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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted earlier about open houses and how I did not find them useful. I thought talking to parents and researching the school far more useful than an Open House. Miracles happen. I got my kids in our number one choice school. However, I think it's less wise to plan 17 open house visits. Maybe go to your top choice. Definitely go to your safety school open houses. Another poster described the difficulty of keeping your emotions in check during the open houses, and I agree with them. It's hard going to a great school and getting all worked up and excited to send your kid there only to find there are maybe 2 spots available.

I think the best place is edfest because you can talk to the principle, get the literature, ask your questions, and move on. Drive past the school to see if it looks okay. But sometimes you will go to the open houses, emotionally invest in the school by taking a day off from work, see the happy little kids there, only to find out that your little one doesn't have a chance. That is hard. Go to edfest instead. [/quote]

I agree about open houses. The three that I've been to turned me off so much that I briefly considered home schooling. But everyone is different.

Definitely check out the neighborhood school, even if you think it's some place you'd never consider. A lot of people are surprised. Talk to parents, who are available to share their experiences at nearly every school. I also agree with ranking in order of your true preference. [b]But if you need to get into a school for financial reasons, consider ranking your neighborhood school a little bit higher than the bottom of the list. DCPS wants to put neighborhood families in neighborhood schools, so make it 3 or 4 to ensure that you're in and not on a wait list behind 40 siblings. [/b][/quote]

A little bit of an exaggeration. Only a few schools have that many siblings on waitlists for PK3.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure this advice is wrong; your position on the school's wait list in relation to others is independent of where you ranked the school compared to others' rankings. For example, if person A ranks their neighborhood school at #1 and person B ranks the same school (also with inbound preference) as # 12, person B will still be above person A on the waitlist it that person's application lottery number is higher than person A's. [/quote]

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