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[quote=Anonymous][quote]We can get sidetracked on which schools are better. As for diversity, people apply for Latin who would never consider EL Haynes, which makes it that much more difficult to lottery in and skews the diversity metrics. In a public lottery that’s just the way it goes and griping from the sidelines about marketing just shows that you don’t understand the situation. (Especially when it’s so obvious people were ready to light pitchforks about transportation and then had to meekly retreat once they learned about the shuttle.)[/quote]

This.  The lottery favors those who have a backup plan if they don't get into their chosen charter---whether it be a move to the suburbs or paying for private or deciding to move IB for Deal/Wilson.  All of those backup plans require economic resources.  If you are a family whose IB options for MS and HS are unacceptably low-performing (which is pretty much all of the city save for Ward 3), but you are not low income enough to qualify for an EA preference, and not affluent enough to afford a backup plan, then making Latin your first lottery choice may mean getting shut out of any lottery choices and being stuck with your unacceptable IB school.  Working class and lower middle class families, most of whom in DC are  AA, are having to make this calculation.    The lottery algorithm should be recalibrated so that people can list Latin (or Basis, or DCI, or other schools with long waitlists) as their first choice, but not be penalized for doing so.  That would help those schools maintain a broad applicant pool.   [/quote]

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