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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having come away with a poor lottery draw, I would recommend spending more time researching "safety" schools.  I spent a lot of time going to open houses of the most sought-after charter schools, and spent less time researching schools that were less popular but traditionally have more slots available.  In retrospect, I think I could have spent more time visiting those schools to get a sense of each of them individually and done more online research for the schools that everyone seems to vie for but have very low odds of getting in to.  [/quote]
The more I've been thinking about it, the more that safety school = bottom ranked school. Anything that is "safe" generally is at the absolute bottom of performance. (Tier 3 charters, bottom ranked DCPS). [/quote]

I don't know if that is necessarily true.  There are rock bottom Tier 3 schools and then there are schools that are showing promise and might push over the edge and become something more desireable.  There are schools in the latter category that did not have tons on the WL.[/quote]

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