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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it makes anyone feel better, I applied to Yu Ying for my three year old, but we'll go there only if we don't get in anywhere else. I don't have any interest in him learning Chinese and would rather not have my son in a language immersion school of any type. But we would definitely go there over at least one of my in-boundary options (Raymond). Any of my other 11 schools I would probably prefer over Yu Ying. I hear it's a great school, but I think just not for us.[/quote]

Not that I can't see someone feeling this way, but it's pretty clear you are making this post up if you put YY down as one of your 12 lottery choices... glad you will not be taking up a spot there if you have zero interest in being there.  ;)[/quote]

You would think if someone is going to makeup a scenario, they would make is vaguely plausible.   Dumb  :lol: [/quote]
I read it as her having put down 11 preferable-to-YY schools PLUS Raymond on her common application,  for a total of 12.[/quote]

I'm the original poster - who was not so interested in Yu Ying. I applied to my 12 schools in the lottery plus every school that didn't participate in the lottery (5 I think) - just trying to get in somewhere. I think what's sad about the lottery is that you aren't choosing a school. The idea that this is choice is nuts! Sure, it would be wonderful if only parents interested in their child learning to speak Chinese applied to Yu Ying. But as long as the school you get is based purely on chance, I'm going to maximize my chances and apply to as many schools as possible. I guess the silver lining for those specifically interested in Yu Ying might be that as long as I get into somewhere else (other than Raymond) I'm not going to be using my spot on the waiting list, and someone else can have it.

I'm sure that there are many parents who want to go to Yu Ying and nowhere else if they can help it, that still applied for 12 schools in the common lottery. The sad thing is that all parents who care probably applied for almost the same 12 schools. It's probably only our in-boundary safety schools that differ.[/quote]

Question - did you apply early to YY (right when the lottery opened) to get a good time stamp?

On your last point, I doubt very much our lists are similar. We had to rule out a whole swath of charter schools for location, and as a result we ended up putting a bunch of DCPS on the our list that we really liked when we toured, but they have no cache on DCUM.[/quote]

Hmm, that's interesting. I just figured most of the charters that have a good reputation everyone is applying for - Cap City PCS, Inspired Teaching, Two Rivers, Mundo Verde, LAMB, Yu Ying, EL Haynes, Bridges, Stokes, Apple Tree and Lee Montessori (yes, I mixed common lottery with schools that aren't). I feel like most parents probably applied to all of these...I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect most of those schools are on most lists. Basically there weren't 12 charters that seemed excellent, so I filled out my 12 with DCPS schools that are close (Powell, West, Raymond). I know some parents might be limited by proximity, but living in Petworth and working downtown means most of the schools in the city east of the park are reasonable options.[/quote]

I live EOTP and work downtown and tried a bunch of th commutes to th above schools and had to rule a bunch out. The hardest for me was inspired teaching and lee--IT was my favorite school but there was bumper to bumper traffic going to downtown from there. Cap City was awful, too, and both north and east of us--the complete opposite direction from work. I strongly disliked Appletree, so didn't apply there, and by far the worst open house I went to was Haynes, so skipped that too.

I think me and my friends are probably putting a lot more weight on commute than you are.[/quote]

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