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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got nothing in the first round or the second round, so we're sticking with daycare for another year. Can't help but think that the previous system would have been better for us. [/quote]

You clearly never went through the previous system.[/quote]

[b]BS.  I went through the previous system and can tell you that EVERYONE I know got in somewhere they were happy with for PS3. [/b] EVERYONE.  In fact most of us had multiple offers.  Sure, we may have been less likely to get in at our number one pick, but we got multiple offers.  This time around, if you got a bad draw in the lottery you were shut out of everywhere.

For us, it worked okay.  For PS3 we had offers for Bridges, Appletree, DC Prep and a couple of others, as well as our inbound.  For K we played again now with the common lottery and were shut out initially and hovered around the 50 percent mark on all the wait lists.  Got in to our number 5 pick in May and happy there (so far).  Still, for most people under the old system so long as you applied everywhere your chances of being shut out were minimal.[/quote]

Under the previous system we were completely shut out for K, so I beg to differ.  Maybe PK3 was different, but K was horrible, in contrast to this year where we got multiple offers--three from HRCS.[/quote]

my kid applied for K this year and we were happy with where we ended up (off the waitlist by June).  of his class of PK4 students all of whom applied for K places, only ONE got in in the first round.  Of 20 kids.  by mid June most were still looking for K spots.

When you contrast to this year, what grade are you talking about?  How long ago were you applying for K? K is hard because most openings are through attrition only.  This year, however, MV expanded so it was actually a good year to get in to MV for K, but this would have been the case even without the common lottery.[/quote]

What school were you at where all families were looking to leave at PK. That makes me very sad. What could that school have done to keep you?[/quote]

What could they have done?  Er, provided a kindergarten class.  Pretty sure they'd have had 100 percent reenrollment if they actually offered kindergarten.[/quote]

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