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[quote=Anonymous]Posters may not be aware of just how tough it's becoming to get into Latin.  They had around 300 applications for 30 non-sibling spots for 5th this spring when, just three years ago, they were taking close to 100% of the names going in the hat.  Basis is likely to see a similar surge in applications, even if it is a grind.  There just aren't enough decent MS options in the offing, particularly for Wards 5 and 6, leading me to suspect that DCI will be popular even if it starts at 6th.  Alll those families striking out at Latin and Basis have to go somewhere.

What I'd like to see, although nobody's talking about it, is for all the immersion elementary schools to have a direct feed into DCI, whether charter or DCPS.   Is there no scope for a charter-DCPS hybrid school?  Kaya Henderson has been talking about the concept of late.  Seems artificial to exclude, for example, Oyster.  That way, you would have more strong students than not.  I worry that too much in the way of open lottery admissions could hurt the school in a city with such dramatic disparities between the prep most upper-middle-class kids come in with and others.  The language immersion school kids, regardless of class, tend to be much better prepped than others.

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