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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If one kid gets a spot at HB and sibling iis waitlisted, does other sibling get a spot or get moved to top of waitlist? [/quote]

There is no sibling preference at HB at all.

At elementary option schools, there is a sibling preference in the lottery if the sibling is concurrently enrolled but you don't move up the waitlist- you get the preference next time you enter the lottery.  Ex- 1st and 4th grade siblings apply to an option school and the 1st grader gets in but the 4th is number 12 on the waitlist- the 4th grader doesn't jump to the top but if they enter the lottery for their 5th grade year they would get sibling preference in the lottery.

Twins are treated as one in the lotteries for elementary so if one gets in the other does too. I'm about 97% sure that twins are not admitted like that to HB.  [/quote]

Wrong. Twins are admitted together to HB and so are triplets. [/quote]

This is the Nancy Van Doren Exception. I think she had kids at HBW when this was debated years ago. She is a twin mom herself and started crying/babbling incoherently at a school board meeting about the mysterious and deep bond that twins share since the womb and why separating them into different schools would be devastating. She was widely mocked for her speech at the time, but the School Board still endorsed it. The compromise was that twins admitted to HBW count as one spot, so it supposedly doesn't reduce the number of kids admitted (although if they can squeeze in a few extra twin siblings, then why can't they just increase the class size... but whatever).
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I remember this episode clearly and I was certain NVD lost this battle, despite her temper tantrum. Guess I was wrong. The policy and PIP currently say that siblings will get preference for elementary admission only. The policy says twins are treated as one/admitted as two and doesn't address school level or program (the PIP is silent on twins) - so I guess the twin policy applies to Arlington Tech, and the IB program at W-L, and every secondary program.[/quote]

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