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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who just went through this process with a desirable pk3 inboundary option, who put 12 schools on the list including several that would be considered "safety schools" by dcum standards, my recommendation is to assume that you will not get a spot at either a DCPS or charter and plan accordingly. I would visit some of the enhanced pk3 options as well as paid preschool if your budget allows.[b] There are a good number of pk3ers who do not get offered a spot at any of the schools on their list.[/b] Better to prepare and be pleasantly surprised then go into panic mode when the results come out especially since a number of the other options have closed their application process by then. It is a lottery after all so nothing is guaranteed. [/quote]

Yes. But many of those are people who do a list like this (where half the schools fill up with IB kids and the others have about a tenth of the seats needed for all the non-siblings who want in):

Maury
Brent
School Within School
Inspired Teaching
Two Rivers 4th Street
School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens
Mundo Verde
Bancroft
Yu Ying
LAMB
Hyde-Addison
Shepherd

If OP includes some more likely choices then her odds are quite good of getting one of them. Or it's ok to shoot for the moon and have private day care as a backup. A lot of 3yo programs in DC are easy to get into because so many kids go to public school.[/quote]

This is a perfect example of how to not do your list. So many of you sort your lists like that this, then you’re surprised when you don’t get in anywhere [/quote]

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