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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Completely agree with this response[b]. This is why it is important to have safeties.[/b] My IB school is a great safety--goes through its entire waitlist each year and accepts all IB applicants in initial lottery. There are lots of schools EOTP that for this profile. Appletree Columbia Heights has 100 PK3 spots and called all 400+ people on their waitlist twice last year to fill their spots. You definitely can get in even with the last number in the lottery. But you have to have one or more safeties if you want to ensure a spot. [/quote]

But do you see why that is entirely unfair to people who don't spend countless hours wringing their hands over this, but rather follow the instruction of myschooldc.org and select based on [i]true preference.[/i]? Not picking safeties.  How the hell am I supposed to know what a safety is?  We're not all data geeks.  I could think my inbound school is a safety, but lo and behold! They're offering 6 seats in PK4, and I didn't learn this until I filled out the application two hours before the deadline.

If it's a true safety, it should be something I can get into beyond the lottery, don't you think?

I don't want to come off as snarky here, but there's a natural bias toward one's own situation, and "unpopular inbound safety pick" doesn't resemble mine in any way.

I feel certain that most people EOTP (and not on Capitol Hill) have a charter or OOB DCPS school heading their rankings.  Most will NOT get their first, second or even third choice.  We're all going for the same schools, so it's just not possible.  We're even going for the same OOB schools.  This past Sunday turned into a lovely day to compare notes at the playground.  When you consider that some families have ELL and a limited number of schools that will work for them, there's a density problem added to the mix.  If DCPS knows nothing about me except my address and that Spanish is primarily spoken there, maybe I'm going to get an additional preference to which the DCUM crowd isn't privvy.

It just doesn't seem accurate to say that everyone will get one of their top picks.[/quote]

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