Reply to Selective HS not that difficult to get into

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Selective HS not that difficult to get into"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to be cynical, but on DCUM it’s pretty easy to pretend to be someone you’re not. And according to My School, no one was waitlisted for 9th grade at McKinley this year.

Caveat lector. [/quote]

You don't understand the process. Kids who didn't get into McKinley earlier in the process would not be waitlisted. [/quote]

I understand the process fine. The PP said she knew kids “waitlisted at McKinley.” In actual fact, zero kids were waitlisted at McKinley. [/quote]

How does this work -- according to the 2025-26 historical waitlist info McKinley had 250 lottery seats, 1,186 applications on results day, only 163 matches, and 0 waitlist.

Does that mean that they're not filling all the seats? Were there not enough qualified applicants? Am I looking in the wrong place? DCPS seems to have data. many places![/quote]

They don't fill all the seats and have no intention of doing so - they don't actually intend to have 250 9th graders. (Not sure what the actual enrollment numbers are, but I think it's closer to 150 each year.)

The 250 is the number of seats they put into the lottery, which means they could accept up to 250 kids. It gives the school admission team maximum flexibility so that they can use discretion within the process to accept they kids they want.

It looks like they offered 247 kids seats in the 24-25 lottery, which was a lot more than in prior years. I wonder if they had higher yield on those offers than they expected/wanted, leading to a lower number of matches this year.

It's terrible that qualified kids were shut out of the selective high schools this year and makes the arbitrariness of the process (and lack of available remedy) that much more glaring. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics