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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amazing how quickly a simple question about BASIS becomes an opportunity for the trollers!  I think there will be more wait list movement for 5th grade, though there are definitely more siblings who got preference over prior years.  It is still a relatively new school and last year's wait list issues for 6th grade likely reflected those growing pains.  As someone with a 6th grader at the school and a son thankfully matched for 5th next year, I hope you get in![/quote]

one of PPs here -- not trolling, but genuinely wondering why the scarcity argument has currency.  We have an upper ES child in a non-Deal DCPS feeder and right now we consider BASIS somewhat of a fallback option.  DC can handle BASIS rigor but we're on the fence on the pedagogical model.  There's plenty to both like (advanced academics and high achievement bar) and question (over-emphasis on testing).  We have yet to decide but will certainly consider [b]in time[/b] along with other options.[/quote]

I encourage you to reflect on all of your options and to choose BASIS, PP.  However, please either commit fully to BASIS or relinquish your spot by May 1.  Please don't enroll to have more time to make a decision.  There are families on the BASIS wait list who, like you, have other options, but who, unlike you, have a preference for BASIS.  Those families will be forced to commit to their fallback option if you hold on to spot you don't really want.
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not considering SY15/16, but either way -- why shouldn't someone take the offered space as a fallback and wait to see if other preferable options as ranked in lottery become available?  Plenty of people hold their nose and end up USING spots for which they are ambivalent.  There are 18 kids currently waitlisted for BASIS for 5th grade -- ALL will be offered seats.  There are 84 waitlisted for 6th.  That's not particularly high as lottery numbers go --  at Latin there are 154 waitlisted for 5th grade and 175 for 6th grade[/quote]

I misunderstood your post, PP.

It's hard to argue with doing everything possible when it's in the interests of your child, including holding a spot at a school that you probably won't attend.  However, keep in mind that many of families wait listed for 6th grade probably can't wait until a spot opens up in the fall, e.g., they sign a contract for a private school or move to MD or VA over the summer.  If enough families enroll and then relinquish their spots over the summer or in the fall, the school ends up with an under-enrolled 6th grade, as it did this year.[/quote]

That happens to many schools, DCPS and DCPCS alike.  Stuart Hobson took a huge hit in 2013 when a bloc of enrolled students took seats at BASIS and left the school scrambling to fill the gap before count day.  At the time parents simply exploited a loophole by double enrolling in DCPS and DCPCS without providing notification and were no shows when school began.  At least no one can double enroll now, but [b]one can hold out for waitlist options[/b].[/quote]

And there is probably significant overlap in the wait lists between Latin and Basis and perhaps DCI or Cap City with the same kids on every list. Those numbers are pretty misleading in a way but if all schools ask families who get it via the wait list to commit quickly (post June 1 when the 30 day decision period no longer applies) the inevitable shuffle will be reduced.
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