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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am really surprised at some of the middle school waiting lists, given how dire I see the middle school situation (I live on Capitol Hill). Basis only has 15 on the WL for 5th and DCI Chinese only has 12? This seems really odd to me give Yu Ying's massive wait list. 
Makes it seem like the lottery is mostly for pk3 and pk4,because if you are still playing after that, especially in middle school,you have a lot less competition. Wonder if that will change by the time my kids get to middle school. [/quote]

A few thoughts re this year's middle school situation from a MS parent. Expect things will change dramatically in unpredictable ways in next 5 years.

Last year DCI was not in the common lottery and this year it was -- and they had about 185 kids with guaranteed feeder rights to attend who would lose their feeder rights if they ranked any other middle schools higher than DCI. It isn't quite like an IB preference where you could rank Latin or Basis or Hardy higher and see what happens (not saying anyone would want to...but it wasn't an option). Those 180 families (presuming most exercised their rights to DCI) took a lot of pressure/imagined demand off of all MS wait lists.

Washington Global opens fall 2015 as does Brookland Middle. No wait lists for either but presumably someone applied and was matched and may or may not be showing up on the wait lists of the others.

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