Anonymous
Post 04/28/2025 21:40     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
A few years back we got notified in late May.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2025 15:26     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
Anonymous wrote:The results are expected the 2nd week in May.
I’ve heard (from one administrator) that siblings get 1.5 “lottery tickets”.


Did someone say that about when to expect results? The last few years, results have always come out in the third calendar week after the deadline. That was the second week of May for 2022-2024. But the deadline was earlier this year.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 15:11     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
The results are expected the 2nd week in May.
I’ve heard (from one administrator) that siblings get 1.5 “lottery tickets”.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 07:45     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
I wonder if we will get results next week or the week after. The deadline was a bit earlier this year.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 07:40     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the number exactly but if you take a school that has 2 immersion classes and let’s say 24 each, that’s 48 per grade and then across 1-5 that’s 240 kids that could pull in someone into K. Maybe even another grade as I don’t know if a rising 5 could pull in a K next year. So all you need is 1/5 of the kids to have a sibling and that fills K. 1/10 would fill one of the classes.

DP. That’s some mental gymnastics.

In our grade, it’s maybe 2 or 3 kids.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2025 18:10     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
I don’t know the number exactly but if you take a school that has 2 immersion classes and let’s say 24 each, that’s 48 per grade and then across 1-5 that’s 240 kids that could pull in someone into K. Maybe even another grade as I don’t know if a rising 5 could pull in a K next year. So all you need is 1/5 of the kids to have a sibling and that fills K. 1/10 would fill one of the classes.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 14:43     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
Anonymous wrote:
I thought they did away with sibling quotas or preferences when a few years ago 93% of an admitted class was siblings of past immersion students.

Edited to correct typo.


Wow, did it really get as high as 93%?
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2025 11:07     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
Anonymous wrote:I thought they did away with sibling quotas or preferences when a few years ago 93% of an admitted class was siblings or past immersion students.


It’s no longer guaranteed admission but they admit there’s some kind of a preference. They are opaque about how it is weighted.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2025 10:39     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference

I thought they did away with sibling quotas or preferences when a few years ago 93% of an admitted class was siblings of past immersion students.

Edited to correct typo.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2025 10:39     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
I thought they did away with sibling quotas or preferences when a few years ago 93% of an admitted class was siblings or past immersion students.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2025 10:20     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
I think there are a certain number of spots reserved for siblings, and there is a lottery along siblings to allocate them those who don’t get a spot are entered into the lottery for the non-sibling spots.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2025 09:12     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
It’s a weighted process. The word favoring is too strong IMO. It’s like other magnet programs with a lot more applications than seats. There will be disappointment from low SES and siblings along with the rest of the applicants.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2025 17:58     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
It's my understanding that if you are a sibling you get 2 "tickets" into the lottery versus the 1 kids without siblings in the program get.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2025 17:33     Subject: Language immersion lottery sibling preference
Does anyone have any insight on what kind of “preference” immersion sibs get these days? All I could find in the documents online was a reference to a “weighted” lottery favoring siblings and lower socio-economic status. Do they keep it vague on purpose?