Actually, the Washington Post did a story on one of the parents who moved his family from Chicago once his son was offered a spot off the wait list.  I know of another family that sold their home in Upper Marlboro and rented a house in DC until they found something to purchase two years later. I would think there are other stories out there like that. [/quote]

The question is: what address did the Chicago family use to apply?  Did they tell the truth on the app, or use a DC addy and move quickly when they got in?  And what year was this?

Bottom line: beware lying on your form. [b] If your kid doesn't go home to and sleep at your application address most nights of the week/month/year, you risk getting booted. [/b] And DEFINITELY by enrollment time that's true.  Simple as that.  And believe it - almost all cheaters who get caught and booted thought they'd never get caught.  [/quote]

I think this is tainted by the fact that this person lives in Maryland.

Do you really think that a family who is relocating to the DC area from say Ohio, should not be able to apply to get their child into school by the lottery deadline because they have not physically completed the move when it is clear a move will happen?  Let's just say dad has a temporary apartment.  Kids are still in Ohio so they have not slept a night in DC.  The lottery deadline is x date, they move date for the kids will not be until the summer to avoid pulling their kids out of their old school early, people are really suggesting they just sit out a year?

I get the disdain for cheaters but really.  If they are physically residents by the enrollment date it would be a ludicrous waste of money to try to go after them.  [/quote]

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