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[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]

Ok, that part is understood.  But I'm going to guess that since you have almost no interest in YY, you did not sleep out or jump to apply right at 8:00am on the day the applications were due.   Is that correct?  If so, the only way you'd be in a position to take a spot anyway is if you get one of the random lottery spots, which is an actual spot.  Unless you were one of the first to apply, your waitlist spot isn't going to get you anything, so you're not taking anything from anyone who really wants to be there unless you get in in the actual lottery.

I still wish you luck, but I was in your position last year and simply did not apply to schools we knew we really didn't want.  It just seemed like bad karma to take a spot we knew we'd jump from later at a school that was so hard to get into.  I'd never do that at a language immersion school.  And we did have a choice at an immersion school, but since it wasn't the one we wanted, we didn't take it (we found out we didn't think it was a good fit after we applied).[/quote]

You are right! I didn't know anything about the time stamp, so if I don't get in I guess I won't get a good wait list spot. The common lottery stresses there is no benefit to applying early and I didn't realize YY is different. And as I said, if I get in to another school I really like I won't keep my spot at YY, so someone else can have my spot. As for applying to schools that aren't really wanted... well, it's all chance, I feel like I'd be doing a disservice to my child to not apply to as many schools as I'm able to. If it really were a CHOICE I would actually choose only schools i really wanted. Meanwhile, I'm sure there are some YY fans that applied to schools I want my kid to go to, and I don't blame you. We are all trying to have good options.[/quote]

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